Dear ASPS members,

Abstract submission and registration for the Australian Society of Plant Scientists conference, ASPS 2019 and Grains Satellite Meeting is NOW OPEN!

Featuring world renowned international speakers, industry representatives and networking opportunities, this is an event not to be missed!

Please put up the ASPS 2019 poster and encourage everyone to come along.

Visit https://www.asps.org.au/combio/asps-2019 now and be part of the Australian Plant Science event of the year.

For further details contact: conferences@asps.org.au

Dr Kim Johnson

Senior Research Fellow

La Trobe Institute for Agriculture & Food (LIAF)

Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Science

La Trobe University

Bundoora VIC 3086

T +61 3 9032 7471 | E k.johnson@latrobe.edu.au

Global Plant Council E-Bulletin February 2019

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E-Bulletin / February 2019

Welcome to another month of plant science: take a look to the news, upcoming events, job opportunities and a call for help on science communication

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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.

In the spirit of travel, in this edition applications are invited for the Plant Nutrition Trust awards. You might have enjoyed reading reports from 2018 awardees in the January 2019 Phytogen. Applications are due by Friday 22nd March 2019. Click on the pdf and word links below for details and the application form.

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pdf: PlantNutritionTrust_Intro&Appl_2019            word document: PlantNutritionTrust_Intro&Appl_2019

Secondly, registration is now open for New Phytologist events. Due dates for symposium travel grants #43 , #44 and the next generation symposia is 28th March 2019 , 25th of April 2019 and 29 April 2019 respectively. Clink on the links above and there is a word document: NP events 2019 web promo and also visit the New Phytologist website for more details as they become available. There will also be social media hashtags for each, #43NPS , #44NPS , and #npnextgen  (note only #43 is active at this stage).