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CSPB 2023 will take place at Université Laval in Quebec City, June 18–21. Plant scientists at all stages of their careers will congregate at this meeting to get new ideas, share their research, and experience the best the Canadian plant biology community has to offer.

Register at www.cspb2023.org/register before April 16th for early bird registration rates.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Two years ahead of the XX IBC, we are pleased to launch the Call for Symposia. We encourage researchers worldwide to submit symposium proposals on a variety of topics through the IBC website. The call for symposia will remain open until December 30th, 2022. Symposia constitute a very important component of the XX IBC, please submit a proposal and help shape the meeting’s program! Also note that diversity of speakers in terms of gender, career stage, and geography will be one of the criteria for selecting proposals. Symposium proposals that bridge two or more of the 31 proposed topics, including novel views and/or multi-disciplinary research perspectives, are especially encouraged.

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee of the XX IBC.

Call for symposia

Proposal submission now available! The scientific committee will evaluate symposium proposals based on potential audience interest, scientific quality, and diversity of speakers in terms of gender, career stage, and geography, among others. Symposium proposals that bridge two or more of the 31 proposed topics, including novel views and/or multi-disciplinary research perspectives are especially encouraged. We will make an effort to accept as many proposals as possible. Each symposium will last for 2 hours and will consist of six 20-minute oral communications (15 min presentations + 5 min Q&A). To maximize the interchangeability of participants among concurrent symposia, changes to this schedule will not be allowed. Deadline for symposium proposals 30 December 2022.Proposal Submission

Topics

1. Agroforestry Systems	2. Bioinformatics	3. Biogeography / Phylogeography
4. Botanical History	5. Bryology	6. Comparative Genomics / Transcriptomics
7. Conservation Biology	8. Crops and Wild Relatives	9. Development and Structure
10. Ecology and Plant Communities	11. Ecophysiology	12. Education and Outreach
13. Ethnobotany	14. Floristics	15. Functional Genetics
16. Global Change Ecology	17. Hybrids and Hybridization	18. Mycology and Lichenology
19. Macroevolution	20. Paleobotany / Archaeobotany	21. Phycology
22. Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics	23. Physiology	24. Plant, Animal, and Microbe Interactions
25. Plant Biotechnology	26. Palynology	27. Population Genetics
28. Pteridology	29. Restoration Ecology	30. Reproductive Biology
31. Systematics

All members are encouraged  to attend our 2022 Virtual Annual Business Meeting 

• To hear from our Treasurer about the CSPB-SCBV budget
• Announcement of 2022 CSPB-SCBV Awards
• Results of elections to fill vacant executive and committee positions

2022 Virtual CSPB-SCBV Annual Business Meeting

Wednesday June 22 from 5 to 7 pm (eastern time)

Virtual, link will be sent to the membership closer to June 22nd

We hope to see you on the 22nd!

Robin Cameron,

President, CSPB-SCBV

Applications are now open for ASPB’s Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education (BLOOME) grant! BLOOME provides up to $7,000 to fund the development of curricular materials to support teaching the newly revised Principles for Teaching Plant Biology in K-12 and undergraduate classrooms. The proposed classroom activities/labs must include the following elements:

• Clearly stated learning outcomes that explicitly align with one or more of the four categories of ASPB’s Principles for Teaching Plant Biology 
• All information needed to execute the activity/lab with students
• A clear assessment plan for the stated learning outcomes

The proposed activities should be developed in a format that can be readily distributed to educators online or at in-person conferences or outreach events and should not require highly specialized equipment or technical expertise. Funded projects will be featured on the ASPB website and will be disseminated to teachers at national meetings and outreach events. Applications may be submitted by current or future ASPB members. View the full RFP and apply by May 1, 2022.

Check out this seminar series presented by our Plant Canada partner organization the Canadian Association of Plant Biotechnology! All info can be found at the link below.

http://www.canadianplantbiotech.ca/capb-series/

^The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists
~presents ~
a virtual workshop on
Science Communication
March 23^rd 2022, 1-2:30pm (EST) 

Speakers

Dr. Elizabeth Brauer, Agriculture Canada

‘Beyond Neat: Plant-Based YouTube Content’

Dr. Adam Oliver Brown, University of Ottawa

‘The Art of Science and the Science of Art’

Dr. Karl Haro von Mogel, University of California Riverside

‘The Glass Tower: Combining Science and SciComm’

For more information check out our Early Career Page!

Register here

If you are a student or a postdoc planning to attend and present at Plant Biology 2022 in Portland this July apply for travel support now!

Check out the awards page for more details and to apply

https://cspb-scbv.ca/Travel-Bursaries