Are plants intelligent life being? Starting from this simple question Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola lead the reader in an unusual and fascinating journey around the plant world. The authors clarify the ancient origin of certain stereotypes and reveal the hidden powers of plants. If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants […]
The International Laboratory on Plant Neurobiology is looking for smart and motivated researchers in different fields of plant biology: cellular and structural biology, plant development, regulation and growth, environmental and stress physiology, plant tropisms and circadian rhythms, molecular biology, microbe-plant interaction, nutrition, bio-VOC, biomimetics, plant bio-mechanics and much more. HOW TO APPLY: Applicants should send […]
Oxidative stress and cell death in plants: mechanisms and implications 26th – 28th June 2013 Florence, Italy The 2013 plant symposium will be entitled “Oxidative stress and cell death in plants: mechanisms and implications” and will take place from the 26th – 28th June 2013 at the Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy. Research on oxidative […]
July 8th – 10th, 2013 The University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Plantsignaling2013.com/ The Annual Meeting of the Society of Plant Signaling and Behavior 2013 will be the first time that the society has met in North America. This is an exciting opportunity for North American and world researchers to gather and discuss […]
Prof. Mancuso speaks about plants in Genova Watch the video here: http://www.festivalscienzalive.it/site/home/conferenze/utopia-tranquilla-delle-piante.html
Our PhD students Diego Comparini and Emanuela Monetti spent the last week of September at ESTEC performing experiments in hypergravity. Read the whole story and watch the interview here! ESA centrifuge opens door to high-gravity worlds
On October 28, 2001, at 15:30. Palazzo Ducale Sala del Maggior Consiglio Piazza Matteotti, 9. Here the link to the event
This selection is being made from a survey of more than 3.00 cases divided between social, environmental, communication, technology and finance. The initiative is of the Euro Brazilian Sustainable Development Council – EUBRA and UN Habitat. The cases to be published are being selected by the Advisory Board of Bright Green Cities together with entities […]
Endeavour has been launched on its final flight at 8:56 am EDT Monday, May 16, for STS-134’s 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), with the Italian Astronaut Roberto Vittori as the Mission Specialist. LINV is the principal investigator for the BIOKIS experiment called Arabidops-ISS (Arabidopsis on ISS). Arabidops-ISS mainly deals with the alterations […]
Space Shuttle Endeavour, with a crew of six including the Italian ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, will leave tonight for the International Space Station, carring on board a LINV experiment: the BIOKIS. Biokon In Space is a multidisciplinary scientific experiment in which different biological samples as algae, yeast, water bears and our Arabidopsis seeds will be […]
