Epiagps

Work developed by students from my hometown high school in Arouca, Portugal during the school year of 2019/2020. We just shared some Arabidopsis seeds and protocols on reproduction and look what they’ve done! Congratulations! Keep on with the same enthusiasm, we surely need more plant scientists to face the current climate crisis we’re going through 🌾🌿🌸🧪
(Video in Portuguese, but I’m sure you will get the main message here).

Influência das radiofrequências na reprodução de Arabidopsis thaliana Projeto desenvolvido na Oficina de Ciência da Escola Secundária de Arouca, no âmbito do Concurso Jovens Cientistas

The strange times we are living have really slowed down lab experiments around here, but I’ve been trying to make it a bit more productive investing on reading and putting down my research on paper 📝 What about you? How are you handling this pandemics and limited time in the lab? 🧪 🔬

EpiAGPs - Results in Brief 🌿🌸🧬

Biological breakthrough holds key to better crops | Result in Brief | H2020 | CORDIS | European Commission New insights into plant reproduction could help us breed better quality crops. This is critical to addressing an existential challenge...

It all starts with a seed 🌿🌾
Check the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en/).

It All Starts With The Seed: 15 Years of Saving, Caring and Sharing www.fao.org/plant-treaty Description: A short film (less than 3 minutes in length) that highlights the important achievements of the FAO International Treaty...

This: "Farmers have delivered admirably until now – there are more well-fed people on the planet than at any time in history – but, to help them meet the future challenges, they will need all of the help that science can offer. Gene editing is one powerful part of that help." Not only UK. All European countries would benefit.

British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing | Sir David Baulcombe Plant scientist Sir David Baulcombe argues we must adapt the way we produce food to meet future agricultural challenges

Why plants? 🌍🌿🧬
"As the world population continues to grow, much more effort and innovation will be urgently needed in order to sustainably increase agricultural production, improve the global supply chain, decrease food losses and waste, and ensure that all who are suffering from hunger and malnutrition have access to nutritious food."

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

With the end of Epiagps project comes a lot of writing. Writing a report, another report, new grants to get funding, papers, more projects... ufa. And all I want to do is to go to the bench and work on my little flowers! 🌿📓

Proud of collaborating with these girls! And super proud of my PhD student Diana Moreira for organizing such a nice review ✨ If you want to know more about the advantages or disadvantages of using CRISPR/Cas9 and RNA intereference to generate mutant plants, read it! Link below.🌿📓🧬
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05258-0

What is the best way to start 2020? Publishing! Another work from our team! This is about the advantages and disadvantages of using CRISPR/Cas9 and RNA interference for AGPs analysis. But it can also be applied to other molecules! It happens that AGPs are our favorites 😉 thank you for the great work Diana Moreira! 🧬🌱📚
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05258-0

Some precious tips on how to be a better scientific presenter. Getting ready for next year round of meetings 🌍😉

How to become a better scientific presenter - tips and tricks for scientists If you're a scientist, no doubt you have to present your work, be it to your group or at a conference. Media and Presentation Trainer Ali Sargent has a bunch...

Food for thought:
Will I still be a scientist 10 years from now? Or will i be unemployed and replaced by an algorithm? 🧐🌍🌿

Big data: the end of the scientific method? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences For it is not the abundance of knowledge, but the interior feeling and taste of things, which is accustomed to satisfy the desire of the soul. (Saint Ignatius of Loyola). We argue that the boldest ...

Today's reading 🍂📓

New advances and future directions in plant polyspermy Until recently, plant polyspermy has remained a theoretical concept. In this brief review, we report recent works on plant polyspermy and discuss the results in light of polyspermy block regulation a...