🚨 Registration is OPEN – Phytobiomes Conference 2026
📅 3–5 Nov | Niagara-on-the-Lake 🇨🇦
💰 Early bird deadline: 4 Sep
📝 Abstracts due 28 Aug (oral/flash talks/early career awards) | 16 Oct (posters)
Register: phytobiomesconference.org/re…#Phytobiomes2026
🌱🦠 Did you know seeds carry their own microbial communities, passed down from generation to generation?
Join us on 24 June for a webinar with Matthieu Barret (INRAE) on the origin, dynamics, and function of seed microbiota during crop establishment
🔗tinyurl.com/56t8tdv7
Early career scientist? Apply for a #Phytobiomes2026 Early Career Award.
Grad students, postdocs, and researchers within 5 years of their degree are eligible.
Submit an abstract say yes to the award question.
Deadline: 28 August.
🔗 tinyurl.com/fhmthx2w#EarlyCareer
🌱 April newsletter is out! Highlights:
International Phytobiomes Conference 2026
📢 Abstracts due 28 Aug
USCCN Conference 2026
📢 Travel stipends due 1 May
💻 Webinars on seed microbiota, regulatory science & more
👉 tinyurl.com/ykwj3wp6
📅 Happening this week!
Join Adrien Frémont @BerkeleyLab on 22 April at 11:00 AM EDT to explore the rhizosphere metabolome and mechanistic links between root exudates, microbes, and abiotic factors.
Save your spot: tinyurl.com/3vvew8aj
The Phytobiomes Alliance 2025 Annual Report is out!
Highlights from global projects, Working Groups, and our growing phytobiomes community.
Read the report: phytobiomesalliance.org/news…#Phytobiomes
💰 A limited number of $1,000 travel stipends are available to support attendance at the USCCN conference in Providence, RI, USA (Jul 31–Aug 1).
Don’t miss this chance to be part of the conversation about the future of microbial collections.
📝 Apply Now: tinyurl.com/9cpc6b7u
Submit your abstract to get the chance to present at #Phytobiomes2026.
Plant-microbe interactions, soil health, crop genetics, AI and modelling, biological products, regulatory science, and more.
⌛️Deadline: 28 August - Oral flash talks
🔗phytobiomesconference.org
🌱Plants actively shape their soil environment. But how?
Join us on 22 April at 11:00 AM EDT for a webinar with Adrien Frémont @BerkeleyLabon decoding the chemical dialogue between plants and soil.
Register: tinyurl.com/3vvew8aj
We redesigned the Phytobiomes Conference based on your feedback.
Everything under one roof. All meals included. Gala dinner at a Niagara winery. Fewer talks, more conversations.
📽️Watch the video youtu.be/QdwTfdSXaSQ?si=atlc…
Register by 4 Sep (Early Bird) | Abstracts due 28 Aug
📢Happening this week!
On Wednesday, Maggie Wagner @maggieRwagner (University of Kansas) presents her work on how historical precipitation leaves a microbial “memory” that shapes plant drought tolerance.
25 March at 11:00 AM EDT
Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/ydztmkv6
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the women and girls advancing plant science, microbiome research, and sustainable agriculture.
Together, let’s empower the next generation of female scientists.
🌱💧 How does past rainfall influence plant drought responses?
Join us on 25 March for a webinar with Maggie Wagner @maggieRwagner (University of Kansas) exploring how precipitation history impacts soil microbiota and shapes plant adaptation to drought.
tinyurl.com/ydztmkv6
🎥 Missed today’s #Phytobiomes webinar on Earth Systems Models and SAI presented by Sabrina Cohen?
The recording is now available on our YouTube channel!
Watch it here 👉 youtu.be/jIbyz-2j_nk
📢 This Wednesday!
Don’t miss Sabrina Cohen’s webinar on Climate Futures, Earth System Models & Crop Productivity.
Learn how climate change and mitigations strategies at the stratospheric level could impact crops in key regions
Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/2zfeeksn
🔊 Save the Date !!!
⁉️International Phytobiomes Conference 2026
📍 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
📅 3–5 November 2026
📝 Call for abstracts and registration will open in March
🌐 phytobiomesconference.org/
Mark your calendar and start thinking about your abstract!
How will climate change affect crops in the coming decades?
On 28 Jan, join Sabrina Cohen @ColoradoStateU as she shares what global climate simulations reveal about future crop productivity in key regions.
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/2zfeeksn