News
- We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Grant to study the signalling properties of phyA!
- A wonderful picture of Dr Marissa Valdivia-Cabrera and Dr Phil Butlin at the Graduation Ceremony July 2024. ..to follow
- Congratulations to Dr Rist Van Der Weyer who successfully defended his thesis on 28th November 2023. We are very proud of all his achievements! 
- Congratulations to Amy Newell who has been nominated Chair of the SCI Agri-Food Committee.
- Karen gave an Ada Lovelace Day talk on Diversifying Recruitment at Herriot Watt University, October 2023. Fellow speakers were Dilraj Sokh-Watson, Director Equate Scotland, Professor Sara Lombardo, Professor Lynne Jack and Dr Natalia Herrera Valencia (Herriot Watt University)
- Congratulations to our amazing student Amy Newell who was awarded a prestigious SCI Scholarship of £5,000 on 20th June 2023, to support her studies in Plant Photobiology
- PhD Student Amy Newell won the SCI Scotland Group Day in 
- CONGRATULATIONS TO DR TARA WIGHT!!! who successfully defended her Thesis on the 11th October 2022!! Below is Tara at her Graduation Ceremony, July, 2023.
- Karen delivers an Equality Diversity and inclusion Lecture at the British Society for Parasitology Conference, McEwan Hall, April, 2023. Fellow speakers included Dr Annamaria Carussi (Inter-change Research), Dr Jo O'Leary (Head of EDI Strategy, UKRI) 
- PhD Student Rist van de Weyer launches fair-trade spice company, Ujamaa Spice Co!
- PhD student Marissa Valdivia won best poster at the Young Researchers Symposium on Plant Photobiology 2022!
- CONGRATULATIONS TO DR EJAZ HUSSAIN!!! who successfully defended his Thesis on the 19th April 2021
- OUTREACH 
PhD student Tara Wight teamed up with the SBS Public Engagement Officer, Janet Patterson, to develop virtual workshops for Highers Students in schools around Edinburgh. Students learn about research conducted in the Halliday and Nakayama (Imperial College London) labs into plant phenotypic plasticity responses, and what its like to be a plant scientist. These sessions were a massive hit with teachers and pupils alike.
- PUBLICATION OF NATURE INDEX COMMENTARY
Cebula C, Nicoll Baines K, Lido C, Dr Thijssen JHJ, Halliday KJ, Hedge N, Mulvana H, and Lindsay C. Inclusion matters in time of COVID: 14 ways to seize the moment for change. NatureIndex Comment, 9 February 2021.
Flux in the system is a chance to create new and better opportunities in academic STEMM careers for marginalized groups
- STUDENT EXPERIENCE GRANT awarded to talented PhD students Matt Lincoln and Phil Butlin! [January 2021]
Matt and Phil aim to apply knowledge of real-life growth conditions to create a novel and reproducible lighting system that replicates ecologically relevant growing conditions for lab-grown plants
- BOOK: TALES OF URBAN BIOLOGY results from a collaboration between writers and scientists. Read "Branching Out", written by Pippa Goldschmidt with inspiration from Halliday Lab members.
Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology – Shoreline of Infinity
8pm 4th November New visions of city living through the laser-sharp lenses of biological research. Readings and chat from Clare Duffy, Pippa Goldschmidt, Gavin Inglis, Neil Williamson, Andrew J. Wilson…
- Early Career Researchers Meeting, 22nd October 2020. A forum for early career researchers to share research ideas and career aspirations
- Karen becomes Dean of Systematic Inclusion, in June 2020, with a remit to oversee Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy across the College of Science and Engineering
Older news- key events...
- EPSRC Inclusion Matter Grant: eBase Growing the Big Grant Club, awarded November 2018. Meet the eBase Team.
- Keys to the Future, May 2016
EPS students Clari Burrell (SRUC), Paloma Heras (SRUC) and Anne Ritzenhoff (UoE) ran the "Keys to the Future" Careers event on Friday the 13th May. Plant scientists with very different career paths shared their experience with the young audience. This was a huge success with a record turnout. WELL DONE!!
Potential Difference Exhibition, April 2015
The Potential Difference Exhibition examined socio-cultural aspects of science, with a focus on why gender is still a barrier to the career progression and optimisation of scientific potential in the UK. The exhibition showcased female scientists at different career stages, providing role models to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Potential Difference was exhibited at The Royal Society of Edinburgh. It was Launched by Professor Mary Bownes, Vice-Principal of Community Development. The opening address: Professor Alice Brown CBE, RSE, Chair of the Scottish Funding Council. Potential Difference was a collaboration between Karen Halliday (Director, scientist), Meriem El Karoui (scientist), MELTING SNOW: Hamer Dodds (artist) and Graham Russell (graphic designer); Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston (photographer). The student organising committee compised: Johanna Krahmer, Sreerekha Pillai, Kathryn Topham
International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP), June 2013
Hosted by the Haliday Lab, June 2013, John McIntyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls, Edinburgh
We would like to thank everyone who attended this conference for contributing to its success!
Highland dancers performing at the conference dinner
see ISPP page for details of the next conference
"The Avoidance of Shadows" AtticSalt Gallery, Edinburgh September 2013
This Art-Science Exhibition: was a collaboration between Karen and Edinburgh Artist, Hamer Dodds. The exhibition presented data and images supplied by speakers at the ISPP 2013 conference (hosted by Halliday in June 2013), the artists impression of the conference, as well as data and exhibits from the Halliday lab.
