Conferences

Plant Sciences in Canberra, September 2008: COMBIO and much, much more

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There will be two major conferences for plant scientists September 18th to 25th in Canberra with over 20 international speakers and 60-70 national speakers. It will also be the 50th anniversary of our society, The Australian Society of Plant Scientists. So make your plans now to come to Canberra.

 

COMBIO Satellite and Boden Conference on Plant Energy and Water Productivity: from genes to environment.

The Australian National University, CANBERRA. Thursday 18th - Saturday 20th September 2008.

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  • 18 International and 18 National speakers covering hormone signalling, transpiration, photosynthesis, drought and oxidative stress signaling, organelle biogenesis and metabolism, artificial photosynthesis, biofuels, genomics and global climate change.
  • The aim of the symposium is to bring together scientists to assess the future strategies necessary to develop improved plants for agriculture and bio-fuel production and to assess plants in natural environments.
  • We thank our sponsors, including ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, CSIRO, Australian Academy of Science, COMBIO, ASPS, GRDC and the ANU.



COMBIO, September 21-25th.

 

  • A dedicated Plant Sciences Stream with over 50 speakers, plus, symposia on plant biology in the other cellular and biochemical streams.
  • Plants from Genes to Geoscience. An extra plant stream for 1 day on ecophysiology and plant ecology sponsored by ARC Research Network for Vegetation Function (http://www.vegfunction.net/index.html)
  • ASPS Celebration of 50 years. Make sure you attend this special and unique event in the history of our society. More details are provided in this issue of Phytogen or via Paul Kriedemann kriedemann@rsbs.anu.edu.au
  • Early Career Scientists. This year we have increased the number of talks per symposia to enable 2 talks to be chosen from abstracts and preference will be given to early career scientists (PhDs and postdocs). We will also be running a Careers Development Workshop.

 

More information on the meetings are provided within this issue of Phytogen and on the Conference Websites: http://www.asbmb.org.au/combio2008 and www.csiro.au/events/CropBio2008-symp

See you in Canberra,

Barry Pogson (barry.pogson@anu.edu.au), Frank Gubler and Rudy Dolferus

On behalf of the COMBIO Organising Committee and the Plant Energy and Water Productivity Organising Committee.