A real privilege to be part of the Scientific Advisory Board of Leibniz IPK (just missing Klaus Meyer hiding behind Svend!). Excellent science applied to many facets of crop diversity & improvement with many more exciting things to come soon!

Things are moving fast in the OzBarley trial in Wagga. Awesome team effort to assess the depth & breadth of diversity in this amazing resource Australian Plant Phenomics Network Felicity Harris @BBergerAU

The Science & Medicine at ANU APPN team were thrilled to help host Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Catherine Foley for a tour through APPN's plant growth facility, 3D phenotyping system & Synbio facilities. Thank you Australia's Chief Scientist for your enthusiasm & encouragement. HOW AWESOME IS SCIENCE! #NCRISImpact

Great to have a visit from Australia’s Chief Scientist ourANU this week!

💡Machine learning algorithms translate big data into predictive breeding accuracy. 🔖 Read our new paper TrendsPlantSci on how ML can support decision making in plant breeding & how neural networks can improve genomic prediction Research at ANU authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

🌱 From surviving to thriving: check out this synthesis of the discussions, advice & resources shared at our recent Women in Leadership breakfast at the International Wheat Congress in Perth. 💚 Thanks to the wonderful 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗮 Maricelis Acevedo for making it possible!

🌍 Wonderful to welcome Food and Agriculture Organization Director General Dr Qu Dongyu & Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol to Agrifood Innovation Institute today. 🌱 A fantastic opportunity to engage on global agricultural challenges & the importance of the next-gen of ag scientists ourANU

A few highlights from the Food and Agriculture Organization Director General & Deputy Director General visit to Agrifood Innovation Institute this week. Excellent opportunity to showcase ag research on the beautiful ourANU campus including incredible Australian Plant Phenomics Network facilities & labs. Image credits: FAO/Stephanie Simcox

During our recent visit from Food and Agriculture Organization we had the opportunity to showcase some of the amazing work being done by #NextGen ag researchers. Thanks to @nikkidumbrell & James Moloney CSIRO, John Yaxley @ACIAR & Harry Campbell-Ross @ANUFennerSchool. Image credits: FAO/Stephanie Simcox

Preparing nature & society for a hotter world: very excited to be part of this team supported by Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia to shape an important cross-discipline dialogue next year on how we prepare our inter-dependent systems for extreme heat Agrifood Innovation Institute

It’s harvest time for the 2024 #OzBarley trial in Wagga. Now the fun really begins!

It was fun speaking to the Murdoch's Centre for Crop & Food Innovation & SABC team during #IWC2024Perth about our wheat research ourANU plus the importance of building a more inclusive community #WomeninCropScience

📎 New paper out now Planta_Journal! 🌱 Great collaboration between ICAR-IARI crop physiology team led by Renu Pandey 🇮🇳 & Niab to phenotype roots & phosphorus response in diverse wheat germplasm @StephanieSwarbr Tally Wright

I may not have achieved much but there is now one more field station in the world with proper bathroom facilities for female staff & I’m proud of that! 🌾 🇲🇽 #WomeninCropScience

Great to see this work out TheorApplGenet. Analysis of wheat flowering time over 6 field seasons #phenologyisfun Special thanks to James Cockram for persistence in getting this out!

Congratulations Rosa! Great to see your work on phenotyping durum yield response under drought stress out now!

Farewell Chava! It’s been awesome to have Salvador Carranza from Mexico’s national wheat program INIFAP with us for a research exchange. He’s been working across a range of wheat & barley experiments in the lab & glasshouse ourANU 🇲🇽 🇦🇺

Congratulations to AFII Deputy Director Alison Bentley on being named a Superstar of STEM! Science & Medicine at ANU Biology at ANU scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/profile/alison…

Really excited to be part of the 2025-2026 #SuperstarsOfSTEM cohort! Delighted to join this amazing group to further promote the important role of women & under-represented groups in STEM: scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/list/2025-supe…

💡Interested in new crop breeding technologies? 🧬 Come and join us ourANU to accelerate plant synbio as part of a new multi-million $$ Australian government investment in crop transformation, gene editing & synbio applications. 🌱 Exciting times ahead! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/head-of-a…