Association of Applied Biologists

🍀 Competition 🍀

💸 Design the logo for next year's International Advances in Plant Virology IAPV 2027
📆 6 - 8th April
📍Cambridge, UK

📧 Send your logo design to jordan@aab.org.uk by 1st May 2026 for your chance to win free registration!

📣 Call for Papers 📣
RECROP: Plant Adaptations to Extreme Environments

Do you work on:
🌽 Crop stress resilience
🧂 Salinity 💧 Drought 🌡️ Heat
🦠 Plant-microbe interactions in extreme environments
🧪 Molecular, epigenetic & physiological mechanisms

Submit your paper now:
buff.ly/qJqmlaP

#plantscience

📣 Call for Papers 📣

Roots to Regenerative Agriculture: Soils, Biodiversity and Novel Approaches

Do you work on:
🚜 RegenAg
🌎 Agroecology
🪱 Soil Health & Biodivesrity
🌽 Intercropping
🌱 Root Systems & Rhizosphere

Submit your paper now: buff.ly/TGC3itz
⏰ Deadline: April 1

#plantscience

Missed this week's webinar "All aabout Roots"??

You can watch Jason & Gustavo's talks back now 🎉
👉 youtu.be/3BU_TwssYCA

#plantscience @annalsapplbio.bsky.social

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Photosynthesis in the oceans, Aquatic photosynthesis
🌿Thomas Ryan-Keogh, National Oceanography Centre
🌿Rich Puxty, University of Warwick

@noc.ac.uk @warwicklifesci.bsky.social
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Plant and ecosystem photosynthesis in a warming world
🌿Martijn Slot, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst.
🌿Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lancaster University

@martijnslot.bsky.social @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Artificial photosynthesis and biohybrid systems
🌿Iftach Yacoby, Tel Aviv University
🌿Gustav Berggren, Uppsala University

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Rubisco 2.0
🌿Laura Gunn, Cornell University
🌿Jeroni Galmés, University of the Balearic Islands

@laura-gunn.bsky.social @uib.cat
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Stomata, the gatekeepers of photosynthesis
🌿Hanna Hõrak, University of Tartu
🌿Silvère Vialet-Chabrand, Wageningen University

@hanna-horak.bsky.social @silverevialet.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

C4 and CAM for photosynthetic improvement
🌿Jane Langdale, University of Oxford
🌿Ariel Orellana López, Universidad Andrés Bello

@janelangdale.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃

Continuing on from last week, we're happy to announce the next set of Invited Speakers across our Photosynthesis 2026 concurrent sessions!

🌿 Share the stage in Liverpool this July 🌿
Submit your abstract by 31st March 👉 photosynthesis2026.com

#plantscience #ICPR26
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📣 Registration is open for the 23rd International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics #ISRFG2026

🌾Fundamental science for climate resilient rice 🌾
📍 The Royal Society (London, UK), 8-11 September 2026

Register now: cvent.me/8VvnrA

#plantscience #genomics

⏰ Happening Tomorrow ⏰

Don't miss out - there's still time to register for our webinar 'all aabout' Roots👇

A manifesto for plant science education Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists...

It was a joy to bring together a community of plant science educators to write this manifesto now out in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social - so much potential for plant science education if we come together and address the really key issues. #PlantScience #STEMeducation

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Roles and regulation of photorespiration
🌿 Berkley Walker @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social
🌿 Martin Hagemann, Rostock University

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Regulation of ROS production and signalling
🌿 Åsa Strand @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
🌿 Ginga Shimakawa, Kobe University

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Photoprotection: mechanisms, dynamics and regulation
🌿 Yuxiang Weng, Institute of Physics, CAS
🌿 Nicoletta Liguori @nikinikki87.bsky.social @icfo.eu

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Biogenesis of the photosynthetic apparatus
🌿 Zhengfeng Liu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS
🌿 Alice Barkan @uoregon.bsky.social

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

From Molecules to Membranes: Thylakoid Membranes as a Dynamic Platform for Energy Conversion
🌿 Doran Raccah, University of Texas
🌿 Emilie Wientjes @w-u-r.bsky.social

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Light harvesting: mechanisms and diversity
🌿 Roberta Croce @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
🌿 Xiaochun Qin, University of Jinan

#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃

Photosynthesis 2026 will feature 20+ concurrent sessions - today we're happy to introduce the first set of invited speakers!

🌿 Join them in Liverpool, 26- 30th July 🌿
Register now 👉 photosynthesis2026.com

#plantscience #ICPR26 #photosynthesis
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Happy to say that our Applied Plant Pathology specialist group is once again organising a session at BSPP's annual conference #PPATH2026

🦠 Join them in Norwich this September!

Registration is open 👉 www.bspp.org.uk/plant-pathol...

#plantscience

🌱 One week to go until our next webinar 'all aabout' Roots & Soil! 🌱

📅 Tuesday 24th Feb - 1pm GMT
Register for free 👉️ buff.ly/dcXsZR4

#plantscience #sustainableagriculture @annalsapplbio.bsky.social

Submit your abstracts now for Photosynthesis 2026!
👉️ photosynthesis2026.com

📆 26 - 30 July 2026
📍 Liverpool UK

Submit by 31st March for your chance to present to an international audience at one of our 25 concurrent sessions!

#plantscience #photosynthesis

So this #IDWGS we're championing visibility 🔬

As Charlene says "seeing someone who reflects your own background and has carved a path is powerful - somewhere there is a young girl who is curious, bright, and unsure whether her dreams are realistic"

Charlene's story teaches us to never underestimate the transformative power of community & mentorship in succeeding as a #WomenInScience

"Role models matter" - and for Charlene the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social community and support of mentors like @yoselin.bsky.social has been invaluable 🌱

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2026!!

🌟 We belong in Science, and our inclusion fosters and drives innovation 🌟

🌱 Charlene Kunaka-Dambire shares her journey in a new blog post 👉️ aab.org.uk/idwgs2026/

#WomenInScience #IDWGS #plantscience

Register now for 'Acrylamide in Cereal Products: Progress and Prospects'

📆 3 - 4 June 2026
📍 Palermo, Sicily

👉️ cvent.me/XaaVZ9

@ilsieurope.bsky.social

🚨 Final day to register for Crop Production in Northern Britain 2026 🚨

Join us in Dundee 25- 26 February
👉️ cpnb.org

#plantscience #sustainableagriculture

Tune in to our next webinar 'all aabout' Roots & Soil Biology
📅 24 Feb - 1pm GMT
🔗 buff.ly/dcXsZR4

& hear from Gustavo Ferreira da Silva 'all aabout' his recently published paper 👇

#plantscience @aabiologists.bsky.social