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Upcoming events

Looking forward to speaking at the 21st International Microscopy Congress at Liverpool – can find me at the Multimodal Imaging in Plant Sciences session.

Reach out if you will be there too!

Full program here!

13th Utrecht PhD Summer School “Environmental Signaling in Plants.

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students and postdocs! 🌱

Full program and sign-up here.

Program for EPS summer school 2026

Latest in the lab

First conference for the lab! GRS Salt Water Stress in Plants at Les Diablerets, Switzerland!
Francesca gave a talk at the GRS meeting for early career researchers and Michelle presented a beautiful poster!

Priya had a fantastic time organizing the Gordon Research Seminar on Salt and Water Stress in Plants at beautiful Les Diablerets in Switzerland. Thank you to my co-chair Lukas John, University of Hohenheim! We thoroughly enjoyed bringing together a wonderful community of early career researchers colleagues!

Group photo of participants at the GRS on Salt Water Stress in plants meeting at Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

Priya enjoyed presenting at the Company of Biologists workshop on Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales. Refreshing discussions with emphasis to bring the plant imaging community together more regularly. Thank you organizers for the invitation and a fun event!

Poster for Company of Biologists meeting on Plant imaging across scales at Buxted, UK

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages – all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

— Priya Ramakrishna (@priyaramakrishna.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T13:11:23.962Z

Feb 2026

We have Paula from Agrotech Paris joining us for her Masters project!

Feb 2026

Our first PhD student Michelle joins the lab!

SKIL project students gave the final presentation of the model they built.

Well done team!

New article: CryoNanoSIMS for Biology

Representative figure from recent publication that compares conventional and cryoNanoSIMS.

Priya gave a talk at the Chemistry Biology Interface Day 2025 at IECB in Bordeaux.
Thank you for the invitation and hosting Elia Stahl!

CIBD 2025 conference poster

Fantastic seminar today by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social at @iecb.bsky.social . Interesting insights in cryo-elemental imaging and salt stress in plants!

— Elia Stahl (@eliastahl.bsky.social) 2025-11-13T13:53:36.977Z

Nov 2025

First postdoc Francesca joins the lab!

Priya gave a talk at the Trilateral ECR Symposium 2025 at Lausanne. Thank you TES team for the invitation and it was great fun!

Group photo of the attendee´s of Trilateral ECR Symposium.

Priya gave a talk at the EMBO 20th International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology at Helsignor, Denmark.

🌱 Excited to share that I will start my lab at EPFL, CH this June supported by a @snsf.ch Starting Grant! ramakrishna.chWe are interested in plant mineral nutrition and will deep-dive into the fine-tuned mechanisms employed by plants to adapt to abiotic stresses such as salinity.#newPI #plantsci

— Priya Ramakrishna (@priyaramakrishna.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T19:25:07.698Z

Priya Ramakrishna was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF Starting Grant 2024.