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Join us at the Gordon Research Seminar on Salt and Water Stress in Plants

When: May 23rd – 24th 2026.
Where: Les Diablerets Conference Center, Switzerland.

The GRS is particularly for early career scientists to engage and connect more actively with peers!

Apply here!

Application deadline for talks: February 15, 2026.

The Salt Water Stress GRC right after – full program here!

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students and postdocs! 🌱 Sign-up👇

— Priya Ramakrishna (@priyaramakrishna.bsky.social) 2025-11-17T07:59:35.867Z

Latest in the lab

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

Well done team!

New article: CryoNanoSIMS for Biology

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!

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
CryoSEM image and Na map in a cell

Priya Ramakrishna was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF Starting Grant 2024 for the project:

cSALT: Cellular basis for salinity tolerance in plants.