Entries by Katie Rogers

Plant Physiology Webinar: Highlighting Focus Issue on Architecture and Plasticity

This webinar was recorded Thursday, November 18, 2021  About This Webinar This webinar was organized celebrate the November 2021 Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Architecture and Plasticity. It was hosted by the Focus Issue editors, Ronald Pierik, Christian Fankhauser, Lucia Strader, and Neelima Sinha; and it featured talks from three of the authors whose work […]

Plantae Webinar: Translational Plant Science: We all want to achieve it, but how?

When: Tuesday, November 16, 2021  12 PM PST (UTC-8)  | 2 PM CST (UTC-6) | 3 PM EST (UTC-5) About This Webinar Plant biologists are inundated with the message to develop “translational” research but given little guidance on how to achieve that. This panel, representing nonprofit and commercial agricultural research, will provide expertise on how […]

Plantae Webinar: A Guide to Political Activism for Early Career Plant Scientists

When: Monday, November 15, 2021  10 AM PST (UTC-8)  | 12 PM CST (UTC-6) | 1 PM EST (UTC-5) About This Webinar This webinar and discussion will focus on how Early Career Researchers (ECRs) can get involved with their communities through political action or activism. Guest speaker Hallie Thompson will share her experiences recently running […]

Welcome to our new class of Plantae Fellows!

As part of our ongoing commitment to creating a vibrant and engaging community for plant scientists, we launched the Plantae Fellow Program in 2016. So far, we have had 119 Fellows join the program and this year we are pleased to welcome 25 new Fellows to the 2022 class!  The role of the Fellows is […]

Plant Physiology Webinar: Highlighting Focus Issue “Sensors and Controllers: For and From Plants”

Plantae Webinar Highlighting Plant Physiology Focus Issue “Sensors and Controllers: For and From Plants” Recorded Wednesday, October 20, 2021 A characteristic of plant life is the ability to rapidly acclimate tissue function and to change body plans in response to changing conditions. Their responsiveness is underpinned by sophisticated signaling and metabolic networks. These networks are […]

Applications Now Open For the 2021-2022 Plantae Fellows Program

Are you a creative and articulate plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? We need your help to nurture and grow Plantae, the online home for the global plant science community that is powered by ASPB.  We are looking for individuals who want to become highly engaged by creating and curating content, facilitating […]

Plantae Community Migration

ASPB is in the process of moving the Plantae community to a new platform so that we may better serve you and your needs. Our current community site https://community.plantae.org/ will be replaced at the end of May by a new and improved community site at https://plantae.org/community/   This new site can be more easily customized to grow over time […]

Plantae Webinar: Launch and advance a career in science without a PhD

Plantae Webinar: Launch and advance a career in science without a PhD  Recorded Thursday, April 22nd About This Webinar Many of our career conversations focus on what’s next after a plant science PhD, but there are other ways to be extremely successful in this field without a doctorate. In our next Plantae Webinar, our panelists […]