Steve Kelly

Photosynthesis, Evolution, Guitars | Professor @OxfordBiology | Co-founder & CSO @WildBioscience

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

Rubisco is not stuck.

Its kinetics, and photosynthesis, have been continually improving throughout land plant evolution.

👉 https://t.co/oUcNpAxmD3

[jacques bouvier @JBouvierPlants]

Please share! 📢

Are you a plant or microbial scientist that is passionate about global innovation in sustainable agriculture? 🚨

We have a number of exciting job openings in nitrogen fixation at EIT ‼️

Find out more and apply here 👉 https://t.co/jvHdiRU7Qm

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

GLADE: Accurate inference of Gains, Losses, Ancestral genomes, and Duplication Events for comparative genomics https://t.co/WIYTtrS73d #biorxiv_evobio

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

FastSpeciesTree: Fast and Scalable Species tree Inference https://t.co/CIvm9pNKx4 #biorxiv_evobio

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

OrthoFinder has been cited more than 10,000 times 🤯. Don’t think @David__Emms or I ever dreamed it would be so useful to so many people. Looking forward to sharing the latest updates soon!

[EIT Oxford @EITOxford]

🌾Powering the next generation of sustainable agriculture

We’re thrilled to lead a $60M Series A round for Wild Bioscience, alongside Oxford Science Enterprises, Braavos Investment Advisers and the University of Oxford - accelerating the development of next-generation crop varieties to power more resilient, sustainable food systems.

Founded by Professor Steven Kelly, Head of the Plant Biology Institute at EIT and Dr Ross Hendron, Wild Bio is pioneering a data-driven approach that uses AI and precision breeding to enhance crop productivity, climate resilience and sustainability.

Together, we’re:

🌍Unlocking nature’s evolutionary intelligence to improve global food security
🧬Translating cutting-edge Oxford research from lab to field
🌿Helping farmers adapt to a changing climate through smarter crop science

This investment marks a milestone for Oxford’s innovation ecosystem, representing a shared commitment to scaling science that matters.

👉 Learn more about how EIT and Wild Bio are shaping the future of sustainable agriculture: https://t.co/Ln9NCDAcwd

#EIT #EITOxford #WildBio #AgriTech #Sustainability #Innovation #AI #FoodSecurity #SustainableAgriculture #PrecisionBreeding #Climate

[Oxford Biology @OxfordBiology]

@TinaSchreier has been awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant for research into the cell biology of C4 photosynthesis 🌱

Tina’s project will explore the cell biology that leads to the formation of specialised bundle sheath cells in C4 plants 👇
https://t.co/rI9rc1ZqTH

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New OA Article: "RETICULATA1 is a plastid-localized basic amino acid transporter" https://t.co/NAzoQUlUgU

RE1 enables basic aa exchange across the plastid inner envelope. Loss-of-function mutants reveal its essential role in aa homeostasis, plant development and seed production.

[Carmen S. Cañizares @carmen_agro]

Excited to share that I’ll soon be joining @irnasa_csic as #newPI! And I couldn’t imagine a better start than with a project that has just been selected for funding by @AgEInves @CienciaGob. Very grateful for the support & looking forward to keep working on #bacterialregulation!!

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

For over a decade, anti-GMO activists demanded long-term studies in mammals.

Not mice.
Not rats.
Primates.

Well... scientists did just that.
And the results are in.

Let’s talk about a 7-year feeding study in macaques.
🧵 1/👇

[bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv_plants]

Exploring the diversity of the CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) in different C4 subtypes https://t.co/KmQlSsGh1B #biorxiv_plants

[David Emms @David__Emms]

We have a new version of OrthoFinder:
https://t.co/56oXoVpDQ7

Faster scaling to larger species sets, phylogenetically resolved orthogroups, reduced RAM usage.

Thanks to @dr_belcher, Yi Liu & Jonathan Holmes who have joined the team, and as ever OrthoFinder's PI @Steve__Kelly!

[DrBelcher @dr_belcher]

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

https://t.co/byfPvTgOhX
https://t.co/Ih3G0C5UFz

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out!

Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs

👉https://t.co/VivnkqSyKs

[The Company of Biologists @Co_Biologists]

As part of our 100-year celebrations, we would like to hear stories from you on how @Co_Biologists has impacted your careers. Send us your message at https://t.co/9sa4jlZleq

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

Researchers in @OxfordBiology and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from @ARIA_research to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat.

Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

The C4 way

https://t.co/c4aAdx76qJ

[Biology Open @BiologyOpen]

We are excited to be launching the next phase of our Fast & Fair peer review initiative: offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days. #fastandfairpeerreview
Read the Editorial by EiC Daniel Gorelick at: https://t.co/lcnPqovq2a

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

Wellcome to the 30’s … the 20’s didn’t last long

[CO2_Earth @CO2_earth]

🏆📈🏆 FIRST TIME #CO2 SURPASSES 430 🏆📈🏆 430.60 ppm is the HIGHEST EVER CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere as of March 7, 2025 🏆 Up 5.24 ppm from 425.36 ppm a year ago 🏆 #NOAA Mauna Loa Obervatory data & graphic: https://t.co/kQDIzhBhTb 🏆 Daily https://t.co/ly0aHjoXwv records at: https://t.co/qo2H0IWiBU

[Steve Kelly @Steve__Kelly]

A welcome reminder that people can do incredible things

https://t.co/4orIwpqAtd

[The Company of Biologists @Co_Biologists]

Did you know that our founder held the record for the oldest message in a bottle as part of his research into ocean currents? As part of our 100-year celebrations, we would like to hear stories from you on how @Co_Biologists has impacted your careers. https://t.co/9sa4jlZleq