23rd Plant Biology Symposium - RNA Biology
May 18-20, 2022
RNA research is currently receiving world-wide recognition with recent breakthroughs in RNAi and CRISPR, not to mention the first mRNA-based vaccines. In 2022, Penn State will host an RNA biology symposium with a special emphasis on plants. Plant biologists have historically organized a series of stimulating international conferences on post-transcriptional gene regulation, and this will be the next conference in the series.
Topics that will be covered include small RNAs, RNA structure, RNA processing, localization, translation, and epigenetics, and interconnections to the roles that RNA plays in plant growth, development, physiology, defense, and abiotic stress response. The conference will feature established and emerging leaders in all aspects of plant RNA biology, who will present on the latest biological and technological advances in this exciting field. Short talks will also be chosen on the basis of submitted abstracts, and there will be ample time for informal discussions and poster presentations.
Past Symposia
June 18-21, 2019
Since 2012, the plant cell biology community has organized an annual "plant cell dynamics" meeting with the objective of bringing together plant cell biologists from around the world in a highly interactive forum for presenting the latest advances in plant cell biology and for learning new tools and approaches. In 2019, the Plant Cell Dynamics meeting was held as part of the Penn State Plant Biology Symposium series.
June 19 - 22, 2018
A phytobiome is a system of plants, animals (insects and nematodes) and a wide diversity of microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, amoeba, and algae). These organisms are influenced by the non-living components of their environment, such as soil and climate. The complex components of these systems greatly influence various plant functional traits such as plant health, productivity, and response to pathogens, pests and environmental stresses. Understanding the composition, dynamics, traits and interactions among individual constituents of these diverse systems requires basic and applied research efforts and innovative approaches by interdisciplinary teams with diverse expertise.
This symposium served as a platform to catalyze new interactions and exchange of ideas in the areas of basic and applied phytobiome research.
May 13-16, 2015
Human population growth and climate change present major challenges to sustainable food production. Plant biologists are developing and applying new integrative Big Data approaches to address these challenges. This symposium brought together scientists who were working at various –omics levels to understand impacts of environmental stress on plants and to develop solutions for agricultural systems of the future.
This Plant Biology symposium, the 20th in a series at Penn State, served as a platform to catalyze new interactions and exchange ideas in the diverse fields of plant –omics and plant-related microbial -omics, including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and their integration. The symposium included a workshop on metabolomics and mass spectrometry techniques and a workshop on plant genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9.
May 16-18, 2013
This conference dealt with frontier research in the structure of cellulose in primary and secondary cell walls, the mechanism of its synthesis and its interaction with matrix polymers, and new uses of cellulose for energy and material applications. Disciplinary approaches range from molecular genetics, cell biology, physical chemistry and plant physiology to material science, computational biology, chemical engineering, bioinformatics and other ways of understanding this most useful of materials.
May 18-21, 2011
The symposium convened international leaders in the areas of plant genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology. Distinguished plenary lectures as well as ample time for informal interactions and poster sessions enabled students and researchers to make connections in this exciting frontier of research. Several short talks were selected on the basis of submitted poster abstracts.
May 19-21, 2009
The symposium featured leading experts on global change impacts on plant resource interactions. It was structured with plenty of time for informal interaction. Speakers and participants explored knowledge gaps and emerging ideas and discussed future research needs.
A primary motivation for this plant symposium was to synthesize current understanding of soil resource acquisition and utilization by plants in the context of climate change and from there, explore the cascading effects on ecosystem processes, including impacts on agriculture, and food security.
May 18-20, 2006
May 20-22, 2004
May 16-18, 2002
Proceedings were published in The Plant Cell
May 18-20, 2000
Proceedings were published in Plant Physiology
May 28-30, 1998
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 22-24, 1997
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 18-20, 1995
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 19-21, 1994
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 20-22, 1993
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 28-30, 1992
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 23-25, 1991
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 17-19, 1990
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 18-20, 1989
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 19-21,1988
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 21-23, 1987
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series
May 22-23, 1986
Symposium proceedings were published as a series called Current Topics in Plant Physiology: An American Society of Plant Physiologists Series