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Lee Hickey

@drhikov

Professor in Plant Breeding @HickeyLab @QAAFI, ARC Future Fellow, Director ARC Training Centre @nextgenbreeders, Editor @TheorApplGenet @plantgenome

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ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you an exceptional organiser with a background in research administration or project coordination? This is your final opportunity to join our team as a Centre Coordinator and shape the future of the next generation of breeders. Apply by 24 March! bit.ly/43Hp4mL

Are you an exceptional organiser with a background in research administration or project coordination?

This is your final opportunity to join our team as a Centre Coordinator and shape the future of the next generation of breeders.

Apply by 24 March! bit.ly/43Hp4mL
ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is only one week left to apply to attend our Next-Gen Breeders Workshop, taking place at UWA on 3 June. Connect with fellow plant breeders, learn about new technologies, and network before #APBC2025. Apply before 7 April: bit.ly/Nextgenworkshop

There is only one week left to apply to attend our Next-Gen Breeders Workshop, taking place at UWA on 3 June. 

Connect with fellow plant breeders, learn about new technologies, and network before #APBC2025. 

Apply before 7 April: bit.ly/Nextgenworkshop
NAPB Graduate Students (@napb_gswg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you curious about how AI is transforming plant breeding? Join the NAPB Graduate Student Working Group for an international webinar with Lee Hickey on the opportunities and challenges of exploiting AI in plant breeding. Register here: forms.gle/wE8XtikSHxj97B… NAPB

Are you curious about how AI is transforming plant breeding? Join the NAPB Graduate Student Working Group for an international webinar with <a href="/DrHikov/">Lee Hickey</a>  on the opportunities and challenges of exploiting AI in plant breeding.
Register here: forms.gle/wE8XtikSHxj97B…
<a href="/NAPlantBreeders/">NAPB</a>
InterGrain (@intergrain1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

InterGrain is introducing a brand-new Physiologist role, and we're looking for a passionate expert to lead plant physiology research within the business. Join a team dedicated to agricultural innovation and making a real impact! Learn more here - intergrain.com/career/physiol…

Zerihun Tadesse🌱🍞 (@zerihun_wheat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great talk from Lee Hickey UQ News and Awais Rasheed CIMMYT on Speed Breeding and Modern genotyping technology at #WIC25! These innovations are accelerating genetic gains and shaping the Next Generation of wheat breeding. 🌾✨ #SpeedBreeding #GenomicSelection #WIC25

Great talk from <a href="/DrHikov/">Lee Hickey</a> <a href="/UQ_News/">UQ News</a>  and <a href="/AvaisRasheed/">Awais Rasheed</a> <a href="/CIMMYT/">CIMMYT</a> on Speed Breeding and Modern genotyping technology at #WIC25! These innovations are accelerating genetic gains and shaping the Next Generation of wheat breeding. 🌾✨  #SpeedBreeding #GenomicSelection #WIC25
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If you are working on a GRDC project or have a GRDC Scholarship/Fellowship in Australia you can apply for support to attend the training and science seminars as part of Breeding Horizons 2025 Please share this opportunity! Link below

ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌟 Announcing Breeding Horizons 2025! 🌟 We will host our inaugural training event at UQ on July 21-25. ✅Intensive breeding theory & statistics training ✅Cutting-edge predictive breeding research ✅Cross-sector networking opportunities #BreedingHorizons2025

International Barley Hub (@intbarleyhub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Prof Lee Hickey Lee Hickey QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation 📣 Unlocking the Hidden Half: Opportunities for Genome Editing and Machine Learning to Improve Root Architecture in Barley 📆 Thursday 8th May 2025 14:00 BST Register: djpVk304.eu1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/I9+113/djp…

IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 
🔊 Prof Lee Hickey <a href="/DrHikov/">Lee Hickey</a> <a href="/QAAFI/">QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation</a> 
📣 Unlocking the Hidden Half: Opportunities for Genome Editing and Machine Learning to Improve Root Architecture in Barley   
📆 Thursday 8th May 2025 14:00 BST
Register: djpVk304.eu1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/I9+113/djp…
InterGrain (@intergrain1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Late nights under red light. Our glasshouses are lit up for 20-22 hours to extend photoperiods and fast-track the development of future varieties. More light means more generations, faster gains 📈 Thanks to Greg Goilot for the awesome snaps while working late 📸

Late nights under red light. Our glasshouses are lit up for 20-22 hours to extend photoperiods and fast-track the development of future varieties. More light means more generations, faster gains 📈

Thanks to Greg Goilot for the awesome snaps while working late 📸
ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔊Abstract submission is now OPEN for #BreedingHorizons2025 at The University of Queensland on 21-25 July! Present your cutting edge predictive breeding research as an oral or poster presentation. 🗓️Submit by 10 June. More information: predictive-breeding.org/breeding-horiz…

🔊Abstract submission is now OPEN for #BreedingHorizons2025 at The University of Queensland on 21-25 July!

Present your cutting edge predictive breeding research as an oral or poster presentation. 

🗓️Submit by 10 June.  

More information: predictive-breeding.org/breeding-horiz…
Lee Hickey (@drhikov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New commentary with Prof Kai Voss-Fels and team is now online in Molecular Horticulture, where we underscore the potential and necessity of adopting the latest breeding technologies for accelerated grapevine improvement to secure the future of viticulture: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

New commentary with Prof Kai Voss-Fels and team is now online in Molecular Horticulture, where we underscore the potential and necessity of adopting the latest breeding technologies for accelerated grapevine improvement to secure the future of viticulture: link.springer.com/article/10.118…
APBC2025 (@apbc2025) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1 week to go until #APBC2025! ⏳ 🌱 240+ delegates already registered 📍 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle 📅 June 4–6 3 days of insight, innovation & community in plant breeding. 🎟️ It's not too late to join us → apbconference.org #PlantBreeding Business Events Perth

1 week to go until #APBC2025! ⏳
🌱 240+ delegates already registered
📍 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle
📅 June 4–6

3 days of insight, innovation &amp; community in plant breeding.
🎟️ It's not too late to join us → apbconference.org

#PlantBreeding <a href="/BizEventsPerth/">Business Events Perth</a>
ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧬 Next up in our Seminar Series: Dr Hannah Robinson from Hochschule Geisenheim University presents "Harnessing Multi-Omics for Accelerated Genetic Improvement in Perennial Crops" 🗓️11 June 🕐 1pm AEST 📍 Hybrid 🎫 bit.ly/43Sc1yD

🧬 Next up in our Seminar Series: Dr Hannah Robinson from Hochschule Geisenheim University presents "Harnessing Multi-Omics for Accelerated Genetic Improvement in Perennial Crops"

🗓️11 June
🕐 1pm AEST
📍 Hybrid
🎫 bit.ly/43Sc1yD
Lee Hickey (@drhikov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks so much to InterGrain for hosting us today for our annual ARC Linkage Project meeting on barley roots and yield stability. So fortunate to be working with great industry partners and motivated early career researchers

Thanks so much to <a href="/InterGrain1/">InterGrain</a> for hosting us today for our annual ARC Linkage Project meeting on barley roots and yield stability. So fortunate to be working with great industry partners and motivated early career researchers
APBC2025 (@apbc2025) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Next Gen Breeders Workshop kicked off #APBC2025 in Perth! 🌱Great discussions on career pathways & essential skills for plant breeders, bringing together industry, academics & ECRs from Australia & beyond. Perfect networking + beer tasting to wrap up! 🍺#PlantBreeding

The Next Gen Breeders Workshop kicked off #APBC2025 in Perth! 🌱Great discussions on career pathways &amp; essential skills for plant breeders, bringing together industry, academics &amp; ECRs from Australia &amp; beyond. Perfect networking + beer tasting to wrap up! 🍺#PlantBreeding
Rajeev Varshney FRS (@rajvarshney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An impressive presentation by Lee Hickey on predictive breeding and its deployment in a range of crops in #APBC2025 . It is amazing to learn about PhD students and postdocs are being trained and benefitted under ARC Centre on Predictive Breeding. Great presentation Lee. We are

An impressive presentation by <a href="/DrHikov/">Lee Hickey</a> on predictive breeding and its deployment in a range of crops in #APBC2025 . It is amazing to learn about PhD students and postdocs are being trained and benefitted under ARC Centre on Predictive Breeding. 

Great presentation Lee. We are
ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⭐ Closing Soon: Abstract Submission Breeding Horizons 2025 ⭐ Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to present your research during our Predictive Breeding Showcase on 24 July! Submit your abstract before 10 June: predictive-breeding.org/breeding-horiz…

⭐ Closing Soon: Abstract Submission Breeding Horizons 2025 ⭐

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to present your research during our Predictive Breeding Showcase on 24 July!

Submit your abstract before 10 June: predictive-breeding.org/breeding-horiz…
ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding (@nextgenbreeders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Earlier this week, the ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding and IRTG for Accelerating Crop Genetic Gain hosted a Next-Gen Breeders Workshop at The University Club of Western Australia. We brought together 100 early career researchers and breeders from Australia and

Earlier this week, the ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding and IRTG for Accelerating Crop Genetic Gain hosted a Next-Gen Breeders Workshop at The University Club of Western Australia.   

We brought together 100 early career researchers and breeders from Australia and
Lee Hickey (@drhikov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Envirotyping facilitates understanding of genotype × environment interactions and highlights the potential of stay-green traits in wheat New paper in Field Crops Research by our recent PhD graduate Asad Amin: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Envirotyping facilitates understanding of genotype × environment interactions and highlights the potential of stay-green traits in wheat 

New paper in Field Crops Research by our recent PhD graduate Asad Amin: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…