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Global Plant Council E-Bulletin December 2016 Forward to a Friend | View web version (also click here to translate to other languages!)

Email Us GPC Website GPC Blog @GlobalPlantGPC @GPC_EnEspanol Facebook Donate E-Bulletin /  December 2016 Welcome to the final issue of 2016 of the Global Plant Council’s monthly e-Bulletin – it’s a few days earlier than usual as the GPC team is taking a few days off to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays here in the UK. If you are celebrating holidays at this time of year – and even if you’re not – we hope you are having fun! The Global Plant Council has achieved many successes in the last 12 months – as well as our annual general meeting in Brisbane in October, we have engaged with many plant scientists and policy-makers across the globe in our quest to develop plant science for global challenges. But what will 2017 have in store for us? We have grand plans and plenty of enthusiasm, but like many non-profits, we are challenged by a tough economic climate. If you would like to make a contribution, however big or small, to help support the GPC to continue, please visit our secure donations page. That’s all from us for one year – see you in 2017!

Latest News /  View more…If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org  This month over 60 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including… In New Phytologist: Flowers use physics to attract pollinators A new review indicates that flowers may be able to manipulate the laws of physics, by playing with light, using mechanical tricks, and harnessing electrostatic forces to attract pollinators. In Nature Plants: Common grass could help boost food security Australian researchers have discovered that the common Panic grasses could hold the secret to increasing the yields of cereal crops and help feed the world with increasing temperature extremes and a population of nearly 10 billion people by 2050. In Nature Plants: New study of water-saving plants advances efforts to develop drought-resistant crops Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered the genetic and metabolic mechanisms that allow certain plants to conserve water and thrive in semi-arid climates. Scientists crack genetic code determining leaf shape in cotton Researchers know that the variation in leaf shapes can mean big differences in a farmer’s bottom line. Now, a new discovery gives plant breeders key genetic information they need to develop crop varieties that make the most of these leaf-shape differences. Events / View more…If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Plant and Animal Genome XXV 14–17 January 2017. San Diego, USA.Phenome 2017 10–14 February 2017. Tucson, Arizona, USA. Bioinformatics for Breeding Workshop 21–24 February 2017. Norwich, UK. InterDrought V 21–25 February 2017. Hyderabad, India.  Policy / Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’. Safeguarding of biodiversity must be integrated across agricultural sectors Governments from 167 countries have given unprecedented recognition to the need to protect biodiversity across the agricultural sectors as a key action to achieve sustainable development, including ensuring food security and addressing climate change.Women hold the key to building a world free from hunger and poverty Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said. Funding Opportunities / Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Find out more about the International Botanical Congress, taking place in Shenzhen, China from 23–29 July 2017 – the organizing committee has recently announced that two awards are available for this congress: one Outstanding Student Award, and one Excellent Scholar Award. Check the IBC website to find out more and for eligibility criteria. The application deadline is 15th February 2017. Travel Awards are available for students, postdocs and early career researchers to attend Phenome 2017 (Tucson, Arizona, USA, 10–14 February 2017). If you would like to apply, please hurry as the deadline is January 3rd! Click here for more details. On the blog /  View more…Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC‘s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Does Australia hold the key to food security? In this repost from Devex, Lisa Cornish explores Australian efforts to collect, conserve and research crop wild relatives. Battening down the hatches: priming plant defense Dr Mike Roberts explains his research at Lancaster University (UK), which is looking at enhacing plants’ natural defense mechanisms against pests and pathogens.  Aquaporins capable of functioning as all-in-one osmotic systems University of Adelaide’s Dr Caitlyn Byrt guest-blogs for us about her fascinating work on plant aquaporins.  Please consider making a donation to the Global Plant Council The Global Plant Council needs your help if we are going to continue working to develop plant science for global challenges in 2017. Members /  Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives.  Please contact Ruth Bastow (ruth@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. TheGPC 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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Dear Past and Present Members

We are pleased to advise that the photographs from ComBio2016 can now be viewed at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/index.html

We are also pleased to advise that the ComBio2017 website is now live at: http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/

ComBio2017 will be held from 2 – 5 October at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

The Keynote Speaker at ComBio2017 is Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin. Professor Charpentier is the Co-inventor of CRISPR/Cas9 and is being sponsored by the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Cathie Martin MBE from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, is a confirmed plenary speaker. Professor Martin conducts research into the relationship between diet and health, and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address the global challenge of escalating chronic disease. She is particularly interested in plants which contain natural chemicals that are seen as ‘natural medicines’, including the phenolic compounds in fruits and vegetables. Professor Martin is well known for her work on blood oranges and purple, high anthocyanin tomatoes and through her spin-out company, Norfolk Plant Sciences, is working to secure the impact of her research on phytonutrients through food products designed to be good for consumers.

The conference website including the themes of the conference can be found at: http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/

The pages will be updated as further information becomes available.

Kind regards

Sally

Sally Jay

ComBio2016 and ComBio2017 Secretariat

Dear Past and Present Members

We are pleased to advise that the photographs from ComBio2016 can now be viewed at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/index.html

We are also pleased to advise that the ComBio2017 website is now live at: http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/

ComBio2017 will be held from 2 – 5 October at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

The Keynote Speaker at ComBio2017 is Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin. Professor Charpentier is the Co-inventor of CRISPR/Cas9 and is being sponsored by the Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Cathie Martin MBE from the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, is a confirmed plenary speaker. Professor Martin conducts research into the relationship between diet and health, and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address the global challenge of escalating chronic disease. She is particularly interested in plants which contain natural chemicals that are seen as ‘natural medicines’, including the phenolic compounds in fruits and vegetables. Professor Martin is well known for her work on blood oranges and purple, high anthocyanin tomatoes and through her spin-out company, Norfolk Plant Sciences, is working to secure the impact of her research on phytonutrients through food products designed to be good for consumers.

The conference website including the themes of the conference can be found at: http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/

The pages will be updated as further information becomes available.

Kind regards

Sally

Sally Jay

ComBio2016 and ComBio2017 Secretariat

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We have several new employment opportunities based around Australia and in New Zealand.

Global Plant Council E-Bulletin November 2016 Forward to a Friend | View web version (also click here to translate to other languages!)

Email Us GPC Website GPC Blog @GlobalPlantGPC @GPC_EnEspanol Facebook Donate E-Bulletin /  November 2016 Welcome to another issue of the Global Plant Council’s monthly e-Bulletin! We can hardly believe that it’s almost the end of another year! In just a few short weeks we’ll be welcoming in the new year, and looking forward to continuing our work to promote, strengthen, inform and equip the global plant science community. To do this, however, we need some help. As a subscriber to our e-Bulletin, would you consider making a donation to the GPC? You can make a one-off payment or recurring monthly contribution – no matter how big or small – via the secure PayPal link here: http://globalplantcouncil.org/donate. We’re always keen to hear from potential new Member Organizations too! If you belong to a plant/crop science society that is not already a GPC member, or if you work for a plant science-focused research institution, please contact us (email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can become a Member or Affiliate Member of the GPC! Finally, in other news, we’d like to welcome Dr Owen Rowland from Canada’s Carleton University to the Global Plant Council! Owen replaces our former Canadian Society of Plant Biologists’ representative Professor Carl Douglas, who passed away earlier this year. Welcome aboard, Owen!

Latest News /  View more… If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org  This month 60 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including… From Journal of Experimental Botany: sound the alarm! Roots and systemic plant defense A new paper and associated Insight article in J Ex Bothighlights plant defenses in citrus plants.  In Nature Plants: controlling plant regeneration systems may drive the future of agriculture  Belgian scientists from VIB – Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology and Ghent University have discovered a key protein complex that controls plant tissue repair. In New Phytologist: with a little help from my fungus An international team of researchers reveals that a fungus of the genus Trichoderma lives inside the tissue of tomato plants and helps its host to defend itself against infestations by parasitic nematodes. Phenotype at the push of a button Scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle, Germany, have developed a method that makes it possible to accumulate or break down chosen proteins in living organisms as needed. Living fossil genome unveiled The genome sequence of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest extant tree species, has been published by scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute, Zheijiang University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Events / View more… If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org GARNet NatVar 2016: Natural Variation as a Tool for Gene Discovery and Crop Improvement 12–13 December 2016. Cambridge, UK. 4th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium 13–15 December 2016. El Batán, Texcoco, México.  Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology 08–13 January 2017. Venture, CA, USA.  Policy / Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’. The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said in a new report. Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Growth and Competitiveness The first-of-its kind report, ‘Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Growth and Competitiveness’ was released on 15 November by the Beijing-based  Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS) Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology. The report provides an assessment of research and patents in the field across the global South. Delivering on EU Food Safety and Nutrition in 2050 – Future challenges and policy preparedness This foresight study assesses the future resilience of the current EU food safety and nutrition policy and regulatory framework by examining potential scenarios up to 2050 and the challenges they may present, and suggests possible policy options. Funding Opportunities / Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Australian researchers, or researchers working in Australia: the deadline for applications/nominations for the 2017 Peter Goldacre Award is 9th December 2016.   Members of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists are also eligible to apply for the 2017 ASPS Teaching Award until 9th December 2016, and for the RN Robertson Travelling Fellowship until 20th January 2017. On the blog /  View more… Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Using plants to convert explosives to fertilizers: an interview with Neil Bruce Sarah Jose spoke to University of York (UK) researcher Neil Bruce about his work into the detoxification of pollutants by plants and microorganisms. Down under: the Global Plant Council’s 2016 AGM Lisa Martin gives the lowdown on what happened ‘down under’ at the Global Plant Council’s 2016 Annual General Meeting.  Flipping the symposium What do you do when a speaker doesn’t turn up for the conference session you’ve organized? Try ‘flipping the symposium’, like Dr Rainer Hofmann did at the recent ComBio 2016 meeting! How growing plants improves human well-being: People Plant Council We might be preaching to the converted, but plants are good for you! Sarah Jose discovered how the People Plant Council is working to communicate the benefits of plants to the public. Temperate matters in agriculture In this guest blog from the Global Food Security program, Evangelia Kougioumoutzi reports on the TempAg network. Members /  Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives.  Please contact Ruth Bastow (ruth@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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Dear members,

Just to remind you that the deadline for Goldacre and Teaching Awards applications is 9 December 2016 and is fast approaching.  The RN Robertson Travelling Fellowship application deadline is 20 January 2017.

We also have several new employment opportunities and FEBS 2017 congress has been added to our events page.

FEBS 2017

The 42^nd FEBS Congress
Jerusalem, Israel, 10-14 September, 2017

https://2017.febscongress.org/

The FEBS Congress aims to provide an outstanding international forum in the European area for the face to face exchange of knowledge and ideas across the molecular life sciences. The core scientific programme comprises inspiring plenary lectures from distinguished researchers working in areas of high topical interest, and a range of themed symposia providing focused updates from leading experts in each field. The contribution of participants towards the scientific discussion at the event is encouraged by the opportunity to present work through extensive poster sessions, and submitted abstracts may also be considered for oral presentations.

The broad subject coverage of the Congress and its size provide an excellent setting for participants to gain valuable insight into progress in research areas beyond their own. In addition, a range of special sessions aim to engage participants on wider issues, such as teaching in the molecular life sciences, and science and society questions. A commercial exhibition provides additional interest.

The FEBS Congress has a strong emphasis on support, education and inspiration for the next generation of scientists, with a bursary scheme for early-career researchers, a satellite Young Scientists’ Forum, and activities to encourage interaction with peers and experts.

Altogether the FEBS Congress aims to be an exemplary cross-discipline gathering in the molecular life sciences for research presentation, discussion, learning, inspiration and encouragement — with participants leaving with new research knowledge and ideas, and perhaps the beginnings of international collaborations and friendships.

For more information visit: https://2017.febscongress.org/

Your ASPS membership is paid to [wpmlfield name=”paidtodate”] (year, month, day).

Dear members,

Just to remind you that the deadline for Goldacre and Teaching Awards applications is 9 December 2016 and is fast approaching.  The RN Robertson Travelling Fellowship application deadline is 20 January 2017.

We also have several new employment opportunities and FEBS 2017 congress has been added to our events page.

FEBS 2017

The 42^nd FEBS Congress
Jerusalem, Israel, 10-14 September, 2017

https://2017.febscongress.org/

The FEBS Congress aims to provide an outstanding international forum in the European area for the face to face exchange of knowledge and ideas across the molecular life sciences. The core scientific programme comprises inspiring plenary lectures from distinguished researchers working in areas of high topical interest, and a range of themed symposia providing focused updates from leading experts in each field. The contribution of participants towards the scientific discussion at the event is encouraged by the opportunity to present work through extensive poster sessions, and submitted abstracts may also be considered for oral presentations.

The broad subject coverage of the Congress and its size provide an excellent setting for participants to gain valuable insight into progress in research areas beyond their own. In addition, a range of special sessions aim to engage participants on wider issues, such as teaching in the molecular life sciences, and science and society questions. A commercial exhibition provides additional interest.

The FEBS Congress has a strong emphasis on support, education and inspiration for the next generation of scientists, with a bursary scheme for early-career researchers, a satellite Young Scientists’ Forum, and activities to encourage interaction with peers and experts.

Altogether the FEBS Congress aims to be an exemplary cross-discipline gathering in the molecular life sciences for research presentation, discussion, learning, inspiration and encouragement — with participants leaving with new research knowledge and ideas, and perhaps the beginnings of international collaborations and friendships.

For more information visit: https://2017.febscongress.org/

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There are several employment opportunities posted on our site available to view here.

The 2nd International Conference on Pharmaceutical Chemistry has been added to our events calendar.

Applications Open for Women’s Young Investigator Travel Awards for Plant Biology 2017

Global Plant Council E-Bulletin October 2016 Forward to a Friend  | View this Email on the Web | Translate This Email Email Us GPC Website GPC Blog @GlobalPlantGPC @GPC_EnEspanol Facebook Donate E-Bulletin /  October 2016 Welcome to another issue of the Global Plant Council’s e-Bulletin. We were really excited to see our President Professor Bill Davies on the TV this month! Bill was interviewed for the CNN news program ‘EcoSolutions’ and spoke about reducing water use in agriculture. Read more and watch the video here. Are you looking for a new job or PhD position in plant science, or do you have a vacancy to fill? We post relevant jobs or studentships to our Twitter and Facebook pages using the clickable, searchable hashtags #PlantSciJobs and #PlantSciPhD –and these posts are proving very popular indeed! Please use these hashtags if you’re posting new opportunities; we’re also happy to tweet/post these on your behalf – just let us know! We are delighted to announce that Dr Deena Errampalli, President of Plant Canada, has joined our Executive Board. Deena replaces Professor Carl Douglas who very sadly passed away earlier this year. Welcome to the team, Deena! Latest News /  View more… If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org  This month 63 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including… Sharon Gray Memorial Fund Friends and colleagues of Dr Sharon Gray – a plant science postdoc from the University of California, Davis, who was tragically killed in Ethiopia earlier this month – have established a memorial fund. The fund will be used to establish a fellowship in Dr Gray’s honor. In New Phytologist: Scientists Root for More Cassava Research to Help Meet Greater Demand for Food A new review brings together research on the potential for improving cassava yields, such as by boosting the efficiency with which the plant captures sunlight and converts it into sugars. In Journal of Experimental Botany: How To Build Beautiful Biochemical Factories New research and an accompanying Insight article shed new light on the regulation of glandular trichome development in plants. In Current Plant Biology: Special Issue on Protein Networks Our newest journal sponsors have a new special issue, which focuses on protein networks – in particular, the centrality of proteins in the study of fundamental aspects of plant biology and plant interface with abiotic and biotic factors in the environment.  In Nature Plants: New Strategy to Accelerate Plant Breeding by Turbocharging Gene Banks A new study led by an Iowa State University agronomist may help scientists sift through vast amounts of plant seeds stored in gene bank facilities across the globe to identify those useful to plant breeders attempting to produce better varieties. Events / View more… If you have a conference, meeting, workshop, training course or other event coming up, we can include it in our Events calendar! Please email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference: Latest Advances in Plant Development & Environmental Responses 29 November–02 December 2016. Awaji, Japan.  4th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium 13–15 December 2016. El Batán, Mexico.  International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering 16–18 December 2016. Miami, Florida, USA.  Policy / Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’. US Senate Decides on the Ratification of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture “The joining of the United States will represent a major milestone towards universal membership of the Treaty,” said Shakeel Bhatti, Plant Treaty Secretary. Online Sales of Threatened Cacti Highlight Open Door for Illegal Trade Threatened cacti are available on websites and shipped across countries without any legal documents to certify their trade. A study published in Nature Conservation reports on this activity and discusses assessment methods and solutions. Report Provides Options for Organic Soybean Growers Despite soybean being one of the most widely grown crops in the US, few soybean farmers use organic practices. A new  report details organic products and practices to combat pathogens and insect pests. Funding Opportunities / Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org New Phytologist Tansley Medal The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an individual in the early stages of their career (including students and any researcher with up to five years’ experience since gaining/defending their PhD). The winner recives a prize of £2000 (GBP) and authors a short review, published in New Phytologist, accompanied by an Editorial. The deadline for first-round submissions is 30th November 2016. Trellis Fund projects Horticulture Innovation Lab has selected nine new Trellis Fund projects led by organizations in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Cambodia and Nepal. These six-month projects are each funded with a $2,000 grant, with work scheduled to begin in 2017. A US graduate student with related expertise will be matched to each project, to provide agricultural knowledge and support for local goals. Graduate students at UC Davis, North Carolina State University, the University of Florida and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are now invited to apply to participate in these new Trellis Fund projects. The deadline for applications is November 4th. On the blog /  View more… Would you like to contribute an article to the GPC’s blog? Please get in touch! Email lisa@globalplantcouncil.org How trees communicate via a Wood Wide Web In this repost from The Conversation, Stuart Thompson discusses how plants communicate.  Farming Futures: integrating plant research and industry in the agri-food supply chain Tim Williams, Business Manager of Farming Futures and Research Fund Development Manager at Aberystwyth University, UK, tells us all about how Farming Futures links researchers with industry.  Members /  Click here for details of the GPC Member Societies and Affiliates and their representatives.  Please contact Ruth Bastow (ruth@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. Copyright © 2016 Global Plant Council, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates from the Global Plant Council. If you no longer wish to receive the monthly GPC E-Bulletin, or think you have received this email in error, please unsubscribe using the link provided. The Global Plant Council is a not-for-profit entity registered in Switzerland. Our registered mailing address is:  Global Plant Council 3rd Floor, Bow House 1a Bow Lane London, EC4M 9EE United Kingdom Add us to your address book

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