GARNet UK Plant Science
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GARNet was a BBSRC-funded research network for the UK plant science community. Its legacy is maintained by http://arabidopsisevents.uk Tweets by @wokingplants
🚨Publication of 2023-24 MASC Annual Report! - Update on MASC activities - Tribute to Phil Benfey - Subcommittee, Project and Country Reports 🇦🇷🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇳🇨🇿🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇯🇵🇳🇿🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧🇺🇸 Download PDF -> custom.cvent.com/05F40F40EA964B…
Three back-to-back Salicylic Acid biosynthesis papers 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4158… from Yuelin Zhang’s group (my PhD supervisor)
Call for Collaborative Ideas for Applications of AI in Plant Phenotyping! The IPPN Working Group on Applications of AI in Plant Phenotyping invites to propose collaborative ideas & projects. We see value in collaboration. Link to form: tinyurl.com/38rcyjpr #plantscience #AI
I am at #PlantBio2025 and will be happy to chat with postdocs interested to know more about @plantpostdocs mentoring programs. The BEST time to chat will be the poster session. See you there tomorrow and day after tomorrow.
Applications are open for the Sahyadri Outstanding Postdoc Award & Future Faculty Academy for Fall 2025! This is an excellent opportunity for plant biology postdocs soon to be on the job market. Application link: tinyurl.com/4mk3nyu6 Past awardees: tinyurl.com/2rw3xyv7
#PlantBio2025 I’ll be speaking in the final plenary—sharing the story behind this paper and some new, unpublished work from my lab at TSL.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…
⏳ Final call! Submit your abstract for the @JXBot 75th Anniversary Symposium before the 22 July deadline – that's next Tuesday! 📍17–19 September | Edinburgh 🧬 Celebrate experimental plant biology! More information: sebiology.org/resource/journ…
Finger millet has fed communities in Africa & India for centuries - and it's making a comeback! ✅ Gluten-free 🔥 Drought & heat tolerant 🎯 Packed with nutrients It’s time to spotlight this underutilized crop 🔗 tinyurl.com/ynraar59 #OpportunityCrops #BOLDProject
🚨 All vacancies for our new project on meiotic recombination in crops are now online (3x PhD, 1 postdoc)🌾Check vacancies at the jobsites of the different partners @FbwUGent @ILVOvlaanderen @KU_Leuven 👇 Deadlines ranging fro August 3 to 17!
New Phytologist next generation scientists: free events organised by and for early career researchers University of Birmingham, UK 4–7 August 2025 Join online: ow.ly/BZF350WnVLi #JournalSpotlight @NewPhyt
Announcing the 2025 NAASC Arabidopsis Community Impact Awardees: Early Career Category: Jade Bleau, Univ. of Dundee, Scotland Later Career Category: José Dinneny, Stanford Univ., USA & Joanna Friesner, NAASC, USA- mailchi.mp/83b6d6238e51/2…
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
Are you a Curious (Senior) Scientist, an expert of plant regeneration and tissue culture? Check out this position in our Plant Genome Engineering team workatbasfgent.be/job/curious-se…
IN BRIEF: A magic pocket: An all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for plants (Andrea Gomez-Felipe) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… @andreagomezfe @ASPB #PlantSci
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
Inspiring account from @KamounLab on a symposium in Algeria organised by @GetGenome - Mountains can meet: farming the desert with microbes, not fertilizers by @KamounLab medium.com/p/mountains-ca…
Mary Williams, PI of the ROOT & SHOOT (R&S) initiative (led by @ASPB ) talks to #ICAR2025 about the mentor development activity underway with the R&S plant society consortium. @PlantTeaching @RootandShootRCN
Hello Ghent - the city of art, architecture and plants! I'm looking forward to #ICAR2025
A hint to all conference organisers. Order in cool sunshine and free beer and you’ll be great! #icar2025
#ICAR2025 attendees! Join us on Tuesday for the PCP @PCP_EIC Workshop. I'll be sharing my experiences as an ECR and look forward to hearing yours!
Hope to see you all next week at #ICAR2025 in Gent, Belgium! I will be co-chairing the Concurrent Session #10 "Environmental Regulation of Plant Defenses" on June 19th (Thurs). @NAASC_NA_ICAR @AABiologists @GARNetweets We have an excellent lineup of speakers next week! 🌱😻👏