Nikki Walter
@nikkiwalter.bsky.social
Postdoc in Murchie lab at University of Nottingham. Wheat, cereals, bacterial biostimulants and genetics. ECR rep for Monogram UK.
🍃 Invited Speakers 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com Remote and high-throughput phenotyping applications in photosynthesis research 🌿 Erik Murchie, University of Nottingham 🌿 Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois @erikmurch.bsky.social @carlbernacchi.bsky.social @ibioillinois.bsky.social #ICPR26
Whirlwind of a day presenting twice at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual Conference in Florence. Huge privilege also to have been selected as a finalist for @royalsociety.org Young Scientist Award. Wonderful opportunity to present to scientists I’ve admired for a long time!
A wonderful talk from @lornamca.bsky.social at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual Conference in Florence. A very well deserved winner of the SEB’s Presidential medal in Plant Science. Congratulations Lorna!
Our latest newsletter is out today! Packed full of career development opportunities, news and events from the whole #plantscience and #farming community 🕊️ We pause for a moment to remember and celebrate the lives of Philippa Borrill and Ian Cooper 🕊️ Read it in full: buff.ly/aPB0Sk5
Last week I attended #monogram26! It was great to present my PhD project and I really enjoyed co-chairing a session! Had a great time reconnecting with the @monogram-uk.bsky.social community and meeting new cereal researchers ☺️. Til next time! @niab-uk.bsky.social @aabiologists.bsky.social
The Monogram week kicked off @niab-uk.bsky.social with an #ECR workshop expertly organised by @nikkiwalter.bsky.social from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, and included an introduction to #wheat crossing by breeders Carus John-Bejai from @kwsgroup.bsky.social and Joshua Ham from RAGT...
Two great talks by members of the Borrill group at #Monogram2026 today: Miles Curl telling us about drought tolerance in wheat and @beccatesta.bsky.social investigating the role of NAC3 in senescence in wheat. Great chairing of a whole session by @amy-newell.bsky.social too! Well done all 👍🏼
Katie Hawkins from my group talks about exploiting #wheat wild relatives for BYDV resistance at #Monogram2026. Funded by Limagrain, KWS, RAGT and @uonresearch.bsky.social BBSRC DTP studentships in collaboration with @kostya-kanyuka.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social
Fascinating talk by Bernice Waweru from @johninnescentre.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social lab on kmer techniques for identification of candidate disease resistance genes #Monogram2026
Malcolm Bennett from @uonresearch.bsky.social introduces the Rank Prize @rankprize.bsky.social support to cereal research at #Monogram2026
Really excellent talk on day 2 of #Monogram2026 by @ecarmosilva.bsky.social on improving wheat’s resilience to heat by studying rubisco activity during photosynthesis. Funded by @dsw-isp.bsky.social
Day 1 of @monogram-uk.bsky.social was a great success! The UK small grain research network is alive and well! #monogram26
Excellent talk by @nikkiwalter.bsky.social from @uonresearch.bsky.social on N fixing bacterial inoculatants to improve wheat yields in SubSaharan Africa. Funded by @gatesfoundation.bsky.social Legume Technology and FCDO UK. #Monogram2026
#Monogram2026 Session 2 - Cultivating Good Company: Probiotics for Plants 🦠 Tim Mauchline @rothamsted.bsky.social 🌾 Nikki Walter @nikkiwalter.bsky.social 🎯 Cristina Barrero Sicilia @herts.ac.uk 🍺 Karol Kukula @uonresearch.bsky.social
And so it begins... #Monogram26 For the second year, the ECR workshop organised by @nikkiwalter.bsky.social was very well attended... Lovely to host so many Monogram researchers at @niab-uk.bsky.social for a day. #plantsciences #crops
Following the successful inaugural event (developed by the fantastic @nikkiwalter.bsky.social), the Monogram UK Pre-conference ECR Workshop sign ups are now open again! Free to attend, with loads of skills development and fun networking opportunities. Travel awards are available too! #ECR #network
Nikki Walter@nikkiwalter.bsky.social · 9mo ago@monogram-uk.bsky.social Monogram UK 2026 Pre-conference ECR Workshop sign ups are now open! Free to attend, with loads of skills development and fun networking opportunities. Sign up via QR code below. Please share!
@monogram-uk.bsky.social Monogram UK 2026 Pre-conference ECR Workshop sign ups are now open! Free to attend, with loads of skills development and fun networking opportunities. Sign up via QR code below. Please share!
Grateful for all the wonderful support during my PhD, especially from @surbhigrewal.bsky.social, which has been especially recognised with the Edward Cocking Award 2025 - the same one she won in 2011!!
Only 8 days left to apply for our ECR Travel Award! Up to £500 to support workshop, training or visits to other members of the community to encourage collaboration. See website for more details. monogram.ac.uk/index.php/mo...
Long, hot, sticky but thoroughly satisfying day of field data collection. Huge thanks to @lornamca.bsky.social for the help and positivity! It’s a blessing to have such awesome lab members 🙏 #fieldtrials
This week, I found myself in my proudest moment yet - Implementing the @monogram-uk.bsky.social ECR pre-conference workshop. I really underestimated how it would feel to accomplish something like this, but I was in awe of the community we developed over the day.
Some great times had with great colleagues at #MonogramUK2025 at @aberuni.bsky.social. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @surbhigrewal.bsky.social
We are privileged at @UoNResearch to have Martin Mascher of @leibnizipk.bsky.social talking to us. Thanks @surbhigrewal.bsky.social for hosting!
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
