Hello ASPS members,

The April Phytogen edition can accessed HERE.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles! If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

• X:@asps_ozplants
• LinkedIn: Australian Society of Plant Scientists
• BlueSky:@asps-oz.bsky.social

Hello ASPS members,

The AGM is due to start soon. Log into the meeting HERE. https://latrobe.zoom.us/j/86306555958

Meeting starts:

VIC, NSW, ACT  1 pm

SA 12.30 pm

QLD 12 noon

WA 10 am

AGM documents can be accessed HERE.

Hello ASPS members,

We’re looking forward to catching up at the ASPS 2024 Hub meetings on Thursday 28th November. The ASPS 2024 website can be accessed HERE. Contact your Hub leader directly if you have questions on the day.

The November edition of Phytogen can be accessed HERE.

Join us for our AGM on Friday 29th November at 1 pm DST. View the AGM documents HERE. Join the AGM virtual meeting HERE.

Congratulations to Dr Caitlin Moore who has been awarded the inaugural Annals of Botany Travelling Lectureship.

Caitlin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Agriculture and Environment at The University of Western Australia. She is a representative for Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) in Western Australia, and is the communications officer for the OzFlux network. Caitlin received her PhD from Monash University on a project looking at carbon fluxes and phenology dynamics in Australian tropical savannas. She then completed a four-year postdoc at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the USA applying her skills to phenotyping and understanding climate and management impacts in agricultural cropping systems. Back in Australia, her current research broadly focuses on understanding native and managed ecosystem interactions with climate from the leaf to landscape scale.

Hello ASPS members,

Congratulations to the 2024 ASPS Award winners!

Peter Goldacre Award: Dr Peter Crisp

Jan Anderson Award: Assoc Prof Jenny Mortimer

ASPS Education and Outreach Award: Dr Ashley Jones & Assoc Prof Benjamin Schwessinger

JG Wood Lecturer: Prof Sergey Shabala

Register for ASPS 2024 and see the ASPS 2024 award winners.

Abstract submissions also open.

Hello ASPS members,

Our annual AGM meeting will be held today at 4.35 pm.

You have access to the agenda and reports through the ASPS website HERE.

See you at the meeting.

Nov 28 to Dec 1 2023, Hobart.

ASPS 2023

Save the Date for ASPS2023!

Get out your 2023 calendars – we are planning a four-day, in-person, plant science conference in Hobart from 28 Nov – 1 Dec 2023.

Please add yourself to our mailing list and help us during the planning stages by filling out our EOI form:  https://forms.gle/osUAvNEyn9jcwtw78  

We welcome you to circulate this widely among your networks.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

The ASPS 2023 Organising Committee

Dear ASPS Members,

We look forward to seeing many of your at ComBio next week. The ASPS Annual General Meeting will be held during ComBio on Thursday at 6:10 pm and we encourage you to come along. The AGM agenda and various reports are now available on the ASPS website (www.asps.org.au). We are proposing small changes to the constitution which will be voted on at the AGM. These changes can be viewed on the website. Those members who cannot attend the meeting but would like to vote can organise a proxy if they wish. We are asking for nominations to fill vacant positions of the Council so look at the agenda if you are interested and contact our Secretary Kim Johnson. K.Johnson@latrobe.edu.au

Thanks, Peter Ryan

Dear ASPS members,

ASPS will hold a dinner for Society members during ComBio 2022 following our AGM on Thursday 29th September.

This will be a two-course dinner including some drinks at Melbourne Public in the Docklands a short walk from the Conference venue.

The ticket prices for members are subsidised by the Society:

Students members for $30

Other members for $60

Additional tickets can be purchased for $90

Tickets are limited, so don’t delay. Book today HERE.

Please indicate any dietary requirements when booking your ticket.

Dear ASPS Members,

A reminder that the 2022 Annual Meeting for the Australian Society of Plant Scientists will be held in Melbourne (27-30 September) as part of ComBIO2022  (see ComBio2022 ).

ComBIO is the joint meeting of five biological and genetics societies from Australia and New Zealand. It provides us all with the opportunity to experience a much larger and exciting meeting and hear outstanding international and local speakers from the plant and animal worlds (including Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna). Among the wide range of symposia are streams dedicated to plant biology, signalling and evolution.

Deadline for Abstracts is Friday 24 JUNE – see the website.     Please print off the attached Poster and display it in your labs and tea rooms.

Note: Student members of ASPS who attend ComBIO and present a talk or poster are eligible to receive funding to support their travel. See the attached application form.

We encourage everyone to participate.  

Peter