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It is with great pleasure that ASPS can announce that Dr Beth Loveys has been awarded the ASPS Teaching Award 2018 for her development, implementation and evaluation of innovative teaching practices in plant sciences.

Beth gained her PhD in plant ecophysiology under the supervision of Professor Steve Tyerman in 1998 from Flinders University in South Australia. During her first post-doctoral position at the University of York with Professor Owen Atkin, Beth began broadening her interest in plant physiology to examine the effects of climate change on plant growth, specifically temperature effects. This theme continued with her second post-doctoral position at the Australian National University where her work, with Professor Marilyn Ball as part of the CRC for Greenhouse Accounting, focused on impacts of elevated CO2. In her current position as an Education Specialist at The University of Adelaide Beth is able to inspire the next generation of plant scientists teaching into Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Bachelor of Viticulture and Oenology and Applied Biology. Improving student engagement in all areas of plant science has been Beth’s motivation in recent years by the use of blended and active learning pedagogy. Beth’s success in implementing innovative teaching methodologies has been recognised by an Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2015.

Beth will give an award lecture at COMBIO 2018, to be held in Sydney 23-26th September 2018, detailing her many innovations in plant science teaching.

Many congratulations from ASPS.

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Professor Matthew Gilliham

ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology

Deputy Head of School (Research)

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

University of Adelaide

Ph: +61 8 8313 8145 | Twitter: @IonPlants

Lab website: Plant Transport and Signalling Lab

Honorary Secretary, Aust Soc Plant Scientists

THE FULL PROGRAM AND FREE REGISTRATION ARE NOW OPEN for:

ACT Mass Spectrometry Symposium 2017, Tuesday November 28, 2017.

Get in QUICKLY because seats a strictly limited!

Description

The ACT Mass Spectrometry Symposium is intended as an interactive forum for experts and novices to discuss the application of mass spectrometry to solving problems and to allow the dissemination of current and future trends in the technology. The speakers represent academic and commercial backgrounds and will cover a wide range of applications as can be seen in the programme below.

Programme

8:55 am WELCOME

9:05 am Clayton Ross (Shimadzu):

Shimadzu GCMS TQ-8050 – Speed Without Compromise (Simultaneous MRM, SIM and SCAN)

9:30 am David DeSouza (Metabolomics Australia, VIC):

Comprehensive Metabolite Profiling by GC-QQQ: A Change in Approach

9:55 am Chris Fouracre (Agilent Technologies):

Revealing the New Ultivo Triple Quadrupole LC/MS

10:20 am David Beale (CSIRO Land & Water, QLD):

Expanding Characterization of Environmental Pollution and Ecosystem Health Using Metabolomic Approaches

10:45 am MORNING TEA BREAK

11:15 am Steve Binos (Thermo Fisher):

Orbitrap DIA; Beyond ID’s for your Proteomic Needs.

11:40 am Rikard Hedman (ANU Research School of Chemistry, ACT):

Detection of Sulfate Conjugated Compounds by Untargeted Mass Spectrometry

12:05 pm Nicole Pendini (Peak Scientific):

Gas Generators: the Safe Onsite Alternative to Cylinders and Dewars

12:30 pm LUNCH BREAK

1:30 pm Chris Hodgkins (AB Sciex):

SelexION®+; Improving Triple-Quadrupole Selectivity with Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS) to Reach Lower Limits of Quantitation.

1:55 pm Steve Van Sluyter (Macquarie University, NSW):

Absolute Quantification of Leaf Proteins on a Continental Scale Using SWATH

2:20 pm Heather Patsiouras (Waters):

Ion Mobility MS: Extending the Capability and Selectivity of MS

2:45 pm AFTERNOON TEA BREAK

3:00 pm Udo Rupprecht (Lasersan):

On-line Automated Sample Preparation for GC/MS and LC/MS

3:25pm John Foster (ANU Research School of Earth Sciences, ACT):

Development of Shrimp Ion Microprobe

3:50 pm Alex Donald (University of NSW School of Chemistry, NSW):

Highly Charged Protein Ions: The Strongest Acids to Date

4:15 pm Awards and Announcements

4:30-7:30 pm POST-SYMPOSIUM DRINKS and NIBBLES

 For More Information contact Adam Carroll

Dear ASPS members,

We have a few new opportunities for you and the monthly GPC e-bulletin.

• There is an opportunity to nominate for the STA Executive Committee – NOTE applications are due today (see details below)
• The 2018 Peter Goldacre award is open. Nominations close 9 December 2017. Apply here.
• The 2018 ASPS teaching award  is open. Applications close 9 December 2017. Apply here.
• The RN Robertson Travelling Fellowship award is open. Applications close 19th January  2018. Apply here.
• A new employment opportunity has been posted. More details here.
• A conference added to our events page. more details here.

Dear ASPS members,

The STA Executive Committee closes on Monday 6 November. You will find details at https://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/search-begins-for-stem-leaders-to-join-sta-executive-committee/.

Voting will take place at the AGM on 23 November. Please consider applying.

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Shannon Wong

Registration now open!
41^st New Phytologist Symposium: Plant sciences for the future

11–13 April 2018, Nancy, France

https://www.newphytologist.org/symposia/41

The 41^st New Phytologist Symposium will provide new insights into the evolutionary forces and molecular mechanisms that govern plant development and physiology, and their interactions with biotic and abiotic cues.

Invited speakers from the New Phytologist Editorial Board will highlight emerging topics in plant sciences as well as the application of modern technologies to capture the complex mechanisms driving plant development, physiology, interactions and evolution.
Eighteen leading scientists will speak at the symposium along with early career researchers, selected to give talks following submission of poster abstracts. Travel grants are available.

Travel grant deadline: Thursday 18 January 2018
Poster abstract deadline: Thursday 8 February 2018

More details and registration at https://www.newphytologist.org/symposia/41.

Hello ASPS members,

Please find documents for our AGM below.

2017 AGM Agenda

2017 President Report

2017 Treasurer report

2017 WSCS Report

2017 FPB report

Dear ASPS members,

We have a few new employment opportunities on our job board.

I am writing to let you know we do not currently have any Australian Society of Plant Scientists registered to attend Science meets Business.

We hope that some of our members, particularly those in NSW, will be able to make the most of this great opportunity to bring Science & Technology together with the Business community.  Please find the registration link below for your convenience:

https://sta.eventsair.com/science-meets-business-2017/registration/Site/Register

Registrations will close Monday COB 30 October.

If you have any questions regarding Science meets Business please do not hesitate to email event organiser, Mitchell Piercey.

Kind regards, Sergey Shabala

Dear ASPS members,

We have a few new employment opportunities on our job board.

I am writing to let you know we do not currently have any Australian Society of Plant Scientists registered to attend Science meets Business.

We hope that some of our members, particularly those in NSW, will be able to make the most of this great opportunity to bring Science & Technology together with the Business community.  Please find the registration link below for your convenience:

https://sta.eventsair.com/science-meets-business-2017/registration/Site/Register

Registrations will close Monday COB 30 October.

If you have any questions regarding Science meets Business please do not hesitate to email event organiser, Mitchell Piercey.

Kind regards, Sergey Shabala

Dear ASPS members,

This is to confirm the ASPS AGM will be held in the Riverbank room 7/8 of the Adelaide Convention Centre at 1335 on Thursday 5^th October during COMBIO.

Please see attached the draft adgenda, the minutes from last years meeting are up on the ASPS website.

We are looking for nominations for two student members (preferably close to Sydney as they are organising COMBIO 2018)

We are also looking for a new member of our Phytogen and comms team, so if you have an interest and a passion for Science communication please get in contact.

And finally we are still looking for two discipline reps:

1x Education

1x Global change biology: Ecophysiology and Environment

Please see our nomination form attached.

Please note the ASPS AGM clashes with poster session B which is less than ideal, apologies for this, but there was little flexibility in the program as this year COMBIO is a three day meeting.

Therefore, I would encourage all to make the most of poster session A and the other poster times prior to session B. I would also encourage people wanting to speak to those with a poster in session B to make every effort to contact those people before session B, before the AGM. Students from session B will be standing by their posters during Poster session A for award judging.

Please email matthew.gilliham@adelaide.edu.au if you have an agenda item or would like to send apologies.

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Professor Matthew Gilliham

ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology

Deputy Head of School (Research)

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

University of Adelaide

Ph: +61 8 8313 8145 | Twitter: @IonPlants

Lab website: Plant Transport and Signalling Lab

Honorary Secretary, Aust Soc Plant Scientists

ComBio2017: 2 – 5 October 2017: Adelaide Convention Centre

We are pleased to advise that the programmed abstracts are now available at:http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/abstracts.html

There are four separate files:

Plenary Abstracts
Symposium Abstracts
Poster Abstracts
Full Author Index

As previously advised, the final conference program and the final poster program can be accessed from:http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/program.html
(the timetable and symposium schedule can also be accessed from this page).

The conference app should be available approximately one week out from the conference and we will let you know when it is available with details of how to access it. The conference app will include the entire program (including poster presentations)and will have each abstract linked into it. You will also be able to access details of all companies exhibiting and the list of registrants (less those that request privacy).

On site poster abstracts are still welcome and can be submitted at:http://www.combio.org.au/combio2017/abstracts.html

Registrations are also welcome and can be submitted at:https://www.combio.org.au/cgi-bin/combio-registration-form.cgi

Further information:
Sally Jay combio@asbmb.org.au