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  • Friday, August 4, 2023
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    Virtual Workshop: Bringing FAIR Data into the Classroom
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    Virtual Workshop: Networking into an industrial, federal, or academic job
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    Virtual Workshop: Segmentation Techniques and Challenges in Plant Phenotyping: Introducing the iPlantSeg+ Tool
  • 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • Saturday, August 5, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: PUI Faculty Development
  • 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM EDT
    Plant Science Saturday
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
    Workshop: The role of science communication in enhancing adoption of innovative technologies in agriculture - Part 1
  • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
    Undergraduate Poster and Networking Session
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    LGBTQ+ Ally Training
  • 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM EDT
    First Time Attendee Orientation
  • 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    ASPB Awards Presentation & Presidential Plenary: Plants and People
  • 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Using molecular tools to advance plant breeding
  • 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    EDIC Award Presentation - Racial reckoning in the plant sciences
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
    Shull Award Presentation - The AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs as a model to understand transcription
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Meet the Editors
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
    Welcome Reception & Poster Presentations
  • Sunday, August 6, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
    Code of Conduct Sessions
  • 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Plenary - Highlights of New and Emerging Research on Biomecular Condensates in Plants
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Corteva Student Showcase
  • 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
    Interviewing 101
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: Career jungle gym in a post-pandemic world
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM EDT
    Workshop: Considering impacts of artificial intelligence in scientific publication and beyond
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM EDT
    Workshop: Plant Bioinformatics Resources for FAIR Agricultural Data Discovery and Reuse
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EDT
    LGBTQ+ Plant Scientist Networking Event
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Twitter Meetup
  • 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Current advances in plant gene editing
  • 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Host-pathogen communication and signaling in plant immunity
  • 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Roots, shoots, and leaves: new approaches to studying vegetative development
  • 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Towards ML-augmented plant metabolic modeling
  • 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Whole plant physiology and the environment
  • 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM EDT
    Planting Yourself into a Career at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution
  • 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM EDT
    Coffee and Networking in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM EDT
    Front & Center networking event
  • 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: From the outside in: plant signal transduction
  • 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: New tools and insights into plant cell biology
  • 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Plant root exudation and microbial interactions in the rhizosphere
  • 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Responses to mineral and oxidative stress
  • 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Using molecular tools to advance plant breeding
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
    Networking Reception & Poster Presentations
  • 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
    LGBTQ+ Mixer
  • Monday, August 7, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
    Women's Young Investigator Travel Award Winners Recognition & Networking Session
  • 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Plenary - Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture
  • 11:00 AM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Boxed Lunch in Exhibit Hall
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    One-on-One Mentoring Sessions
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: Creating and Integrating Plant Scientist Spotlights in the Classroom (and beyond)
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Advocating for Plant Science and Scientists
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: EEPP Science & Friends
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: Negotiating Success! How to be a Self-Advocate
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: The role of science communication in enhancing adoption of innovative technologies in agriculture - Part 2
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Crossing dimensions of scale in plant biology
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Domestication of wild species and minor crops

    Symposium Chair: Vanessa Jane Melino, PhD – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

    Speaker: Pheonah Nabukalu, PhD – The Land Institute

    Speaker: Alice Fornasiero, PhD – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

    Speaker: David Van Tassel, PhD – The Land Institute

    Speaker: Clara Stanschewski, Bsc, Msc – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

    Speaker: Hong Yu, PhD – Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Exploring the diversity of plant biotic interactions
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: From seed to fruit: understanding plant development and reproduction
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Multifaceted roles of specialized metabolism
  • 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
    ECPS Headshot Photo Booth
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Coffee & Networking in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Cellular quality control: management and degradation of organelles and their proteins

    Symposium Chair;Speaker: DurreShahwar Muhammad – Rice University

    Symposium Chair;Speaker: Melissa Traver – Rice University

    Speaker: Sophia Stone – Dalhousie University

    Speaker: Jesse Woodson – University of Arizona

    Speaker: Ethan Thibault – Michigan State University

  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Cooperation and communication between beneficial microbes and plants
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Plant epigenetic memory: Remembering the past to prepare for the future
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Plant responses to light and temperature
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Towards a sustainable future
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Networking Reception & Poster Presentations
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Interviewing 101
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Plantae Fellows Meetup
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
    ECPS Trivia Night
  • Tuesday, August 8, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
    Code of Conduct Session
  • 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Plenary - Intercellular Communication in Plants: The Long and Short of It
  • 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
    Workshop: Entering leadership roles
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
    Workshop: How to create your mentoring network
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Boxed Lunch in Exhibit Hall
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    One-on-One Mentoring Sessions
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: Practical Aspects of Complying with US Regulations on Genetically Engineered and Genome Edited Plants
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Workshop: Writing Your Diversity Statement
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Beneficial Microbe-Plant Interactions: from molecular to community scales - Sponsored by ASPB EDIC Committee
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Biochemistry: from proteins to metabolic networks
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Computational biology and phenomics
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Plant Resilience and Climate Change
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Transcriptional regulation: from genes to networks
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM EDT
    Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Emerging facets of symbiotic nitrogen fixation
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Fertilization Mechanisms: from Gametes to Seeds

    Symposium Chair;Speaker: Leonor C. Boavida, Purdue University – Purdue University

  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Genome-enabled elucidation of plant biosynthetic pathways
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Orphan Crop Genetics and Genomics
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
    Concurrent Symposium: Synthesis, deposition, and signaling at the cell wall
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
    ASPB Town Hall
  • 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
    Annual Party
  • Wednesday, August 9, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
    Plenary - Thriving in Deep Space: Plant Biology for the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Award Talk - Mary Clutter Leadership in Public Service Award
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EDT
    Award Talk- Hales Award: Signal transduction in systemic acquired resistance