HIGHLIGHTS

All updates.

Awards and milestones from the group.

OCTOBER 2026POSTER PRIZE

Alexandra wins best poster prize

Alexandra Sanfeliu Meliá received the best poster prize at the Seeds of Resilience Conference 2026. Her poster explored how natural diversity and genomics can unlock the crop potential of Chenopodium album.

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Alexandra Sanfeliu Meliá beside her research poster on Chenopodium album at the Seeds of Resilience Conference

MAY 2026PLANTAE

Review featured by the American Society of Plant Biologists

Plantae highlighted our review From wild to tamed: Reimagining novel crops through omics and local plant diversity, which makes the case for domesticating promising wild plants directly.

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2025DANISH DATA SCIENCE ACADEMY

Kate awarded a DDSA PhD Fellowship

The fellowship supports PLANT^AI, combining multi-omics, machine learning and breeding to accelerate Chenopodium album domestication.

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2023NOVO NORDISK FOUNDATION

Pablo awarded an NNF Emerging Investigator grant

The five-year award supports our programme to domesticate local wild plants and laid the foundation for the group.

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