The Global Plant Council

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/)

Leading and supporting others for ECRs and New PIs
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.

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.
