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Harry Klee Assumes Presidency October 1 Treasurer; Chair, Board of Trustees C September/October 2017 • Volume 44, Number 5 p. 3 p. 7 p. 14 President’s Letter Journal Impact: ASPB Members Where Do We Go Brave New World Elected to German from Here? National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina THE NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT BIOLOGISTS Harry Klee Assumes Presidency Rob Last Elected October 1 to Lead ASPB in 2018–2019 arry Klee holds the ics underlying flavor Dickman Chair for in tomato and other HPlant Improvement fruit crops. Harry was at the University of Florida elected a fellow of (UF) in Gainesville. Harry AAAS in 2009 and to earned a bachelor’s degree the National Academy in psychology and then of Sciences in 2012. a PhD in biochemistry He has served on the from the University of editorial boards of Massachusetts, Amherst. He The Plant Journal, did postdoctoral research Plant Physiology, on Agrobacterium tumefa- Molecular Breeding, ciens at the University of and Critical Reviews Rob Last Washington with Eugene in Plant Sciences. He Nester, working on the was editor-in-chief ob Last, Barnett Rosenberg mechanisms of crown gall of The Plant Journal Professor of Plant Biochemistry tumor growth that led to from 2002 to 2009. Rand Molecular Biology at characterization of the Harry Klee At UF, he served Michigan State University, brings var- Agrobacterium auxin and two-year terms as ied research, teaching, and administra- cytokinin biosynthetic genes. Harry moved to graduate coordinator and then director of tive experiences in academia, industry, Monsanto in 1984. There, he developed tech- the interdisciplinary Plant Molecular and and government to ASPB leadership. nologies for plant transformation and trans- Cellular Biology program. He has held Rob received his bachelor’s degree in gene expression and was part of the team that visiting professorships at École Nationale chemistry, with minors in botany/ developed Roundup-resistant cotton, canola, Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse (2001), bacteriology and zoology, from Ohio and soybean. He continued work on the mo- Heilongjiang University (2012–2014), and Wesleyan University. He earned a PhD lecular biology of phytohormones, pioneer- Zhejiang University (2014 to present). He was in biological sciences from Carnegie ing the use of transgenic plants to elaborate an external reviewer of plant science research Mellon, working on yeast genes involved for the Swedish Research Council, the New in vivo hormone function. In 1995, Harry in pre-mRNA splicing. Rob then merged Zealand Foundation for Research Science moved to UF. There, he established a program continued on page 5 to understand the biochemistry and genet- continued on page 5 Contents ASPB Council President Sally Mackenzie Immediate Past President, Chair Richard A. Dixon President-elect Harry Klee Secretary Alice Harmon Treasurer; Chair, Board of Trustees C. Robertson McClung 1 Harry Klee Assumes Presidency October 1 Elected Members Joe Kieber Maureen McCann 1 Rob Last Elected to Lead ASPB in 2018–2019 Chair, Membership Committee Jill Deikman Chair, Minority Affairs Committee Adán Colón-Carmona 3 President’s Letter Chair, Publications Committee Neil E. Olszewski Chair, Women in Plant Biology Committee Marisa Otegui 4 Christine Foyer Elected to ASPB Council Chair, Education Committee Sarah Wyatt Chair, International Committee Leon Kochian 7 Journal Impact: Brave New World Chair, Science Policy Committee Nathan Springer Sectional Representatives 12 Discover Phenome 2018 Mid-Atlantic Section Hua Lu Midwestern Section Ed Cahoon People Northeastern Section Peter Melcher Southern Section Becca Dickstein 14 ASPB Members Elected to German National Academy of Western Section Camille M. Steber Sciences Leopoldina Council members highlighted in blue also serve on the Board of Directors. 15 ASPB/AAAS Mass Media Fellow Reports In ASPB Staff Where Are They Now? Chief executive officer Crispin Taylor, [email protected] Director of finance and administration Clara Woodall, [email protected] Executive and governance affairs administrator Sylvia Lee, [email protected] 16 Elisabeth Gantt Accounts receivable and payable specialist Stephanie Liu-Kuan, [email protected] Senior staff accountant Jotee Pundu, [email protected] Science Policy Director of meetings and events Jean Rosenberg, [email protected] Conference coordinator Teresa Myers, [email protected] 18 Policy Update Director, digital strategy and member services Susan Cato, [email protected] Manager, member services Shoshana Kronfeld, [email protected] Meetings, marketing, and membership assistant Melanie Binder, [email protected] Education Forum Legislative and public affairs director Tyrone Spady, [email protected] Executive coordinator, Plant Science Natalie Henkhaus, [email protected] 21 ASPB Education Committee Outreach at Arabidopsis Research Network Meeting in St. Louis Education coordinator Winnie Nham, [email protected] Director of publications Nancy A. Winchester, [email protected] 22 At the ASPB Education Booth, a BLOOMEing Good Time Publications assistant Diane McCauley, [email protected] Subscriptions manager Suzanne Cholwek, [email protected] 23 Plant Biology 2017: Education Workshop Does Big Data Subscriptions assistant Linda Palmer, [email protected] Managing editor Patti Lockhart, [email protected] 24 Education and Outreach at Plant Biology 2017 Science writer, Plant Physiology Peter Minorsky, [email protected] Production manager, Plant Physiology Jon Munn, [email protected] 26 SURFing at the Undergraduate Poster Session in Honolulu Manuscript manager, Plant Physiology Ashton Wolf, [email protected] Senior features editor, The Plant Cell Nan Eckardt, [email protected] 27 PlantingScience Professional Development Workshop Features editor, The Plant Cell Mary Williams, [email protected] Strengthens Classroom and Early Career Scientist Production manager, The Plant Cell Susan Entwistle, [email protected] Connections Manuscript manager, The Plant Cell Annette Kessler, [email protected] The ASPB News is distributed to all ASPB members and is also available online. It is pub- lished six times annually in odd-numbered months. Its purposes are to keep membership informed of ASPB activities and to reinforce the value of membership. The ASPB News is edited and produced by ASPB staff from material provided by members and other interested parties. Copy deadline is the 5th day of the preceding even-numbered month (for example, April 5 for May/June publication). Contact: Nancy A. Winchester, Editor, ASPB News, 15501 Monona Drive, Rockville, MD 20855-2768 USA; [email protected]; 301-296-0904. © 2017 American Society of Plant Biologists 2 ASPB NEWS | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 President’s Letter President’s Letter Where Do We Go from Here? BY SALLY MACKENZIE Pennsylvania State University research com- and integrate munity thrives ideas from the A best when it acts broad swath of with a consensus voice plant science and agrees to commonly represented held priorities. An effort by the PSRN to achieve such con- to model the sensus within the plant future of train- starting points for subsequent The concepts developed science community was ing in the plant workshops focused on plant through this deliberative process first launched with the sciences, the science training and cyberinfra- have been brought together 2013 publication of the cyberinfra- structure needs over the coming in the National Plant Science document Unleashing a structure that two decades. Initiative (NPSI; http://bit.ly/ Decade of Innovation in Sally Mackenzie will be needed One profound outcome of NPSI-Plantae), an exciting and Plant Science: A Vision to grow capa- the PSRN’s discussions to date comprehensive plan to enhance for 2015–2025 (http://bit.ly/ bilities in computation and big is the growing recognition that future plant research in four DecadalVision). The Decadal data, and the research areas likely future research, infrastructure, primary directions: exploring and Vision identified emerging soci- to transform the plant science and training objectives must be preserving biodiversity, explor- etal challenges and opportunities landscape over the next 20 years. highly integrative to be truly ing plant biochemical diversity, in plant science over the next 10 If you would like a taste of effective. This concept is a clear enabling deep phenomics, and years, as well as areas of common the work that underpins some departure from the independent discovering the plant micro- concern as research goes forward. of these discussions, I point manner in which research initia- biome. The proposed effort is Over the past two years, the broad you to the document Imagining tives and infrastructure and seeking to increase investment in objectives outlined in the Decadal Science in 2035 (http://bit.ly/ training efforts are implemented plant science research and train- Vision have advanced to identify- ImaginingScience), the outcome presently. As current demand ing by a half-billion dollars, forg- ing meaningful strategies that of a long-term visioning exercise for expertise in plant science ing a compelling argument for address the issues and priorities carried out by the PSRN during broadens job opportunities far the broad societal and research raised in that document. a workshop held at the Howard beyond the traditional realm of benefits deriving from the ability This work has been carried Hughes Medical Institute. This academic and industry research to treat nearly all plant species as out under the auspices of the workshop adopted a scenario employment, and as we strive to models, making significant strides Plant Science Research
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