Daphne Ezer

Variation in how plants absorb metals: from nutritious vegetables to phytomining (York YBDTP Project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com

Pushing energy-efficient urban farming to the limit using plant circadian clocks (York YBDTP Project) at University of York on FindAPhD.com

I'm pleased to announce two PhD openings in my lab: one focussed on intra-population heterogeneity and another focussed on plant circadian clocks.

@qpb_journal Our work on vertical farming is featured in the Yorkshire Post! How urban farmers can now 'see the light' to improve their crop yields

Study helps urban farmers create 'light recipe' to increase crop yield phys.org/news/2025-07-u… via @physorg_com

Our plants can disco! We have a new protocol for effectively programming multi-channel LED lights. They have some really weird quirks you might not realise that may impact your experiment! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Session 3 of our partnership with Daphne @RegulatoryNet from @BiologyatYork was fun. Here Class 3 are demonstrating how plants move. We are also super excited to have made (almost) new discoveries that will help scientists grow kale!

We are excited to announce that the 4th Young Researchers' Symposium on Plant Photobiology (YRSPP) will take place from 15-18 April 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland's beautiful capital city. 🪴🍃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 More details soon! #YRSPP #YRSPP2026 #earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology

Take a look at our new pre-print: ELF3 controls trait heterogeneity in Arabidopsis and barley. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

I'm excited to be taking my MSc in Bioinformatics students (University of York) to present their work at #NorthernBug in Huddersfield. This year, they have a talk and poster! Still time to apply for next year!

How to make bioinformatics accessible for visually impaired students? Lillian made phenomenal resources for my class! blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-access…

@BioClocksUK Circadian rhythms are linked to lifespan in plants, animal models, and even humans. Here we uncover the genetic loci facilitating these connections in a model plant: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Here is our model:

Sneak peak at my #ICAR2025 plenary: how synchronously seedlings respond to daylength changes is linked with how uniform they are at flowering, driven by GI, ELF3, prion-like domains in KH proteins and crazy chimeric MAF transcripts. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please share: We're hiring up to FIVE Postdocs or PhD students for a number of #plantsci #proteomics #genomics projects between my lab and that of Hervé Vanderschuren at @KU_Leuven & @UniversiteLiege! Come join us in the land of 🍫 & 🍻 for some exciting science!

Dear 🌱🧬 community, I am excited to share that I am recruiting PhD students for my lab at SBS, University of Auckland 🇳🇿! Our research will focus on the temperature regulation of the circadian clock in the legume M. truncatula, see comments below. Thanks for sharing!

Please spread the word, we are still open for applications! Find out more - bit.ly/4geU14D #paidopportunities #GenerationResearch #summerstudentships

Deadline extended for our PhD position. EPSRC Fully funded Project: Plant chrono-nutrition: Quantitative methods for improving the nutritional quality of fresh vegetables in urban farms at University of York on FindAPhD.com

You will have greater awareness of UK and other European academic systems and funding streams, enabling you to make an informed, globally-minded choice for PhD or at least make connections for future international research collaborations. (5/5)

The T4 visa enables up to 20 hours of part time work during term-time and full time work between terms. Instructors are conscientious that students often work. York is also cheaper than London. (4/5)

American university students considering grad school: If you want to fill a year while you figure out what is going on with American science funding, I would consider the MSc in Bioinformatics at York, which is still accepting applications. (1/5)