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

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. mary williams ROOT & SHOOT Research Coordination Network

Inspiring account from Sophien Kamoun on a symposium in Algeria organised by GetGenome - Mountains can meet: farming the desert with microbes, not fertilizers by Sophien Kamoun medium.com/p/mountains-ca…

Final call for abstracts for #CreatingCanopies II ⏰ Deadline is Monday (7th)! Don't miss the chance to share the stage with: 🌲Chris Quine 🌲Ruth Mitchell 🌲John Mackay 🌲Amory Ngan Submit now: tinyurl.com/AAB-Canopies The Tree Council Defra UK Scottish Forestry Trust

IN BRIEF: A magic pocket: An all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for plants (Andrea Gomez-Felipe) doi.org/10.1093/plcell… 𝔸𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕒 𝔾ó𝕞𝕖𝕫-𝔽𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕡𝕖 🔬🌱🇲🇽 ASPB #PlantSci

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…

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

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

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 New Phytologist

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…

⏳ Final call! Submit your abstract for the JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social 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 Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent ILVO KU Leuven 👇 Deadlines ranging fro August 3 to 17!

Three back-to-back Salicylic Acid biosynthesis papers 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4158… from Yuelin Zhang’s group (my PhD supervisor)

#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 😅)!

I am at #PlantBio2025 and will be happy to chat with postdocs interested to know more about PlantPostdocs (@plantpostdocs.bsky.social) mentoring programs. The BEST time to chat will be the poster session. See you there tomorrow and day after tomorrow.

Our latest newsletter is out today! 🌱 Featuring new member benefits, specialist groups, current events & much much more... Read it now 👉 buff.ly/zS6ehxP #plantsciences #earlycareer

International Conference on Photosynthesis Research 2026 will be in Liverpool, 🇬🇧. July 26-30 2026 photosynthesis2026.com

The final version of our paper showing VRN2-PRC2 mediated control of PIF4 signalling is now published in the latest issue of Developmental Cell. Many thanks to Zhe Wu for writing an accompanying Preview piece summarising the work, here: cell.com/developmental-…