Seven thousand botanists have never come together in one place before. But we are all meeting at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, #IBC2017, this week, in a stunning display of not only the diversity of...
The conference is in full swing Jeff Ollerton’s latest post makes clear that this is a massive event, with almost 7000 Botanists in attendance, and 3519 talks. Holy molly! Just as big as a botanical conference can...
I thought with Shenzhen being inside the GreatFirewall, I would either need to help people with tweeting from IBC2017 or else I could take some time off. In fact there seems to be plenty of people tweeting from...
Six years after IBC18 in Melbourne comes the International Botanical Congress in Shenzen. Yet it might be quieter on social media than the 2011 conference. We have made plans.
It’s conference season, and we’re starting to visit conferences from the blog. Friday was the JD Hooker Bicentennial Meeting at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. We have a soft spot for JD Hooker as...
Hands up if you have ever ‘speed-read’ a scientific paper just by looking at the figures. Don’t feel guilty, it’s your brain’s fault. Images appeal to us, as we are drawn to bright colours...
The 11th Congress of International Plant Molecular Biology took place at Iguazú Falls, located at the Argentine-Brazilian border. Our guest blogger Michelle Cotta used the opportunity to talk to a few of the leading...
The 11th Congress of International Plant Molecular Biology took place at Iguazú Falls, located at the Argentine-Brazilian border. This was an outstanding event, co-organized by the two Latin American countries, and held...
The 11th IPMB Congress was be held 25–30 October 2015 in Iguazú Falls, Brazil, bringing together leading scientists in this area. Luckily for us we had Michelle Cotta there tweeting for us. However she wasn’t...
There will be a Gordon Research Conference on Plant Volatiles January 31 to February 5 2016 on Plant Volatiles chaired by Martin Heil and Dorothea Tholl. The winter chill will be eased by the conference being held at...
In the mustard family, which includes the important crop Brassica (rapeseed/canola) and the model plant Arabidopsis, the surfaces of the female stigmatic cells are dry. These cells – on which the pollen grains land...
The European Cytogenetics Conference, this year #ECA2015 in Strasbourg, is a terrific meeting to hear the latest on chromosome research, with a strong focus on human research but lots that is important for plant and...