The deadline for abstract submissions is TODAY… 😃

Exciting opportunities to join @justingoodrich.bsky.social group in Edinburgh as either a Postdoc or Research Assistant. See the link for further details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

EVENT - 4th Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant Group Meeting 2025 🗓️ 12 December 2025 ⏰ From 9:30 am 📍 @theforumnorwich.bsky.social, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF For more info: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge... 💻 Register by 14 NOVEMBER 2025: forms.office.com/e/7xLvVHtbC6 @philcarella.bsky.social

Registration for #nonseedUK25 is officially open: www.jic.ac.uk/event/4th-ge.... If you wish to be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by 30th October. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for acting as local organizer this year 😃

Excited to host the UK NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year on Friday December the 12th. It’s a great community and these meetings are always fun and informative. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or a newbie looking to diversify your research, please consider joining us!

We’re very excited to announce that the #nonseedUK25 meeting will be held in Norwich on 12th December 2025. For now, please save the date and more details will follow. Enormous thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social for organising this year’s meeting 😃

Thanks to @fromani.bsky.social for organising #nonseedUK24 in Cambridge. What a fantastic meeting. Thanks for the generous sponsorship @gensocuk.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social 😃 🌱 🧬

Last but definitely not least is Janik Marks who takes us down the rabbit 🐇 hole - insights from hornworts and charophytes #nonseedUK24 😃

Ana Julia Sagasti discusses the origin of shoot apical meristems #nonseedUK24 👍

Yuki Ito highlighting the evolution of body plans in lycophytes #nonseedUK24 🌱

Bruno Catarino on the integration of light and temperature signals at the dawn of land plant colonization #nonseedUK24 🌱

Jorge Hernandez-Garcia tells us about the origin and evolution of auxin responses in plants #nonseedUK24 🌱

Bharti Aggarwal on the role of miRNAs in sexual organ development in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK24 🌱

Abdellah Lakehal on the evolution of later root founder cells #ferns #nonseedUK24 👍

Jill Harrison describes CLAVATA/WOX interactions in mosses #nonseedUK24 😃

Vicky Spencer explores mechanisms underpinning branching asymmetry #nonseedUK24 🌱

@jiaaawen.bsky.social talks about her work towards unravelling ethylene biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK24 🌱

Fay-Wei Li starts his talk with 6 cool facts about hornworts #nonseedUK24 👍

Silvia Pressel tells us about mycorrhizal associations in non-seed plants #nonseedUK24 😃

Francesco Licausi discusses hypoxia across land plants #nonseedUK24 🌱

Elenor Kennedy talks about non-canonical mechanisms of TIR NLR proteins #nonseedUK24 🌱 👍

James Walker describes the role of methylation during the sexual transition in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK24 🌱

Rency Raquid describes the latest no gametophores mutant (nog6) #2D-3D #nonseedUK24 🌱

@robinsonsci.bsky.social discusses the mechanics of cell shape #nonseedUK24 😃

Sandy Hetherington reveals evidence for the origin of fiddleheads #nonseedUK24

@fromani.bsky.social welcomes everyone to the #nonseedUK24 meeting. Exciting talks again 👍

Registration for the #nonseedUK24 meeting is OPEN (tinyurl.com/2w9us5av) until 29th November. If you would like to be considered for a flash talk and/or a travel grant, complete this form (tinyurl.com/5x58tbkr) by this Friday 15th November. Looking forward to another great meeting 🌱

Announcing the International Conference on the Molecular Biology of Streptophytes (ICMBS) celebrating streptophyte #algae & #nonseed plants 🌱- great line up so far at an awesome venue. Virtual 🖥️ attendance available if unable to travel - dailab.org.cn/icmbs/. Please repost😃

Congratulations to Rafael Cruz for designing the winning logo for the @gensocuknonseed.bsky.social - this very nicely highlights the model systems used by the UK non-seed community - many thanks 😊 🌱 🧬

Rafael Cruz discusses the evolution of the phloem genetic toolkit #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK

Derry Carr discusses the role of MADS-box proteins in the evolution of flowers 🌸 🌺 #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK

Was miR165 an important regulatory innovation during the evolution of land plants? Jim Fouracre investigates… #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK

Sebastian Schornack sheds light on the mechanisms that control sexual reproduction in Marchantia #nonseedUK23 @gensoc

George Greiff unravelling the ancestral roles of WOX-CLAVATA signalling #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK

Laura dalle Carbonare describes the evolution of a unique O2 sensing mechanism in land plants 🌱 #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK

Hyeonmin Jeong discusses the evolutionary origins of plant-microbe interactions 🌱 🦠 #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK

Zhe Ji (Luke) on the evolutionary enhancement of GA signalling complexity #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK 👍

Philippe Gadient on the formation of pegged rhizoids #nonseedUK23 @GenSocUK 😊

Juliet Coates discusses the ancestral roles of DELLA proteins 👍 @GenSocUK #nonseedUK23

The #nonseedUK23 meeting starts with a fantastic keynote talk by Sabine Zachgo 😃 @GenSocUK

Today we gather for the #nonseedUK23 meeting @GenSocUK - looking forward to a day full of exciting science 👍 😃

Re-examining meristems through the lens of evo-devo: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38040554/ - the latest paper from Yoan Coudert’s group 👍

RHO of plant signaling was established early in streptophyte evolution - www.cell.com/current-biol...

The monoicous secondarily aquatic liverwort Ricciocarpos natans as a model within the radiation of derived Marchantiopsida - Singh & Bowman 2023 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... Check out Fig. 4 - ABA induces the terrestrial growth form of this aquatic liverwort.

Exciting opportunity to work with @sandyheth.bsky.social to develop a genetically tractable lycophyte 😃

Our newest preprint combines maize & moss genetics in a convergently evolving story about a deeply conserved mechanism regulating auxin response in land plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience #Phytohormones #PlantEvoDevo

Plant reproduction: Ancient origins of male germline differentiation: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Pleased to share our latest preprint! An ancient role for the CYP73 gene family in t-cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylation, phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and embryophyte development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha: www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper in The Plant Journal! #moss #germination #plantscience #evolution. Great collaborative work from Evelyn Vollmeister and Alex Phokas with @rensingstefan.bsky.social and many others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...