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Ali Gill

@aligill.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ University of Adelaide. Fulbright scholar. Passionate about plant phys responses to climate change + stress, and plants for space 🚀🌿🏳️‍🌈

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience
Plant Physiology banner announcing a call for Assistant Features Editors, with green wave graphics and the deadline for applications: September 8, 2026.
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@plantphys.bsky.social is 100 years old! We are celebrating this accomplishment with a symposium at #PlantBio2026 We start with a look back at the first and current issue.
100 years of plant physiology. A photo of the cover from the first edition.Plant Physiology:a comprehensive journal from the very beginning.Plant Physiology covers a wide range of topics.
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
So excited to share that I have been awarded a fellowship to @camplantsci.bsky.social from April 2027. Many rejections to get here but persistence pays off! I'll combine my love for plant physiology and photosynthesis with circadian rhythms and regulators of growth with @alexwebblab.bsky.social 😁
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thanks for joining the webinar, Steph! Nice that we can still share our research, even when living on opposite sides of the world. Thanks also to the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social and Functional Plant Biology for the invitation to present on my abiotic stress research. @csiropublishing.bsky.social
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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#FunctionalPlantBio & @globalplantgpc.bsky.social are teaming up for a webinar on 12 Feb 🌿 Innovative approaches to understanding #PlantAdaptation to #AbioticStress Speakers: @aligill.bsky.social (@plants4space.bsky.social) & Thi Linh Chi Tran (Deakin Uni) Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A gold-green-toned photo of plants in soft focus serves as the background for text to illustrate the accompanying post. The logo for the journal Functional Plant Biology can be seen in the top left corner, and the text reads: "Webinar:

Innovative Approaches to Understanding
Plant Adaptation to Abiotic Stress

12 February 2026

Speakers:

Dr. Alison Gill
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants For Space 

Thi Linh Chi Tran
Graduate Researcher at Deakin University

Hosted by the Global Plant Council and Functional Plant Biology"
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#ASPS2025 Tuesday Morning Wrap-Up Great sessions this morning! 🌱 Session 4: Plant Nutrition & Development featured: 🎤 Invited speaker Prof. Brent Kaiser (UoS) 🏆 Peter Goldacre Award Talk: Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen University).
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🏆 2025 ASPS Award Winners announced! Peter Goldacre: Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes (Wageningen). RN Robertson Lecture: Prof. Michelle Watt (Melbourne). FPB Best Paper: Dr. Yin Liu. Annals of Botany: Dr. Lena Mueller. Congrats all! #ASPS2025
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#TansleyReview: #Lithium in #plants Sebastian Garcia-Daga, Sina Fischer and Matthew Gilliham 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Lithium in plants: Summary.
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🍷 ASPS Conference Dinner at National Wine Centre next to Adelaide Botanic Gardens! First come, first served. After our memorable Hobart dinner, this promises to be another evening to remember. Register: bit.ly/4p25OJ0 #ASPS2025 #ConferenceDinner
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Please join @aligill.bsky.social & @alisonrbentley.bsky.social for the first ASPS Women in Plant Science Breakfast from 8 to 9am on Tuesday 25th November. Register here (FREE): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... 1/3
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
**Please Repost** Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate. PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Deadline: October 15.
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Abstract submission and early bird registration for the 2025 ASPS conference has been extended to October 10! Get your tickets here: bit.ly/4p25OJ0
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨 Security Alert: Phishing scam targeting ASPS conference attendees. Emails offering "attendee lists" from non-institutional addresses (gmail, etc.) are fraudulent. ASPS only uses .edu/.org.au domains. Stay safe! #ASPS2025 #CyberSecurity
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thrilled to share our review exploring the future of controlled environment agriculture, both for farming in the face of climate change and as a tool for fundamental plant science! 🪴💡 @alexwebblab.bsky.social @jennymortimer1.bsky.social @ionplants.bsky.social
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very much looking forward to ASPS this November in Adelaide! Always a great time connecting with plant scientists from across the country
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Jenny Mortimer @jennymortimer1.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The ARC CoE in Plants for Space (P4S, plants4space.com) are at #IAC2025 in Sydney! Members are speaking/chairing sessions all week, including our special session on Tues at 16.20 in C4.4 - Connecting Country to Deep Space: Ancient Lessons in Sustainability for Agriculture Beyond Earth.
Screenshot of the special session listing speakers
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Pleasure to meet and hear from NASA Emeritus Senior Scientist Ray Wheeler today! Ray is a wealth of knowledge on controlled environments for food and life support, having led the advanced life support research group. I'm lucky to be collaborating with him on LEAF which will grow plants on the moon🌿🌕
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Saved the best till last - really enjoyed today's gas exchange workshop with Yazen and Steven from @w-u-r.bsky.social at the 2025 PEPG Field Techniques Workshop. @sebiology.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck into some A-Ci curves and chlorophyll fluorescence once I'm back in Aus 🥳
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
PEPG Techniques Workshop 2025 going down a treat 🌿 Photos from yesterday's workshop on water relations and today's on chlorophyll fluorescence, as well as pastel de nata and Quinta horses @sebiology.bsky.social
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📢Come work with us! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the ARIA-funded PlantPlug project🌱 Be part of pioneering work turning mistletoe into programmable plant biointerfaces🧬 More information: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... #PlantScience #PostdocJobs #SyntheticBiology
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Excited to be at this year's PEPG Field Techniques Workshop in beautiful Portugal! Highlight of day one was putting names to faces in person and making new connections 😁 @sebiology.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social @lornamca.bsky.social @erikmurch.bsky.social @moore-science.bsky.social
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 28/08/2025
Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿 www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266 @bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
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Phenotyping of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotypes with different growth habits
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) has gained renewed scientific and agricultural interest worldwide as a multi-use, high-value crop, with products spanning textile, clothing, medicinal, food, and cons...
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
P4S had a visit from the Australian Space Agency (including astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg) last week. It was great to chat about my current research with the Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora (LEAF) project - an Artemis III mission which will send plants to the moon! 🌿🚀🌕
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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Aleks from Vertical Future looking a little concerned before his parabolic flight tomorrow with our autonomous agriculture unit designed for ISS. This is an outcome of a grant from @ukspaceagency.bsky.social which I had the joy of participating with many partners in @plants4space.bsky.social
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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
From Plant Sciences PhD to Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology – where could studying plant sciences take you? It the latest of our alumni stories, Prof. Jenny Mortimer talks about studying here & how it helped shape her career. Read her story: tinyurl.com/7ac5yxfw @jennymortimer1.bsky.social
Jenny Mortimer with the MAPHEUS 15 research rocket at Esrange Space Centre, Sweden, where she launched an experiment in November 2024 sending duckweed to the edge of space and back to measure gravity's impact for potential space food sources. The flight, facilitated by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and other international partners, offered valuable research time with an unprecedented seven minutes of weightlessness or microgravity.
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Delighted to receive a shoutout from Peter Hoj AC in the University of Adelaide Staff News yesterday! I am very grateful to the Playford Trust and Fulbright Australia for their support during my PhD, and I am excited to see what the future holds 🪴🚀
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
How many brains does it take to set up a Li-6800 aquatic chamber?! Lots of fun this morning with @bethloveys.bsky.social, @aaronlphillips.bsky.social, et al. We successfully got the chamber up and running! Excited to put it through its paces
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Doug Orr @doug-orr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This post is now online, for full details on how to apply please see: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...
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New postdoc position available with Doug
Recruiting has just opened for a Plant Molecular Physiologist postdoc position with Doug to work on Rubisco engineering, biochemistry, and impacts of photosynthesis. This is part of a BBSRC funded …
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Lucas Auroux @aurouxlucas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The Phytogen special issue (women shaping the future of plant science in Australia) is live: www.asps.org.au/archives/53736 Guest-edited by @bethloveys.bsky.social and @alisonrbentley.bsky.social. With @tatiana-biochem.bsky.social, @bethpenrose.bsky.social and other scientists! @asps-oz.bsky.social
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists » March 2025 Phytogen
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Loved our chat! Great to learn more about your career and the steps that brought you to the Waite :)
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Proud to share the fourth paper from my PhD! Hemp stomata drive water conservation and assimilation, with stomata responding rapidly to changes in water availability. @aaronlphillips.bsky.social @bethloveys.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2025.106119
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Jenny Mortimer @jennymortimer1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
For more information, see www.linkedin.com/posts/arc-ce... Have a look at the links in the advert, and then if you're interested, send me an email with your CV, details about your background in plant molecular biology and glycobiology, and why this project interests you.
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space on LinkedIn: #postgraduate #plantmolecularbiology #biochemistry #glycobiology…
On the lookout for a #postgraduate research opportunity in plant science? A fully funded PhD project is available with P4S, investigating cell wall responses…
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Jenny Mortimer @jennymortimer1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We've got an exciting (funded) opportunity for someone who wants to undertake a PhD in plant sciences -you'll work with the international #LEAF team on an Artemis III deployed instrument to understand how plants and their cell walls respond to lunar gravity. #plantsci #glycotime #space 🚀🌱
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Great to be in Canberra at the LI-COR ANU Gas Exchange Workshop with @aaronlphillips.bsky.social. Thanks for the support to be here, @bethloveys.bsky.social 🌱 this morning's theory session was super valuable
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Stephanie Watts-Fawkes @mycoresearch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New paper! @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social AM fungi decreased the bioavailability of micronutrients (Zn + Fe) in rice 🌾 We used Synchrotron XFM to look at micronutrient concentrations in the aleurone layer of +/- AMF rice, and compared them to wholegrain concentrations 🧐 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase aleurone layer zinc concentration but reduce overall zinc bioavailability in rice grain
Rice is a critical crop for the delivery of calories and essential micronutrients to the human diet. Biofortification of rice with zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) aims to combat the health issues associated ....
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited to share our latest research! Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can improve the water use and P acquisition efficiencies of aerobically grown Aus rice 🌾🍚 @mycoresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Improve the Water Use and Phosphorus Acquisition Efficiencies of Aerobically Grown Rice
Most rice production is conducted in flooded (anaerobic) soil conditions, but aerobic rice cultivation presents several potential benefits: increased grain water use efficiency (gWUE), reduced methan....
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