We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for the SEB meeting in Florence! There will be two sessions on plant epigenetics - don't miss this great opportunity to showcase your research and network with a fab community 😀

Excited to share @robynemm.bsky.social and I will be co-chairing a session on plant epigenetics in development and plasticity at @sebiology.bsky.social Annual meeting in Florence Registration is now open! Submit your abstracts and enjoy some fantastic chromatin biology in beautiful Italy ☀️ 🧬

So happy to see this work finally online! In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@djgibbs.bsky.social and I are advertising a MIBTP PhD project investigating the influence of low oxygen and ethylene signalling on plant-symbiont interactions. Please get in touch via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profil...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217 International applicants are eligible. Application form: pollenbiology.cz/page-2

My latest In Brief for @theplantcell.bsky.social is now online! doi.org/10.1093/plce... Luan and colleagues describe the role of DSP4, a dual specificity phosphatase, in regulating plant viral immunity 🦠 Check out their great story here: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Incredible location ✅ Excellent science ✅ Amazing community ✅ Perfectly organised ✅ What more could we ask for!? Safe travels to everyone! #ISPLORE2025JP

Look out Japan, here we come! So excited for the #ISPLORE meeting in Nagoya 😁 🌿 Can't wait to hear about all the amazing low oxygen research @gunjansharma88.bsky.social @djgibbs.bsky.social

Plus some awesome ASPB staff! Thanks @plantteaching.bsky.social for organising 😁

Thrilled to be here in #Milwaukee for my first ASPB meeting 😃 If you're interested in epigenetics and plant microbe interactions, or the amazing AFE program, come say hi at poster 400-40 on Sunday or catch me around 👋🏻 #PlantBio2025 🌿

Sorry I couldn't be there Manu, good luck!! 🦠

If you want to hear about our latest work at @suaybuestuen.bsky.social's lab on pathogen manipulation of host translation and P-bodies at #2025ISMPMI, pass by my presentation today at 12:20 in the concurrent session "Effector interference mechanism" (Room M+N).

My first IB for 2025 @theplantcell.bsky.social is now live! 🌱 doi.org/10.1093/plce... Naseem Samo, Iva Mozgová and colleagues beautifully characterise the role of PRC2 in regulating H3K27me3 deposition during seedling establishment 🧬 Great work and congrats to all involved 👏

Honoured to have been awarded a #BBSRC Fellowship to study the influence of histone modifications on plant defence memory at UoB 🌱 Excited to return to plant pathology & explore how epigenetics shapes long-term immunity 🧬 Incredibly grateful for the opportunity and support 🙏 tinyurl.com/2u8ndyb2

Delighted that work from my postdoc was just published in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social Our study shows that the conditional repression of PIF hub genes in Arabidopsis is epigenetically regulated through VRN2-PRC2 activity. See @djgibbs.bsky.social full thread and enjoy the read :D 🧬