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Young Researchers' Symposium on Plant Photobiology 🗓 15–18 April 2026 📍 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ✉️ Join the mailing list & visit our website at linktr.ee/yrspp

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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And that's a wrap for YRSPP2026!🌱♥️ It has been an incredible journey, & we are grateful to everyone who helped make this symposium such a success. We now pass the torch to the next committee & wish them all the best in continuing to grow & support the young photobiology community✨
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Congratulations to the winners of our Best Talk and Best Poster awards🎉 🏆Best Talks: • Hannah Walters • Laura Schmidt • Beatrice Pancenza • Mengke Zhou 🏆Best Posters: •Isaac Terrington •Peter Danks A special thank you to @agrisera.bsky.social for sponsoring the Best Poster Prize🌱
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We are incredibly grateful to our six keynote speakers for their inspiring talks, sharing their career journeys and their research. Their insights into science, challenges, and opportunities were a true highlight of the programme and sparked many great discussions. 🧬🌱♥️
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thank you to our sponsors for making the event possible @proteintech.bsky.social @novogene-europe.bsky.social @eppendorf.bsky.social @promegauk.bsky.social @Aralab brought incredible value by their booths, engaging discussions & by providing resources to help participants with the research questions
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Day 3 wrapped up a fantastic programme of scientific talks and a lively poster session, followed by our official symposium dinner at Vittoria on the Bridge 🍽️✨ It was a wonderful evening of great food, laughter, and relaxed conversations after an inspiring day of science talks.
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Science by day, ceilidh by night! From Day 2 onwards we enjoyed an exciting programme of talks, but the highlight for many was the ceilidh that evening. Huge thanks to the Òr Ceilidh Band for an amazing night of Scottish music, dancing, and fun! 💃🕺🎻
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Looking back at #YRSPP2026 📸 Day 1 began with on-site preparations for the symposium before we headed on a walk through the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. We rounded off the day with drinks, snacks, and great conversations at the UoE Dome Pleasance Bar. A fantastic start to the week!
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Our sponsors will be in the Alder Room at the Nucleus Building from tomorrow onwards! A big thank you to @proteintech.bsky.social @promegauk.bsky.social @eppendorf.bsky.social @aralab @novogene-europe.bsky.social for their support 🌱 Do stop by, visit their stands, and learn more about their work!
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
As we kick off YRSPP 2026 tomorrow, a huge thank you to our grant supports & sponsors. Made possible by you! ❤️ 🌱@newphyt.bsky.social @gpsep.bsky.social @proteintech.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @novogene-europe.bsky.social @agrisera.bsky.social @promegauk.bsky.social @eppendorf.bsky.social
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
If your one true love is plant photobiology, then we have the symposium for you! 💚🌱 This Valentine’s Day, register for YRSPP 2026 and make it official ✨ 🔗 yrspp.github.io/register
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢 Don’t miss the YRSPP Symposium Dinner! Join us on 17th April 2026 at Vittoria on the Bridge, Edinburgh, for an evening of great food & networking. 🍷✨ vittoriarestaurant.com/vittoria-on-... Secure your spot now, register today! yrspp.github.io/register
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Get ready to dance! 🕺💃 We’re excited to welcome Ór Ceilidh Band to play live at the YRSPP 2026 social evening! 🎻 Join us for a traditional Scottish ceilidh orscotland.com 🗓️Registration closes 15 February. Time is running out!⌛️yrspp.github.io/register
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
⏰ Registrations close on 15th February! Planning to attend YRSPP 2026? Register now: yrspp.github.io/register ✈️💰 Need a Travel Bursary and/or Registration Subsidy? Email us at yrspp.mail@gmail.com before 31st January, 2026
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We are delighted to announce that the registration for YRSPP 2026 is now open! ✨ Visit yrspp.github.io/register to register and for more info. Looking forward to seeing everyone in April! ☀️🌱
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📢Registrations open next week! Join the mailing list for first access👉 forms.gle/YznZ1unBeNzQ... Learn more: yrspp.github.io #YRSPP2026 #PlantScience #Photobiology
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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!
Image of YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker, Dr. Uriel Urquiza-García from the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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!
Image of YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker, Dr. Jordi Moreno-Romero from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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!
Image of YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker, Dr. Charlotte Gommers from Wageningen University, Netherlands
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
Image of YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker, Dr. Anne-Sophie Fiorucci from the Université Paris-Saclay, France
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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...
Image of YRSPP 2026 keynote speaker Professor Ute Hoecker, from the University of Cologne, DE
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Meet the team behind #YRSPP2026! We’re excited to bring the next Young Researchers’ Symposium on Plant Photobiology to Edinburgh in April 2026 🌿
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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
Image with seedlings, YRSPP logo and text: "Visit our new website: yrspp.github.io"
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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
YRSPP 2026 logo and 'save the date' announcement: 15-18th April 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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!!!
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
Next up, Dorothee Derwort of the University of Freiburg, Germany! Her interesting topic is the function of ERF transcription factors in phytochrome signalling #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
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
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
After a great lunch and poster session it’s time for talks again! Our next speaker is our young PI Martin Balcerowicz from the University of Dundee, UK. He will tell us a lovely story of COP1/SPA, PIFs and auxin #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
The final talk in our morning session, it’s Siddhant Shetty from the WUR in the Netherlands! He will enlighten us about whether the responses to Far-Red light enrichment in lettuce are a signal, or resource for growth? 🥬 #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Next up is a very special online talk all the way from India by Ajar Anupam Pradham! 🖥️🇮🇳 He works at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, and will tell us about a light signalling-regulated MATE transporter modulating root under low phosphate #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Everyone had their morning ☕️? Time for Dimitra Paliogianni from the University of Glasgow, UK! She will explain about how DOT3 is another cog in the phototropin signaling machine #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
What an interesting talk by Feng Chen from the University of Freiburg, Germany! He told us all about how he investigates the molecular mechanisms regulating thermal reversion of phytochrome B #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Next is Laura van der Jeucht from KU Leuven, Belgium! She will explain how she’s unraveling how Far-Red leads to increased sugar levels in tomato 🍅 #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Welcome to day 2 of the #YRSPP2024! We start the day with our first young PI, Kasper van Gelderen from Heidelberg University in Germany. He will tell us all about using PhyB photobody live imaging to find out how they are formed!
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
The first poster session is happening! Due to confidentiality no pictures, but believe me, there are some beautiful posters here! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite one (but don’t worry, there’s more time tomorrow and Friday so take your time to check them all out #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
The last but definitely not least talk before our first poster session: Niels van de Haar from FU Berlin/University Köln, Germany! He is working on how SPA proteins regulate HY5-BBX controlled photomorphogenesis #YRSPP2024
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YRSPP @yrspp.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
The following speaker is Anne-Marie Staudt from the University of Freiburg! Her talk is about how EID1 represses phyA to promote the canopy shade response #YRSPP2024
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