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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We've been guessing for long enough. Our survey for non-members and former members is open: anonymous, about 4 minutes, no follow-up, no sign-up at the end. If one of the lines above is yours, tell us. If we've missed it entirely, even better: you are the one we need. 👉 forms.gle/xdJPzfDGoV6t...

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SPPS Survey 2026: Help us shape the future of the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society

SPPS is the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society: conferences, grants and support for plant scientists across the Nordic region. We also own the journal Physiologia Plantarum (PPL). SPPS is working o...

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some of our guesses about why you're not an SPPS member: 🌱 It's too expensive 🌱 You went to one event years ago, nobody spoke to you, and you never went again 🌱 You're not sure what the society actually does 🌱 Your institution used to pay, and then it didn't 👉 forms.gle/xdJPzfDGoV6t...

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Cost? Timing? Location? Never heard of us? Joined once and got nothing out of it? Left because something changed? All of those are answers we need. This isn't a recruitment pitch, there's no follow-up email, no sign-up. Totally anonymous. Members: please repost! @pplplantarum.bsky.social

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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · 31/08/2026

🧪🌾 Congratulations to @laurabacete.bsky.social and Anna Renström! 🎊 Both received prizes at @plantspps.bsky.social #SPPS2026 in Helsinki - Laura for her work on plant cell wall responses and Anna for her PhD research on nitrate and wood formation in aspen. Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Laura Bacete Cano, wearing a lavender coloured suite, is smiling and holding her SPPS Early Career Prize certificate at the SPPS Conference 2026 in Helsinki.

Anna Renström, wearing a blue sweater, is standing smiling at the UPSC phenotyping platform, with plants and experimental equipment in the background.

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks to session chairs Guangbin Luo, Anton Frisgaard Nørrevang and Rosa Lopez Marques, and to the organisers, Rosa Lopez Marques and Elizabeth H. Jakobsen Neilson. 📷 Elizabeth H. Jakobsen Neilson & Rosa Lopez Marques #PlantScience #GeneEditing #CRISPR #PlantBreeding 🧵9/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thomas Jacobs (Ghent University) closed on large-scale plant genome editing. Editing one plant is a paper; editing thousands is a breeding programme. #NGT #FoodSecurity #SPPS 🧵8/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🏆 Best oral presentation: Shubham Salunkhe (SLU) 🏆 Poster prize: Malin Eriksen, runner-up Clarissa Grell (Aarhus University) Congratulations to all three 🥳 🧵7/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A poster session that stayed busy right through the coffee break. Same energy all day: at 50 people every session ran up against its time limit because the questions kept coming ... and they were good ones! 🧵6/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As usual at these symposiums, the day belonged to the early-career researchers. Nine short talks from SLU, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Umeå. Shubham Salunkhe (SLU) and Max Moog (KU) among them. 🧵5/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sanu Arora (John Innes Centre) on the genetic dissection of host–microbe interactions in pea. A useful reminder that the trait you want is often a relationship, not a gene. 🧵4/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The round table on NGT regulation & the future of crop improvement, chaired by Michael Palmgren. Erik Alexandersson (Novo Nordisk Foundation) Sofia Marmon (Lund University) Søren Knudsen (Carlsberg Research Laboratory). Funder, academic and industry lab in one row. 🧵3/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Markus Stetter (University of Cologne) opened on the evolution of betalain pigments and their regulatory network. 🧵2/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🌾Today at the SPPS symposium Crop Improvement in the Gene-Editing Era, University of Copenhagen. ~50 plant scientists, one room, and a programme running from evolution to editing to regulation. 🧵1/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kirsten Krause & Ari Pekka Mähönen closed the meeting. Thank you to the local organisers and to ViPS and the University of Helsinki, a conference only looks effortless when a lot of people have worked very hard🌿 See you in Stockholm in 2028! #SPPS2026 📷 Mats Hansson 🧵9/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Early Career Award winner Laura Bacete Cano closes the scientific program with her research on the mechanisms regulating plant cell wall homeostasis. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 8/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🏆 SPPS Early Career Award: Laura Bacete Cano (UPSC) Popularization Prize: Emma Aller & Niels Christian Sanden (Univ. of Copenhagen) PhD Thesis Prizes: Nanna Weise Havshøi (Copenhagen) & Anna Renstrøm (UPSC) Congratulations to all! 👏 #SPPS2026 🧵 7/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🏆 And then the prizes. SPPS Prize: Prof. Emeritus Ian Max Møller (Aarhus University) Physiologia Plantarum Award: Prof. Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne (University of Turku) Congratulations! #SPPS2026 🧵 6/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Invited speaker Hannele Tuominen (Umeå Plant Science Centre) asks what good neighbours are doing during xylem development. Also this afternoon: Kang Wang (MPIPZ) and Aswin Nair (UPSC). #SPPS2026 📷 Lizzie Neilson 🧵 5/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

SPPS president Kirsten Krause opens the general assembly, and Rosa López-Marqués presents the society's new website. And the news: the next SPPS conference will be in Stockholm, August 2028 🇸🇪 #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann & Margrethe Dam Falkenberg 🧵 4/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Claudia Cortés de Felipe (SLU) on the viral influence on RNA granules, with further morning talks from Steffen Grebe (Helsinki) and Paula Mulo (Turku). #SPPS2026 📷 Lizzie Neilson 🧵 3/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The final morning, chaired by Teng Zhang, opened with invited speaker Jenny Russinova (VIB, Ghent) on the regulation of brassinosteroid homeostasis in the Arabidopsis root meristem. #SPPS2026 📷 Lizzie Neilson 🧵 2/9

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🌱 That's a wrap. #SPPS2026 has closed after three days of plant science in Helsinki. The whole crowd, one last time. 👇 📷 Ari Pekka Mähönen 🧵 1/9

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Paula Elomaa @paulaelomaa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@plantspps.bsky.social #spps2026 meeting in full swing! Beautiful dinner location last night with excellent company!

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A great day at #SPPS2026

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Thrilled to receive the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (@plantspps.bsky.social) Early Career Award 2026 at #SPPS2026! Deeply grateful to the Society and to everyone who has supported my research on plant cell wall integrity signalling along the way 🌱🏆

Photo of a woman with long dark wavy hair, smiling at the camera and holding an award certificate titled “SPPS Early Career Award 2026.” She wears a lavender suit and stands in a tall wall alcove above a dark green leather sofa, in a room with beige walls and two vertical wall sconces.

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After poster session 2, the conference dinner at Restaurant Sipuli 🥂 #SPPS2026 And then the room started doing plant impressions 😂 📷 Kirsten Krause and 📷 Paul Grini Tomorrow: Jenny Russinova, Hannele Tuominen, the general assembly, the SPPS prize talk and the poster awards. 🧵 6/6

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Franziska Brunozzi (SLU Umeå) tracking leaf carbon fluxes in aspen with ¹³CO₂ labelling. Also on the afternoon program: Xuelei Lai, Laura Wey, and invited speaker Nicola Patron closing on engineering gene regulatory networks. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 5/6

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Allan G. Rasmussen (Lund University) on the polar distribution of lipids in the plasma membrane during interaction with Trichoderma. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 4/6

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Invited speaker Tatsuya Nobori (@thesainsburylab.bsky.social, Norwich)) investigating pathogen infection using single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomics. Plant–microbe interactions, one cell at a time. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 3/6

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Then an unofficial stomata morning — Hanna Hõrak, Miki Iida & Jasmin Kemppinen — followed by poster session 1. Lara García-Campa (Örebro University) with her excellent poster 👏 #SPPS2026 📷 Mats Hansson 🧵 2/6

Lara García-Campa (Örebro University) with her excellent poster

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Day 2 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki! Invited speaker Rüdiger Simon (Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf) opens the morning with spatial cell ecotypes in barley development👇 📷 Kirsten Krause 🧵 1/6

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Two more days ahead: invited talks from Rüdiger Simon, Tatsuya Nobori, Nicola Patron, Jenny Russinova & Hannele Tuominen, two poster sessions and the SPPS prize talk. More to come: watch this space! Program 👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc... #SPPS2026 🧵 7/7

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Program | Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) Conference 2026 | University of Helsinki

Please see below for the updated program (updated 24 June) and other SPPS activities organised around the conference.

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The day ended in the best possible way: an evening reception at Helsinki City Hall 🥂 The conversations that started at the meeting venue carried on over food and drinks. #SPPS2026 📷 Thorsten Hamann & Kirsten Krause 🧵 6/7

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Invited speaker Anna-Liisa Laine (University of Helsinki) closed the day on trait variation under environmental change and what it means for plant disease risk. A talk to make any parasitologist's heart beat faster ❤️ #SPPS2026 📷 Kirsten Krause 🧵 5/7

Invited speaker Anna-Liisa Laine on trait variation and plant disease risk. (📷 Kirsten Krause)

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sara Mashhadi Meyghani (Univ. of Eastern Finland): drought constrains HIPV-mediated defence responses and alters herbivore feeding in Scots pine seedlings. Also an SPPS travel grant recipient for this conference 👏 #SPPS2026 📷 Margrethe Dam Falkenberg & Kirsten Krause 🧵 4/7

Sara Mashhadi Meyghani on drought, HIPVs and herbivory in Scots pine — two views of the talk. (📷 Magrethe Dam Falkenberg & Kirsten Krause)

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What followed showed how broad this community is, from molecules to whole ecosystems, talks by Alexey Shapiguzov, Luis Alonso Baez, Pirita Paajanen & Timo Vesala. Plus Tal Dahan-Meir (GMI Vienna) on adaptive seed-size variation in Swedish Arabidopsis: beach vs. inland. 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 3/7

Tal Dahan-Meir presenting seed-size variation in Swedish Arabidopsis varieties. (📷 Thorsten Hamann)

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The scientific program started with invited speaker Jiri Friml: auxin biology, and the role of cyclic nucleotides as second messengers in auxin signalling. #SPPS2026 #PlantScience 📷 Thorsten Hamann 🧵 2/7

Jiri Friml delivering the opening keynote on auxin biology. (📷 Thorsten Hamann)

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🌱 Day 1 of #SPPS2026 in Helsinki. Our society is meeting at the University of Helsinki this week, and the first day set a high bar. Ari Pekka Mähönen opened the meeting and chaired the first session, impressively relaxed one minute in 😌👇 📷 Mats Hansson 🧵 1/7

Ari Pekka Mähönen opening the conference — "One minute in, and the host and session chair already looks relaxed." (📷 Mats Hanson)

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Physiologia Plantarum @pplplantarum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

First day of the #SPPS2026 conference is over. Thank you to all the lovely people that stopped by. Daria got many nice and sometimes unexpected requests. Keep them coming tomorrow. @plantspps.bsky.social

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Nerea V. Alamar @nereavalamar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What a nice start for the academic year after the summer break than a conference! 🎓 @helsinki.fi @plantspps.bsky.social @pplplantarum.bsky.social

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That's a wrap on the SPPS2026 Early Career PI meeting 🌱 25 speakers, 4 sessions, 1 brainstorming on future collaborations and lots of good conversations! Thank you to all participants and chairs! Next up: the XXXI SPPS Conference, 18–20 Aug, city centre campus: www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We're in Helsinki at the #SPPS2026 Early Career PI meeting,🌱Scientific session #1 just finished. Pictures of speakers Aswin Nair, Cezary Waszczak and Fatemeh Khosravitabar, session chaired by Maija Sierla. Three more sessions to go today! #PlantScience @pplplantarum.bsky.social

Fatemeh Khosravitabar, University of Gothenburg

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Paula Elomaa @paulaelomaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Getting ready for the Conference of the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society @plantspps.bsky.social next week @helsinki.fi - exciting event ahead!

Conference coordinator with student assistants preparing name badges for the participants

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🍄🌱 Call for Articles: "Plant function and responses in mycorrhizal associations" a new @pplplantarum.bsky.social special issue. No publication fee · Free to view for 2 months 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2027 Details 👉 physiologiaplantarum.org/2026/06/02/p... #PlantScience #Mycorrhiza

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Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) @plantspps.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

PhD students in Nordic universities, please consider to apply for an SPPS travel grant → spps.se/spps-grants/... 📅 Registration deadline: 15 July 2026

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Travel grants for young researchers

SPPS supports young scientists working in a Nordic country who

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