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John Evans speaking at the opening of the LT Evans Plant Growth Facility at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, 21 January 2016

13 October 2016

je-blog-pic1 John Evans speaking at the opening of the LT Evans Plant Growth Facility at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, 21 January 2016 (left). The opening took place during IRRI Science Week and John, Murray Badger, Spencer Whitney, Paul Quick and Florence Danila contributed talks to the IRRI-Australia symposium.je-blog-pic2

The $10M facility was a gift from Australia to IRRI (right). It was named after John’s father Lloyd who served on the IRRI board and whose efforts led to the first phytotron donated to IRRI around 2000. Inside the facility, rice seed handling and storage will occur on the left hand side and greenhouses, growth cabinets and laboratories for non transgenic research occurs on the right hand side. The building is engineered to withstand typhoons that frequently affect the area.

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Behind the scenes, Spencer Whitney was planning a takeover of yet more office and lab space with his favourite colour scheme (right). His long face reflects his concern that one student talk had failed to mention Rubisco during the IRRI-Australia symposium.

ASPS annual dinner

14 September 2016

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Hello ASPS members,

Our annual dinner is being held during ComBio in Brisbane on Wednesday October 5 at 7pm. I would like to encourage all our ASPS members attending ComBio to come along and for those of you near Brisbane that may not be attending ComBio, you are invited as well. My Linh Hoang has arranged this year’s event and it will be slightly different because it comes with sponsorship! The dinner will cost $50 for members and students will be subsidised, so the cost for them is just $20, but there is a catch – the venue has only enough space for 10 tables with 8 people at each so you need to let My Linh lt.hoang@qut.edu.au know if you are interested by 25 September. Payment and ticket issue will happen at the ComBio registration desk from Tuesday lunchtime onwards (4 Oct). The dinner will be two courses with wine/soft drink/tea/coffee and be held in the panoramic Gibson room on the 10th floor of QUT, just across the river from the convention centre. For those of you who have come in previous years, you will know that it is a great event that brings our society together and catch up or get to know new members. Normally it is organised by our student representatives, but the sponsorship offer from  QUT-IFE https://www.qut.edu.au/institute-for-future-environments this year seemed a great opportunity.

 

I hope to see you there.

John

 

 

Professor John R Evans FAA President, Australian Society of Plant Scientists

E: john.evans@anu.edu.au

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ComBio 2106 program available, scholarship opportunity and GPC Aug e-bulletin

05 September 2016

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New scholarship opportunity available here.

ComBio2016: 3 – 7 October 2016, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

ComBio2016 is a combined conference with the ASBMB, ASPS and ANZSCDB

 

We are pleased to advise that the final program is now available for perusal.

 

You can view the program at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/program.html

 

There are four separate files which consist of:

 

The one page program timetable.

The full program timetable (9 pages).

The full program (including plenary, symposium and colloquium presentations).

The poster program.

 

All abstracts can also now be viewed at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/abstracts.html

 

There are five separate files which consist of:

 

Plenary Abstracts

Symposium Abstracts

Colloquium Abstracts

Poster Abstracts

Author Index

 

The conference app will be available a few days prior to the conference.  The app will include the full program including posters, all abstracts, all companies exhibiting and a list of registrants (less those that have requested privacy).  We will send you a further email when the app is accessible.

 

Please note that registrations are still welcome and also “on site” poster abstract submissions are still welcome up until, and including, Monday 26 September. On site presentations will not be included in the hard copy of the program, on the website or on the conference app, but will be included on the conference program revisions board. On site poster abstracts can be submitted at: https://www.asbmb.org.au/Register/combio2016-abstract-form.cgi

and registrations can be made at: https://www.asbmb.org.au/Register/combio2016-registration-form.cgi

 

If you have difficulty accessing these pages, you should refresh your browser.

 

Kind regards

Sally

 

Sally Jay

ComBio2016 Secretariat

Email:  combio@asbmb.org.au

 

Global Plant Council E-Bulletin August 2016

 

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E-Bulletin /  August 2016
Welcome to your August edition of the monthly Global Plant Council e-Bulletin! As the GPC is holding its Annual General Meeting in October, we’ve been starting to prepare our annual report. Updates from our Member Organizations have been flooding in, and it’s really heartening to read all about the great plant and crop science events and initiatives taking place all over the world. Don’t forget, if you have a plant science event, activity, job, student opportunity, or funding or award scheme that you’d like us to help promote, please just get in touch!  And if you’re looking for a conference to attend, a funding opportunity to apply for, policy documents to read or teaching resources to use, you can find lots of great information on our website, or of course by signing up for Plantae.org, the digital home for plant science on the web. If you’re looking for a new job in plant science, or a PhD position, try searching the hashtag #PlantSciJobs or #PlantSciPhD on Twitter or Facebook for the latest openings.

 

Latest News /  View more… If you have news you would like us to share on our website, please contact lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

In Journal of Experimental Botany: Drought Tolerance in Maize through Altered Root System Architecture JXB‘s Jonathan Ingram highlights a stand-out paper, and associated Insight article, that highlight why ‘steep, cheap and deep’ maize crown roots are best in drought conditions.  In New Phytologist: New Research Shows how Wine Gets its Nose French scientists have discovered a key enzyme that plays a leading role in the formation of the compounds that eventually give wines their sought-after aroma..  In New Phytologist: ‘Superstar’ rice reduces fertilizer loss and cuts pollution Agriculture is one of the biggest drivers of environmental pollution and climate change – yet research in New Phytologist reveals a ‘superstar’ rice variety that uses nitrogen more efficiently, thus reducing pollution caused by run-off.  Sunflowers are on the Clock UC Davis researchers can now explain how sunflowers turn their heads to the sun – it’s all associated with the circadian clock. Discovery in Wheat Turns Half a Century of Plant Biology on its Head Australian scientists have discovered that wheat seeds, as well as leaves, photosynthesize – and what’s more, despite wheat being a C3 plant, they express genes found in the C4 photosynthetic pathway.

 

 

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
ComBio 2016 – featuring the Global Plant Council! 03–07 October 2016. Brisbane, Australia.  Enhancing Photosynthesis in Crop Plants: Targets for Improvement 10–11 October 2016. London, UK.  International Symposium on Plant Transformation Biotechnologies 17–19 October 2016. Taipei, Taiwan. Auxin 2016 20–25 October 2016. Haitang Bay, Sanya, China 8th International Symposium on Plant Senescence 31 October–04 November 2016. Jeju, Korea.

 

 

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’.
Beverley Postma Joins HarvestPlus as Chief Executive Officer Beverley Postma, former Executive Director of Food Industry Asia, succeeds World Food Prize 2016 laureate Howarth Bouis as the CEO of HarvestPlus. New Data Examines Landscape of India’s Agricultural Research and Development The International Food Policy Research Institute has released data and a factsheet (PDF) outlining the challenges and opportunities for Indian agricultural research and development.  Climate change: Trade liberalization could buffer economic losses in agriculture Global warming could create substantial economic damage in agriculture, a new study conducted by a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research finds.

 

 

Funding Opportunities / Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org
Check out our news article here to discover some of the latest funding opportunities for plant scientists from around the world. Thank you to Dr Matthew Hannah from Bayer CropScience for letting us know about two of these grant opportunities! If you know of any others we’ve missed, especially those that may be applicable to scientists outside of Europe and the US, please do get in touch so that we can share them to a wider audience. The Biochemical Society has announced that nominations for its 2018 awards are now open. Of the 13 award categories, 12 are relevant to molecular/biochemical plant and crop scientists, so please click here to find out more.  Please note that the Global Plant Council does not provide funding and is not directly associated with any of the awards we highlight on our website. For more information about individual awards and opportunities, please contact the awarding company or association.

 

 

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
Professor Stefan Jansson on What Makes a GMO, and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society Award-winning, guitar-playing Professor Stefan Jansson is President of GPC Member Organization the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society. We caught up with him to ask about his work, the GM debate, and the GPC.  Uncovering the Secrets of Ancient Barley Dr Nils Stein from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research talks about his headline-making research. Plantwise: Promoting and Supporting Plant Health for the Sustainable Development Goals CABI’s Andrea Powell reveals how the Plantwise food security program is helping to change lives in Africa.  Feeding the World with Virtual Crops Rachel Shekar from the University of Illinois describes how the ‘Crops in silico‘ project aims to link and develop models across biological scales to better predict how plants will respond under climate change.

 

 

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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Notification of the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society of

26 August 2016

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Dear Members of ASPS,

Please be advised that the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society of

Plant Scientists will be held 18:15 – 19:15 on Thursday, 6 October, Plaza P2, Brisbane

Convention Centre, Brisbane, Qld. As usual, the ASPS Annual General Meeting has been

scheduled during the COMBIO conference week.

Attached, please find the Preliminary Agenda. If you would like to add any items to the

Agenda, please e-mail these to the Honorary Secretary Martha Ludwig

(martha.ludwig@uwa.edu.au or secretary@asps.org.au), by Wednesday, 15 September

2016.

Sincerely,

John Evans

(President of ASPS)

 

ComBio2016 – Reminder extended early registration deadline is 1 August

31 July 2016

Dear ASPS / ANZSCDB Past and Present Members

ComBio2016: 3 – 7 October 2016 – Brisbane Convention Centre
ComBio2016 is a combined conference of the ASBMB, ASPS and ANZSCDB

A reminder that the extension of the early registration deadline finishes on Monday, 1 August.

The deadline for late poster abstracts is Monday, 15 August (details will be published in the conference program, online and conference App but will be included in “Late Posters” and will not be programmed within themes. So – you can still register on Monday, 1 August (so you pay the early rate) and then submit your abstract by the 15 August deadline for your poster presentation to be published in the program, online and in the conference App. After 15 August, you can still register and submit a poster abstract up until Monday, 26 September but it will be an “On Site” poster presentation – so details will appear on the Program Revisions board and not be published in conference publications.

The program timetable can be downloaded from: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/timetable.html
and the symposium program from http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/symposia.html
The photographs and bio-sketches of the exciting list of overseas and society plenary lecturers can be downloaded from:
http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/plenary.html

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

Global Plant Council is running a lunchtime session at ComBio 2016

26 July 2016

Do not miss “Addressing Global Challenges in Plant Science: the importance of co-operation beyond national boundaries” by @GlobalPlantGPC @ ‪#‎combio2016‬ https://www.asbmb.org.au/…/ComBio2016%20-%20Provisional%20S…

Invitation to support petition by Nobel Laureates

17 July 2016

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Dear ASPS members,

I would like to encourage you to add your support to this petition by Nobel Laureates.

Thanks

John Evans, President ASPS

You may have seen the recent news that 110 Nobel laureates have written an open letter to the environmental organization Greenpeace, asking them to consider withdrawing their anti-GMO position, particularly against vitamin A-biofortified Golden Rice.

Professor Channa Prakash of Tuskagee University (USA) has established an online petition to allow scientists and other interested individuals to show their support for this issue. Several representatives of some of the Global Plant Council’s Member Organizations have asked us to circulate the link to this petition, therefore please find it here: http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/join-us_rjr.html.

With thanks and kind regards,

Lisa
GPC Outreach & Communications Manager
lisa@globalplantcouncil.org 

ComBio2016 – extension of poster submission deadline‏

29 June 2016

Dear past and present ASPS members,

ComBio2016 – 3 – 7 October 2016: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
ComBio2016 incorporates the annual meetings of the ASBMB, ASPS and ANZSCDB.
 
The official abstract submission deadline has now passed. Invited abstract submission remains open, but oral requests have now closed. The ComBio2016 Program Committee is pleased to advise that the poster abstract submission deadline has been extended as follows:
 
Poster abstracts will be programmed within themes if received by Monday, 25 July and details published in the conference program, conference App and on the website.
 
Poster abstracts will be programmed in Late Posters if received by Monday, 15 August and details published in the conference program, conference App and on the website (but will not be programmed within themes). 
 
Poster abstracts will be programmed as On Site Posters on the program revisions board at the conference if received by Monday, 26 September. The poster presentation details will not be published in the conference program, conference App or on the website.
 
Abstracts can be submitted at: https://www.asbmb.org.au/cgi-bin/combio2016-abstract-form.cgi
 
Registrations are welcome and can be made at: https://www.asbmb.org.au/cgi-bin/combio2016-registration-form.cgi
 
Please note that you need to register prior to submitting an abstract. The earlybird fee has now closed.
 
The provisional symposium schedule and timetable can be downloaded from: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/symposia.html and http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/timetable.html
The plenary speaker bio-sketches and photographs can be viewed at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/plenary.html
 
 
Further information:
Sally Jay
combio@asbmb.org.au

Employment opportunities and ComBio2016 early bird registration due 27th June.

21 June 2016

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There are new plant science employment opportunities in Melbourne and Perth.

ComBio2016: 3-7 October 2016 – Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
ComBio2016 is a combination of the ASBMB, ASPS and ANZSCDB Annual Meetings
A reminder that the Early Registration & Abstract Deadline is Monday, 27 June 2016
Dear ASPS / ANZSCDB Past and Present Members
A reminder that the early registration and abstract submission deadline is on Monday, 27 June.
Online registration and abstract submission is open and you can register at:
http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/registration.html
and submit your abstract at:
http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/abstracts.html
Please note that you need to register prior to submitting your abstract.
The provisional program timetable and the provisional symposium schedule can be accessed from http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/timetable.html and http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/symposia.html respectively.
The plenary speakers and their photographs and bio-sketches can be accessed from: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2016/plenary.html
Further information:  Sally Jay:  combio@asbmb.org.au

On the Pulse – Legume Symposium in Celebration of the International Year of the Pulses

15 June 2016

ON THE PULSE – RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2016

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2016 marks the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s International Year of Pulses – a celebration of the importance of these legumes.

On Tuesday 12 July, the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Sydney will host the 2016 Research Symposium, On the Pulse.

On the Pulse brings together domestic and international researchers to discuss strategies and advances that are future proofing pulse agriculture, focusing on three themes: pulse diversity, pulse benefits to agronomy and genetic pulse sustainability.

Download the Symposium program (PDF, 1.37MB)

Event details

Tuesday 12 July 2016
8.15am – 6.00pm
Veterinary Science Conference Centre
University of Sydney

Free Registration

For more information

Liz Kenna

+61 2 9351 5697

liz.kenna@sydney.edu.au sydney.edu.au/agriculture/outreach/symposium

 

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