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Follow for updates on the Young Researchers' Symposium on Plant Photobiology (YRSPP 2026) happening from 15th to 18th April 2026 at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland!
Our website at yrspp.github.io 🌿
Mailing list- https://forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLsEtUu8
Our website at yrspp.github.io 🌿
Mailing list- https://forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLsEtUu8
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YRSPP
@yrspp.bsky.social
· Mar 25
We are excited to announce that the 4th Young Researchers' Symposium on Plant Photobiology (YRSPP) will take place from 15-18 April 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland's beautiful capital city. 🪴🍃🏴
More details to follow soon!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
#earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology
More details to follow soon!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
#earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology
Rounding off our YRSPP 2026 keynote lineup with Dr. Uriel Urquiza-García! 🌿
His research explores using synthetic biology, optogenetics, and genomics to understand how plants perceive and integrate light, temperature, and circadian signals.🧬🌱☀️
More info & mailing list in bio!
His research explores using synthetic biology, optogenetics, and genomics to understand how plants perceive and integrate light, temperature, and circadian signals.🧬🌱☀️
More info & mailing list in bio!
August 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Rounding off our YRSPP 2026 keynote lineup with Dr. Uriel Urquiza-García! 🌿
His research explores using synthetic biology, optogenetics, and genomics to understand how plants perceive and integrate light, temperature, and circadian signals.🧬🌱☀️
More info & mailing list in bio!
His research explores using synthetic biology, optogenetics, and genomics to understand how plants perceive and integrate light, temperature, and circadian signals.🧬🌱☀️
More info & mailing list in bio!
Welcoming Dr. Jordi Moreno-Romero as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! 🌿
His research explores how epigenetics, particularly polycomb-group proteins, shape plant responses to light and environment, paving the way for crop improvement.
More info & mailing list in bio!
His research explores how epigenetics, particularly polycomb-group proteins, shape plant responses to light and environment, paving the way for crop improvement.
More info & mailing list in bio!
August 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Welcoming Dr. Jordi Moreno-Romero as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! 🌿
His research explores how epigenetics, particularly polycomb-group proteins, shape plant responses to light and environment, paving the way for crop improvement.
More info & mailing list in bio!
His research explores how epigenetics, particularly polycomb-group proteins, shape plant responses to light and environment, paving the way for crop improvement.
More info & mailing list in bio!
Excited to welcome Dr. Charlotte Gommers as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! @charlottegommers.bsky.social 🌿
Her lab investigates how chloroplasts act as environmental sensors, sending retrograde signals to help plants adapt development under abiotic stress. Check bio for info & join the mailing list!
Her lab investigates how chloroplasts act as environmental sensors, sending retrograde signals to help plants adapt development under abiotic stress. Check bio for info & join the mailing list!
July 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Excited to welcome Dr. Charlotte Gommers as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! @charlottegommers.bsky.social 🌿
Her lab investigates how chloroplasts act as environmental sensors, sending retrograde signals to help plants adapt development under abiotic stress. Check bio for info & join the mailing list!
Her lab investigates how chloroplasts act as environmental sensors, sending retrograde signals to help plants adapt development under abiotic stress. Check bio for info & join the mailing list!
We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Anne-Sophie Fiorucci as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! 🌿
She investigates the interaction between phytochrome-dependent growth responses and nitrogen nutrition.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs
She investigates the interaction between phytochrome-dependent growth responses and nitrogen nutrition.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs
July 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Anne-Sophie Fiorucci as a YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker! 🌿
She investigates the interaction between phytochrome-dependent growth responses and nitrogen nutrition.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs
She investigates the interaction between phytochrome-dependent growth responses and nitrogen nutrition.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs
Presenting our next YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker: Prof. Ute Hoecker! ✨
Her lab investigates how photoreceptors and the COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase regulate light-controlled development in Arabidopsis, algae and moss.🌱☀️
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
Her lab investigates how photoreceptors and the COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase regulate light-controlled development in Arabidopsis, algae and moss.🌱☀️
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
July 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Presenting our next YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker: Prof. Ute Hoecker! ✨
Her lab investigates how photoreceptors and the COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase regulate light-controlled development in Arabidopsis, algae and moss.🌱☀️
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
Her lab investigates how photoreceptors and the COP1/SPA E3 ubiquitin ligase regulate light-controlled development in Arabidopsis, algae and moss.🌱☀️
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
We are thrilled to announce our first YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker: Prof. Kerry Franklin!
Her work explores how light and temperature signalling shape plant architecture.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
Stay tuned for more!
#YRSPP2026
Her work explores how light and temperature signalling shape plant architecture.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
Stay tuned for more!
#YRSPP2026
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We are thrilled to announce our first YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker: Prof. Kerry Franklin!
Her work explores how light and temperature signalling shape plant architecture.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
Stay tuned for more!
#YRSPP2026
Her work explores how light and temperature signalling shape plant architecture.
🌐 More info: yrspp.github.io
📝 Join our mailing list: forms.gle/E4Tgavm6wKLs...
Stay tuned for more!
#YRSPP2026
Meet the team behind #YRSPP2026!
We’re excited to bring the next Young Researchers’ Symposium on Plant Photobiology to Edinburgh in April 2026 🌿
We’re excited to bring the next Young Researchers’ Symposium on Plant Photobiology to Edinburgh in April 2026 🌿
June 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Meet the team behind #YRSPP2026!
We’re excited to bring the next Young Researchers’ Symposium on Plant Photobiology to Edinburgh in April 2026 🌿
We’re excited to bring the next Young Researchers’ Symposium on Plant Photobiology to Edinburgh in April 2026 🌿
We're online! Check out our new website at yrspp.github.io (or search 'YRSPP 2026') to learn about the symposium, venue, sponsors, schedule and more 🌿
We'll be adding updates over the coming months as we confirm speakers and more, so stay tuned!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
We'll be adding updates over the coming months as we confirm speakers and more, so stay tuned!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
May 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We're online! Check out our new website at yrspp.github.io (or search 'YRSPP 2026') to learn about the symposium, venue, sponsors, schedule and more 🌿
We'll be adding updates over the coming months as we confirm speakers and more, so stay tuned!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
We'll be adding updates over the coming months as we confirm speakers and more, so stay tuned!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
We are excited to announce that the 4th Young Researchers' Symposium on Plant Photobiology (YRSPP) will take place from 15-18 April 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland's beautiful capital city. 🪴🍃🏴
More details to follow soon!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
#earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology
More details to follow soon!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
#earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology
March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We are excited to announce that the 4th Young Researchers' Symposium on Plant Photobiology (YRSPP) will take place from 15-18 April 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland's beautiful capital city. 🪴🍃🏴
More details to follow soon!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
#earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology
More details to follow soon!
#YRSPP #YRSPP2026
#earlycareer #plantscience #photobiology
Let’s not forget to celebrate the best poster prize for Anil Can Önder and the best talk prize for Johannes Rötzer! Well done both of you #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Let’s not forget to celebrate the best poster prize for Anil Can Önder and the best talk prize for Johannes Rötzer! Well done both of you #YRSPP2024
We want to thank all the participants and speakers for making this an amazing #YRSPP2024 ! We hope you enjoyed yourselves just as much as we did, and can’t wait to see you all in Edinburgh in 2026!!!
July 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM
We want to thank all the participants and speakers for making this an amazing #YRSPP2024 ! We hope you enjoyed yourselves just as much as we did, and can’t wait to see you all in Edinburgh in 2026!!!
And there we are, the very last speaker of the #YRSPP2024 😢 The honor is for Beatrice Pacenza from the CRAG in Spain! She will be speaking about a gun screen in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to unravel chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 1:42 PM
And there we are, the very last speaker of the #YRSPP2024 😢 The honor is for Beatrice Pacenza from the CRAG in Spain! She will be speaking about a gun screen in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to unravel chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling #YRSPP2024
Our second to last speaker is Alessio Baldini from the Università degli studi di Milano in Italy! He will tell us about how he is trying to unveil the role of an epigenetic component in the light perception of Arabidopsis thaliana! #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Our second to last speaker is Alessio Baldini from the Università degli studi di Milano in Italy! He will tell us about how he is trying to unveil the role of an epigenetic component in the light perception of Arabidopsis thaliana! #YRSPP2024
Another non-Arabidopsis talk by Eline Eggermont, also from the WUR in the Netherlands! She will tell us all about chloroplast development and retrograde signaling in Physcomitrium patens #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Another non-Arabidopsis talk by Eline Eggermont, also from the WUR in the Netherlands! She will tell us all about chloroplast development and retrograde signaling in Physcomitrium patens #YRSPP2024
The last session, really??? Time truly flies! And what better scientist to talk about time than our very own Andrés Romanowski from the WUR, Netherlands. Let him take us on a rhythmic journey across continents! ⏳🕰️ #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The last session, really??? Time truly flies! And what better scientist to talk about time than our very own Andrés Romanowski from the WUR, Netherlands. Let him take us on a rhythmic journey across continents! ⏳🕰️ #YRSPP2024
Our last morning talk is by Johannes Rötzer from GMI Vienna in Austria! He will talk about the role of blue light receptors in the establishment of de novo polarity in Marchantia polymorpha spores 🩵 #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Our last morning talk is by Johannes Rötzer from GMI Vienna in Austria! He will talk about the role of blue light receptors in the establishment of de novo polarity in Marchantia polymorpha spores 🩵 #YRSPP2024
Next up is Daisy Bown from the University of Southampton in the UK! She will tell us all about the role of TaPIF3 in regulating growth and development of hexaploid wheat 🌾 #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Next up is Daisy Bown from the University of Southampton in the UK! She will tell us all about the role of TaPIF3 in regulating growth and development of hexaploid wheat 🌾 #YRSPP2024
Is everyone properly caffeinated again? 🤩 Let’s hear it for Aina Basté from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain! She will explain the convergence of photoreceptor and retrograde signalling in pigment accumulation for plant photoprotection #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Is everyone properly caffeinated again? 🤩 Let’s hear it for Aina Basté from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain! She will explain the convergence of photoreceptor and retrograde signalling in pigment accumulation for plant photoprotection #YRSPP2024
Before getting to our next ☕️ break with those great 🍪s, we’re going to listen to Katarina Petra van Midden from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia! She will enlighten us on the modulations of transpeptidase CrCEP1 to the photosystem’s oxygen-evolving complex #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Before getting to our next ☕️ break with those great 🍪s, we’re going to listen to Katarina Petra van Midden from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia! She will enlighten us on the modulations of transpeptidase CrCEP1 to the photosystem’s oxygen-evolving complex #YRSPP2024
Next up, Dorothee Derwort of the University of Freiburg, Germany! Her interesting topic is the function of ERF transcription factors in phytochrome signalling #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Next up, Dorothee Derwort of the University of Freiburg, Germany! Her interesting topic is the function of ERF transcription factors in phytochrome signalling #YRSPP2024
The last day already?! To start the day strong we are listening to our next young PI, Johanna Krahmer from University of Copenhagen, Denmark! She is telling us all about how internal sugar allocation in response to a shade signal is regulated by auxin and sucrose #YRSPP2024
July 5, 2024 at 7:13 AM
The last day already?! To start the day strong we are listening to our next young PI, Johanna Krahmer from University of Copenhagen, Denmark! She is telling us all about how internal sugar allocation in response to a shade signal is regulated by auxin and sucrose #YRSPP2024
Social activities time! Whether you’re gonna explore the city by canoe 🛶, walking tour 👣 or just taking some time to rest 😴, we’re sure you’ll enjoy yourself in the lovely city of Utrecht! #YRSPP2024
July 4, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Social activities time! Whether you’re gonna explore the city by canoe 🛶, walking tour 👣 or just taking some time to rest 😴, we’re sure you’ll enjoy yourself in the lovely city of Utrecht! #YRSPP2024
Time flies when you’re having fun! It’s the last talk of today by Catarina Monteiro of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal/University of Freiburg, Germany! Her topic is how phytochromes and PIFs are key players in rice development mediated by light and temperature #YRSPP2024
July 4, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Time flies when you’re having fun! It’s the last talk of today by Catarina Monteiro of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal/University of Freiburg, Germany! Her topic is how phytochromes and PIFs are key players in rice development mediated by light and temperature #YRSPP2024
We will now listen to Laura Schmid from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany! She will tell us about COR27 and COR28 acting as potential integrators of light and temperature, and associate with chromatin remodeling complexes ☀️🌡️ #YRSPP2024
July 4, 2024 at 1:20 PM
We will now listen to Laura Schmid from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany! She will tell us about COR27 and COR28 acting as potential integrators of light and temperature, and associate with chromatin remodeling complexes ☀️🌡️ #YRSPP2024
The next speaker is Yuanke Liang from the University of Geneva in Switzerland! He will go away from Arabidopsis and crops for a bit to tell us about UV-B perception and signaling in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha! #YRSPP2024
July 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM
The next speaker is Yuanke Liang from the University of Geneva in Switzerland! He will go away from Arabidopsis and crops for a bit to tell us about UV-B perception and signaling in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha! #YRSPP2024