Andy Plackett
@seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social
Researcher into the reproduction, developmental genetics and evolution of plants
Reposted by Andy Plackett
International Marchantia Workshop 2026
Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026
Kobe, Japan
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Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026
Kobe, Japan
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November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
International Marchantia Workshop 2026
Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026
Kobe, Japan
sites.google.com/view/marchan...
Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026
Kobe, Japan
sites.google.com/view/marchan...
Had a blast at the @embo.org workshop 'Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land' hosted by the Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna. Would 100% recommend. Thank you so much to the organisers incl @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @moodytomato.bsky.social for all their hard work!
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November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Had a blast at the @embo.org workshop 'Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land' hosted by the Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna. Would 100% recommend. Thank you so much to the organisers incl @isabelmonte.bsky.social and @moodytomato.bsky.social for all their hard work!
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I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^.
Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know!
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I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^.
Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know!
#Plantscience
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^.
Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know!
#Plantscience
I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^.
Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know!
#Plantscience
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A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with @forest-protection.bsky.social.
If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
Fame at last^^
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Our 'Speed Breeding Technologies for UK Broadleaved Trees' team recently came together for their first in-person meeting at @niab-uk.bsky.social East Malling, to inspect their trees after the first season under speed breeding conditions🌱
🔗 Read more: forestprotection.uk/2025/11/13/s...
#TreeHealth
🔗 Read more: forestprotection.uk/2025/11/13/s...
#TreeHealth
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Fame at last^^
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And when I (finally) grow up I want to be as amazing a scientist as @bkoskella.bsky.social, who gave not one but two entirely separate inspirational talks about her science whilst visiting us at Uob!
August 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And when I (finally) grow up I want to be as amazing a scientist as @bkoskella.bsky.social, who gave not one but two entirely separate inspirational talks about her science whilst visiting us at Uob!
We had a stellar end to #NGS2025 today! 🎉 Thank you to everyone for coming, it was a pleasure to host you at the University of Birmingham. A massive thank you to the local committee and especially the New Phytologist Foundation for making this work. 🙂
All the best for next year's NGS!
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All the best for next year's NGS!
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August 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We had a stellar end to #NGS2025 today! 🎉 Thank you to everyone for coming, it was a pleasure to host you at the University of Birmingham. A massive thank you to the local committee and especially the New Phytologist Foundation for making this work. 🙂
All the best for next year's NGS!
#PlantScience
All the best for next year's NGS!
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Today was Careers focused at #NGS2025 Thank you so much to all our panellists for their time and for sharing their varied experiences and views with our delegates. 🙂
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August 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Today was Careers focused at #NGS2025 Thank you so much to all our panellists for their time and for sharing their varied experiences and views with our delegates. 🙂
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#PlantScience
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Advances in understanding seed formation could be crucial for future food security. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo explains why studying the molecular mechanisms behind reproduction matters and shares advice for aspiring botanists.
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#Botany #PlantScience
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August 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Advances in understanding seed formation could be crucial for future food security. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo explains why studying the molecular mechanisms behind reproduction matters and shares advice for aspiring botanists.
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#Botany #PlantScience
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#Botany #PlantScience
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New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 starts very soon - at 13:30 BST (UTC+1)!
Join in for free online via the livestream: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#PlantScience #Botany
Join in for free online via the livestream: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#PlantScience #Botany
August 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 starts very soon - at 13:30 BST (UTC+1)!
Join in for free online via the livestream: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#PlantScience #Botany
Join in for free online via the livestream: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
#PlantScience #Botany
We've had a great first day of the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium, with fantastic talks from delegates and a lively panel discussion on publishing. Looking forward to tomorrow!
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#NGS2025
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August 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We've had a great first day of the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium, with fantastic talks from delegates and a lively panel discussion on publishing. Looking forward to tomorrow!
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#NGS2025
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#NGS2025
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...
Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
I was extremely flattered to be asked to contribute to this Voices piece. Hope folks find it interesting and that it tempts you to try working with new models. 😁
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I'm very pleased to present the @cp-devcell.bsky.social Voices on plant model organism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... While we appreciate the diversity of plant models, one often questions which model is the "best"?
Exploring the diversity of plant model organisms
Increasing plant genome research, together with advanced transformation technology, enables researchers to address their research questions more effec…
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June 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I was extremely flattered to be asked to contribute to this Voices piece. Hope folks find it interesting and that it tempts you to try working with new models. 😁
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
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📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Plant Reproduction: From Sporogenesis to Seed Formation Under Normal and Stress Conditions Concurrent Session!🌱
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June 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Plant Reproduction: From Sporogenesis to Seed Formation Under Normal and Stress Conditions Concurrent Session!🌱
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"Postdoc position in plant genetics at University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250404_Liege.pdf
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Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250404_Liege.pdf
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April 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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We have another opportunity to join the lab!
We and @jmhibberd.bsky.social are looking for a technician to focus on the development of a NAM population in the orphan crop and C4 model species, G. gynandra 🌱☀️
Includes collaborations with partners at NIAB, Wageningen 🇳🇱 and in Cotonou (Benin) 🇧🇯
We and @jmhibberd.bsky.social are looking for a technician to focus on the development of a NAM population in the orphan crop and C4 model species, G. gynandra 🌱☀️
Includes collaborations with partners at NIAB, Wageningen 🇳🇱 and in Cotonou (Benin) 🇧🇯
March 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We have another opportunity to join the lab!
We and @jmhibberd.bsky.social are looking for a technician to focus on the development of a NAM population in the orphan crop and C4 model species, G. gynandra 🌱☀️
Includes collaborations with partners at NIAB, Wageningen 🇳🇱 and in Cotonou (Benin) 🇧🇯
We and @jmhibberd.bsky.social are looking for a technician to focus on the development of a NAM population in the orphan crop and C4 model species, G. gynandra 🌱☀️
Includes collaborations with partners at NIAB, Wageningen 🇳🇱 and in Cotonou (Benin) 🇧🇯
Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies
March 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies
Day 3! Into the mysteries of double fertilization...
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March 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Day 3! Into the mysteries of double fertilization...
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#ICIPS2025
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Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis
Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in
hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition
of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24
Great work Zoe! 🙂
Zoe Weeks (Oxford, UK) opens the talks with a look at the 2D → 3D growth transition in Physcomitrium patens—a key shift in plant evolution.
#Bryophytes #PlantDevelopment
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March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Great work Zoe! 🙂
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Scientists unveil the first architectural model of hazelnut trees, studying 104 shoots over two years to understand growth patterns. This could revolutionize cultivation of the world's third most popular tree nut.
Story at wp.me/pdRZhH-lQp
Paper at doi.org/pdj5
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Story at wp.me/pdRZhH-lQp
Paper at doi.org/pdj5
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Cracking the Code of Hazelnut Tree Architecture
A new model of hazelnut enhances our understanding of its growth and development.
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March 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Scientists unveil the first architectural model of hazelnut trees, studying 104 shoots over two years to understand growth patterns. This could revolutionize cultivation of the world's third most popular tree nut.
Story at wp.me/pdRZhH-lQp
Paper at doi.org/pdj5
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Story at wp.me/pdRZhH-lQp
Paper at doi.org/pdj5
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
Another preprint! I was privileged to be asked to be involved with this project. Well done to everyone, particularly the first author, Hannah McConnell of Veronica di Stilio's lab at UW, who's tenacity and hard work really shines through 🙂
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#Fern
#LEAFY
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#LEAFY
LEAFY demonstrates ancestral reproductive functions in the gametophyte and not the sporophyte of the fern Ceratopteris richardii
Flowers are a key reproductive innovation of the angiosperms. They evolved as a modification of the ancestral plant life cycle whereby the haploid gamete-producing generation (gametophyte) became encl...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Another preprint! I was privileged to be asked to be involved with this project. Well done to everyone, particularly the first author, Hannah McConnell of Veronica di Stilio's lab at UW, who's tenacity and hard work really shines through 🙂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Fern
#LEAFY
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Fern
#LEAFY
About to start day 2 of the International ICIPS Symposium focussed on the evolution of plant reproduction. I'm going to learn so much!
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#ICIPS2025
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#ICIPS2025
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
About to start day 2 of the International ICIPS Symposium focussed on the evolution of plant reproduction. I'm going to learn so much!
#Plantscience
#ICIPS2025
#Plantscience
#ICIPS2025
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The international ICIPS Symposium is starting NOW !
March 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The international ICIPS Symposium is starting NOW !
A great first day at the International ICIPS Symposium here in Berlin. Thank you @icips.bsky.social for organising!
March 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A great first day at the International ICIPS Symposium here in Berlin. Thank you @icips.bsky.social for organising!