Jill Harrison
@jillharrison.bsky.social
Biologist interested in plant evolution and development, especially the origin of vascular plants. Works as a Professor at @BristolBioSci.
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JOB ALERT!
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!
Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!
We look forward to receiving your applications!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!
Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!
We look forward to receiving your applications!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
February 12, 2026 at 9:14 AM
JOB ALERT!
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!
Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!
We look forward to receiving your applications!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!
Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!
We look forward to receiving your applications!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Brilliant to see these guys graduating today and to attend my first UoB ceremony. Huge congratulations to Dr Liu, Dr Greiff and Dr Jeal, and look forward very much to hearing about the difference you make in the future!
February 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Brilliant to see these guys graduating today and to attend my first UoB ceremony. Huge congratulations to Dr Liu, Dr Greiff and Dr Jeal, and look forward very much to hearing about the difference you make in the future!
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A new 2 year post in our team at the Milner Centre in Bath - single cell transcriptomics, non-coding RNA, stomatal physiology and evolution, all rolled into one. Really exciting project and excellent collaborators in Sheffield too! Please share, details here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
SS13360 Research Associate - Jobs at Bath
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February 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
A new 2 year post in our team at the Milner Centre in Bath - single cell transcriptomics, non-coding RNA, stomatal physiology and evolution, all rolled into one. Really exciting project and excellent collaborators in Sheffield too! Please share, details here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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Are you a researcher looking to help the next generation of plant scientists gain valuable experience? Then consider applying to host a Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer!
📆Apply by Tues 10 March
Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...
#PlantHealth
📆Apply by Tues 10 March
Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...
#PlantHealth
February 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Are you a researcher looking to help the next generation of plant scientists gain valuable experience? Then consider applying to host a Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer!
📆Apply by Tues 10 March
Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...
#PlantHealth
📆Apply by Tues 10 March
Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...
#PlantHealth
It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?
From tiny mosses to giant redwoods, around 450,000 species of land plants show a huge
variety of forms, yet all land plants develop from stem cells in proliferative meristems.
What makes a meristem? T...
www.cell.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Efficient CRISPR-Cas genome editing in brown algae
Brown algae, a key yet understudied lineage of multicellular eukaryotes, have long
lacked tools for functional genomics. Martinho et al. introduce a high-efficiency,
transgene-free CRISPR platform ena...
www.cell.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Thursday is the last chance to apply for a NERC GW4 funded PhD to work with me and James Clark at Bath on roles for WOX genes in the evolution of plant life histories. The project builds on prior work showing a divergence in function after duplication in mosses. www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership (NERC) | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
Find out about the Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership, a multidisciplinary training environment for postgraduate students in NERC sciences.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Thursday is the last chance to apply for a NERC GW4 funded PhD to work with me and James Clark at Bath on roles for WOX genes in the evolution of plant life histories. The project builds on prior work showing a divergence in function after duplication in mosses. www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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🧬 Fancy a fully funded PhD at the cutting edge of parasitology? 🦠✨
We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍
We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍
January 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
🧬 Fancy a fully funded PhD at the cutting edge of parasitology? 🦠✨
We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍
We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Phylogeny, chromosomal mapping and expression analyses of wheat CLAVATA pathway components suggest differential selection on receptor‐like kinases, CLEs and T3 WOXes
The Arabidopsis CLAVATA pathway regulates shoot apex and fruit size, and disrupting CLAVATA function has led to yield improvement in crops. Despite its central position in agriculture, the potential ...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!
🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!
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Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security.
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
Very proud of my PhD alumnus George Greiff for passing his viva and submitting his corrections last week. Not to mention all the other things, a new job at the Cardiff Museum, paper submission and a new house all in the last few weeks! Huge congrats and loved the celebrations 🥳😁.
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Very proud of my PhD alumnus George Greiff for passing his viva and submitting his corrections last week. Not to mention all the other things, a new job at the Cardiff Museum, paper submission and a new house all in the last few weeks! Huge congrats and loved the celebrations 🥳😁.
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Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Pleased to be able to advertise a NERC GW4+ PhD studentship to be cosupervised by James Clark at Bath on the evolution of WOX gene function. More info on the project and application process here: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202...
Happy to take informal questions too.
Happy to take informal questions too.
Projects 2024-25 — NERC GW4+
www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Pleased to be able to advertise a NERC GW4+ PhD studentship to be cosupervised by James Clark at Bath on the evolution of WOX gene function. More info on the project and application process here: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202...
Happy to take informal questions too.
Happy to take informal questions too.
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NERC GW4+ PhD: Genome duplication, extinction and diversification in the evolution of flowering plants, supervised by Phil Donoghue, James Clark and Ilia Leitch. Deets soon but get in touch with @phil-donoghue.bsky.social if interested. Jan 8 application deadline @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
NERC GW4+ PhD: Genome duplication, extinction and diversification in the evolution of flowering plants, supervised by Phil Donoghue, James Clark and Ilia Leitch. Deets soon but get in touch with @phil-donoghue.bsky.social if interested. Jan 8 application deadline @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
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PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
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Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State:
oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u...
#devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy
oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u...
#devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State:
oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u...
#devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy
oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u...
#devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy
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Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Better together: investigating the role of organ boundary genes in flora...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Better together: investigating the role of organ boundary ...
www.findaphd.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Please share!
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social.
Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity?
#wheat #spikelet #development
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity?
#wheat #spikelet #development
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
Identity matters: understanding spike architecture to increase grain number in wheat (UAUY_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Wheat provides 20% of the calories and protein consumed by humans. The world population will reach 9 billion by 2050, which requires food production to more than double. Although plant breeding has…
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social.
Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity?
#wheat #spikelet #development
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity?
#wheat #spikelet #development
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
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Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich
September 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich