The Global Plant Council

How will global change affect plant reproduction? A framework for mast seeding trends
2022-10-27 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Forest ecology traditionally focuses on plant growth and survival, leaving seed production as a major demographic process lacking a framework for how it will be affected by global change. Understanding plant reproductive responses to changing climate is complicated by masting, the annually variable seed production synchronized within populations. Predicting trends in masting is crucial, because masting impacts seed predation and pollination enough to override simple trends in mean seed production. Proximate mechanisms of seed production patterns in perennial plants are gathered to identify processes through which masting may be affected by a changing environment. Predicting trends in masting will require understanding the mechanisms that cause predictable seed failure after high-seed years, and the stochastic mechanisms that synchronize individuals in high-seed years.
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Michal Bogdziewicz is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan, Poland. Michal’s research program involves several forest ecology subfields, including interactions between plants and animals (both seed consumers and seed dispersers), and mechanisms driving variation in plant fecundity. A major focus of the work is to understand proximate and ultimate drivers of mast seeding, socioecological consequences of pulsed reproduction, and the climate change impacts on seed production and recruitment.
Michal obtained his BSc in Biology (2010) and his MSc in Ecology (2012) from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His PhD thesis was jointly supervised by Rafal Zwolak (AMU) and Elizabeth Crone (Tufts University, MA, USA). After completing his PhD, Michal moved to Barcelona and undertook two postdoctoral positions at CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He is currently a Bekker Fellow at LESSEM, at INRAE in Grenoble (France) where he works in the Mast Inference and Prediction (MASTIF) project led by James Clark (Duke University, NC, USA). Starting in 2023, he will head the newly established, ERC-funded, Forest Biology Centre at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

"Genome Editing in Plants" Online lecture series: Prof. Daniel Voytas and Dr. Concetta Licciardello
2022-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Online
COST Action CA18111 “Genome Editing in Plants” Online lecture series

PlantEd is organising an online lecture series on genome editing in plants, with many high-profile speakers. The series, which is organised by PlantEd WG1 leaders Dr Goetz Hensel and Dr Katrijn Van Laere will continue regularly until the end of 2022 and be organised via Zoom. A separate announcement will be sent out to the PlantEd network before each event, and also updated here on the website and posted on the PlantEd Twitter account (@COST_PlantEd).

Prof. Dan Voytas, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Center for Precision Plant Genomics, University of Minnesota, USA. Title: Overcoming bottlenecks in plant gene editing.
Dr. Concetta Licciardello, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA), Centro di ricerca Olivicoltura Frutticoltura Agrumicoltura (OFA), Italy. Title: Two case studies to improve citrus fruit quality by using the New Plant Breeding Techniques.
Here is the announcement for the 5th event, incl an introduction to the speakers together with registration link: announcement October 26

Novelties, Frauds, and Protections: The Fruit Business in Ninteenth-Century America
2022-10-18 09:00 - 10:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Online
Speaker: Professor Daniel Kevles, Yale University​
In the United States through the 1830s, commercial fruit nurseries were few in number, served largely local markets, and, facing little competition, did little in their catalogues to differentiate and brand their products. Beginning in the 1820s, the transportation revolution, the migrations westward, and the creation of relentlessly expanding markets steadily enlarged competition and put a premium on the innovation of novel fruits. Plants were not patentable at the time. Plant nurseries, hitherto members of close-knit local communities, had tended to rely on mutual trust to prevent the appropriation of their innovations. However, operating in increasingly impersonal regional and national markets they sought to protect their investments in the creation or acquisition of novelties by branding their products. Still, cheats could offer fraudulent or adulterated fruit trees or vines under the branded name, and purchasers would be none the wiser because it was virtually impossible to tell simply by inspection what plant or plant quality young trees or vines would eventually produce.
From the 1830s through the rest of the century, purveyors of innovations developed a variety of strategies to protect their brands. The strategies were well exemplified by several prominent nurseries, notably Ellwanger and Barry’s, in Rochester, New York; Charles Hovey’s, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Luther Burbank’s, in Santa Rosa, California. They emphasized in their catalogues the importance of purchasing only from reliable sources, included testimonials from happy customers, and provided lithographs – first black and white, then in color – of their branded fruits. Still, thieves of new fruit trees and vines could simply clone them and sell them under another brand name. In the face of that biological loophole, their originators charged exceptionally high prices for first sales, hoping therein to recoup the downstream revenues they would lose to appropriation. They also employed traveling salesmen to sell their trees and vines, instructed them to gain trust by behaving in a moral, upright manner, and equipped them with sample books that presented in full color the fruits purchasers would get if they bought and planted the nursery’s trees and vines. By the late nineteenth century, finding these protective strategies increasing inadequate, nurserymen began agitating for national legal protection of their branded novelties through trademarks and patents.
Date and time: 9 AM, 18 October 2022 AEST (Time Converter for your location), 1 hour duration
Location: Online Lecture via Zoom
Go check the People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series

11th International Oat Conference – OAT2022
2022-10-10 - 2022-10-13 | Perth, Perth, Australia
The Grain Industry Association of Western Australia (GIWA) and the International Oat Organising Committee organize the 11th international Oat Conference to be held in Perth, Western Australia from 10th to 13th October 2022.
OAT2022 will be a hybrid event; and registrations can be made for in person or virtual attendance. In the event travel is restricted and you are registered to attend in person, you may change to a virtual registration and be refunded the difference provided you notify GIWA in writing by Friday, 9th September 2022.
Submit an Abstract to present at OAT2022. Abstracts featuring oat research as well as topical oat industry information are welcomed. Presentations at the International Oat Conference can be made in person or virtually, however in-person presentations are preferred. Visit the conference website https://www.internationaloat.com/ to download the OAT2022 Science and Industry abstract templates. Once completed, please email to admin@giwa.org.au. Abstracts close on Thursday, 31 March 2022.
Submission deadline (extended): 15 May 2022

Integrating plant physiology and community ecology across scales through trait-based models to predict drought mortality
2022-10-06 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Forests are a critical carbon sink and widespread tree mortality resulting from climate-induced drought stress has the potential to alter forests from a carbon sink to a source, causing a positive feedback on climate change. Process-based vegetation models aim to represent the current understanding of the underlying mechanisms governing plant physiological and ecological responses to climate. Yet model accuracy varies across scales, and regional-scale model predictive skill is frequently poor when compared with observations of drought-driven mortality. Anna proposes a framework that leverages differences in model predictive skill across spatial scales, mismatches between model predictions and observations, and differences in the mechanisms included and absent across models to advance the understanding of the physiological and ecological processes driving observed patterns drought-driven mortality.
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Anna T. Trugman is an ecologist with a multidisciplinary background in the Earth sciences. Her research interests are centred around understanding the Earth system consequences of plant physiological processes and ecological interactions, particularly in water limited systems and novel climate conditions expected with anthropogenic climate change. Her research spans spatial scales from plant organs to the globe, and utilizes techniques including ecological modelling, field measurements, and environmental data science. Anna received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA) in Geological and Environmental Sciences, her PhD from Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and spent two years at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT, USA) in the Biology Department where she was awarded an independent United States Department of Agriculture Postdoctoral Fellowship for studying forest drought vulnerability with climate change. She has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (CA, USA) since 2019.

4th International Conference on Plant Biology (23rd SPPS Meeting) by the Serbian Society of Plant Physiology
2022-10-06 - 2022-10-08 | Hybrid
Save the date for the upcoming 4th International Conference on Plant Biology (23rd SPPS Meeting) organized by the Serbian Society of Plant Physiology!
The conference will be held in Belgrade, from 6th to 8th October 2022. During the upcoming meeting, an important jubilee will be marked – 50th anniversary of the founding of the Serbian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS). We hope that all of you will be able to travel and join us on this exciting celebration.
This year’s conference will be organized as a hybrid event, providing you the option of participating in person or virtually. Come to Belgrade to enjoy a full and rich conference experience and program, or enjoy live streamed sessions, directly from the conference venue. All conference presentations, either an oral or a poster, will be available both in place and through conference platform.
For those who are able to join us in Belgrade, the hybrid format will allow you to:

Attend the full range of scientific sessions and accompanying events
Interact face-to-face with speakers and experts on the field
Network with colleagues
Experience well known Serbian hospitality
Access all online contents for three months after the congress (until the end of December, 2022)

For those who cannot travel or prefer to enjoy the congress online, the online format will allow you to:

Follow scientific sessions by livestream anywhere in the world
Participate in online interactive features and Q&A
Connect to colleagues through the Conference internet platform
Access all online contents for three months after the congress (until the end of December, 2022)

International Advances in Plant Virology (IAPV22)
2022-10-05 - 2022-10-07 | Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The AAB-organised ‘International Advances in Plant Virology (IAPV)‘ conference occurs every 18 months as an important gathering for the plant virology community.
IAPV2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 5th-7th October 2022 hosted in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Visit event website: https://cvent.me/N9PX1v
This event is organised in collaboration with the ‘Innovative Network for Next Generation Training and Sequencing of Virome‘ (INEXTVIR): https://inextvir.eu/
We are delighted to announce the Call for Abstracts for IAPV22. The majority of the IAPV22 schedule will be made up of talks selected from submitted abstracts so we encourage researchers at all career stages to submit an abstract. The majority of speakers will travel to Ljubljana but those unable to travel can provide an online presentation. We will build the meeting schedule based on submitted articles.
Submit via the AAB website -> https://www.aab.org.uk/conferences/submit-an-abstract/
We are delighted to continue the Roger and Raymond Hull Prize for best student poster, which is the latest edition of Plant Virology(https://www.elsevier.com/books/plant-virology/hull/978-0-12-384871-0).
The primary organisers from within the AAB virology group are Trisna Tungadi and Charlotte Nellist. https://www.aab.org.uk/specialist-groups/virology/
As per society policy all AAB early career professional members (students and anyone within 10 years of finsihing full time education) can join the meeting for free as an Online delegate. All ECP non-members can join for a nominal fee of £5, which will include free AAB membership.
Confirmed speakers:
Thierry Candresse- INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, France
Israel Pagan – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Marco Incarbone – GMI, Vienna, Austria
Carolyn Malmstrom – Michigan State University, USA
If you have any questions about this event please contact the AAB Office and we look forward to welcoming you to IAPV22 either in-person or online!

Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth For A Sustainable, Resilient World
2022-10-04 | Hybrid
The world’s food and agricultural systems are under severe stress from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, climate change, and COVID-19, with devastating impacts on food security. Accelerating agricultural productivity growth is fundamental to meeting today’s challenges and building more sustainable, resilient systems to withstand challenges in the future.
At this hybrid event hosted by the Global Agricultural Productivity Initiative at Virginia Tech (GAP Initiative), the Coalition on Sustainable Productivity Growth for Food Security and Resource Conservation (SPG Coalition), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, policymakers, private-sector innovators, and research leaders will discuss the need to accelerate agricultural productivity growth and concrete actions to do so. The event will include the release of the 2022 Global Agricultural Productivity Report.

AUXIN 2022
2022-10-03 - 2022-10-08 | Hotel Croatia Cavtat, Frankopanska ul., Cavtat, Cavtat, 20210, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Auxin2020 is the latest of quadrennial Auxin Workshop that brings together world-leaders in this cutting edge research area that encompasses all aspects of plant development. Over 200 delegates come together to discuss latest developments and to form new collaborations.
Auxin2020 will take place between October 4th-8th 2020 in Cavtat, Croatia. As per the unofficial requirement of the Auxin workshop, the meeting will take place in view of the sea, this time on the beautiful Dalmatian coast.
The exciting Scientific Program is outlined here.
The workshop features seven plenary sessions across a range of topics. These will provide over 30 opportunities for 15 minute presentations by speakers selected from submitted abstracts.

7th Symposium on Phosphorus in Soils and Plants
2022-10-03 - 2022-10-06 | Montevideo, Uruguay
7th Symposium on Phosphorus in Soils and Plants: Towards a sustainable phosphorus utilization in agroecosystems
The symposium will be held from 3 to 6 October 2022 in Montevideo, Uruguay hosted by School of Agronomy- University of the Republic and the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA).

We especially invite students and young researchers to attend the PSP7, as well as well-known scientists from the different disciplines. It will be a space where we will learn about the current state of the different research topics related to Phosphorus cycle, new techniques and procedures and last conceptual advances. Moreover, we will take advantage of the friendly and interactive environment by congregating all actors.

Website: https://psp7.org/

ComBio2022
2022-09-27 - 2022-09-30 | MCEC, Melbourne, Australia
ComBio2022 to be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). ComBio2022 will be held in a spectacular arm of MCEC that is adjacent to the Yarra River and walking distance from numerous restaurants and cafes serving the widest imaginable variety of food. Melbourne is home to many sporting and cultural events and world class museums and galleries plus an aquarium are in the immediate vicinity. There is also an abundance of budget priced accommodation within walking distance of MCEC. ComBio in Melbourne in the Spring of 2022 should be a “must” for all.
ComBio2022 incorporates the annual meetings of:

Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Australian Society of Plant Scientists
Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology
Genetics Society of AustralAsia
New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Conference Streams

Proteins, Peptides and Structural Biology
Plant Biology
Development, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics
Mechanisms of Disease
Genomics, Genome Editing and Systems Biology
Biochemistry and Metabolism
Cell Biology and Signalling
Education

To register: https://combio.org.au/combio2022/registration.html

Leading and supporting others for ECRs and New PIs
2022-09-21 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-14 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/London) | Online
This workshop will explore the role that emotional intelligence plays in different contexts.
Cost
This event is free for SEB members. Non-members will be charged the cost price of £20 per person.
About the session
Leadership and management are much more than simply setting a direction and getting things done.
To be an effective leader or a manager, you need to be able to understand, motivate, inspire and appreciate the people that you work with (and for) in order to achieve the best outcomes.
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the role that emotional intelligence plays in the context of leadership, management and supervision. Participants will gain an introductory understanding of emotional intelligence and how it can be developed and harnessed to get the best out of ourselves and those we support, lead or manage.
Following this workshop participants will:
• Understand what is meant by ‘emotional intelligence and the different competencies and skills that underpin it.
• Have explored a range of leadership styles and appreciate the scenarios and contexts in which they can be effective.
• Have an appreciation of how emotionally intelligent approaches can support ourselves and others in identifying and achieving goals and recognising success.
• Have practical experience in supporting a fellow participant with emotionally intelligent mentoring & coaching conversations.
Workshop structure
This is a 3 hour live and interactive workshop with plenty of breaks throughout.
Who’s it for
This participative workshop is aimed at researchers and academics who are leading, managing or supervising others or who aspire to in the near future.

International Plant Health Conference
2022-09-21 - 2022-09-23 | London, London, United Kingdom
Plant health is a key factor in any strategy to achieve food security, protect the environment and biodiversity, and facilitate safe trade

The First International Plant Health Conference aims to address new and emerging plant health challenges, including climate change impacts, the significant increase in international trade, the rapid loss of biological diversity and new pest pathways such as e-commerce by exploring more efficient national, regional and global policies, structures and mechanisms.

The Conference will be held in London, the United Kingdom on 21 – 23 September 2022 and is co-organised by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention.
Register for the International Plant Health Conference and take part in the global scientific, technical and regulatory forum to advocate for plant health and food security.

The cost of attendance at this event is £150 inc VAT. This will be a card payment taken on the last page of your registration.

Please note the registration fee is not for profit and lunches (including tea and coffee breaks) will be provided for all participants for the 3-day conference. This fee also includes entrance to the official conference reception at Kew Gardens where drinks and canapés will be served.

Regulatory Dynamics During Development and Evolution
2022-09-21 - 2022-09-23 | Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Symposium overview
The creation of novel organs, the formation of diverse shapes and patterns within tissues or the ability of cells to deploy different responses to environmental cues all rely on the assembly, rewiring and co-option of gene regulatory networks. We now know that complex behaviours can emerge from relatively simple networks. Reciprocally, sophisticated regulatory networks can often generate stable and predictable outputs despite being intrinsically noisy. Technological advances and new model systems are enabling us to address previously unexplorable questions, continuously modifying our understanding of the regulatory logic that underpins life. With SLS2022 we aim to bring together theoretical and experimental researchers from diverse disciplines using a broad range of species and approaches to investigate the regulatory dynamics contributing to the emergence of biodiversity.
Symposium format: Hybrid
The 4th biennial Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium (#SLS22) will take place at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK over three days (21-23 September 2022) and will be delivered in a hybrid format. Delegates may choose to attend in-person or online.
The Symposium will foster a dialogue between researchers working on regulatory dynamics from different fields across the plant and animal kingdoms and consist of talks, poster sessions and daytime and evening social and networking events.
Our goal is to create a welcoming, safe, collaborative, inclusive and respectful symposium environment by promoting diversity of attendance and inclusivity of participation of underrepresented scientists.
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury_laboratory_symposium

Memories of Pathogen Encounters: Defense Priming and Epigenetic Regulation
2022-09-20 12:30 - 14:30 (Europe/Madrid) | Online
The Global Plant Council and Frontiers in Plant Science have come together to organize a webinar entitled, “Memories of Pathogen Encounters: Defense Priming and Epigenetic Regulation”.
Nicolás Cecchini (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), winner of the Global Plant Council Prize 2021, will be delivering a talk on “The Role of MOM1 on Priming and Systemic Resistance”.
Joining him will be Ho Won (Dong-A University), who will be speaking about, “The Role of HAC1 and DDL in Plant Immunity”.
Also speaking will be Isabel Mendoza-Poudereux, Chief Communications Officer at The Global Plant Council, who will discuss The Global Plant Council’s values and the activities they are organizing to achieve its priorities.
Timetable:

13:00 – Introduction to Frontiers
13:05 – Global Plant Council Talk – Dr.Isabel Mendoza-Poudereux
13:15 – Talk 1 – Nicolás Cecchini – The Role of MOM1 on Priming and Systemic Resistance
13:35 – Talk 2 – Ho Won Jung – The Role of HAC1 and DDL in Plant Immunity
13:55 – Q & A session
Closing Remarks

Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development – Advances and Perspectives
2022-09-19 - 2022-09-22
This conference aims to bring together scientists from all over the world to share their latest research findings, ideas and experiences. The scientific program will cover recent achievements and future trends in natural product research, particularly related to chemistry, bioactivity, biotechnology, quality control and formulation.

Plant Synthetic Biology Conference
2022-09-19 - 2022-09-21 | Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The Plant Synthetic Biology Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain on September 19-21, 2022.
This Conference is jointly organised by CRAG (Barcelona, Spain) and the CEPLAS-Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, University of Düsseldorf (Germany). The meeting will bring together global leaders in the field and it will cover the most recent advances in plant synthetic biology, with an emphasis on enabling technologies for reprogramming plant cells, current agricultural and industrial applications, the development of new green models and several perspectives on the ethical and societal aspects of synthetic biology.
The Plant Synthetic Biology Conference offers a great platform for interaction and the opportunity to discuss new ideas, challenges and opportunities in the field. It also offers the chance for young synthetic biologists to present their work and interact with other mindlike individuals.
Scientific and Organizing Committee:

Jae-Seong Yang (CRAG Researcher)
Matias Zurbriggen (CEPLAS, HHU Professor)
Ivan Reyna-Llorens (CRAG Researcher)
Julia Qüesta (CRAG Researcher)
Nicolás Bologna (CRAG Researcher)
Uriel Urquiza-Garcia (CEPLAS, HHU Researcher)
Miguel Miñambres Martin (CEPLAS, HHU Researcher)

Confirmed Keynote and invited speakers:

Danny Ducat (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
Guido Grossmann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Heidelberg, Germany)
Zachary Lippman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA)
Amy Marshall-Colon (University of Illinois, Urbana, ILL, USA)
Vera Meyer (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Naomi Nakayama (Imperial College, London, UK)
Sara O´Connor (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid, Spain)
Diego Orzaez (IBMCP, Valencia, Spain)
Nicola Patron (Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK)
Markus Pauly (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Karen Sarkisyan (Imperial College London, London, UK)
Michael Schroda (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Richard Smith (The John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)

Plants in Changing Environment
2022-09-15 - 2022-09-16 | Mengeš, Mengeš, Slovenia
The conference “Plants in Changing Environment”, organized by the Slovenian Society of Plant Biology, will be held at the Jable castle in Loka pri Mengšu (20 km from Ljubljana city centre), Slovenia from 15 – 16 September 2022. The scientific programme of the Conference will include invited lectures, short oral and poster presentations. The official language of the Conference will be English.
The main topics of the Conference will cover various aspects of plant interactions with their environment from molecular and cell biology, morphology, physiology biotechnology, ecology and others.
VENUE
Venue website (in Slovennian: https://www.jable.si/)

XVIII Brazilian Congress of Plant Physiology and I Ibero-latinamerica of Plant Biology
2022-09-06 - 2022-09-09 | Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre,, Brazil
Theme: “Plant Systems Biology: integrating scales and time”

A remarkable characteristic of plants, defining part of their own existence, is the modular structure of their bodies. A module can be considered as a biological entity (an individual, a structure, a process, or a pathway) characterized by more internal than external integration. Overall, modules can be considered as the nodes of networks that are connected via the edges
(different modes of short and long-distance signalling). In hierarchical systems (such as any biological multicellular organism), networks of finer scales can become nodes in networks of higher scales and so on. The response of a whole plant to its environment is the sum of all modular responses to their local conditions plus all interaction effects that are due to modules integration. The integration among different modules is engendered by a sophisticated system of signalling spreading chemical, electrical and hydraulic information throughout the plant body. In other words, the responses of plants to their environments are emergent properties; i.e. an inevitable self-organized unfolding of new functions and structures of a system onto a higher scalar integrative level.
This internal dynamic is underpinned by complex metabolic networks subject to rules of interactions. In complex systems, such interactions are typically nonlinear processes based on negative and positive feedback loops.
Negative feedback plays a crucial role in maintaining homeostasis of the system, whereas positive feedback operates by propagating and amplifying signals throughout the system. Both processes work together in the formation and stabilization of new patterns of organization, which makes the prediction of their global behaviour difficult. Such a dynamical process of organization operates throughout the different scales of the organization of the plants system, producing emergent properties non-reducible to its components at smaller scales of organization.
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The understanding of such complexity has been improved by the exponential development of high-throughput technologies in the last decades, uncovering the complexity of the organizational network patterns in the cell’s metabolism to the plant phenome, thus creating the modern science of systems biology. Furthermore, the huge data sets and growing computational power have stimulated scientists to uncover how plants respond to the environmental changes, and how such knowledge could engender new technologies, for instance, to increase crop yields. Through these technologies, researchers are describing deeply the different hierarchical levels of plant organization, improving the possibility to predict the behaviour of the whole plant (phenome) based on extensive analysis of gene expression (genome and transcriptome)
and/or metabolic networks (metabolome) to monitor and to manipulate cellular responses to genetic perturbation or environmental changes. However, different constrains can make this predictability difficult, challenging the bottom-up
cause-effect approach that underpins the deterministic view of science based on an upward chain of causality. Thus, a main question is how to integrate, on one hand, the massive datasets from molecular high-throughput technologies and, on the other hand, the growing high-throughput information on the crop scale, i.e. plant phenomics, which is a typical problem of finding a proper general scaling law.
The importance of studying integration of different levels of biological organization relies on an ontological base: 1- spatial and temporal patterns are dependent on the scale of analysis, 2- there is more than one characteristic scale for the research, 3- experimental results cannot be directly transferred to larger scales, 4- biological interactions with the environment occur in multiple scales, and 5- environmental problems are created by the propagation of effects on different scales in the biosystem.
​Therefore, the main objective of XVIII Brazilian Congress of Plant Physiology, to be held in Porto Alegre – RS in September 2022, is to expose the imbricate complexity of plants, especially when embedded in a changing environment, and to discuss the possibilities to integrate different scales of observation taking into account the temporal dynamic of the different levels of organization.

Shaping the Future for Pollinators - Innovations in Farmed Landscapes
2022-09-06 - 2022-09-08 | Slough-Windsor, United Kingdom
The Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) has teamed up with the British Ecological Society and the Royal Entomological Society to deliver a 3-day conference “Shaping the Future for Pollinators: Innovations in Farmed Landscapes”.
Pollinators play a vital role in maintaining both semi-natural and agricultural ecosystems and healthy populations bolster food security, livelihoods and social wellbeing. With evidence that many species of pollinators are in decline, their conservation and management is of great public, economic and political interest. As a result, the ecology and conservation of managed and wild pollinators is a rapidly growing field of research, alongside the study of their associated ecosystem services.
This conference aims to determine how we can shape farmed landscapes to make them resilient to future challenges such as climate change. Delegates will explore the impact of agricultural practices at the farm and landscape scale on pollinator behaviour, ecology and the delivery of ecosystem services. Talks and discussions not only to share current best practices on the sustainable management of pollination services, but explore how novel innovations can create new opportunities and address future risks. This conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to debate recent advancements in the field of pollinator research; and also to go beyond ecological research to explore emerging technologies within the field.

The host hotel is in Slough/Windsor which is just 15 minutes by train from London Paddington.
Excitingly we will include a scientific session at the worlds foremost botanical garden at Kew Gardens alongside a public ‘Mythbusting’ event at Kew. This aims will held locally to raise awareness and increase public understanding of pollinators and pollination services.

Global Women in Crop Science Coffee Morning
2022-09-05 - 2022-09-09
The main goal of the coffee mornings is to bring women in crop science together in an informal setting to spark discussion among peers.
