I am delighted to be joining the Department of Botany @TCD_NatSci as an Assistant Professor this autumn! Very excited to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research and learning activities that explore the interplay between plant physiology, chemistry and ecology!.

RT @CookeJulia: New paper! #siliceousplants.

Additionally, in contrast to many other forms of defence, even specialist herbivores were strongly negatively affected by silicon in their host plants. Poses some interesting questions about silicon's place in the coevolutionary history of plants and herbivores. .

In summary, we provide global-scale evidence that silicon is a robust anti-herbivore defence. However, chewing herbivores, that rely on breaking down plant tissues, are much more negatively affected by silicon than fluid-feeding herbivores.

Our meta-analysis on the effects of silicon-based plant defences on different herbivore functional groups is out now in @Ecology_Letters! This was a great team effort with @ScottJohnsonLab @itchyshin @profSueHartley @CookeJulia @jmwryalls & Losia Lagisz.

Would be great to see more examples like this going forward! Where the classroom is a place for real-world scientific contributions. No need to drawn such a clear boundary between teaching and research 👏.

RT @itchyshin: Our new paper on in-silico estimates of replicability in ecology and evolution in @NatureEcoEvo led by wonderful YefengYang….

RT @JtdFinch: Please retweet! . We are recruiting a PhD student to work on Tasmanian Bumblebees @JK_Cappadonna . The successful applicant w….

RT @jmwryalls: Our new 𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮-𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 @NatureComms shows how beneficial insects are much worse off than plant pests!!!.We iden….

RT @itchyshin: My first day @CityofEdmonton @UAlberta - here to create a Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in #Ecology & #Evolution. Look….

A nice plain language summary of our work 🌱🐛.

RT @CAM_Robert_Bern: Thrilled to share that we isolated & characterized multihexose benzoxazinoids 🎉! Induced by drought, these #naturalpro….

with excellent collaborators and funders of course @tristancofer @lei_plant @Matthias__Erb @unibern @snsf_ch.

🔥Hot off the press🔥 in @eLife - our work on the temporal patterns of plant information transfer! We found that continuous exposure to natural blends of HIPVs can both prime and subsequently induce defense responses in undamaged neighboring plants.

RT @plantae_org: Plant Science Research Weekly -- Immature leaves are the dominant volatile-sensing organs of maize (Curr. Biol.) @lei_plan….

Check out our work fearlessly led by @lei_plant now out in @CurrentBiology. If you like plant-plant interactions and are interested in the spatiotemporal regulation of airborne stress volatile perception in plants, this paper is for you!.

RT @NewPhyt: Extending the elemental defence hypothesis in the light of plant chemodiversity.Putra & Müller @rputrabio @ChemEcolCM . 📖https….

RT @MichaelRaissig: We are hiring! **Please RT**.Interested in cell polarity, plant development, and microscopy? .We offer a 4-year, @snsf_….

Huge thanks to all co-authors (mentioned above) and @snsf_ch and @unibern for supporting this work!. Happy reading :).

Excited to share our recent work with @Matthias__Erb @lei_plant @tristancofer in which we found that continuous exposure to natural blends of volatiles released from herbivore-attacked plants induces a distinct temporal response in neighboring plants.