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🚨 SAVE THE DATE!
📍 Porto, Portugal
📅 15–19 June 2026
The next #CellWallMeeting2026 is coming! 🌿
A global gathering to share the latest in plant cell wall biology.
Don’t miss it – more info soon!
#PlantScience #CellWall #Porto2026 #CWM2026
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬💚
Our Researcher @diana_moreira8 participated in the celebration of this day at @ciencias_fcup
Hoje, no Dia Internacional das Mulheres e Meninas na Ciência, damos voz a investigadoras e docentes que partilharam uma frase que as tentou limitar e a conquista científica que alcançaram apesar dela.
Porque o talento não tem género. E a ciência ganha quando todos têm espaço. 🩵
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SPReD Lab retweeted
Feb 10
⭐️ Today we celebrate #Women in #Science ⭐️
📢 Women in #LAQV: your curious minds, rigorous methods and bold questions advance knowledge, mentor future scientists and make #innovation happen❗️
👉 Break barriers to #gender #equality in our society!
@IUPAC
#GWB2026
@FCTNOVA
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🧬 New preprint out on bioRxiv! 🌸
🌱 A new piece in the puzzle of cell wall signaling, AGPs, calcium dynamics, and plant reproduction.
📄 Preprint available on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
#PlantReproduction #CellWallBiology #AGPs #CalciumSignaling #Arabidopsis
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New preprint on bioRxiv 🌱
We show that Ca²⁺ binding by arabinogalactan-proteins (AGPs) is essential for male fertility and successful double fertilisation in Arabidopsis.
GLCAT mutants reveal AGPs as functional apoplastic Ca²⁺ stores.
#PlantReproduction #CellWall #Calcium
AGP-Ca2 binding is essential for pollen development and pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_plants
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Hello #CellWallers!
Ready to come back to Porto? 🇵🇹
⏰ Abstract submission deadline: Feb 16
Don’t miss it!
We’re excited to host the Cell Wall community once again!
🔗 cellwall2026.org/
#PlantCellWalls #PlantScience
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5 Nov 2025
📢 @fct_pt opens the 2025 call for R&D Projects in all Scientific Fields
📅 November 27, 2025, to March 11, 2026
💰 104 million Euros
📌More details here:
fct.pt/en/candidaturas-ao-co…
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Very prouf of our master Students Júlia Trancho e Clara Konrad 👏🍀They are awarded with a research scholarship from @fidelidadeseg
@ciencias_fcup
executivedigest.sapo.pt/fide…
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🧱 The countdown is on! The Plant Cell Wall Meeting 2026 will take place in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 (June 15–19) — hosted by @spredlab 🌿
🧩 Session topics coming soon!
📅 Abstracts open Dec 1, 2025 → cellwall2026.org
#PCWM2026 #PlantScience #CellWall
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25 Aug 2025
August meant a lot of collecting rice pistils from field grown plants 🌾
#PrOryza #riceflower #fieldtrials
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🚨 Crise alimentar em níveis recorde!
Em 2024 quase 300 milhões de pessoas em 53 países sofreram fome aguda e 1,9 milhão ficaram em situação catastrófica. Os extremos climáticos é um dos fatores que agravam a crise.
👉shorturl.at/f84Wn
#Fome #SegurançaAlimentar
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Reino Unido aprovou nova lei para regular plantas editadas geneticamente com CRISPR 🧬.
A medida visa impulsionar a inovação agroalimentar, segurança alimentar e sustentabilidade. Entra em vigor em 2025. 🌱
shorturl.at/PTeND
#CRISPR #Biotecnologia #AlimentosDoFuturo #UK
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20 May 2025
Excited to share new protocols from @defolter_lab!
🍅 CRISPR tomato transformation
🧬 miRNA promoter analysis
🌿 Arabidopsis protoplast isolation
🌸 Confocal imaging of gynoecium
Check them out in the book! 🚀
Link: link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Yesterday we celebrated #FascinationOfPlantsDay by showcasing ongoing research in our Plant Science labs—including a hands-on workshop on transforming Arabidopsis using the floral dip method! #PlantDay #PlantScience
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16 May 2025
🍀🎉😊❤️🙏
I am so grateful and proud to be working with Catherine, Joanna, Adrienne and Nan to create the Arabidopsis timeline!
Such a landmark project, published @ThePlantCell & initiated by NAASC @NAASC_NA_ICAR
16 May 2025
I had a lot of fun digging into old literature to make this timeline of Discovery & Innovation in Arabidopsis!
🌱Also includes important Arabidopsis Community contributions- a topic close to my ❤️ @aribidopsis @RoederLab
academic.oup.com/plcell/adva…
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📢 Ana Marta Pereira and Rita Queirós are attending the 2nd RECROP Annual Meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece 🌱
Yesterday, they presented their work in poster format, contributing to the discussion on climate resilient crops during reproductive processes 🌼
#RECROP2025#RECROPCOST
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12 Apr 2025
Fertilization-dependent phloem end gate regulates seed size: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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6 Mar 2025
Johns Hopkins & Cold Spring Harbor scientists use CGISPR to boost tomato & eggplant size, enhancing flavor and yields. technologynetworks.com/appli…
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