ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
SUBMISSION DEADLINES, TOPICS & POSTER GUIDELINES
Deadline: 15 April (oral consideration)/ 20 May (posters only)
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March 2021 Update: Registration Submission Open
​Submit by 15 April to be considered for a short talk

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN! CLICK to log in or create an account. Once you’ve created an account and logged in, you should click “Make a New Submission” in the User Portal, which is the first page you will be directed to after logging in.
 Abstracts may be submitted for "Posters Only" or for "Posters and Oral Consideration" to those ​community-organized sessions that will select from abstracts (see list below for those that will select talks from abstracts)
Maximum 2 free abstracts submission allowed per paid registrant; only 1 talk allowed, and up to 1 poster.
Abstract Length: Limited to 300 words (excluding: title, authors, & institutions). 
Contact meeting staff for clarifications after reading the guidelines linked above, and listed below: confuw@uw.edu​​

Important Dates

March 9 2021
Abstract submission opens. 

April 15 2021 
Deadline to submit for oral presentation consideration.  Abstracts submitted April 16 - May 20 will be accepted for poster presentation only.

Week of 10 May 2021
Notification of oral presentation selections. Selected presenters will be confirmed by email and then names/titles will be added to the conference program on this website.

May 20 2021
Submitters offered an oral presentation must accept their offered speaking slot (or slot may be offered to an alternative speaker)

May 20 2021
​Final Deadline to be included in the program for: Posters, plenary/keynote speakers, or any other sessions.

May 26 2021
Deadline for all presenters (oral or poster) to register and pay in full or their abstract will be pulled. 
  • Only abstracts of presenting authors who have registered and paid the registration fee by this date will be included in the program.

GENERAL ABSTRACT SUBMISSION TOPICS

  • All abstract submitters will select one of these "General Topics" during abstract submission.
  • Posters will be organized by these General Topics. Only submitters that choose "for oral consideration" will be asked to choose one of the sessions listed to the right, in a second step.
  • Any abstract not selected for a talk will default back to the chosen General Topic for poster presentation.
GENERAL TOPICS
  1. Abiotic Stress
  2. Applied/Translational Plant Science
  3. Biochemistry and Metabolism
  4. Biotic Interactions
  5. Cell Biology 
  6. Development or Developmental Mechanisms
  7. Education, Outreach, Community Building or Support
  8. Evolution, Ecology, or Population Biology
  9. Epigenetics, Chromatin, and Small RNAs
  10. Hormones/Hormone Biology
  11. New Research Tools, Technology or Resources
  12. Signal Transduction
    Systems, Synthetic, and Computational Biology
  13. Other

Abstract Selection Timeline

Selection Process
  1. 9 March abstract submission opens
  2. 15 April deadline for abstract submission for ORAL consideration
  3. 17 April Abstracts assigned to chairs.
  4. 30 April: Selections due to organizers from chairs (please include two alternative back-up speakers, just in case anyone declines)
  5. Week of May 10: Email notification to selected speakers by Conference staff.
  6. 20 May: Selected speakers must confirm they accept their offered slot (or slot will be offered to alternative speaker)
  7. 26 May: All speakers must be registered and fully paid or your abstract will be pulled and your speaking slot forfeited.

Tracks that will be selecting from abstracts for talks

Sessions whose organizers plan to select 1+ talks from submitted abstracts are listed below.

9 March, abstract submission to open.

15 April 2021 is the abstract submission deadline to be considered for one of these short talks. You will submit to the session you are interested in. 
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Mini-symposia (time/date in program, tba)
  1. Active Learning and CUREs in Undergraduate Plant Science Education
  2. Advancing Quantitative Proteomics in Plant Science
  3. Arabidopsis Informatics
  4. Arabidopsis Transposable Element Biology
  5. Cell Polarity: Driving Morphological and Functional Complexity
  6. Circadian Signatures of Fitness
  7. Encoding Calcium Spikes, Waves, and Oscillations in Arabidopsis
  8. Exploring Brassicaceae Diversity
  9. Exploring the Single-cell Landscape of Arabidopsis
  10. Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis
  11. From Molecules to Organs: Quantitative Imaging in Plant Biology
  12. Getting More Power From Your Flower: Multi-functional Flowers Improve Plant Fitness
  13. How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone and Drought?
  14. Impact and Application of Basic Research to Sustainable Agriculture Improvement
  15. Implications of the Non-coding Genome on Chromatin Signaling During Plant Gene Expression
  16. Leveraging Natural Variation to Understand Immune Functions
  17. Metabolite-mediated Regulation of Plant Growth and Development
  18. Molecules on the Move (MOM): Plant-microorganism Communication
  19. Nutrient Signaling Nexus in Control of Plant Architecture
  20. Plant Hormones
  21. Plant Memory: Environmental Information Integration Within and Across Generations
  22. Quantitative Development in the Digital World
  23. RNA Modifications-mechanism and Biology
  24. Sensing the Cell Wall: Mechanical Signals and Downstream Responses
  25. Social Media and Science Communication
  26. Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Development
  27. Stress Granules in Plants as Novel Mechanism in Stress Signaling
  28. The Arabidopsis Algorithm: Mathematical Modeling in Plant Biology
  29. The Cell Cycle in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses
  30. The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Biology
  31. Translational Regulation of Gene Expression
  32. Using Evolutionary Novelty to Understand General Principles of Plant Biology
  33. When Development Meets Stress- Integration of Plant Growth and Defense

 List of Talks Selected From Abstracts (to be announced middle of May, 2021)

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all posters will be presented in virtual environment as PDFs for viewing online
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