2024 Committee

The ASPS Committee is comprised of elected volunteers from the Australian plant-science community.

 

President

Professor Martha Ludwig

University of Western Australia, WA

Academic website

Research interests: Genetics/Molecular Biology and Cell biology

Elected: November 2021

 

Honorary Treasurer

Dr Mark Waters

The University of Western Australia, WA

Academic website

Research interests: Genetics/Molecular Biology, Plant Development

Elected: November 2022

 

Honorary Secretary

Dr Kim Johnson

Animal, Plant and Soil Science, School of  Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment. Biology, La Trobe University, VIC K.Johnson@latrobe.edu.au

Academic website

Research Interests: Cell Biology, Genetics/Molecular Biology

Elected: November 2021

Public Officer

Dr John Evans

Research School of Biology, Australian National University john.evans@anu.edu.au Academic website

Research Interests: Global Change, Cell/Tissue Physiology

President Elect

Professor Brent Kaiser

University of Sydney, NSW brent.kaiser@sydney.edu.au Academic website

Research interests: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant/Microbe interactions

Elected: Nov 2023

 

ASPS Committee Meetings involve the members of the Executive Committee (President, Past President/President Elect, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Secretary, Public Officer), the seven discipline representatives and research student representatives, and invited non-elected members (Editor of Functional Plant Biology, Editor of Phytogen, Editor of Plants in Action).

Nomination forms for committee positions can be downloaded here.

Previous ASPS Committees can be found here.