The 72nd Annual Meeting
Northeast Section
American Society of Plant Biologists
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 18-19, 2008
Surviving Suburbia: Plant Stress in the Human Environment
This meeting provides an excellent venue for beginning scientists, especially undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs, to present their research in a collegial atmosphere, close to home.
Deadlines: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 for abstract submission and early registration rate. Wednesday, March 19, 2008 is the cut-off date for overnight rooms at the Nathan Hale Inn.
Featured Symposium Speakers:
Dr. Astrid Volder
Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University
"The stressed out urban plant:
physiological responses to the urban environment"
Dr. Leon Kochian
Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, USDA-ARS,
and Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University
"How plants cope with toxic metals:
aluminum tolerance as an example"
Dr. Diane Pataki
Department of Earth System Science and Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
"The role of plants and soils in the urban carbon cycle"
Dr. Sarah Reichard
College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
"Inside out: urban areas as sources of wildland invasions"