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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 2d

🌱📢46th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16/10/2025 at 15.00 CET discussing The impact of ERC funding for Plant Sciences. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉http://bit.ly/3WpPYuC. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 6d

🌱Choose Europe for Life Sciences - A European Commission strategy to position the EU as the world’s most attractive place for life sciences by 2030 – EPSO statement, 2.10.2025 👉http://bit.ly/4pQnNmd
#PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU #EULifeSciences

Choose Europe for Life Sciences - A European Commission strategy to position the EU as the world’s most attractive place for life sciences by 2030 – EPSO statement - EPSO

EPSO welcomes the European Commission’s Life Science Strategy to position the EU as the world’s most attractive place for life sciences by 2030. Plant Sciences are an integral part of this and we sugg...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 6d

Plant ETP Strategic Research&Innovation Agenda 2025–34 published to guide European R&I in plant biology and breeding from fundamental research to crop production & distribution. Plant ETP & EPSO offer to collaborate with policy makers to implement it. bit.ly/473p166 #PlantScience #EUCompetitiveness

Plant ETP and EPSO: ETP Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2025-2034 published - EPSO

This SRIA outlines a vision to strengthen the EU’s agri-food systems by focusing on three key pillars: Target – Content of R&I: Scientific priorities to enhance plant resilience, productivity, nutriti...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 7d

💡🌱Join on 4 December for #PlantLink Day 2025!
From Blindness to Awareness – Plant Research and Communication for a Greener Future 🌍✨
How plant science—combined with effective communication—can help shift perspectives toward a greener future. 👉http://bit.ly/4q41REm #PlantScience #PlantLink

PlantLink Day 2025 - PlantLink

Curious about how plants shape our future – and how our perception of them shapes us?Join us for PlantLink Day 2025: From Blindness to Awareness – Plant Research and Communication for a Greener Future...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 7d

🌱📢 Green ERA-Hub 3rd Call opened 30.9.2025 ‘Sustainable production and Utilisation of Biomass’. Webinar for applicants on 15.10.2025; Submit pre-proposals by 28.11.2025 and full proposals by 25.3.2026 - see 👉 bit.ly/3WeYBYT #HorizonEurope #PlantScience #GEH

Green ERA-Hub 3rd Call opened 30.9.2025 – Sustainable production and Utilisation of Biomass -submit pre-proposals by 28.11.2025 and full proposals by 25.3.2026 - EPSO

The 2025 Joint International Green ERA-Hub Call is developed by the partners of the ERA-Hub Call in collaboration with the Wheat initiative. This Call funds projects that contribute to a sustainable, ...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 9d

🌱📢Induced resistance in plants: from mechanisms to applications in crop protection - 3rd Workshop of the Plant Health WG, online, 21 October 2025 - Register & offer talk by 6 October. 👉 bit.ly/46Ks6a4
#PlantScience #plantHealth #SDG #HorizonEU

Induced resistance in plants: from mechanisms to applications in crop protection - 3rd Workshop of the Plant Health WG, online, 21 October 2025 - Register & offer talk by 6 October - EPSO

The EPSO Plant Health Working Group is inviting registrations and talks for its online workshop on 21st October 2025. Induced resistance (IR) enhances a plant´s own immune system to increase resilienc...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 14d

Contributions from plant research and innovation to the EU call for evidence for the #EULifeSciences Strategy – EPSO statement and evidence submitted 17.4.2025. bit.ly/46SMSoX #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

Contributions from plant research and innovation to the EU call for evidence for the EU Life Sciences Strategy – submitted statement and evidence by EPSO - EPSO

The importance of plant sciences is obvious since they are the ultimate source of all our food and central for a resilient and competitive modern agriculture, forestry and bioeconomy especially in tim...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 InnCoCells video 6: Research project achievements - A first look at some promising plant 🌱ingredients for the cosmetics industry is released. Get fascinated by the five examples we present to you! Watch the video on YouTube youtu.be/pN2FW-ER9mo #InnCoCells #Horizon2020

InnCoCells video 6: Research project achievements - plant ingredients for the cosmetics industry

YouTube video by European Plant Science Organisation

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Sep 2

45th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18.09.2025 at 15.00 CET on Navigating the Nagoya Protocol, Impacts on Plant Sciences with Melania Muñoz-García, Sebastian Bromander, Jens Sundström, Amber Hartman Scholz and Jens Freitag. #PlantScience #Nagoya bit.ly/46j4YAg

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Opportunities are currently available across a number of Biochemical Society committees, editorial boards and on our journals. We value personal expertise & lived experience as well as your career history. We would love to hear from you! Applications open until noon on 29 September 🧪 buff.ly/nWlYQTf

Opportunities available! We are looking for people to become our Associate Editors. Nominations open September 2025

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Sep 2

45th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18.09.2025 at 15.00 CET on Navigating the Nagoya Protocol, Impacts on Plant Sciences with Melania Muñoz-García, Sebastian Bromander, Jens Sundström, Amber Hartman Scholz and Jens Freitag. #PlantScience #Nagoya bit.ly/46j4YAg

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 InnCoCells video 6: Research project achievements - A first look at some promising plant 🌱ingredients for the cosmetics industry is released. Get fascinated by the five examples we present to you! Watch the video on YouTube youtu.be/pN2FW-ER9mo #InnCoCells #Horizon2020

InnCoCells video 6: Research project achievements - plant ingredients for the cosmetics industry

YouTube video by European Plant Science Organisation

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Abstract deadline fast approaching! buff.ly/9i0owxY Submit your #PlantScience research by 21 August, join a stellar line-up of speakers:

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Christine Foyer
Piers Hemsley
Alison Baker
Ari Sadanandom

#PlantBiology🧪

Scientific Meeting Plant proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility Leeds, UK 21-23 October 2025 Earlybird deadline 21 August 2025

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

Join us in London for the 10th anniversary of SynBio UK, the premier conference for synthetic and engineering biology. Submit your abstract for consideration as a poster or oral communication and register before 12 September to save £50 🧪 : www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

Scientific Meeting Synthetic Biology UK London, UK 12-13 November 2025 Earlybird deadline 12 September 2025

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Aug 1

Tremendous efforts have been spent to study the regulation of protein translation. This review from the Ning In Science lab highlights the expanding tagging toolbox to investigate translation in its native and live intracellular environment. doi.org/10.1042/BCJ2...

Tagging tools for visualizing translation in live cells.

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Biochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · Aug 4

Nominations are now open for the 2027 Awards! With 12 categories spanning all career stages, there's never been a better time to recognise the outstanding work of your colleagues. Visit our website to find out how to nominate #BiochemAwards buff.ly/FHTSGz8

The Biochemical Society 2027 Awards. Our 2027 Awards are now open for nominations! Deadline 3 November 2025

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jul 18

ISE welcomes the EC proposal for the next Horizon Europe as a self-standing Framework Programme for R&I with double budget. ISE urges next HE should be linked to but neither determined nor managed by the ECF. bit.ly/46O3jDm Sign the ISE open letter bit.ly/4kzL4pi

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alanhschulman.bsky.social @alanhschulman.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hot off the press: our analysis of the proposed EU limits to NGT1 category of genome editing in light of recent data on genomic diversity.

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Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation

The European Commission (EC) proposal for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) of July 2023 specifies that Category 1 NGT (NGT1) plants, which are considered equivalent to conventional plants, that is those...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jul 8

📢 🌱 EPSO recommends broader standards for NGT1 under the EC’s legal proposal based on recent scientific data on plant genetic variation: Insertion number per monoploid genome, corrected for ploidy & genome size; Insertion size up to 150 bp.
#PlantScience #Competitiveness #SDG bit.ly/4krhaCK

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jul 7

💡 🌱 EPSO encourages more national consumer surveys on Genome Editing to better address climate, environmental, food / nutrition and health challenges and to contribute to bioeconomy #PlantScience #EUGreenDeal #EUFarm2Fork #SDG bit.ly/4eBVToD

epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jul 3

European R&I networks call to connect the European Competitiveness Fund to an ambitious and self-standing FP10. #FP10 and #ECF must be developed as 2 legally and financially clearly distinct EU instruments. bit.ly/4kozsop Sign the ISE open letter bit.ly/4kzL4pi

ISE and EPSO: European R&I networks call to closely connect the European Competitiveness Fund to an ambitious and self-standing FP10 - EPSO

The Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) – including EPSO – , LERU, The Guild, EASSH and UNICA urge for Framework Programme 10 (FP10) and the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) to be developed as t...

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 #Job opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to work on machine learning-supported rapeseed genomics and breeding at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK).
💡 More about this exciting opportunity and how to apply:http://bit.ly/4nwHZsc

epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jun 24

🎯EPSO Contributions from plant research and innovation to EU circular regenerative and competitive #Bioeconomy – position paper from #PlantFactories, #Plants&Microbiomes and #Horticulture Working Groups. bit.ly/449vwSd. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · Jun 20

💡 EPSO statement on #PlantFactories 🌱 focusing on plant-based systems for the circular, regenerative and competitive production of biomolecules and raw materials for industrial purposes bit.ly/4lisylu. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU #Bioeconomy

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