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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • 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