PCA Gordon Research Conference Applications and Speaker Abstract Submissions are open for the PCA GRC on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology being held July 30 – August 4, 2023 in Ventura, CA, USA! Deadline to submit a talk abstract is Feb 14, 2023. More details.
Single Cell Sequencing Workshop Save the date for a PCA Single Cell Sequencing workshop this April 14th, which will focus on lab techniques related to single cell and spatial transcriptomics.
ICAR 2023 PCA will be hosting a booth at the 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research. Join us in Chiba, Japan from June 5-9, 2023! Register here.
ASPB 2023 PCA will again have a presence at ASPB’s Plant Biology conference being held from August 5-9, 2023 in Savannah, GA, USA. Stay tuned for more details.
Science News
2nd PCA Symposium Videos
If you weren’t able to attend or missed some of the talks from the 2nd PCA Symposium, you can now find select talks on the PCA YouTube channel. Watch here.
Toward a Data Infrastructure for the Plant Cell Atlas
PCA members and collaborators review what the data infrastructure for a comprehensive Plant Cell Atlas may look like in Plant Physiology. Read more.
The incongruity of validating quantitative proteomics using western blots.
The PCA Proteomics committee and collaborators put out a perspective piece in Nature Plants on the advances and reproducibility of proteomics for plant science research. Read more.
People News
JR Biotek-PCA Mentee Spotlight The inaugural JR BioTek-PCA Africa PhD Scholars Mentoring Program ended with a fantastic series of presentations from the mentees on November 30, 2022. Joan Kimutai from the University of Ghana was awarded first place for her presentation of her thesis work. Read more.
2nd PCA Symposium Awards
Best Abstract Talk Award Winners
1st Place
Maria Savina
Radboud University, The Netherlands
2nd Place
Tran Chau
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA
3rd Place
Alexander Borowsky
University of California, Riverside, USA
Best Poster Talk Award Winners
1st Place
Margot Bezrutczyk
Joint Genome Institute, USA
2nd Place
Dae Kwan Ko
Michigan State University, USA
2nd Place
Jennifer López Ortiz
University of Helsinki, Finland
3rd Place
Pengbo Liang
China Agricultural University, China
Community News
Social Media Feedback Poll With the current issues with Twitter (i.e. lack of content moderation (Wired, Politico), increased harassment (New York Times), etc.) we want to hear from the PCA community about your feelings about the PCA staying or leaving Twitter and what you think about other social media options. We have also already expanded our social media platforms to include Facebook and LinkedIn.
Core Network Participant Group Meeting The PCA Core Network Participants (CNP) met in September 2022 to brainstorm and discuss future plans for the PCA. It was wonderful to meet people in person for the first time!
Plant Science Careers If you are looking for a new position be sure to check out the PCA Job Board and Fellowships resource pages!
