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Hello ASPS members,

We have opened applications for Student Conference Travel Awards and Carers Travel Support Grants for attendance at the upcoming 2025 ASPS conference in Adelaide.

Eligibility and application for ASPS Student Conference Travel Awards

Eligibility and application for ASPS Carers’ Support Travel Grants

Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 1 August 2025.

We are aware that conference registration is not yet open, but this should not discourage you from applying for one of the above grants; you are not obliged to accept an award if an offer is made.

 

 

Date: Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November
Location: Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
Registrations open: June
Any enquiries, please contact Dr Crystal Sweetman at crystal.sweetman@flinders.edu.au.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles. If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

Hello ASPS members,

We have opened applications for Student Conference Travel Awards and Carers Travel Support Grants for attendance at the upcoming 2025 ASPS conference in Adelaide.

Eligibility and application for ASPS Student Conference Travel Awards

Eligibility and application for ASPS Carers’ Support Travel Grants

Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 1 August 2025.

We are aware that conference registration is not yet open, but this should not discourage you from applying for one of the above grants; you are not obliged to accept an award if an offer is made.

 

 

Date: Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November
Location: Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
Registrations open: June
Any enquiries, please contact Dr Crystal Sweetman at crystal.sweetman@flinders.edu.au.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles. If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

Hello ASPS members,

We have opened applications for Student Conference Travel Awards and Carers Travel Support Grants for attendance at the upcoming 2025 ASPS conference in Adelaide.

Eligibility and application for ASPS Student Conference Travel Awards

Eligibility and application for ASPS Carers’ Support Travel Grants

Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 1 August 2025.

We are aware that conference registration is not yet open, but this should not discourage you from applying for one of the above grants; you are not obliged to accept an award if an offer is made.

 

 

Date: Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November
Location: Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
Registrations open: June
Any enquiries, please contact Dr Crystal Sweetman at crystal.sweetman@flinders.edu.au.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles. If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

Hello ASPS members,

We have opened applications for Student Conference Travel Awards and Carers Travel Support Grants for attendance at the upcoming 2025 ASPS conference in Adelaide.

Eligibility and application for ASPS Student Conference Travel Awards

Eligibility and application for ASPS Carers’ Support Travel Grants

Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 1 August 2025.

We are aware that conference registration is not yet open, but this should not discourage you from applying for one of the above grants; you are not obliged to accept an award if an offer is made.

 

 

Date: Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November
Location: Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
Registrations open: June
Any enquiries, please contact Dr Crystal Sweetman at crystal.sweetman@flinders.edu.au.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles. If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

Hello ASPS members,

Remember to save the date for the 2025 ASPS conference in Adelaide Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November

Access the May Phytogen HERE.

Access the May Global Plant Council newsletter HERE.

 

Date: Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November
Location: Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
Registrations open: June
The organising committee welcomes:
  • – submission of a conference logo design for consideration.
    – more volunteers/nominations for session chairs, particularly EMCRs. 
Any enquiries, please contact Dr Crystal Sweetman at crystal.sweetman@flinders.edu.au.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles. If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

Hello ASPS members,

 
Date: Monday 24th – Thursday 27th November
Location: Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
Registrations open: June
 
The organising committee welcomes:
– submission of a conference logo design for consideration.
– more volunteers/nominations for session chairs, particularly EMCRs. 
 
Any enquiries, please contact Dr. Crystal Sweetman at crystal.sweetman@flinders.edu.au.

 

The April Phytogen edition can accessed HERE.

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles! If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

You can stay connected with ASPS on social media on the following platforms. Join the conversation using #AusPlantSci and #ASPS2025 (for the conference). Tag us in your posts and stories to help us promote your science! Phytogen contributions will also be featured on our social media pages.

Dear ASPS members,

The March Women in Science special issue of Phytogen is out now. Thank you to special editors Alison Bentley and Beth Loveys. You can access the March special issue of Phytogen HERE.

Previous Phytogen editions from January and February can accessed HERE. 

If you are due to renew your ASPS membership you’ll find you can add your BlueSky and LinkedIn handles. If you haven’t already you can link to ASPS through both these networks. You can renew or update your ASPS membership HERE.

A message from ASPS President Brent Kaiser about the upcoming Global Plant Council seminar
The webinar will feature Professor Danielle Way, researcher at the Australian National University on April 11th at 9 am CEST.

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_spce8CB6TuiafOAttYrqVQ

Hello ASPS members,

The AGM is due to start soon. Log into the meeting HERE. https://latrobe.zoom.us/j/86306555958

Meeting starts:

VIC, NSW, ACT  1 pm

SA 12.30 pm

QLD 12 noon

WA 10 am

AGM documents can be accessed HERE.

Hello ASPS members,

We’re looking forward to catching up at the ASPS 2024 Hub meetings on Thursday 28th November. The ASPS 2024 website can be accessed HERE. Contact your Hub leader directly if you have questions on the day.

The November edition of Phytogen can be accessed HERE.

Join us for our AGM on Friday 29th November at 1 pm DST. View the AGM documents HERE. Join the AGM virtual meeting HERE.

Congratulations to Dr Caitlin Moore who has been awarded the inaugural Annals of Botany Travelling Lectureship.

Caitlin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Agriculture and Environment at The University of Western Australia. She is a representative for Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) in Western Australia, and is the communications officer for the OzFlux network. Caitlin received her PhD from Monash University on a project looking at carbon fluxes and phenology dynamics in Australian tropical savannas. She then completed a four-year postdoc at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the USA applying her skills to phenotyping and understanding climate and management impacts in agricultural cropping systems. Back in Australia, her current research broadly focuses on understanding native and managed ecosystem interactions with climate from the leaf to landscape scale.

Hello ASPS members,

The October edition of Phytogen is out and can be accessed HERE.

Latest STA newsletter can be accessed HERE.

ASPS job board has new jobs and scholarships posted and can be accessed HERE. New Scholarship HERE. New job HERE.

ASPS 2024 registration and abstract submissions are still open. Details HERE.

Interested in getting more involved in ASPS? Nominate for one of the position below. Nomination form is attached.

  • ASPS secretary
  • Education and Outreach
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Student representative
Discipline leads:
  • Cell Biology
  • Plant-microbe interactions
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