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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 10^th 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

http://www.asps.org.au/

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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

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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)

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

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…

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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

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

ON THE PULSE – RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2016

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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Hello ASPS members,

Just a reminder that ASPS student travel grant applications close this Friday June 10th.

The 2nd Global Summit on Plant Science has been added to the ASPS events page.

A new employment opportunity in Canberra has just been posted the ASPS site. Click here for further details.

Global Plant Council E-Bulletin May 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 /  May 2016 Welcome to the May edition of your Global Plant Council e-bulletin, which contains a round-up of highlights from the plant science community around the world in the last month. We are excited to say that the Spanish Society for Plant Physiology (Sociedad Española de Fisiología Vegetal; SEFV) has recently joined the GPC as a Member Society, so ¡hola! to all our new members! As well as Society Members, we now also accept ‘Affiliate’ research institutions and organizations to join the Global Plant Council. We are delighted to welcome The Center for Plant Aging Research at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea, and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm, Germany, as our first two Affiliate Members. If you would like to know more about becoming a Society Member or an Affiliate Member of the GPC, please get in touch with us!

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… From New Phytologist: The 37th New Phytologist Symposium: Plant developmental evolution Sarah Lennon, New Phytologist’s Managing Editor, provides an overview of this recent plant ‘evo-devo’ symposium, held in Beijing, China, 15–19th May 2016. In Nature Plants: Mechanism discovered for plants to regulate their flowering in a warming world Researchers from Australia’s Monash University have discovered a new mechanism that enables plants to regulate their flowering in response to raised temperatures. From Journal of Experimental Botany: Latest thinking on photorespiration for crop improvement The Journal of Experimental Botany delves deep into “the photorespiration problem” with a new Special Issue featuring in depth reviews, opinion pieces and original research.  From the GPC Community… Strengthening the cooperation between Argentinian and German plant science for phenotyping and bioeconomy Roland Pieruschka provides an update on links between the Latin-American Plant Phenotyping Network and its European counterparts. 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 Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society PhD Student Conference 21–23 June 2016. Oslo, Norway.  EPSO/FESPB Plant Biology Europe 2016 26–30 June 2016. Prague, Czech Republic.  International Conference on Arabidopsis Research 2016 29 June–3 July 2016. Gyeongju, Korea.  Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting 4–7 July 2016. Brighton, UK.  ASPB Plant Biology 2016 9–13 July 2016. Austin, Texas, USA Reports / 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’. Lots of new reports were published this month – here are a few but don’t forget to check out the Reports section of our Resources page for more! Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World This report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs highlights the problems of feeding a growing – and increasingly urbanized – human population, and makes recommendations for strategies that could help.  More… The State of the World’s Plants The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (London, UK) has released the first ever global assessment of current knowledge on the diversity of plants on earth, the threats these plants face, and the effectiveness of policies to deal with these threats. More… Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects A detailed and extensive study carried out by the US National Academy of Sciences reports that GM crops are safe to eat, and that new technologies in genetic engineering and conventional plant breeding are blurring the once clear distinctions between these two crop improvement approaches. More… Funding Opportunities / Spotted a funding opportunity we’ve missed? Please tell us about it by emailing lisa@globalplantcouncil.org Calls for several funding opportunities have been made in the past few weeks – this article on our website gives you a bit of information about some of these: Global Challenges Research Fund, Newton Fund Agri-Food Competition, Agri-Innovation Den, Validation of diagnostic tools for animal and plant health (Horizon 2020), BBSRC LINK funding and Industrial Partnership Awards, Hello Tomorrow Challenge, and African Union Research Grants. More… Read this article to find out more about the Innovation Challenge for Cassava. More… There is no monetary prize for this one, but the FAO’s World Food Day Poster and Video Contest looks like a fantastic opportunity to engage children and young people on the subjects of climate change and sustainable agriculture and food production! Finally, congratulations to the 15 recipients of an ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to support them during a 10-week plant science summer project – a fantastic opportunity for the next generation of plant scientists! 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 Choosing your growth media for plant science In light of a new paper from the University of Bristol, Sarah Jose reports on the effects that growth media can have on Arabidopsis.  More… Underutilized crops and insects replace fishmeal in aquaculture feed In a guest post from scientists with the FishPLUS project, Crops for the Future discuss efforts to improve the sustainability of fish farming using fishmeal made from insect larvae that are fed on underutilized crops.  More… Round-up of Fascination of Plants Day 2016 May 22nd was International Fascination of Plants Day – Sarah Jose provides a social media-round-up in case you missed it!  More… The flower breeders who sold X-ray lilies and atomic marigolds This repost from The Conversation magazine discusses the science behind some of the more unusual flowers you might find on display at this year’s Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show.  More… 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.