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Our latest newsletter is out today! 🌱Fresh starts - as we say goodbye to Carol & welcome Jordan to the AAB team 📆 Upcoming events 👩🔬Our Community - hear what our members have to say about #ICAR2025 and Parliamentary Links Day Read it all here >> tinyurl.com/AABNews-July25
Fascinating fundamental science and a great example of an X-thread done well!
Our new paper is out! 1/16 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. cell.com/current-biolog…
#PlantBio2025 I’ll be speaking in the final plenary—sharing the story behind this paper and some new, unpublished work from my lab at TSL. Hope people stick around till the end (though a few already warned me they’re leaving early 😅)!
New year, new paper! Now published in @Nature. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in @JoeEcker lab at @salkinstitute. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Register now for "Roots to Regenerative Agriculture" 18 - 20 November📍 York, UK & Online 🚜Join us as we connect science & farming to explore the future of #regenag 🧳Travel bursaries available! Find out more🔗 buff.ly/jDltSdu #sustainableagriculture #plantscience
Registration is open for "Creating Canopies II 🌲 📆 10-11th September 2025 📍Carlisle, UK & Online 🌳 Join us in person - deadline 26 August (but spaces are limited!) View the programme & register today: buff.ly/pHGGvfn
Save the date! 🪱 Advances in Nematology 2025 will be held at the Linnean Society London & online on December 4th 📆 Limited in-person registration opens 1st September Submit an abstract & find out more 🔗 buff.ly/HOgf6af @AnikaDamm @FreshTecBinks #nematodes
Less than a week left to submit your logo designs! 🧪 Auxin2026: 4 - 8 October 📍Albufeira, Portugal 🌿ICPR2026 (International Conference on Photosynthesis Research): 26 - 30 July 📍Liverpool, UK 📅Submit by July 15th for your chance to win free registration! #plantscience
#PaperAlert Why do scientific societies matter now more than ever? Members of GPC board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages👍 🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb… #plantscience #science
Strengthening the future of science 💪 In this @PlantBiotechJ editorial, the @GlobalPlantGPC including our exec @wokingplants, explore why joining a scientific society has never been more important! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
#Groundswell25 was fantastic! 🫚 Annual date with a chicory #taproot in the #soil pit @ADASGroup stand. 🫘 Beans & pulses talk: Cultural acceptance, school meals, diversity, price, risk on farm & connecting breeders and producers. Highlight, was meeting so many lovely people.
Final call for abstracts for #CreatingCanopies II ⏰ Deadline is Monday (7th)! Don't miss the chance to share the stage with: 🌲@quine_chris 🌲@Ruth_J_Mitchell 🌲John Mackay 🌲Amory Ngan Submit now: tinyurl.com/AAB-Canopies @TreeCouncil @DefraGovUK @ForestryTrust
Missing the action at #Groundswell2025, or there and can't get enough of #RegenAg? 🌱 Register for our "Roots to Regenerative Agriculture" conference >> web.cvent.com/event/6f375fc2…
Important update on the exploitation of our omega-3 technology - really pleased to now be working with @NuseedGlobal to help deliver additional new sources of plant-derived EPA+DHA in camelina. nuseed.com/33321-2/
📣Calling all Legume Researchers 📣 We are now accepting papers for our special issue on "Legumes in Science & Practice" 🫘🫛 📆 Deadline: 20th November To find out more & submit: tinyurl.com/AnnalsAB #legumes #biodiversity #nitrogenfixation #plantscience
Cruising along the canals of Ghent, and then live jazz in another historic venue, what a way to end the 4th day of #ICAR2025
Want to come to #CreatingCanopies but missed the abstract submission deadline? 📢 Great news! Submission is now re-open until 7th July!
Join us for Creating Canopies II in Carlisle & online this September🌲 ⏰Abstract deadline is this Sunday (15th)! Find out more & submit an abstract >> web.cvent.com/event/7e93d2bc… #creatingcanopies #AABtrees @ForestryTrust @DefraGovUK @TreeCouncil
We hope you're enjoying #ICAR2025! Join Peer Review Manager Fiona Tooke and our Editors Gwyneth Ingram, Dior Kelley, Ari Sadanandom, and Nathalie Verbruggen in the Anatomical Theatre NOW for a publication advice clinic for early career researchers! #ecrchat #publishing
Happy to support our ECR community! 🌱 Our travel grants are available to all AAB meetings 🧳✈️🚆
I was thrilled to represent @Rothamsted & present a short talk yesterday on my PhD research in the Hormone Driven Plant Morphogenesis session at #ICAR2025 in Ghent! 🇧🇪 Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to speak and to @AABiologists & @GenSocUK for the travel grants! 🌱