Upcoming Events
2010
The OZBio 2010
Melbourne Convention Centre
26 September to 1 October
Join us for the 2010 annual meeting of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists at OzBio2010 to be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 26 September to 1 October 2010. Details of the exciting program can be viewed at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/ozbio2010/program.html
ASPS Society Dinner, 2010
When: 7:30pm, Tuesday the 28th of September, 2010. Where: World Restaurant & Bar, Shop 4, Building 2, Riverside Quay Southbank 3006 (~10min walk from Melbourne Exhibition Center) Price: $35 for student members, $45 for non-student members, ( Three course meal, drinks not included)
Ticketing information: To confirm your seat and to assist us with catering, please contact either Cara (cara.griffiths@monash.edu or 0425721806) or Natalie(natalie.odonnell@monash.edu or 0423257325). When contacting Cara or Natalie to reserve your ticket, please also inform them of whether you are a student or non-student ASPS member and whether you have any special dietary requirements. We will then be collecting ticket money at a set time and place during the OzBio conference (TBA).
Queenstown Plant Biology Meeting
Queenstown , New Zealand
August 29-31, 2010
The NZ Society of Plant Biologists and QMB Plant Molecular Biology organizing committee would like to invite you to participate in the Queenstown Plant Biology meeting, 29–31st August, 2010. This is the NZ Society of Plant Biologists 2010 annual meeting, combined with the regular plant molecular biology satellite of the popular Queenstown Molecular Biology / Queenstown Research Week series of meetings.
We have an outstanding list of international speakers (listed below). Rather than focusing on a few specialized topics, we have invited speakers with wide ranging interests, from plant responses to their environment to the biology behind traits of economic importance.
Early registration and abstract submission close on July 16. Submit an abstract to both the Plant Meeting and the main QMB meeting (September 1), and receive free registration to the main meeting.
Some of the international speakers include:
Philip White, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Gene Expression and The Ionome ; Serge Delrot, University of Bordeaux / INRA, Grapevine Transcriptomics ; Simon Chan, UC Davis, Centromeres: Controllers of Inheritance ; Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, Epigenetic regulation ; Bob Goldberg, University of California, LA, Seed biology ; Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, Myb transcription factors and secondary metabolism ; Liz Dennis, CSIRO Plant Inductries, Canberra, Plant Genomics and others.
Complete list of the speakers with their lecture topics will be updated soon.
For more information: http://www.qmb.org.nz/
The Plant Membrane Biology (IWPMB2010 )
www.adelaide.edu.au/iwpmb2010/
Adelaide, South Australia
19th-24th September 2010
The IWPMB2010 will be held in Adelaide, South Australian and registration is now open and available at www.adelaide.edu.au/iwpmb2010/rego/.
Held triennially, IWPMB is the premier international conference for all those interested in processes related to plant membranes.
Over the last 45 years, IWPMB has provided a forum for healthy scientific discussion and the exchange of ideas, for the leaders in the field through to new postgraduate students.
Whilst presenting their own latest findings, plenary speakers will also provide a brief overview of recent advances in their particular field of research. We look forward to welcoming you to Adelaide preceding the meeting in Melbourne for OZBIO2010. www.adelaide.edu.au/iwpmb2010/
For further enquiries please contact Lara Birchby (Meeting Manager) at:
F: 08 8177 2251 (within Australia) +61 8 8177 2251 (International)
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2011
RHIZOSPHERE 3 International Conferences
Pert , Western Australia
25 - 30 September 2011
The local organising committee led by Chair Hans Lambers is pleased to announce the Third International Rhizosphere Conference RHIZOSPHERE 3 will be held from Sunday 25th to Friday 30th September 2011 in Perth, Western Australia.
The Conference will provide a multidisciplinary forum for exchanging innovative ideas and methods for studying the rhizosphere, understanding its complexity and further up-scaling its functioning to better evaluate the ultimate role in ecosystem processes.
An understanding of the rhizosphere is central to many ecosystem services and related subjects including plant nutrition, plant health, ecosystem diversity, bioremediation and rehabilitation of degraded land, human pathogen ecology, ecosystem responses to climate change and water quality issues.
Sponsorship Packages Now Available
Sponsorship packages for RHIZOSPHERE 3 have recently been released. Sponsorship is an ideal way to prominently position your organisation as a key player in the area of environmental research as well as increasing the recognition of your brand to this sector. The sponsorship packages have been designed to offer a range of opportunities so that you can select the package that best suits your organisation’s marketing objectives. The Organising Committee is committed to working with you to develop a package which delivers maximum benefit and exposure for you at RHIZOSPHERE 3. For further information regarding the sponsorship packages visit the conference website http://rhizosphere3.com or contact the Conference Organisers, International Conferences & Events on +61 8 9381 9281 or via email to .
Please visit the Conference Website or contact the Conference Organisers:
t: +61 (8) 9381 9281
f: +61 (8) 9381 9560
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Society funding for Workshops and Conferences
Click here to view guidelines for Conference seed funding applications.
Click here for application form for Conference funding.
Student Travel Grants
Funds are set aside each year to sponsor student travel to our annual conference, and in this way contribute to their professional development in plant science.
Support will vary from year to year depending on the Society finances, location of meeting and number of applications. The Treasurer will apply a formula in calculating individual entitlements and takes these factors into account. Applicants must be financial members of ASPS and presenting a paper or poster.
Download student travel grant application form here.