💡 Don't forget nominations are open for 3 new awards celebrating excellence, leadership & impact across applied biology 🌟
🌱 Plant Sciences
🌎 Sustainable Futures
💚 Accessibility in Applied Biology
Submit your nomination by 31st May 👉 aab.org.uk/aab-presidents-medal/
#plantscience #sustainableag
🌱🧬 Don't miss out on the 1st webinar of our new PlantEd series!
⏰⏰ Tomorrow at 11am BST!! ⏰⏰
Join us 👇
Join our exciting line-up of speakers – submit your abstract for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions!
Deadline: 20 May
📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps
#PlantScience
Don't miss the next talk in our #PlantHealth Series - 'Digital Viticulture: The future of vine health.'
Dr Kaitlin Gold from Cornell University & Rob Poyser from Vinescapes will be discussing the future of vine health and disease control.
Find out more:
⏰ Just 3 weeks left to get your entries in! ⏰
Design the logo for next year's International Advances in Plant Virology - IAPV 2026 - and win free registration!
🦠☘️ Deadline: May 1st ☘️🦠
#plantscience #virology #planthealth #sciart 🧪
We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Wheat Transformation and Gene Editing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies at the forefront of crop science, contributing to innovative research in wheat improvement.
🌾Crop pathogen survival - Jon West @rothamsted.bsky.social
🫐 Soft fruit viruses - Louise Gamble @hutton.ac.uk
🦠 Aphid-killing microbes - Alicia Showering, BugBiome
& more!
Undergrads apply now! 👉 www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...
Also plenty of UG projects on offer from the AAB community and specialist group members!
🧬 Wheat cultivars and virus vectors @joe-roberts.bsky.social
🥔 Potato immune receptors @jonathandgjones.bsky.social
🪲 Resistance to cabbage stem flea beetle @oilseedrachel.bsky.social
Happy to say we're supporting 2 more "PHUGS" this year!
🐛 Insect pheromone lures - Dr Wendy Harris (Swansea University)
🦠 Splicing and bacterial infection - Dr Matt Jones (University of Glasgow)
Please share with any undergraduates who would like to gain some research experience in #plantscience!
📣 Call for Papers 📣
Roots to Regenerative Agriculture: Soils, Biodiversity and Novel Approaches
🚜 RegenAg
🌎 Agroecology
🪱 Soil Health & Biodiversity
🌽 Intercropping
🌱 Root Systems & Rhizosphere
Deadline now extended!
Submit your paper by 1 June: buff.ly/TGC3itz
#plantscience
📣 Call for Papers 📣
RECROP: Plant Adaptations to Extreme Environments
🌽 Crop stress resilience
🧂 Salinity 💧Drought 🌡️Heat
🦠 Plant-microbe interactions in extreme environments
🧪 Molecular, epigenetic & physiological mechanisms
Deadline now extended!
Submit by 1 June: buff.ly/QZUU6Vg
#plantscience
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#Auxin2026
🦞 Featuring an absolutely stellar line-up of 27 invited speakers 👇
Plus plenty of talks selected from abstracts, poster sessions, chances to network and explore the stunning coastline ⛵
Don't miss out! Submit your abstract now!
👉 auxin2026.info
#plantscience
📣 Don't miss your chance to present at AUXIN 2026! 📣
⏰ Abstract deadline for oral presentations: April 30th
Join us on the beautiful Algarve coast, Portugal as we share the latest advances in auxin biology 🌊
📅 4th - 8th October 2026
Register now 👉 auxin2026.info
#plantscience 🧪
Our next webinar will be all 'aabout' plant genome editing, as part of our new PlantEd series!
📅 Tuesday 21 April
🕚️ 11AM BST | 12PM CET | 7PM KST
🧬 Feat. talks from:
Tien Vu Van @tienvu.bsky.social
Natasha Brock @rothamsted.bsky.social
Register for free 👉️ buff.ly/ASJiGhm
#plantscience
Sharing a great opportunity from the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) 🌱
📅 11–12 June 2026
📍 University of Dundee (hybrid & free to attend)
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Register by 17 April — in-person spaces limited!
#PlantScience #Epigenetics
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Nigel Halford - Rothamsted Research, UK
@rothamsted.bsky.social
🧬 Reducing the acrylamide-forming potential of wheat, from fertilisation rates and disease control to CRISPR
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Neil Buck - General Mills, Switzerland
🌍 Considerations for acrylamide mitigation by all stakeholders: views of the ACRYRED community
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Federica Gilardi - University of Lausanne, Switzerland
@fbm-unil.bsky.social
👩⚕️Acrylamide and Health risks: Evidence and Uncertainty
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Elena Baldoni - IBBA CNR, Italy
@ibbacnr.bsky.social
🚜 “Agronomy and Plant Breeding”: progress on knowledge about free asparagine accumulation in cereals
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Colm Campion - Cereal Partners Worldwide Nestle
🥣 A Cereal Manufacturer's View on the New Acrylamide Limits: Challenges and Pathways Forward
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Vural Gökmen - Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
🍞 Acrylamide Kinetics and Mechanism during Processing and Digestion
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Veronica Nowakowski - UC Berkeley, USA
@goldmanschool.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
💰 Regulation and Competition: The Impact of Acrylamide Limits on the Grain Market
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞
Stefania Masci - DAFNE Università della Tuscia, Italy
🌾Nutritional improvement of wheat using TILLING, transgenesis and genome editing
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
⏰ Just under 1 week left to submit your abstracts for 'Acrylamide in Cereal Products: Progress & Prospects'
📍Palermo, Italy
📆 3 - 4 June
Register now 👉 cvent.me/XaaVZ9
🍞 Abstract submission deadline: 15th April 🍞
#plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social
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Deeply saddened to hear the news of Philippa's passing. She was a wonderful scientist and active member of our community, always championing early-career researchers.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time 🩵
Our latest newsletter is out now!
🗣️ This month check out our upcoming events and read all 'aabout' March's meetings including reports on #Monogram2026 and #VOF2026 from our early-career awardees
Read it full 👉 buff.ly/QMcy3le
Thinking of joining us for Photosynthesis 2026?
Don't miss your chance to present (and save some $$!)
🚨 Only two days left to register at the early-bird rate and get your abstracts in for talks!
Register now 👉 photosynthesis2026.com
#plantscience #photosynthesis
Check out this new paper from our very own AAB Council Member Nigel Halford & team!
Want to find out more? You can catch Nigel at our upcoming meeting in Palermo, Sicily 🌞
🌾 'Acrylamide in Cereal Products: Progress and Prospects'
🍞 June 3 -4
👉 cvent.me/XaaVZ9