Priest Lab - University of Bath

New paper from @Jamie_T42 & @NPriestLab! Cacti are amongst the most diverse plants! This study sheds light on the mystery as to why are there so many different types. You can listen to senior author, Nick Priest, chat about the paper and its findings here: YouTube: youtu.be/bRnMbH6urcM?si… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ide… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/14WxHB… Podbean: podbean.com/ew/pb-ptw48-16… Paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… Admin: @Turi__King @Nature @NatureComms @clennard @EETrustUK @The_RHS @GWandShows @PDocLifeSciBath @UniofBath @UniofBathSci @lifesciencebath @duncancraigbath @phil1pingham @kewgardens @CactusSucculent @BCSS_Sheffield @dbgphx @georgiamkeeling @TeamEchinacea @theAliceRoberts

We were delighted to host our @UniofBath Chancellor, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, earlier this week. He came to visit us & @lifesciencesbath. He started with a visit to @NPriestLab chatting with @elliemjarvis, Jingbo Liu & Gabriel Crabb about fruitflies. Then on to hear from me & @phil1pingham about our research in general before speaking to some of our amazing researchers @VickyHunt_Lab @scottlovell34 @NMehrban Nikolas Nikolaou & Helen McDonald. 😊 Admin: @Turi__King @RoyalFamily @EETrustUK @clennard @duncancraigbath

Thanks so much @DoctoralBath for awarding me a Doctoral Recognition Award last week! And thanks to @elliemjarvis, who also won an award, for being my partner in crime! 😊 @PGBioBath

A huge congratulations to @MilnerCentre’s newest Dr, Jingbo Liu! Passing his PhD viva today with minor corrections 🥳🎉 huge thanks to @JeanvdElsen and Prof Matt Tinsley for examining 😊 @UniofBath @UniofBathSci

Stinging in the rain! This new #RSOS paper looks at the behavioural responses of #bumblebees to simulated #rain. Read more: ow.ly/5pkW50S1KzE 🐝 @elliemjarvis @SeanRands

Busy and fun day today @FestofNature in #Bath with @elliemjarvis and @NPriestLab accompanied by lots of fruit flies in a starring role! 😊 Admin: @Turi__King @UniofBathSci @UniofBath @EETrustUK @clennard

It’s Evolutionary Fact Friday for the first Friday of the month! Did you know that it was global cooling around 10 million years ago that was the main driver of the diversity of terrestrial orchids that we see today? Here’s a lovely such orchid on campus @UniofBath that some hero has protected so it doesn’t get mown! 😍 You can read about the orchid study by @NPriestLab here: 👇 pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… Admin: @Turi__King @EETrust @clennard @ukorchids @Britainsorchids

While 75% of Earths's species were going extinct at K-Pg, the flowering plant evolutionary tree was merely pruned, without a detectable mass extinction. Really fun paper with @LabSpiritu royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Did you know that flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs? 🌻 🌺 🌹 New study by @Jamie_T42 @MilnerCentre shows how flowering plants are nature's true survivors, now making up 3/4 of all plant life on Earth. bit.ly/467AdeB @RSocPublishing

Jingbo representing the Priest lab at #Ento23 @UniExeCornwall today, chatting about his novel low-dose infection method and how this interacts with survival, reproduction and immune genes! Made us very proud 💪👏

Beautiful snap of me rattling on about engaging the public with Drosophila self-medication research 🤓

What caused the rise of terrestrial orchids? Our results indicate that subfamily Orchidoideae is a stellar example of climate-driven diversification, with most radiations happening recently and associated with global cooling, across all major regions 1/2 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@elliemjarvis @georgiamkeeling and Nick visited @FestofNature’s Family Nature Party on Sunday! 🎉🎊 Lots of amazing drawings of what you like to eat when you’re sick 🍽️🍲🧃, and a mini experiment to find out which microbes are living on you 🦠🧫😷

New preprint from PhD work: a deep investigation into dynamics and drivers of evolution of succulent lineages. By far the biggest project I've undertaken, this was a great collab between @NPriestLab, @HdzHdz_Lab and @LabSpiritu, involving several awesome trips to Mexico 1/4

A huge congratulations to Dr @Jamie_T42 for passing his viva today with NO corrections! 🥳🎉🎊🍾

New pre-print with @LabSpiritu - first from the Mexico trips! We searched for signatures of mass extinction of flowering plants at K-Pg with some huge phylogenies ☄️🌺🪷 @MilnerCentre @UNAM_MX

Our very own Nick Priest presenting at @PGBioBath Department of Life Sciences Research Day 2023! @LifeScienceBath @MilnerCentre 🌵🧬