Support for community events in 2025

The New Phytologist Foundation provided funding and materials to support this meeting, which took place at Sheffield University in the UK on 31^st January 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation provided financial support for this workshop, which took place from 2^nd to 7^th February 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation contributed financial support for this meeting, organised by the International Barley Hub, which took place on 4^th and 5^th February 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation was pleased to sponsor six prizes for early career researchers as part of the Merian Awards at the 8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this conference, which took place from 18^th to 20^th March 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this meeting, which took place on 8^th and 9^th of April 2025. Download an archive copy of the programme.

Recognising the immense potential for a continental plant genomics ecosystem in Africa, the organising committee, which comprises of African scientists, convened a two-day meeting of about 100 delegates from academia, industry, government and civic society to showcase plant genomics research on the African continent, to build a network among stakeholders to support a unified agenda for plant genomics in Africa, and to launch the Africa Plant Genomics Society.

The New Phytologist Foundation is delighted to have supported the African Plant Genomics Symposium, which took place on 10^th and 11^th April 2025, by providing funding for five prizes for early career researchers.

The New Phytologist Foundation supported this symposium, which took place on 23^rd April 2025, by funding three poster prizes for early career researchers:

• 1^st prize: Issi Steeley
  Enhanced weathering for carbon capture in Brazilian cacao

• 2^nd prize: Nathanael Tan
  Unravelling the role of the cell wall in stomatal mechanics: why guard cells aren’t just tubes

• 3^rd prize: Nitkamon Iamprasertkun
  Physiological trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana under drought conditions

The New Phytologist Foundation funded three travel grants and two poster prizes for early career researchers at this conference, which took place between 15^th and 18^th May 2025. As of 7^th October 2025, An archived copy of the conference website can be viewed using the Wayback Machine.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this Gordon Research Conference, which took place between 8^th and 13^th June 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation supported this congress, which took place between 9th and 13th June 2025, by funding two poster prizes for early career researchers:

• 1st prize: Seung-Su Euo, Korea National Arboretum
  Citizen science-based study of pollinating insects in Gwangneung Forest

• Runners-up: Lucie Brzcova and Eva Vitova, Prague Botanical Garden
  Valuable Botanic Garden Concept: 5 key principles

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this ICAR 2025 satellite meeting, which took place on 14^th and 15^th June 2025. Vascular Development meetings have occurred every year since 2015 and bring together many groups working on plant development in Europe.

The New Phytologist Foundation funded two prizes for oral presentations and three poster prizes at this conference, which took place between 15^th and 19^th June 2025.

Presentation prizes

• Elsa Hilaire, INRAE
  Meta-omics reveal microbial guild succession and functions during fungal necromass decomposition in forest soil

• Elias Barmettler, University of Zurich / Agroscope
  Copper and synthetic pesticides are major drivers of bacterial and fungal communities in vineyard soils

Poster prizes

• Karolina Jörgensen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  A carbon utilization and nitrogen acquisition trait spectrum for ectomycorrhizal fungi

• Luise Brandt, University of Hohenheim
  Reciprocal transport of carbon and nitrogen between plants and microbes in the grassland hyphosphere

• Julian Ruggaber, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
  Rhizosphere metatranscriptomics of microbiome functions in carbon turnover assessed by a novel approach

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored the annual meeting organised by the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee, which took place between 16^th and 20^th June 2025.

Peer Review Manager Fiona Tooke attended and staffed an exhibition stand, in addition to running a publication advice clinic for early career researchers.

The New Phytologist Foundation funded catering at this symposium celebrating the contribution of former New Phytologist Editor Mark Rausher to plant science, which took place on 19^th June 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored the annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution, which took place from 20^th to 24^th June 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored an oral presentation prize and a poster prize at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation's annual meeting, held in Oaxaca, Mexico, between 29^th June and 4^th July 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this conference, which took place between 29^th June and 4^th July 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation funded two oral presentation prizes and three poster presentation prizes at this satellite meeting, which took place on 12^th July 2025, before the main IS-MPMI conference.

Joint first oral presentation prize

• Maria Kostarelli, UMR INRAE CNRS Université Côte d'Azur - Sophia Antipolis, France

• Max Pluis, UMR INRAE CNRS Université Côte d'Azur - Sophia Antipolis, France

Poster prizes

• 1^st prize: Callum Scott, University of Aberdeen, UK

• 2^nd prize: Pelin Yuksel, The Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

• 3^rd prize: Susanna Anbu, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this annual meeting of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, which took place between 13^th and 17^th July 2025.

Senior Commissioning Editor Holly Slater attended and staffed an exhibition stand.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this meeting, which took place from 22^nd to 25^th July 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation contributed financial support for the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America, which took place from 26^th to 30^th July 2025, by sponsoring the conference app.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored the Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting, which took place from 10^th to 14^th August 2025, and contributed funds to the Society's Physiological Ecology and Biogeosciences sections.

Bennett Young, Plants, People, Planet Managing Editor, attended the meeting and staffed the New Phytologist Foundation's exhibition stand.

The New Phytologist Foundation Keynote, a special plenary lecture, was given by New Phytologist Editor Sasha Reed and introduced by New Phytologist Editor and New Phytologist Foundation Trustee Richard Norby.

The New Phytologist Foundation contributed to this meeting, which took place from 24^th to 27^th August 2025, by sponsoring a talk by an early career researcher, Magdalena Maria Julkowska.

The New Phytologist Foundation supported this meeting, which took place from 24^th to 27^th August 2025, by contributing funds to support early career researchers.

The New Phytologist Foundation supported the Third International TRR 175 conference, which took place from 25^th to 29^th August 2025, by sponsoring a poster prize, awarded to Claire Scheid.

Poster prize

• Claire Scheid, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this meeting, which took place on 1^st and 2^nd September 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation supported this meeting, which took place on 3^rd September 2025, with funding for three poster prizes.

Poster prizes

• 1^st prize: Kate Bowler, University of York, UK
  Characterising the CO₂ concentrating mechanism in brown macroalgae

• 2^nd prize: Zhouqian Jiang, University of York, UK
  Unravelling the biosynthesis of securinine: pathway insights to menisdaurilide

• 3^rd prize: Jason Daff, University of York, UK
  The forgotten fruits of Heslington Hall's walled garden

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this meeting, which took place from 8^th to 10^th September 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored the second Trilateral Early Career Researcher Symposium, which took place from 10^th to 12^th September 2025. Two poster prizes were funded.

Poster prizes

• Lukas Hoermayer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• Nathan German, École normale supérieure de Lyon, France

The New Phytologist Foundation supported this meeting, which took place between 16^th and 18^th September 2025, by funding three poster prizes, awarded to early career researchers.

Poster prizes

• Saskia Birch, University of Cambridge, UK
  Unravelling suppression of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in high phosphate conditions

• Leo Bunel, INRAE, France
  Coordination between endodermal barriers and arbuscular mycorrhizae for nutrient exchange

• Midge Woodward, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Genetic transformation of AM fungi – is it possible?

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this workshop, which took place from 22^nd to 25^th September 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation sponsored this meeting, with took place from 29^th September to 3^rd October 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation is supporting the 2025 African Plant Breeders Association conference, which takes place from 4^th to 8^th October, by funding poster prizes for early career researchers.

The New Phytologist Foundation is supporting the most recent instalment of this biannual meeting series, which takes place from 20^th to 25^th October 2025, by providing funds to enable the attendance of participants and help to overcome funding constraints in Latin America.

The New Phytologist Foundation is supporting this Biochemical Society meeting, which takes place from 21^st to 23^rd October, by funding poster prizes for early career researchers.

The New Phytologist Foundation is sponsoring Micología y Micotoxicología: Desde el cono sur al mundo (Mycology and Mycotoxicology: From the Southern Cone to the World), taking place from 21^st to 24^th October 2025.

The meeting is a combination of the IV Argentine Mycology Meeting and the IX Latin American Mycotoxicology Congress.

The New Phytologist Foundation is contributing funds to support the running of this workshop, which takes place on 21^st and 22^nd October.

The New Phytologist Foundation is sponsoring this conference, which takes place on 24^th October 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation is sponsoring this meeting, which takes place on 29^th November 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation is sponsoring this workshop, which takes place from 25th to 27th November 2025.

The New Phytologist Foundation is sponsoring this lecture series, taking place from 9th October to 4th December 2025.