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Apply for ComBio student travel grant now! and GPC June e-bulletin

08 June 2018

Hello ASPS members,

ComBio2018 will mark the 60th anniversary of our society and is a great opportunity for the next generation of plant scientists to share their research and passion for plants with our community. As a society we provide travel grants to support our student members to attend ComBio.  If you are a student attending ComBio or the supervisor of a student attending ComBio this year apply for a travel grant by COB June 15th 2018.

Further details can be found at the ASPS ComBio travel grant web page.

 

ComBio2018: 23 – 26 September 2018, International Convention Centre Sydney, Darling Harbour
Early Registration & Abstract Deadline: Friday, 22 June 2018

We are pleased to advise that the Program Timetable and the Provisional Symposium Schedule can be downloaded from:
http://www.combio.org.au/combio2018/program.html
The Provisional Symposium Schedule includes the Stream Co-ordinators, the titles of each of the 73 sessions and the Chairs of each of the sessions.

Online registration and abstract submission will be available towards the end of April 2018 and we will send a further email when these pages are live. The early registration and abstract submission deadline is 22 June 2018.

ComBio2018 is a combination of six societies holding their annual meetings with the International Society of Differentiation partnering with the Australia and New Zealand Society of Cell and Developmental Biology, and the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists joining in with the Australian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Australian Society of Plant Scientists.

The ASBMB Grimwade Keynote Plenary Lecturer is Randy Wayne Schekman. Professor Schekman is a Nobel Prize-winning American professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley whose research in vesicular trafficking is highly relevant across both plant and animal systems. The ASPS is pleased to support two plenary lectures, including the R.N. Robertson Award & Lecture, which will be given by Dr Michael Udvardi (Noble Research Institute) and the ASPS Jan Anderson Award & Lecture (speaker TBC). The ASPS in conjunction the Annals of Botany and Functional Plant Biology will deliver the Annals of Botany Lecture to be given by Professor Keiko Torii (University of Washington) and the ASPS Peter Goldacre Award Dr Caitlin Byrt. The names and institutions of all confirmed international plenary speakers can be seen at: http://www.combio.org.au/combio2018/plenary.html

 

ComBio2018 Program

www.combio.org.au

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June 2018
Welcome to this month’s newsletter! Check out the information below for a chance to work with the GPC, be involved with our New Breeding Technologies initiative, or to learn more about our upcoming workshop on “Enhancing Global Collaborations in Crop Science“.
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Want to work with the Global Plant Council?We’re hiring a full-time Communications Officer, who will be responsible for managing the GPC’s online presence, relationships with Member Organizations, Affiliates and sponsors, and for performing administrative tasks.

If you think you could help the GPC to accomplish its mission to promote collaboration between plant and crop scientists from around the world, please see our job advertisement for more information, and contact Sarah Jose (sarah@globalplantcouncil.org) if you have any questions. Click here for the full job description. Application deadline: 29th JUNE!
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New Breeding Technologies

Our New Breeding Technologies Working Group are working on a number of exciting initiatives to help support researchers with both practical and legislative advice, as well as developing materials that explain the safety and utility of these technologies.

If you are interested and/or knowledgeable in New Breeding Technologies, please sign up to our New Breeding Technologies mailing list to receive updates or requests for information from the New Breeding Technologies Working Group.
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GPC Workshop

The next GPC workshop, entitled “Enhancing Global Collaborations in Crop Science”, will be held in association with the ASA CSSA annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, on 4th November. At this one-day event, attendees will hear from experts in both crop science research and policy, and discuss new ideas for enhancing collaboration and kickstart an initiative to address one of the world’s major food security challenges.

The workshop will cost just $20, and places will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, please click here.

 

Latest News / 
View more…If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact sarah@globalplantcouncil.org
This month 50 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

New special issue in Journal of Experimental Biology: Strigolactones: New Plant Hormones in Action
Strigolactones were only recently recognized as an important new class of plant hormone, and are now the subject of intensive research. The reviews and research in the latest special issue from Journal of Experimental Botany cover the rapid growth in our understanding of their diverse roles, as well as novel agricultural applications.

In Frontiers in Plant Science: Cocoa CRISPR gene editing shows promise for improving the ‘chocolate tree’
Use of the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 could help to breed cacao trees that exhibit desirable traits such as enhanced resistance to diseases.

Battling bubbles: How plants protect themselves from killer fungus
In the battle between plants and pathogens, molecules called small RNAs are coveted weapons used by both invaders and defenders. Researchers report how plants package and deliver the small RNAs, or sRNAs, they use to fight back against plant pathogens.

Mistletoe has lost ‘most of its respiratory capacity’
Two independent studies show that mistletoe’s parasitic lifestyle has led the species to a rather surprising evolutionary loss. Mistletoe lacks key components of the cellular machinery other organisms depend upon to convert glucose into the energy-carrying molecule ATP.

In the Journal of Experimental Botany: How wheat can root out the take-all fungus
Winter wheat varieties can strongly support naturally occurring populations of beneficial fungi, which suppress the pathogenic take-all fungus.

Why plants are so sensitive to gravity: the lowdown
If you tilt a plant, it will alter its growth to bend back upwards, but how does it detect the inclination? Tiny gravity-detecting grains, known as statoliths, behave like a fluid, detecting even the slightest incline without being affecting by movements such as wind.

 

 

Events / 
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If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email sarah@globalplantcouncil.org
GPC workshop: Enhancing Global Collaborations in Crop Science
04 November 2018. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.5th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium
02–05 October 2018. Adelaide, Australia.

Plant Biology 2018
14–18 July 2018. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

 

On the blog / 
View more…Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email sarah@globalplantcouncil.org
An economist’s perspective on plant sciences: Under-appreciated, over-regulated and under-funded
Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor David Zilberman writes about the economics of plant science research, its achievements, and the funding it receives.

 

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Please contact us (info@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can join the Global Plant Council. 

 

The GPC is a coalition of plant and crop science societies and affiliates from across the globe. The GPC seeks to bring plant scientists together to work synergistically toward solving the pressing problems we face.

Please click here to make a donation via PayPal to help support the GPC.

 

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