Doug Orr
@scidoug
🇦🇺 Plant Scientist, Asst. Prof. in 🇬🇧. @LancsPhotosynth @RIPEresearch, photosynthesis, Rubisco, plant eng. Consumer of Tim Tams & 🇵🇹 wine. Own views.
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Greenpeace International’s anti-Golden Rice activism has blocked a multi-year, international, publicly-funded effort to save the lives and the eyesight of millions of children in some of the world’s poorest countries Mark Lynas spectator.co.uk/article/childr…
Please RT: Two fully funded 4 year PhD positions are open Biology at York in human/soil microbiomes and using plants to tackle metal pollution. Open to UK candidates with widening access eligibility. Deadline May 29th! Black in Plant Science UK generationresearch.ac.uk/phd-and-master…
4 days left to visit our our #FascinationOfPlantsDay exhibition at Lancaster University Library 🥦💪 Lancaster Environment Centre @LancasterUniSciTech Fascination of Plants Day #FoPD2024 #FoPD #Lancaster With support from New Phytologist and JXB
Seeking engineers from #forestry, #aquaculture and #agriculture to share their expertise and develop a new engineering careers outreach activity together with Edinburgh Science thanks to #RAEngIngenious funding from Royal Academy of Engineering! Drop me a DM to find out more! #STEM #Careers #engineering
A great start to our Photosynthesis Roadmapping Workshop in Caderache yesterday. Photo Boost Gain4Crops BEST-CROP #photosynthesis
Anyone else finding most of the ato.gov.au website broken today? Just trying to find the international number for help and lots of 404s on pages...
Thank you to Lancaster Photosynthesis Group for hosting the LI-COR Environmental photosynthesis workshop at Lancaster Environment Centre . Great to see you and everyone from other institutions. Hope you all enjoy 😊
Very proud to share this paper in Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158… A screen that lead to a completely unexpected regulatory mechanism linking soil nitrogen to the function of legume nodules. A great collaboration with Jieshun Lin Peter Bjørk Marie, Kasper and many others
New! Rishi Sunak is PM (Ex) If you want to support us you can chip in for Sky TV at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy
This is an incredible piece of work by Jonathan Pie. From the research, to the sequencing, to the performance. You want to know why so many people are turning away from vapid MSM and looking to political comedy & alternative news? Look no further. 👇
.Carol Vorderman YOU ARE BLOODY MAGNIFICENT. EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS 🔥🔥🔥
Check out our newest review with Catherine Walsh *Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates* in Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐. Waitrose CTP Lancaster Photosynthesis Group nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
I’m glad to share our (Doug Orr ElizabeteCarmo-Silva) latest publication: Regulation of Rubisco activity by interaction with chloroplast metabolites in the Biochemical Journal 🌾👩🏽🔬 Photo Boost Lancaster Photosynthesis Group Check on: portlandpress.com/biochemj/artic…
New #PhD #research project available in my lab! Come and work at the University of Tasmania TIA on a Hort Innovation funded project aimed at understanding why strawberries suffer in the heat and what we can do about it! utas.edu.au/research/degre…
We are seeking a Synthetic Biologist with experience in metabolic/strain engineering to work with Nigel Scrutton and Dixon Lab Manchester Institute of Biotechnology to develop robust microbiological chassis for production of commodity chemical precursors. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…