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• President's Letter
• ASPB Officers Assume Posts for 2007–2008
• 2007–2008 Awards Committees
• Call for 2008 ASPB Award Nominations
• The Road to Mérida
• Hola from Mérida—Parte Dos
• ASPB/AAAS Mass Media Fellow
• Call for Abstracts: Plant Biology 2008
• Letter
• Annual Mid-Atlantic Section Crab Feast
• People—The Chicago Experience: Observations of a Marylander from Africa
• Postcards from Sarah—Greetings from Tequila, Mexico—Where the Blue Agave Is King!
• Women in Plant Biology—Embracing My Inner Role Model
• Membership Corner—Hemanth Vasanthaiah
• Bioethics
• Call for Applications: ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  
• PUBLIC AFFAIRS
  • Senators Bond, Mikulski Call for Continued Support of NSF Plant Genome Research Program and 2010 Project
  • ASPB, 12 Science Societies Urge Comparable Spending Increases for NSF’s BIO, SBE, GEO
  • NSF Awards 26 Plant Genome Grants to Seed Plant Systems Biology
  • ASPB, CoFARM Support Farm Bill Reauthorization of Leading Research Programs
  • Plant Genome Research Program 10th Annual Awardees Meeting
  • Siedow, Bailey-Serres Conduct Hill Visits Supporting NSF, BIO
    
• ASPB EDUCATION FORUM
  • Who Says Plants Can’t Be Fun?
  • Classroom Activities for Plant Science Radio
  • NASA Launches New Plants-in-Space Program
  • Roger Hangarter’s sLowlife Moves Steadily Forward
• OBITUARY
  • Mark Jaffe

FUTURE ASPB MEETINGS Registration Opening January 2008   Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Sociedad Mexicana De Bioquimica Rama: Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular de Plantas       Plant Biology 2009 Honolulu, Hawaii July 18–July 22         Plant Biology 2010 Montréal, Canada July 31–August 4 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists—Société Canadienne de Physiologie Végétale         Click here for more information on future meetings. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ASPB Travel Grant Program for Plant Biology 2008 in Mérida, Mexico Travel grant applications are now being accepted. The submission deadline is January 15, 2008 All applications must be submitted electronically Recipients will be notified by email by March 5, 2008 Important Dates in 2008     January 2 2008 call for ASPB award and Executive Committee nominations January 15 Travel Grant Application deadline January 18 Abstracts (minisymposia) deadline for Plant Biology 2008 February 1 Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park February 2 Executive Committee Meeting, ASPB Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland February 8 Award and Executive Committee nominations deadline February 22–23 Western Section Annual Meeting, Utah Valley State College, Orem February 25 Deadline for ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) applications March 1–3 Southern Section Annual Meeting, Diamond Jacks Hotel, Bossier City, Louisiana March 14 Early-bird registration cutoff for Plant Biology 2008 April 4 Abstract deadline for Plant Biology 2008 program book April 18–19 Northeast Section Annual Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs May 9 Executive Committee election closes May 30 Pre-registration cutoff for Plant Biology 2008 June 22–25 The Pan American Congress Plant & BioEnergy Symposium 2008, Mérida, Mexico June 26 Executive Committee Meeting, Mérida, Mexico June 26–July 1 Plant Biology 2008, Mérida, Mexico September (date to be determined) Mid-Atlantic Section Crab Feast, ASPB Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland

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