Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms: registration and abstract submission open

We're pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission for the 49^th New Phytologist Symposium, Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms, is now open. The symposium takes place at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, 24–27 May 2027.

The deadline for abstract submissions and travel grant applications is 25 January 2027.

Why should every plant biologist care about biological timing?

Virtually all aspects of plant life are shaped by temporal regulation across many scales, including the cycles of day and night, and the seasons of the year. This symposium brings together diverse topics in biological timing including environmental signalling, evolution, field biology, modelling, epigenomics, organismal interactions, and how circadian clocks and seasonal timing can be leveraged for crop breeding.

Organising committee

• María Veronica Arana, CONICET, Argentina

• Ant Dodd, John Innes Centre, UK

• Josh Gendron, Yale, USA

• Carlos Hotta, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Nathalie Verbruggen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Invited speakers

• María Veronica Arana, CONICET, Argentina

• Rishikesh Bhalerao, SLU / Umeå Plant Science Center, Sweden

• Isabelle Carré, University of Warwick, UK

• Nicole Creux, University of Toulouse, France

• Ant Dodd, John Innes Centre, UK

• Colleen Doherty, North Carolina State University, USA

• Maria E Eriksson, Umeå University, Sweden

• Josh Gendron, Yale, USA

• Rodrigo Gutierrez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

• Mike Haydon, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Karolina Heyduk, University of Connecticut, USA

• Rob Ingle, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Fanjiang Kong, Guangzhou University, China

• Hiroshi Kudoh, Kyoto University, Japan

• Todd Michael, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA

• Norihito Nakamichi, Nagoya University, Japan

• Akiko Satake, Kyushu University, Japan

• Ashutosh Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

• Wei Wang, Peking University, China

• Alex Webb, University of Cambridge, UK

• Elizabeth M Wolkovich, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Xiaodong Xu, Henan University, China

• Marcelo Yanovsky, Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina