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

@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!

Happy to see our publication online! 🌾

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!

Congrats Jack!!

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

We are at #Monogram @ibers.bsky.social wonderful networking with the wheat and cereal research community. @johninnescentre.bsky.social @dsw-isp.bsky.social

Thanks to organisers and chairs of #Monogram2025 for giving me the opportunity to present my latest work on wheat wild relative introgressions. @uonresearch.bsky.social

From @leibnizipk.bsky.social, Zhenru Guo talks about BRANCHED SHOOT1 and its influence over whole plant architecture. #monogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

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

Excellent talks in the #monogram2025 crop genomics session from Martin Mascher of @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @surbhigrewal.bsky.social from Nottingham University @monogram-uk.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

Good morning little wheat seeds, time to wake up and start growing! 😊 Seed germination in process!

Greatly enjoyed Delfi Dorussen's talk today at #Monogram2025. A very eloquent presentation of her work on met1 mutants in #wheat, which is now published in JXB. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @monogram-uk.bsky.social @delfidorussen.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @jxbotany.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

Emily Lyon @monogram-uk.bsky.social poster session describing her Baritone PhD work studying water update during malting #monogram25

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

Really enjoyed the first day of #Monogram2025. All speakers did a fantastic job! A great testament to the UK research community. Looking forward to day 2!! @monogram-uk.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. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Jessie Shadbolt’s @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social PhD focuses on characterising the physiological implications of contrasting alleles of HvHMA5 in barley. It’s good copper, bad copper time for #monogram25

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

Great example of a research presentation made accessible to those not in the same niche. Jessica Shadbolt at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Understanding root growth angle in response to drought stress - Sibongale Zimba talking at #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

Oliver Powell talking genetics and bioinformatics for crop immunity, before he’s even started his PhD! Thanks for the kind shoutout about the #MonogramUK2025 ECR workshop. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Beautiful photos of propagation of mistletoe from @thepallavisingh.bsky.social! Very interesting talk about their ambitions to graft monocots to divots. #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

A microbiologist at #MonogramUK2025! Emily Radford using the predatory Myxobacteria as a biocontrol for crop diseases. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social