FUTURE ASPB ANNUAL MEETING SITES

Plant Biology & Botany 2007 JOINT CONGRESS Chicago, Illinois July 7–11 HILTON CHICAGO ASPB will hold its 2007 annual meeting in conjunction with the Botanical Society of America (BSA), the American Fern Society (AFS), and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT). Mark your calendars and look for more information soon.

Plant Biology 2008
Mérida, Mexico
June 26-July 1, 2008

Plant Biology 2009
Honolulu, Hawaii
July 18-22

For more information go to http://www.aspb.org/meetings/.

April 4
Abstract deadline for Plant Biology & Botany 2007
program book

May 18
Officer election closes

June 1–2
Northeast Section Annual Meeting, SUNY
Syracuse, New York

June 15
Pre-registration cutoff for Plant Biology & Botany 2007

July 6 & 10
Executive Committee Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

July 7–11
Plant Biology & Botany 2007 Joint Congress
Chicago, Illinois
http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2007/index.cfm

September (date to be determined)
Mid-Atlantic Section Crab Feast, ASPB Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland
http://www.aspb.org/sections/washington/meetings.cfm

CALLFOR PAPERS
Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Vector Systems for Plant Research and Biotechnology

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2007
To submit an article, please go to http://submit.plantphysiol.org.

Plant Physiology is pleased to announce a Focus Issue on Vector Systems for Plant Research and Biotechnology to be published in December 2007. The issue will be edited by Vitaly Citovsky. Submissions in all topics of plant expression vector systems designed for state-of-the-art experimentation are welcome, including novel systems for multiple gene expression, protein tagging, induction and suppression of gene silencing, specialized vectors for monocot transformation, and virus-based vectors. Emphasis should be made on simplicity of use and applicability of the system to a wide range of model plants and crop species.

Authors interested in contributing should indicate this in the cover letter when submitting papers online at http://submit.plantphysiol.org/. Please select “Vector Systems (December, 2007)” from the Focus Issue list in the online submission system. Articles published within 2 years before and after the Focus Issue will be considered for inclusion in an online Focus Collection of articles relevant to the focus topic (http://www.plantphysiol.org/misc/collections.dtl).

Please contact Vitaly Citovsky (vitaly.citovsky@stonybrook.edu) for additional information.

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Oklahoma State University
Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Professor and Sitlington Chair
Agricultural Biosciences

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Professor and Sitlington Chair, Agricultural Biosciences at Oklahoma State University. This position will provide research leadership for a new Oklahoma State University Institute for Agricultural Biosciences at the Noble Foundation to be located on the campus of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, OK. The major research programs of the new Institute will be forage improvement for livestock, fundamental research in plant biology, and bioenergy/alternative fuels.

Applicants must hold a doctorate in agricultural/chemical/biological science germane to the research emphases of the Institute and possess extensive research qualifications commensurate with an appointment at the full professor rank. More information and guidelines for application are at http://jobs.dasnr.okstate.edu/.

Formal review of applications will begin April 2, 2007, and will continue until a suitable candidate is identified. Women and members of other under-represented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Contact: Clarence Watson, Chair, Search and Screening Committee, 139 Agricultural Hall, OSU, Stillwater, OK 74078-6009. Phone: 405-744-5398. Email: c.watson@okstate.edu

OSU and DASNR are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers committed to multicultural diversity.

Download Figures from Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell as PowerPoint Slides!
Plant Physiology (www.plantphysiol.org) and The Plant Cell (www.plantcell.org), ASPB’s premier plant science journals, now allow you to save any figure as a PowerPoint slide! This free feature is available for all articles published since 1998.
From the full-text (non-PDF) version of an article, click to “View larger version” of a figure. Then click the button marked “PowerPoint Slide for Teaching.” The slide will include the full bibliographic citation of the article in which the figure was published.
We hope that you enjoy this new feature and that it enhances the teaching of plant biology in your classroom.

The American Society of Plant Biologists is pleased to publish The Arabidopsis Book (TAB), a dynamic, fully electronic compilation of chapters co-edited by Chris Somerville, Elliot Meyerowitz, Jeff Dangl, and Mark Stitt and available free of charge on the Internet.

TAB offers a new model for scientific publishing. Each of the chapters in the book reviews in detail an important aspect of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and the content continually evolves as new information becomes available, making TAB the most comprehensive and current work on Arabidopsis.

ASPB is providing funds for the posting and maintenance of TAB on the Internet as a public service. All chapters and updates are hosted in partnership with BioOne (http://www.bioone.org) in both HTML and PDF formats.