The Experimental Plant Systems Biology Lab led by @drdevangm at @KU_Leuven studies plant chronobiology for climate adaptation.

Joined February 2022
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28 Jun 2024
🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in @ScienceAdvances. With @LabUhrig we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1! A 🧵on what this really means: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl31…
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🌱⏱️ A week until 90 plant circadian biologists from 18 countries arrive in Leuven for the first ever conference on Plant Chronobiology! Super excited to host everyone here for 2 days filled with groundbreaking science! Abstract book out now: plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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25 Feb 2025
!! INPPO 2025 Early Bird Registration Extended !! Due to request, we have extended the early bird deadline to March 7th 2025. Check out inppo2025.org/ to register today! Multiple travel awards available for trainees and abstract selected talks available for everyone!
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21 Feb 2025
Please share: We're hiring up to FIVE Postdocs or PhD students for a number of #plantsci #proteomics #genomics projects between my lab and that of Hervé Vanderschuren at @KU_Leuven & @UniversiteLiege! Come join us in the land of 🍫 & 🍻 for some exciting science!
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🌱PCP sponsors the first-ever Plant Chronobiology Conference⏲️ in Leuven, Belgium on June 13th and 14th 2025. Registration is now open!
Excited to announce that registration is now open for Plant Chronobiology 2025, the first ever dedicated conference on plant circadian biology! Register now! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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13 Dec 2024
🍾We're funded! Two @FWOVlaanderen grants (the max. allowed/lab) allowing us to deploy our proteomics toolkit to: 1️⃣ understand how viruses interact with insect vectors & plants 2️⃣ understand circadian clock gene regulation under changing environments! mehta-lab.com
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Scientists. Noticed it is quiet here? Everyone has gone where the sky is blue. If you haven't yet, move over to get the good stuff
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Excited to announce that registration is now open for Plant Chronobiology 2025, the first ever dedicated conference on plant circadian biology! Register now! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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📢CALL FOR REVIEWERS📢We´re expanding our reviewer community 🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour… 🌱Interested in joining? email tpj-editor@wiley.com 🍀New to peer review? Wiley offers a free online course 👉wileyresearcheracademy.com/p… TPJ supports co-reviewing with senior mentor
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18 Aug 2024
🚨An exciting update re. Plant Chronobiology 2025: Announcing our Keynote Speakers! We are looking forward to Keynotes by Rob McClung (@dartmouth) and Paloma Mas (@cragenomica), chaired by @DrSteveKay! RSVP below for more updates re. invited talks and our scientific program!
30 May 2024
🚨Calling all🌱⏰scientists! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the first ever Plant Chronobiology Symposium next summer (June 13 & 14) at @KU_Leuven! Please RSVP here if you are interested in attending! plantclock.wixsite.com/2025
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18 Jul 2024
Great to see our latest paper in @ScienceAdvances with @LabUhrig covered in @eos_wetenschap, a major Dutch-language science magazine!
18 Jul 2024
Onderzoek van @theMehtaLab toont aan dat planten de duur van de schemering meten en hun groei daaraan aanpassen 🌅🌱 @biosystkuleuven @LeuvenPlantInst bit.ly/3Y7x1yU
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Happening now, career transition panel! #ICAR2024
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#ICAR2024 Dawn Nagel from UC Riverside is introducing the concurrent session on plant circadian rhythms with an overview of the biological clock and an announcement about the "first ever" plant chronobiology conference, June 2025 (adjacent to ICAR2025 in Belgium).
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28 Jun 2024
🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in @ScienceAdvances. With @LabUhrig we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1! A 🧵on what this really means: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl31…
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28 Jun 2024
In conventional #plantsci research, plants are often grown in controlled conditions where the lights are just switched on-off at the start and end of day. This is not how day-night transitions work in nature! Do plants care? Turns out, they really do!
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So nice to see data that many agronomists have known in observation but never tested with rigor - the character of light across a day, across the seasons of a year, have impacted the evolution of land plants in ways we have yet to measure. Exciting work!!!
28 Jun 2024
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In conventional #plantsci research, plants are often grown in controlled conditions where the lights are just switched on-off at the start and end of day. This is not how day-night transitions work in nature! Do plants care? Turns out, they really do!
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