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📢President's Prize online workshop!! 7 exciting short-listed presentations given by students, one of which will be awarded the President's Prize 🏆 to attend the Valencia meeting. Free to join for everyone, register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ISPMF 2026 Valencia Plant Molecular Farming is entering a new era, with breakthroughs in synthetic biology, genome editing, and biomanufacturing driving innovation across healthcare, agriculture, and sustainable industry...

Call for Abstracts - deadline 9th of Feb, 2026

ISPMF 2026 will take place in Valencia, Spain, on 13–15 May 2026.

For conference details and abstract submission, please visit:
www.ispmf2026valencia.org

We look forward to your contributions!!

ISPMF 2026 Valencia Plant Molecular Farming is entering a new era, with breakthroughs in synthetic biology, genome editing, and biomanufacturing driving innovation across healthcare, agriculture, and sustainable industry...

7th International Conference on Plant Molecular Farming. 13–15 May 2026. Valencia, Spain
@ispmf.bsky.social 2026
www.ispmf2026valencia.org

Students! You have until Monday 15th of December to send your abstract to ISPMF President for a chance to win the President's Prize to attend ISPMF 2026 in Valencia.

Registrations are now open for our upcoming ISPMF 2026 conference in Valencia! Head to our website to register, or go straight to our conference website: ispmf2026valencia.org discounts for members and early registrations.

STUDENTS: Don't forget to submit your abstract for a chance to win an incredible bursary to attend ISPMF 2026 in Valencia!

📢The return of the President's Prize!! We will be hosting an online student seminar, and the best speaker will get their travel, accommodation, and registration covered for the upcoming ISPMF conference in Spain!! See details 👇 See ispmf.org for conference details

Can CHO Bioreactors Be Used For Plant-Based Protein Production? The moss Physcomitrium patens is especially good at producing glycoproteins. Established technology and prior knowledge are helping one company develop new therapies with it.

Great interview with Andreas Schaaf, #teamEleva
Can CHO Bioreactors Be Used For Plant-Based Protein Production?
#ispmf @ispmf.bsky.social
www.bioprocessonline.com/doc/can-cho-...

This is really cool! Well done!

🚨PMF milestone alert!
Healthgen announces regulatory approval in China for Human Serum Albumin made in rice endosperm for use in patients suffering from hypoalbuminemia caused by liver cirrhosis: oryzogen.net/list/19.html

Duckweed‐based edible vaccine confers complete protection against avian infectious bronchitis virus by inducing robust mucosal and systemic immunity Molecular farming using edible plants offers a cost-effective strategy for vaccine production because plants serve as both bioreactors and oral delivery systems. Owing to its rapid clonal propagation...

This is very cool: Duckweed‐based edible vaccine confers complete protection against avian infectious bronchitis virus by inducing robust mucosal and systemic immunity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Strengthening the future of science: Why joining a scientific society has never been more important Click on the article title to read more.

Great editorial in @PlantBiotechJ about why you should join scientific societies (like the ISPMF!): "Strengthening the future of science: Why joining a scientific society has never been more important" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fantastic result of a Phase II clinical trial of Human Serum Albumin produced in rice endosperm by Healthgen Biotech: doi.org/10.1136/gutj... Well done to all involved!

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com

Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

Thank you to all of our fantastic PhD student presenters and all those who joined our online workshop yesterday, we heard some great stuff!

This is taking place TODAY! See ou there :)

Registration for our free online workshop event on Monday is still open! Free to everyone, come and hear some wonderful talks about plant molecular farming. Register here: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Don't forget t oregister for this event taking place next week!

Join us for our online workshop on March 24th! We have some fantastic talks lined up from some very talented PhD students. Register here (free, open to everyone): tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Congratulations to the 6 PhD students selected to give a presentation at our upcoming online Student Seminar, to be held on Monday, March 24th from 9-11:30 am EST (3-5:30 pm CET). All are welcome to attend - put it in your calendars now!

PhD students: don't forget to submit your abstracts by this Saturday!

The deadline is this Saturday! Don't forget to submit your abstract for a chance to present your work to the molecular farming community at our upcoming PhD student workshop.

📢 calling all students! The ISPMF is hosting a workshop for postgraduate students to present their research to the ISPMF community. The workshop will be held March 24th. Abstract submission deadline is Feb 15th (see details in image).
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I have a sneaking suspicion (that I've never bothered to properly test) that most viral sequences, particularly structural proteins, will express optimally with their native codon usage, even if expressed in a heterologous system. One day maybe I'll get round to actually looking into that.

An interesting paper on codon optimisation for recombinant protein production in tobacco: doi.org/10.1016/j.sy...

This is TODAY! You can still join us (registration link below) for free, even if you're not a member of our society ☺️

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📢Save the date! We've got another exciting online seminar coming up on Dec. 6th about engineering the plant secretory pathway for plant molecular farming:
to register: tu-darmstadt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

News about Medicago's big production facility in Quebec City:
t.co/2odzFN3F01

Sad news that Leaf Expression Systems in Norwich (UK) has ceased trading. We'll miss them and our thoughts are with the staff members affected.