IBH hosts a varied programme of events throughout the year, bringing the barley community together to share insights and stay up to date with the latest developments.
February 18th and 19th 2026 – The Barley Away Days
The “Barley Away Days” are a 2- day workshop centred around the barley research done at the James Hutton Institute to a combined internal and invited external audience.
Location: Birnam Arts in Dunkeld
Sponsors: Diageo, Scottish Whisky Association, SSCR, LGC Biosearch, Thermo Scientific, Novogene
The International Barley Hub is excited a series of webinars running throughout the year. These seminars are run by world-leading scientists and industry experts and are free to attend. Events will be recorded and will also be available to view after they have taken place.
To be notified about future seminars, sign up for our mailing list. All times UK except where noted.
Our seminar timetable for the start of the year is below, you can also register for any upcoming seminar by following the appropriate link.
| Day | Seminar title | Speaker/Presenter |
| 21-Jan | EORNA2: autonomous data discovery and processing for databasing of barley gene expression data | Micha Bayer, Craig Simpson, & Linda Milne |
| 04-Feb | TBC (Rye breeding) | Elizabeth Chapman |
| 04-Mar | TBC (Cereal transformation and gene editing) | Götz Hensel |
| 18-Mar | TBC (Meiosis) | Isabelle Colas |
| 01-Apr | TBC (Database mining of barley omics resources + genetic regulation of barley beta-glucan) | Lingzhen Ye and Mengdi Li |
| 15-Apr | TBC (Plant-microbe-insect interaction) | Sharon Zytynska |
| 29-Apr | TBC (Grain protein in barley) | Michelle Colgrave and Clare O’lone |
| 13-May | TBC (Spatiotemporal omics) | Cong Tan |