Most of all, thank you to the wonderful ECRs who attended and embraced all the opportunities thrown at them. We have started to create a brilliant community - I look forward to seeing all the conversations, collaborations, and changes that we make together. #MonogramUK2025
Some great times had with great colleagues at #MonogramUK2025 at @aberuni.bsky.social. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @surbhigrewal.bsky.social
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Day-3
Started with Ji Zhou from @niab-uk.bsky.social great to see effective use of AI, ML, and drone technologies applications.
Thanks Martin for flying drones in my field trial and analysis.
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More great work from the Uauy lab at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Isabel Faci talks meristems and mixed environmental signals, and highlights teamwork, in the #MonogramUK2025 MECEA presentation session. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Stunning images from @katielong.bsky.social at @johninnescentre.bsky.social for the #MonogramUK2025 MECEA award presentations. Great work! @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Congratulations to the ECR New Lecture Rank Prize winner Jim Fouracre from @brisunipress.bsky.social. Beautiful examples of the differing phenology in juvenile to adult plants. Horticultural brain is happy. #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @rankprize.bsky.social
Exciting changes coming in wheat production. Nick Bird from KWS talks about a very exciting new and efficient system in hybrid wheat using blue-coloured seed! #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Genetics and bioinformatics 😍. Interesting talk by Lucy Mahoney of @earlhaminst.bsky.social at #MonogramUK2025 looking at regulatory regions in the wheat genome. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
So much exciting work with drones happening in UK field trials at the moment. Andrew Riche from @rothamsted.bsky.social talks about hyperspectral imaging by drones at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Fascinating presentation by Martin Vickers on the use of drone technology at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Very cool! #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Kicking off Day 3 of #MonogramUK2025 with Ji Zhou from @niab-uk.bsky.social on linking AI and phenotyping with genetics. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
From @leibnizipk.bsky.social, Zhenru Guo talks about BRANCHED SHOOT1 and its influence over whole plant architecture. #monogramUK2025
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Deepak Kumar from @leibnizipk.bsky.social on his vision for hybrid wheat. #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
A contender for the best pun at #MonogramUK2025: The Fast and the Floriferous by Indi Lacey from @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @tweeticum.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Very interesting talk from Stephen Pearce of @rothamsted.bsky.social on novel dwarfing genes at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
The wonderful Stéphanie Swarbreck from @niab-uk.bsky.social at #MonogramUK2025 with a really interesting talk on cereals for low input and regenerative agriculture. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Chidemma Gift Omenoba-Nee Ubah from at #MonogramUK2025 on the location of rye introgressions in wheat, and how they can influence disease response. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Love the work on triads from the Borrill group at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. @delfidorussen.bsky.social talking about the role of DNA methylation in wheat at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
My former supervisor and brilliant mentor Surbhi Grewal from Notts WRC talking at #MonogramUK2025 about identification of new introgressions in wheat. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
The bar is high today for beautiful slides! Martin Mascher talks about genebanks, genomics and genetic diversity at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social
Beautiful slides from Chen Ji at @johninnescentre.bsky.social at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Guy Golab of @leibnizipk.bsky.social on metabolism and how variation in growth can shape wheat adaptation. #MonogramUK2025 @ibers.bsky.social @monogram-uk.bsky.social
A 9am talk is a brave time to introduce maths to a room of plant scientists, but Lorna made easy work of it. Great slide! #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Wanton Chen of @rothamsted.bsky.social talking about fructans reducing the susceptibility to biographic fungi at #MonogramUK2025.
Day 2 of #MonogramUK2025 kicks off with my brilliant colleague Lorna McAusland ‘Turning up the Heat’. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Come see me at my poster PRU-5 at #MonogramUK2025 to talk N-fixation in cereals! @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Our #MonogramUK2025 host Aiswarya Girija of @ibers.bsky.social talks about sprouting to improve the biofortification of cereal based foods. @monogram-uk.bsky.social
Hard-hitting talk with lots of data about chronic diseases from @ondrejkosik.bsky.social from @rothamsted at #MonogramUK2025 , and how we can combat them through cereal dietary fibre. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
Elena Baldoni on Acrylamide-reduction in wheat through understanding the genetic basic of free asparagine accumulation at #MonogramUK2025.
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After a coffee break (with Welsh cakes!) we’re back this afternoon at #MonogramUK2025 looking at Quality and Nutrition. Catherine Howarth from @ibers.bsky.social kicks it off talking about improving the oat crop for sustainability and quality. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social
