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The 2024 Tansley Medal competition is open! This prestigious annual award recognises early career researchers for outstanding contributions to plant science. Shortlisted candidates are invited to write Tansley insights for publication in New Phytologist. newphytologist.org/awards/tansley…

Congratulations Ali Muhammad Waqas Ali 🇰🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰🇬🇧 for submitting your PhD thesis 🎉😁. Time has really flown by since you joined as the first PhD student in the lab. #proudPI

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on effector biology 🧬 of Zymoseptoria🍄populations UoB Biosciences Collaborators: Megan McDonald Tom Wood Kostya Kanyuka Salary: £34,980 - £40,521 Apply by: 24/09/23 Full details: t.ly/E0i_B

Great opportunity for scientific discussions, skills training and networking for early career professionals in applied/agricultural biology. ✅Industry & academia encouraged to attend. ✅Highly subsidized registration/accommodation 📅Deadline 15th Oct ⬇️Apply now!

VACANCY - GROUP LEADER 📢 Calling #microbiologists! JIC has an exciting opening for a #Soil #Microbiology Group Leader. Those working/interested in microbiome formation in crops e.g. wheat, barley & pea particularly encouraged to apply okt.to/dnxUGR Norwich Research Park

Super proud of my first PhD student Muhammad Waqas Ali 🇰🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰🇬🇧 passing his viva with flying colours. Many congratulations🎉👏! You set a high standard for all future lab members - scientifically and as a much-valued team member. All the best in your new postdoc position Dr Ali!

Extremely proud of Catherine Evans passing her PhD viva with flying colours! Many congratulations 👏 🎉 From 0 to 2 PhDs from the lab in 5 days!

Such a pleasure to work with The Royal Society on an educational series about new technologies including gene editing to produce better crops! Learn more about our work to produce more nutritious #wheat using gene editing John Innes Centre here: youtu.be/wfghDz2jm9A?si…

NEWS - Dr Philippa Borrill featured in Royal Society video to inspire a new generation Philippa Borrill explains the value of gene editing for developing sustainable, resilient wheat in a new series of The Royal Society videos featuring Brian Cox  okt.to/d3LUgM

Delighted to see Catherine Evans's work about NAC5-1's role in wheat senescence out as a pre-print ⬇️ . Congratulations to Catherine Evans for leading this project and all co-authors 🎉. John Innes Centre Plantsci Brum

Really proud of James Milson John Innes Centre presenting his PhD work on baking quality in hybrid wheat #monogram24. Exciting to see the story coming together!

Thank you for the invitation! It was an honour to give the Enid MacRobbie Women in Science lecture today and a pleasure to visit the department (and some of the professors) who inspired my interest in plant sciences ☺️🌾🪴🌳🌴

What a great conference! Thank you for the invitation! Wonderful science talks and opportunities to meet the next generation of plant scientists #Mendel_ECR_24

Fresh off the press Plant Direct Journal doi.org/10.1002/pld3.6… We found NAC5-1 positively regulates wheat senescence. Congrats to all authors Catherine Evans Sophie Mogg Ph.D Dr Juliet Coates. @JulietCCoates.bsky.social and Charline and Emma (not on twitter). Great summary by Catherine Evans below 👇

EVENT - Delivering Sustainable Wheat (Delivering Sustainable Wheat) in Practice Applications are OPEN for this exciting two-day, online course providing an entry-level intro to #wheat research 🗓️ 12 - 13 November 2024 ⏰ Deadline - 17 July 2024 Find out more and apply: okt.to/TQ3vip

Ever wonder what happens if you knock down DNA methylation in a plant with a big genome? Does chaos ensue? Read our latest work on wheat MET1-1 to find out below ⬇️ Thanks to all authors, especially first authors Delfi Dorussen and Sam Burrows for superb teamwork & leadership.

To the wheat and plant sciences community: We want to share across the coming weeks our day-to-day lab protocols, via protocols.io (open access, no peer review). First release is: "How to grow wheat" dx.doi.org/10.17504/proto… Feedback is welcomed and greatly appreciated! 💬

📌Save the date! #Monogram25 will take place 7-10th April 2025 in Aberystwyth📌