New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025
Monday 4 – Thursday 7 August 2025, University of Birmingham, UK
Join online - New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025
4 August to 7 August 2025
The full programme for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 is available! Join online to view talks from seven keynote speakers and 26 early career researchers, including a special evening lecture from Professor Noni Franklin-Tong at 18:30 BST on Tuesday 5 August 2025.
The majority of talks and sessions will be streamed live, and will be available to view on demand following the symposium.
Online participants can join in by asking questions on Slido.
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Over 120 delegates gathered in Tartu in July for the
New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Symposium: Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life.
Many of these talks are now available to watch on demand.
The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to confirm the following Symposia.
47th New Phytologist Symposium
Extreme heat: extending the thermal limits of life
June 2026 | Cordoba Spain
With 2023 marking the hottest year on record and heatwaves now affecting over 10% of Earth’s land, understanding and mitigating the effects of extreme heat is more urgent than ever. Join us in shaping strategies to extend the thermal limits of life and safeguard the future of our ecosystems.
Organising Committee
- Owen Atkin, Australian National University, Australia (Chair)
- Cristina C. Bastias, University of Cordoba, Spain
- Andrew Feldman, NASA Goddard, USA
- Kevin Hultine, Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden, USA
- Belinda Medlyn, Western Sydney University, Australia
- Adrienne Nicotra, Australian National University, Australia
- Rafael Villar, University of Cordoba, Spain
Abstract submission and registration will open in Autumn 2025.
48th New Phytologist Symposium
Forest interactions
Autumn 2026 | Location to be announced
Forests are one of our most precious natural resources, providing habitat and sustenance for a myriad of organisms that interact with one another, and with abiotic factors, in complex and fascinating ways.
In addition to harbouring a wealth of biodiversity of organisms, forests also provide humans with crucial resources that benefit our health as well as providing critical economic and social value.
In this symposium, we will explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
Led by Amy Austin, Francis Martin and Andrea Polle, with others to be announced.
We will announce further details of these symposia in our mailing list, so you will be the first to know about updates.
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Special Workshop
Molecular mechanisms of light-regulated plant development
11–13 December 2025
IISER Bhopal, Bhopal, India
Light perception and signalling has a long history of excellent research in plants – from the classical physiology and biochemistry of photoreceptors in diverse species to the detailed definition of the signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. Light plays a key role in regulating plant growth, development and physiology. The molecular detail of many aspects of light signalling has been genetically dissected model organisms like Arabidopsis thaliana.
We will use this workshop to review the most recent developments in these related fields. We will also use the opportunity for the community to highlight future priority areas of opportunity. Find out more and how to apply.
Application deadline:15 September 2025