We are looking forward to the LED3 Lecture of Anne Osbourn on January 29th She will talk about "Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications".

If you are interested, make sure to come by!

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/led3/led3-lectures

#ChemBio #Chemistry #Plants #Metabolites

Last month, I was featured in an article by Liam Mannix at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald about the five biggest science discoveries of #2025

Check out my thoughts on the #darkmetabolome at https://shorturl.at/4QNQ1

#science #metabolites #ozchem #chemistry #biochemistry

Eating lean beef as part of MED diet could improve gut diversity

New clinical trial evidence suggests that replacing an American-style diet with a Mediterranean eating pattern, while still consuming …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #blood #cardiovasculardisease #ClinicalTrial #heart #Meat #Mediterranean #metabolism #Metabolite #Metabolites
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2391995/eating-lean-beef-as-part-of-med-diet-could-improve-gut-diversity/

Small language models enable rapid and accurate extraction of structured data from unstructured text: An example with plants and their specialized #metabolites
by Lucas Busta and Alan R. Oyler
https://doi.org/10.1017/qpb.2025.10021 via Quantitative Plant Biology #PlantScience

Less than a month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Revisiting Metabolic Fundamentals, organised by Lydia Finley and Wilhelm Palm.

Apply by 24 October.

https://biologists.com/workshops/april-2026/

#BiologistsWorkshops #Biology #Workshop #Metabolism #Enzymes #Organelles #Cells #Physiology #Development #Metabolites

New publication: Hub #metabolites at the root–microbiome interface: unlocking plant #drought resilience. #droughtresilience #climatechange #sustainableagriculture
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.04.007