Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism: Dear conference participants

Dear conference participants,

It was great to see you all in Banff for the 2^nd Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism! Official attendance was 173 people representing 14 nations (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, UK and USA). With two keynote lectures, 16 plenary talks, 37 contributed talks and 93 posters we heard a lot of excellent science over the four days.

Student Presentation Awards

Congratulations to the students receiving awards!

Short talks:
1st Prize: Brendon O'Leary (Queen’s University, Canada)
Runner-up: Champa Wijekoon (University of Calgary, Canada)

Espionage in Canada and Western Countries: Part one and Two

https://poetsofottawa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/espionage-in-canada-and-1

https://poetsofottawa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/espionage-in-canada-and

The moncitizenship is the new Canadian governmental task. The diplomatic lines of Republics of Yemen and Poland are non grata with their masks.

Semitic illegal drug calls Khat spreads in North

America and Europe

Posters:

1^st Prize (shared): Yi Li (Purdue University, USA) and Weerawat (Ricky) Runguphan (MIT, USA)
Runner-up: Anna Hurlock (Purdue University, USA)

Travel Award Winners:

The students and postdocs receiving travel awards are:

Somnuk Bunsupa, Chiba University, Japan

Scott Greer, University of Alberta

Jill Hagel, University of Calgary

Soon Goo Lee, Washington University in St. Louis

Sameh Mahmoud, University of Guelph

Jessie Moniodis, University of Western Australia

Brendan O'Leary, Queens University

Weerawat Runguphan, MIT

Ildiko Szucs, University of Guelph

Ke Zhou, Iowa State University

Web Resources

Several speakers presented on web resources for plant metabolism research.

Minoru Kanehisa highlighted resources at KEGG: www.genome.jp/kegg/atlas.html

Kate Dreher presented on the Plant Metabolic Network and its resources: www.plantcyc.org

Adam Carroll introduced MetabolomeExpress: www.metabolome-express.org

Sponsors

Many thanks to our sponsors: PhytoMetaSyn, Alberta Innovates – BioSolutions, Genome Alberta, NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute, Genome British Columbia, Genome Canada, Noble Foundation, Hopsteiner, Syngenta, Vineland, Genome Prairie, Génome Québec, Allylix and Waters.

Intellectual Property Survey

Tania Bubela (University of Alberta) presented on the importance of intellectual property and genetic resource agreements for plant metabolism researchers. If you haven’t already done so, please complete the online survey at: http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/phytometasyn/phytometasyn-survey/. Filling out the survey will enter you in a draw for a $250 (or equivalent in international currency) gift certificate at Amazon. Deadline for the survey is August 6, 2010.

Photos and Feedback on Facebook

We have created a Facebook page for the meeting and posted the pictures that we have under the photos tab. If you have other photos you would like to post please send them to plantmet@ucalgary.ca and Sue-Ann will post them. Feel free to also tag the pictures if you know the people in them. You can also post comments about the meeting on our Wall.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Banff-Conference-on-Plant-Metabolism/101196523268780?v=photos&ref=sgm#!/album.php?aid=1970&id=101196523268780

“Gophers” at the Banff Centre

Many of you asked about the cute furry animals residing in the lawn near our banquet room. Apparently they are not gophers (or even rats as some seemed to think…) but Columbian Ground Squirrels – see http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/banff/natcul/natcul5.aspx.

3^rd Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism – Summer 2012

The next conference will take place at The Banff Centre in Summer 2012. Joerg Bohlmann (University of British Columbia) will chair the conference together with Dae-Kyun Ro (University of Calgary). If you enjoyed the summer’s conference, please spread the word to your colleagues and co-workers. Although we don’t want this event to grow beyond a friendly, collegial meeting for the plant metabolism community, there is still room for our conference to grow.

We hope to see you all in Banff in two years’ time.

Best regards,

The Organizing Committees

Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism

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