Deadline: 19 July! Early Career Researchers in the Durum EWG can apply for the 2026 Durum EWG Travel Awards to support short-term laboratory visits! Apply today 🌾 👉 www.wheatinitiative.org/latest #WheatConnect
Bettina Berger
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Plant scientist, using cameras and other sensors to measure plants 🧪🌱📸. Adelaide, Kaurna country.Views are my own.
#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
Such a great team effort pulling this all together. And great seeing the data being using by others.
OzBarley: A genetic and phenotypic data resource capturing the Australian barley breeding history www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
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IPPN @ippn.bsky.social has exciting news! The 9th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS9) is goingto Africa! 🇬🇭 🗓️ Oct 12–16, 2026, Accra, Ghana Hosted by @ippn.bsky.social & @wacci_gh Learn more: ipps9.org #IPPS9 #PlantScience #FoodSecurity
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The International Plant Phenotyping Symposium is a conference jointly organized by:
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The @plantcv.bsky.social team is hosting a workshop at the @nappn.bsky.social 2026 conference in Feb. at Michigan State and is able to support the travel of up to 20 participants. Please apply for the workshop and submit an abstract to the conference if you are interested: mailchi.mp/3afecdddf6de...
PlantCV travel awards for NAPPN 2026
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Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Deadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
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Join us next week to hear Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka explore the evolutionary journey of strigolactones! She will present insights from moss & liverwort studies that reveal clues to their ancestral role in growth regulation 🔗 bit.ly/TPS-JK #PlantScience
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Talking Plant Science with Junko Kyozuka. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Step by step evolution of strigolactone signalling pathway Strigolactones (SLs) serve dual functions as hormones that regulate growth and development and as rhizosphere signalling molecules that prom...
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Join us for Talking Plant Science with Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka from Tohoku University 🌱🧪 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 🕙 2-3pm (AEST) / 3-4pm (AEDT) 📍 Zoom, register here: bit.ly/TPS-JK #event #webinar #plantscience
Your expertise matters. Join a Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group and help shape the future of wheat research globally. 🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2 #WheatConnect
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Our Breeding Exoert Working Group held a webinar and offers everyone intersted to watch the recording. Webinar by Jessie Alt, Global Wheat Lead at Corteva, “Wheat breeding at Corteva”
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🚀🧬 EBP dream team launches the Phase II roadmap to sequence all Eukaryotic life on Earth! 🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ 🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.
Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.
🔍 #DataDiscovery | New Python Library! TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever! Explore it now: 📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern... 💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...
GitHub - ternaustralia/terndata.flux: Provides library function for easy access to flux data in TERN dap server
Provides library function for easy access to flux data in TERN dap server - ternaustralia/terndata.flux
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📣 Deadline extended! Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments. Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... #jobalert #monitoring #renewables
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿 www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266 @bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
Phenotyping of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotypes with different growth habits
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) has gained renewed scientific and agricultural interest worldwide as a multi-use, high-value crop, with products spanning textile, clothing, medicinal, food, and cons...
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Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.
Multi-Modal Few-Shot Learning for Anthesis Prediction of Individual Wheat Plants
Anthesis prediction is crucial for breeding wheat. While current tools provide estimates of average anthesis at the field scale, they fail to address …
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🚨 Now open! The NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme offers up to $50K Primary and $25K Secondary matched funding to access world-class SynBio facilities across Australia. 👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs. 📅Closes 12th of September. 🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...
NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme - Bioplatforms Australia
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Sometimes you have to celebrate the little things. 🥳 100,000th plant being characterised on our automated imaging system.
📊 #jobalert! Are you passionate about transforming complex environmental data into accessible insights? Join TERN as a #DataEngineer and help design and maintain scalable, cloud-based #datainfrastructure that supports national research efforts. Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
Today is #WorldBloodDonorDay 🩸 Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity. When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need. If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely. academic.oup.com/database/art...
A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture
Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ
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Still waiting desperately for rain in South Australia, but enjoying the autumn sunshine in the meantime
In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪
2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers | Australian Plant Phenomics Network
OZBARLEY TRIALS – TRAVEL SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES 🌱 ✈️ The OzBarley project, which is led by the Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) and the University of Adelaide, is developing a comprehensive ...
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If you ever wanted to turn your balcony cladding into mulch, I've got three efficient workers I can recommend. #birds #Australia