While you are preparing your applications for the Jan Anderson award 2019, below are some words from Dr Eloise Foo, awarded inaugural Jan Anderson Award 2018. She writes about achieving balance in life and there are parallels to her research area of how plants and microbes navigate their dual existence, to read more: Strigolactones in Plant Interactions with Beneficial and Detrimental Organisms: The Yin and Yang, Juan A. López-Ráez, Ken Shirasu, Eloise Foo, Trends in Plant Science, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.03.011

Applications for Jan Anderson Award 2019 close Thursday 28th February. Follow the link for more details.

Dr Eloise Foo, ARC Future Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania

My research examines how plants form intimate relationships with soil microbes that give them access to essential nutrients. These relationships are ancient, widespread and often essential for plants to thrive in challenging conditions. I am fascinated with how plants and microbes communicate through chemical signals to negotiate these interactions. I absolutely love working in research, the intellectual freedom to observe, pose questions and then seek to answer them is such a creative and satisfying endeavour. I was so honoured to receive the inaugural Jan Anderson Award in 2018. Delivering the lecture at Combio 2018 to such a warm and supportive community was a true highlight and enabled me to reflect on the fantastic mentors and colleagues I have had. I feel real change is afoot to enable people to balance a research career with all the other great things in life (family, leisure time, community). This is not just to support women to navigate the challenging but rewarding path to a research career but also opens up a different way for everyone to lead successful and balanced lives.

Hello ASPS members,

Jan Anderson award application still open

Just a reminder applications for the Jan Anderson award are open until the end of the month. Know of someone who should apply? then let them know. More information on our ASPS web site which you can see here.

Logo competition

And the International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology (ICPMB) is holding a competition to design the 2021 meeting logo. See the Phytogen story here or the e-mail attachment. Please print a copy of the IPMB poster for your department notice board.

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January 2019Welcome to another month (and year!) of plant science!

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This month 31 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including…

Inactivating genes can boost crop genetic diversity
Researchers recently showed that inactivating a gene, RECQ4, leads to a three-fold increase in recombination in crops such as rice, pea and tomato. The gene inhibits the exchange of genetic material via recombination (crossover) during the sexual reproduction process in crops. This discovery could speed up plant breeding and development of varieties better suited to specific environmental conditions (disease resistance, adaptation to climate change).

The African Orphan Crops Consortium bears its first fruits: the release of the first five orphan crop genomes
New research published describes and releases the first 5 orphan crop genomes from an international project to boost the productivity of traditional African food supplies.

Research finds ethical sourcing of seeds required for global restoration
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wild seeds are needed to restore plant ecosystems globally but overharvesting risks their depletion unless ethical seed-sourcing regulations are developed, research has found.

New Phytologist Trust
People and plants: Working together for the planet
Plants, People, Planet, a cross-disciplinary Open Access journal by the New Phytologist Trust, launches its first issue, that will publish peer-reviewed articles, opinion and review that focuses on the connections between plant science and society.

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International Plant & Animal Genome XXVII
12–16 January 2019. San Diego, USA.

International graduate course Ecophysiology of the rhizosphere
14–20 January 2019. Parque Katalapi, Chile.

Indian Plant Science Congress 2019
23–25 January 2019. Kattankulathur, India.

EMPHASIS on the International Year of Plant Health
12 February 2019. Torino, Italy.

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November 2018

Dear ASPS members (past and present),

Applications for four prestigious ASPS awards for all career levels have now opened.

The Peter Goldacre Award and the Jan Anderson Award are the premier research awards from ASPS. The Peter Goldacre award is awarded for research contributions for ECRs within 10 years of their active research career, and the Jan Anderson Award specifically recognises the significant contribution of MCR female researchers.

https://www.asps.org.au/awards/jan-anderson-award-and-lecture

https://www.asps.org.au/awards/robertson-fellowship

The R.N. Robertson Travelling Fellowship recognises and celebrates the sustained contribution made by R.N. Robertson (Sir Bob) in nurturing plant scientists. This Fellowship will support graduate research students and recent PhD graduates to undertake research aimed at elucidating plant function and should enhance the current research of the applicant by providing access to expertise and facilities outside of that currently available to them.

https://www.asps.org.au/awards/robertson-fellowship

The ASPS Teaching Award recognises excellence, innovation and/or other contributions with successful learning outcomes to teaching plant science at the University level.

https://www.asps.org.au/awards/teaching-award

More details for each of these awards can be found on the ASPS website. Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized by the Australian Plant Science community!

Best Regards,

Dr Vanessa Melino

Honorary Secretary, Aust Soc Plant Scientists

Vanessa Melino | Research Fellow

School of Agriculture and Food | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences

Level 5, Building 184, Royal Parade

The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia

T: +61 3 8344 2550  M: +61 414 596 678

E: vanessa.melino@unimelb.edu.au

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Hello ASPS members,

We have new PhD scholarship opportunities available through the ASPS job page. You can access these here.

News

Recently ASPS has become affiliated with two MDPI journals, International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) and Plants. The benefits for ASPS members are as follows:

1. A 15% discount* on the article processing charges will apply to ASPS members to publish in IJMS and Plants. A limited number of full fee waivers for special cases can also be discussed and agreed on;
2. A discount on the article processing charges for selected papers collected from ASPS conferences can be agreed on a case by case basis for non-members;
3. Meeting reports of ASPS conferences will be published free of charge in IJMS and Plants;
4. Discounted publication fees for open access books;
5. Sciforum.net platform for organizing ASPS conferences and conference organizing services at preferential rates. ASPS as well as each of its members will be able to use the platform free of charge if self-managed;
6. Promotion of ASPS conference on the journal homepages;
7. IJMS and/or Plants will sponsor different activities at the ASPS conferences (e.g. keynote speaker, travel grant for PhD students or Postdocs, best poster awards, coffee breaks, etc.) depending on the annual marketing budget of the journals;
8. The possibility to advertise the society news on the website of the journals and social media;
9. The possibility for the society and its members to post job announcements free of charge on the websites of IJMS and Plants.

The specific information about IJMS and Plants can be found below

The International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS, ISSN 1422-0067, Impact Factor: 3.226) provides an advanced forum for molecular studies in biology, chemistry and biophysics. Our aim is to provide rigorous peer review and enable rapid publication of cutting-edge research to educate and inspire the scientific community worldwide. IJMS is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed) and other important databases. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 18 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 6.5 days (median values for papers published in 2017).

Plants (ISSN 2223-7747; CODEN: PLANCD) is an open access journal of plant science. Our aim is to encourage scientists and research groups to publish theoretical and experimental results of research in all fundamental and applied fields of plant science. Plants is indexed in BIOSIS Previews (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus and other important databases. Citations are available in PubMed and full-text are archived in PubMed Central. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 20 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.8 days (median values for papers published in 2017).

Hello ASPS members past and present,

COMBIO 2019, (23th-26th September) in Sydney, will be the venue of our annual meeting held in our 60th Anniversary year of ASPS.

As well as the science sessions at COMBIO we will have 2 events for ASPS, the ASPS dinner which will be held on the Tuesday night – you will be hearing about this event very soon – and the AGM which will be held on the Wednesday lunch.

We hope you can all attend and make this a special COMBIO in our anniversary year.

Furthermore, we are looking for volunteers to help us to continue in our role in assisting and shaping the future of the Australian Plant Science community? If you have ideas of how to build and strengthen our community, please consider joining the ASPS exec.

We are looking to fill 3 vacancies this year:

Honorary Secretary

Honorary Treasurer

Plant-Microbe Interactions rep

If you are keen on taking on one of these roles please fill out the attached form.

We look forward to your involvement.

Many thanks,

Matt

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Professor Matthew Gilliham

Honorary Secretary, Aust Soc Plant Scientists