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.ASPB SPOTLIGHT
Announcing the ASPB Centennial Challenge
In 2024, ASPB will celebrate its 100th Anniversary! To ensure that the Society will thrive for the next 100 years, we aspire to raise $3 million in donations by the Plant Biology 2024 meeting. Learn more and donate today to help us achieve this goal!
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Update Your ASPB Member Profile — We'll Make It Worth the Time!
As you may have heard, ASPB has implemented a new database to track memberships and other activities within ASPB. This database is also the source for our member-facing directory, so it's a vital tool in ensuring society members can find each other. To make this database as accurate and useful as possible, we are inviting ASPB members to update their profile information — and offering an incentive to encourage you all to do so.
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Scaling Up Equity and Inclusion Through K-12, Undergraduate, and Graduate Education
The ASPB Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDIC) and Women in Plant Biology (WIPB) committees co-hosted a workshop at the Plant Biology 2021 annual meeting entitled "Sustained Commitments to Diversity and Inclusion." The invited panelists have focused their careers on outreach and teaching at critical early stages in student training, especially development of STEM identity and self-efficacy at an early age. The five speakers exemplified progress toward an equitable and inclusive environment around STEM education and training, affecting the lives of many thousands of students.
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Surviving Academia and Industry: 2021 Plant Biology Workshop
During the Plant Biology 2021 meeting, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) hosted a virtual workshop called "Surviving Academia and Industry." Navigating the scientific workforce can be challenging for anyone at all career stages, but is particularly stressful for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) scientists. In this interactive, hands-on workshop, we aimed to give plant scientists the tools needed to recognize the effects (physical, mental, emotional, societal, and monetary) of systematic and institutional oppression on all scientists, and how everyday choices and activities contribute to systematic and institutional oppression in all academic and industry institutions.
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Welcome to Our New Plantae Fellows!
As part of our ongoing commitment to creating a vibrant and engaging community for plant scientists, ASPB launched the Plantae Fellow Program in 2016. We are pleased to welcome 26 new Plantae Fellows to the program to nurture and grow the Plantae community. Follow the link above to learn more about our newest class of Plantae Fellows.
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Are You an ASPB Member? Would You Like to Serve on an ASPB Committee?
With the active participation of its members, ASPB becomes a more effective society. Interested in having an impact on ASPB? Consider applying to serve on one of our standing committees by logging in to the member portal and completing the form linked above. We will keep your application open for 3 years; however, you can update your information and preferences by editing your member profile.
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Submissions Open for Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Evolution of Plant Structure and Function
Plant Physiology seeks research article submissions by January 1, 2022, for inclusion in a Focus Issue on the topic of Evolution of Plant Structure and Function. Recent progress in understanding the proximate basis of plant evolution has revealed a myriad of underlying mechanisms, ranging from the genetic and epigenetic to the biophysical and micro-biotic. This focus issue calls for review or research articles, short letters, and reports that provide novel insights into evolutionary mechanisms underpinning plant phenotypic variation.
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.CHANGING CULTURES AND CLIMATES
The mission of Changing Cultures and Climates is to provide information that supports and promotes diversity, inclusivity, and equity in the international plant science community so that it grows to more accurately reflect that of our larger, global society.
Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program Applications Now Open
HHMI seeks to increase diversity in the biomedical research community. We know that the biggest challenges in science call for diverse perspectives and original thinking. The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to recruit and retain individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Applicants must have been accepted to join a laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher at a research institution located in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) at the time of the application due date (December 1).
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Signaling Inclusivity in Undergraduate Biology Courses
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Genetics topics covered in a wide variety of undergraduate biology classrooms can relate to various identities held by students such as gender identity, disability, and race/ethnicity, among others. An instructor's sensitive approaches and deliberate language choices regarding these topics has the potential to make the critical difference between welcoming or alienating students and can set a tone that communicates to all students the importance of diversity.
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Share Your Moment in the Spotlight with ASPB Members!
ASPB would like to highlight news coverage about plant science. If you or your research is being highlighted in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, online, or other sources, please let us know! Just send a quick note, URL, and other relevant information to ASPB News production manager, Diane McCauley, at diane@aspb.org.
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.PLANTAE JOBS
The Plantae Job Center offers job seekers and employers a great resource for finding the right match of people to careers. Job seekers get free access to a searchable list of jobs specific to science careers, as well as access to the Mentoring Center and to a list of available internships. Employers who post a job get access to over 500 searchable profiles of job seekers. With over 140,000 unique page views in 2020, the Plantae Job Center is your resource for finding your next opportunity or your next hire. Below are just a few of the jobs currently listed on the site.
.PLANT SCIENCE EVENTS
For plant science events, make sure to check out the Global Plant Science Events Calendar. Also, check the calendar for the latest cancellations and postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as webinars and online events you can join.
.FROM THE FIELD
Plants of the Past, Research of the Future
From ScienceLine
Barbara Thiers slowly folds open a tiny paper envelope to reveal a green-brown clump of what looks like dried grass, barely half an inch long. It's an unassuming piece of vegetation, and only one of nearly 8 million specimens housed in the New York Botanical Garden's herbarium. It just happened to be collected by Charles Darwin.
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Studying Plant's Protective Hair Reveals Metabolic Innovation
From Michigan State University
Plants are master chemists, producing a dazzling array of molecules that are valuable to humans, including vitamins, pharmaceuticals and flavorings. The largest and most diverse group of molecules are known as specialized metabolites. Some metabolites attract beneficial insects and others repel or kill herbivore insects that feed on plants or pathogenic microbes. Some of these metabolites are poised for action at the surface of the plant, being made in trichomes, which are small hairs on stems, leaves and flowers.
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Researchers Reveal Catabolic Regulation of Plant Hormone Strigolactones
From the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Researchers led by Yuxin Hu from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently reported that the Arabidopsis carboxylesterase 15 (AtCXE15) and its orthologues in seed plants function as efficient hydrolases of plant hormone strigolactones (SLs). This discovery reveals the catalytic mechanism underlying homeostatic regulation of SLs in plants.
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Uncovering the Secrets of a Model Plant Genome
From Johns Hopkins University
A Johns Hopkins engineer co-led a team that has sequenced the genome of the world's most widely used model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana, at a level of detail never previously achieved. Up until now, regions of this genome — including centromeres, the parts of the chromosomes that attach to the mitotic spindle during cell division as an organism grows rapidly from one to trillions of cells — have remained uncharted territory, due to their complex structure.
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A Chickpea Genetic Variation Map Based on the Sequencing of 3,366 Genomes
From Nature
Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation, characterization and utilization of germplasm resources. So far, few chickpea (Cicer arietinum) germplasm accessions have been characterized at the genome sequence level. Here, Varshney et al. present a detailed map of variation in 3,171 cultivated and 195 wild accessions to provide publicly available resources for chickpea genomics research and breeding.
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Natural Hybridization Among Three Rhododendron Species (Ericaceae) Revealed by Morphological and Genomic Evidence
From BMC Plant Biology
Natural hybridization can influence the adaptive response to selection and accelerate species diversification. Understanding the composition and structure of hybrid zones may elucidate patterns of hybridization processes that are important to the formation and maintenance of species, especially for taxa that have experienced rapidly adaptive radiation. Here, Zheng et al. used morphological traits, ddRAD-seq and plastid DNA sequence data to investigate the structure of a Rhododendron hybrid zone and uncover the hybridization patterns among three sympatric and closely related species.
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Are Plant Height and Shape Genetic?
From CORDIS
The shape and height of a plant can have a major impact on crop yield. But can these characteristics be regulated by manipulating a plant's genes? Two researchers are working to find out.
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