The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to plant science research by an early career scientist.
Hear from recent Tansley Medal winners in our series of New Phytologist Now webinars. Feeling inspired? Apply for the New Phytologist Tansley Medal – applications close on 1 November.
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New Phytologist Now
30 September 2025 2:00pmRecordedBridging the gap: unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era
Watch on demand: Matthew Naish: 2024 Tansley Medal Winner
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New Phytologist Now
9 October 2024RecordedLight and temperature regulation of leaf morphogenesis in Arabidopsis
Martina Legris: 2023 Tansley Medal Winner
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New Phytologist Now
19 October 2023RecordedWhy can't we predict traits from the environment?
Leander Anderegg: 2022 Joint Tansley Medal Winner
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New Phytologist Now
23 October 2023RecordedUnderstanding local plant extinctions before it is too late: bridging evolutionary genomics with global ecology
Moi Exposito-Alonso - Joint Tansley Medal Winner 2022
Hosted by New Phytologist Editor Elena Kramer -
New Phytologist Now
6 October 2022RecordedIntegrating plant physiology and community ecology across scales through trait-based models to predict drought mortality
Anna Trugman: 2021 Tansley Medal Joint Winner
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New Phytologist Now
27 October 2022RecordedHow will global change affect plant reproduction? A framework for mast seeding trends
Michał Bogdziewicz: 2021 Joint Tansley Medal Winner
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New Phytologist Now
16 November 2022RecordedDeciphering the fingerprint of disturbance on the three-dimensional structure of the world’s forests
Tommaso Jucker: 2020 Tansley Medal Winner
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New Phytologist Now
2 December 2021RecordedBlurring the boundaries between cereal crops and model plants
Philippa Borrill: 2019 Tansley Medal winner
Hosted by New Phytologist Editor Alistair Hetherington and moderated by New Phytologist Editor Teresa Fitzpatrick. -
New Phytologist Now
9 December 2021RecordedUnderstanding forest dynamics by integrating age and environmental change
Kai Zhu: 2019 New Phytologist Tansley Medal winner
Hosted by New Phytologist Editor Alistair Hetherington and moderated by New Phytologist Editor Amy Austin.
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New Phytologist Now
16 December 2021RecordedEvolving together, evolving apart: Measuring the fitness of rhizobial bacteria in and out of symbiosis with leguminous plants
Liana Burghardt: 2018 Joint Tansley Medal winner
Hosted by New Phytologist Editor Amy Austin and moderated by New Phytologist Editor Francis Martin.
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New Phytologist Now
7 December 2022RecordedMachine learning in plant–pathogen interactions: empowering biological predictions from field scale to genome scale
Jana Sperschneider: 2018 Joint Tansley Medal Winner Hosted by New Phytologist Editor Francis Martin