Are you an international (EU or overseas) student with excellent academic record looking for a PhD? Are you as excited… Read more Fully funded PhD opportunity

Abstract submission is open for the SEB Annual Meeting in Montpellier, France, from 5-8 July 2022! Together with Simon Poppinga… Read more Mechanical Ecology at the 2022 SEB Conference in Montpellier!

It’s finally out! Together with Simon Poppinga from Darmstadt Botanic Garden in Germany, Ulrike guest-edited a special issue in Journal… Read more JXB Special Issue on Mechanical Ecology

On Friday, Oona became officially the first postgraduate research student to graduate from our lab. Despite all the added difficulties… Read more Congratulations to Oona!

Thanks to our recent grant successes, we have finally outgrown our lab space in the basement of the University of… Read more We have moved!

Did you ever wonder how carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants make the intricate surface pattern on their traps? If you are… Read more We’re hiring!

Welcome to Nathaniel (Nat) Kelly who joined the lab as our first-ever postdoctoral researcher at the start of January! Nat… Read more Welcome!

What a delightful ‘Christmas present’ to find in the inbox today! We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a… Read more Grant success in time for Christmas

Applications are invited for a fully funded 1-year Masters by Research (MRes) project in our lab, investigating the mechanisms underpinning… Read more MRes studentship available for shooting fake hail at plants!

What a lovely surprise to walk into our tropical growth chamber today and find that the whole lot of Nepenthes… Read more Babies in the lab!