MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

MEMBER NEWS

EDITED BY BENJAMIN DANOIS

IIn each issue of the member magazine, we like to highlight some of the fantastic achievements and research from our members. Here are some of the people we would like to congratulate this time around.

WASIM IQBAL (PGR)

(UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE,UK)

The SEB would like to congratulate Wasim for his exciting paper published in the Journal of Experimental Botany.

Read the paper:

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ jxb/erac368/6696322

DANA MACGREGOR

(ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH, NETHERLANDS)

Congratulations to Dana for her talk delivered on the “Feed the World” Stage at New Scientist Live. We invite you to read the paper has been wrap up by the Farmers Weekly with the information covered by Dana.

Read the paper:

www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/weedmanagement/the-scientific-work-helping-farmersfight-herbicide-resistance

SÓNIA CRUZ

(UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO, PORTUGAL)

The SEB would like to congratulate Sonia for being awarded with a ERC starting grant (2.3 million euros) on photosynthetic sea slugs.

We also want to spotlight her ambitious project entitled “KleptoSlug”:

• cordis.europa.eu/project/id/949880 • www.cesam.ua.pt/index.php?menu=& language=pt&tabela=projectosdetail& projectid=1681

(ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI, USA)

The SEB would like to congratulate Yin Hoon for publishing an astoning new paper in “in silico Plants”.

Read the article:

academic.oup.com/insilicoplants/article/4/2/ diac010/6594971?login=false)

Please see the following for some news release: • School website (Jet lagged plants pave the way to first digital plant) • https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/news-events/ news-2022/jet-lagged-plants-pave-the-wayto-first-digital-pl • Phys.org (Jet lagged plants pave the way to first digital plant) https://phys.org/news/202211-jet-lagged-pave-digital.html

MICHAEL GÜNTHER

(UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART, GERMANY)

Congratulations to Michael for his interview from last July by the famous radio anchor Jonathan McCrea, in his show named ‘Futureproof’ station on ‘Newstalk radio’ regarding his article published in ScienceDirect.

Read the article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ abs/pii/S0022519321001363

Listen the podcast:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ abs/pii/S0022519321001363

An interesting paper mentioning Michael’s work has been also released on Wired:

www.wired.com/story/why-even-the-fastesthuman-cant-outrun-your-house-cat

(UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, GERMANY) (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA)

Related to Michael Günther’s paper, the SEB would like to congratulate Tom for his involvement as a main contributor for the “ Rules of nature’s Formula

Run: Muscle mechanics during late stance is the key to explaining maximum running speed” article

ANGIE BURNETT

(UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK)

The SEB would like to congratulate Angie for her publication “Can we improve the chilling tolerance of maize photosynthesis through breeding?” published in the Journal of Experimental Botany.

Read the article

academic.oup.com/jxb/article/73/10/3138/6526428 Congratulations to Michael for thesis work as a full article published in “Nature” following the Young Scientist Award he won during 2019 SEB conference in Seville, Spain.

Read the paper:

www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05331-7

New & Views writeup:

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03220-7

BBC Radio interview (2nd story in the episode):

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct369p