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Malcolm Macaulay
@malcolmacaulay.bsky.social
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Barley researcher at The James Hutton Institute and International Barley Hub: Genetics, Genomics, Genotyping, Germplasm, Diversity, STEM, cereal cyclist
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miguelmontez.bsky.social
📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.

This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes

📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.
www.jic.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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intbarleyhub.bsky.social
‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
📜 Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals How Sucrose Transport Shapes Wheat Grain Development
🔊 Chen Ji @johninnescentre.bsky.social
⏰ Thursday 13th November 2025 14:00 GMT
🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
Barley nuclear cap-binding complex subunits, HvCBP20 and HvCBP80, play distinct roles in drought adaptation at reproductive phase of development
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Barley nuclear cap-binding complex subunits, HvCBP20 and HvCBP80, play distinct roles in drought adaptation at reproductive phase of development
Drought remains a major constraint to crop productivity. The nuclear cap-binding complex (CBC), composed of CBP20 and CBP80, regulates pre-mRNA splici…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
leibnizipk.bsky.social
A team led by the Carlsberg Research Laboratory and involving the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has now identified how different versions of the MKK3 gene affect seed dormancy and sprouting risk in barley.

➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/3v3byfmt
➡️PR: tinyurl.com/32zzemex (Engl.)
➡️PM: tinyurl.com/mts3kukd (German)
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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intbarleyhub.bsky.social
Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference (WDSC) 2026 Abstract Submission Deadline *EXTENDED* for : Midday (UK time) Monday 10th November 2025 (originally Monday 3rd November 2025)
wdsc2026.com/abstract-sub...
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
aabiologists.bsky.social
📆 Save the Date...

🌾 Monogram 2026 🌾
23rd – 26th March📍Cambridge, UK

🌱 Connect, collaborate and shape the future of sustainable crop innovation

Abstract submission now open!
👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo

#plantscience
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
malcolmacaulay.bsky.social
The @hutton.ac.uk Best Crop Project team produced very cool stickers to promote our work using the Germinate database.
Find out more here: germinateplatform.github.io/get-germinate/
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
malcolmacaulay.bsky.social
Join us @vadundee.bsky.social tomorrow to explore how DNA helps shape the incredible variety of plants and crops we see every day. Everything from face painting to DNA extraction!
www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whats...
Daffodil Project
A fun, hands-on introduction to the world of DNA
www.vam.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
johninnescentre.bsky.social
BLOG - Alumni stories: Dr Ruth Bryant, from #plant #breeding to #crop protection

Ruth Bryant studied in the Ridout lab from 2009-2013, and her career has since taken her from Cereal Pathologist, RAGT to Disease Control Scientific Expert, Syngenta.

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/alumni-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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intbarleyhub.bsky.social
Planning is underway for IBGS15 in Dundee!
Register your interest below to receive updates as we get closer to the event.
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#ibgs15 #welcometodundee #betterbarley
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
leibnizipk.bsky.social
An international research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has succeeded in creating a
pangenome of oats. In a further study, another research team investigated the origin of oats.

➡️PR: tinyurl.com/3hpcz852
➡️"Nature": tinyurl.com/28v8e89j
➡️"Nature Communications": tinyurl.com/yf3ada3j
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
🔊 Prof. Phil Brewer @latrobeuni.bsky.social
📜 Lateral Branching Oxidoreductase acts in a strigolactone biosynthesis sub-pathway to inhibit barley tillering
⏰ Thursday 30th October 9am (GMT)
🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
pecinka-grp.bsky.social
Welcoming Ruby Biswas from the Laboratory of Pollen Biology (@DavidHonys group) for a short visit focused on barley research .🌾 Looking forward to scientific exchange and collaboration !🤝
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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agauley.bsky.social
Excited to share work from my time with the @tweeticum.bsky.social team! We share a new understanding of how wheat floral development is regulated under low spring temperatures, an important step towards fine tuning wheat development.
mplantpcom.bsky.social Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · Sep 9
Fine tuning wheat development for the winter to spring transition #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
It's not too late to register for this afternoon's seminar.
Details below......
October 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
🔊 Klaus Pillen, Martin-Luther-University Halle, Germany
@unihalle.bsky.social
📜 Exploring Wild Barley Alleles to Improve Stress Tolerance in Elite Barley
⏰ Thursday, October 2, 2025 14:00 BST
🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
chertig.bsky.social
The unraveling of purple grains caused by ANT2 in barley. A new story from PRB group @ @leibnizipk.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Analysis of Anthocyanin-Less 2 Diversity in Barley Reveals a Specific Allele to Cause Purple-Colored Grains
The purple color of the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grain is attributed to anthocyanins which are beneficial for human health. Synthesis of these pigments in both grain and vegetative tissues is contr...
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
Registration to the 4th International Barley Mutant 🧬Workshop #IBMW26 has opened. More info ibmw26.wordpress.com
iBMW2026
iBMW2026
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September 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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leibnizipk.bsky.social
A research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has revealed that modern barley has a “mosaic origin”, meaning it stems from several wild populations across the Fertile Crescent. The findings were published in @nature.com.

➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytzyn4re
➡️PR: tinyurl.com/5e2v7cp5
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
hutton.ac.uk
⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!

World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics

📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!

More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
forscherrobert.bsky.social
Looking back several thousand years into plant domestication (and therewith human) history, based on DNA sequence information. This is one of those science stories that are even fun to read (if you are a #barley nerd, maybe).

Congratulations to everyone involved in that exciting project!
leibnizipk.bsky.social Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · Sep 24
A research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has revealed that modern barley has a “mosaic origin”, meaning it stems from several wild populations across the Fertile Crescent. The findings were published in @nature.com.

➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytzyn4re
➡️PR: tinyurl.com/5e2v7cp5
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
katarzynaretzer.bsky.social
#rootforaging correlation environment/ field (samlped in Austria @bokuvienna.bsky.social Wien, Morocco, Lebanon #ICARDA) of our 3 subset of 200 #barley varieties per panel #rootangle #roots #rootphenotyping in-field - super exciting @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
Thanks to Madelaine Bartlett from Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge Uni,
@slcuplants.bsky.social
for a fascinating and thought provoking presentation today. Find out more about Madeline's work using grass diversity to dissect mechanisms of angiosperm evolution here:
bartlettlab.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
IBH Seminar Announcement‼️
⏰ Thursday 18th September 2025, 11am BST
🔊 Anna Backhaus, Head of Resources Genetics and Reproduction’ in the Genebank Department, IPK Germany
📜 Leveraging genomic resources in barley pre-breeding
🔌https://hutton.webex.com/weblink/register/rd7c1bbb5c8955671403ce3f3802bdeb1
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Macaulay
intbarleyhub.bsky.social
On the origin of the late-flowering ppd-H1 allele in barley
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On the origin of the late-flowering ppd-H1 allele in barley - Theoretical and Applied Genetics
To breed for climate resilient crops, an understanding of the genetic and environmental factors influencing adaptation is critical. Barley provides a model species to study adaptation to climate chang...
link.springer.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM