Community Mini-Symposia
​and Workshops

We received 88 community-submitted proposals from across the globe. A review committee comprised of members of the organizing committee and members of the ICAR 2020 External Advisory Board reviewed all proposals, ensuring each proposal was scored at least twice. A separate competition was held for proposals led by students and postdocs to ensure that early-career scientists were selected to lead at least 25% of the community-led sessions.  
We applaud the scientific excellence and creativity of the plant science community, which was clearly evident in the array of diverse and exciting topics that the committee received! 

Community Program Timeline

• March - July 31 2019: Community Proposal Submissions Accepted
• August - September 30 2019: Review committee reviews and ranks sessions
• By October 15 2019: Mini-symposium & Workshop slots offered to selected session leaders; acceptances confirmed; any sessions declined will be offered to another group
• By October 31 2019: Deadline for Organizer(s) of selected mini-symposia to submit revised session title (if applicable)
  
• By December 31 2019: Travel budgets (based on fundraising success of the organizing committee) will be confirmed for each selected and accepted group
• By January 31 2020: Draft session program (invited speakers list) due to organizers (selections from submitted abstracts may be listed as tbd)
• Mid-end April 2020: Submitted abstracts from attendees available to fill out session speaker lists
• Mid-end May 2020: Final speaker list due to organizers (date may change depending on printing deadlines)

Confirmed Community Mini-Symposia
(90 minute long) 

MINISYMPOSIUM TITLE, ORGANIZER(S), PROGRAMS TBA

Encoding Calcium Spikes, Waves, and Oscillations in Arabidopsis
Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley, USA

Exploring Brassicaceae Diversity
Kathleen Greenham, University of Minnesota and Patrick Edger, Michigan State University, USA

Getting More Power From Your Flower: Multi-functional Flowers Improve Plant Fitness
Diarmuid O'Maoileidigh, University of Liverpool, UK

How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone, and Drought?
Maija Sierla, University of Helsinki, Finland and Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USA

Leveraging Natural Variation to Understand Immune Functions
Adam Steinbrenner, University of Washington, USA

Molecules on the Move (MOM): Plant-microorganism Communication
Patricia Baldrich, Danforth Center and Ryan DelPercio, University of Missouri Columbia, USA

NAASC-organized Session on Plant Hormones
Anna Stepanova, North Carolina State University, USA

Plant Memory: Environmental Information Integration Within and Across Generations
Gabriela Auge, IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina

Protein Homeostasis in Development and Plant Interactions 
Nico Dissmeyer and Luz Irina A. Calderon Villalobos, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany

RNA Modifications-mechanism and Biology
Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA and Yiji Xia, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Development
Adrienne Roeder and Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde, Cornell University, and  Jennifer Lachowiec, Montana State University, USA; Arezki Boudaoud, ENS- Lyon, France; and James Locke, Cambridge, UK 

The Arabidopsis Algorithm: Mathematical Modeling in Plant Biology
Kari Miller, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Biology
Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution at Stanford, USA and Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Using Evolutionary Novelty to Understand General Principles of Plant Biology
Daniel Kliebenstein, University of California, Davis, USA

When Development Meets Stress- Integration of Plant Growth and Defense
Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA

Technological Innovations to Jumpstart Biological Discovery
Christine Queitsch, University of Washington and Roger Deal, Emory University, USA

From Molecules to Organs: Quantitative Imaging in Plant Biology
Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Daniel Kierzkowski, University of Montreal, Canada, and Charlotte Kirchhelle, University of Oxford, UK
 
Exploring the Single-cell Landscape of Arabidopsis
Travis Lee and Joseph Swift of the Salk Institute; Rachel Shahan, Duke University; Josh Cuperus and Christine Queitsch of the University of Washington-Seattle, USA

Active Learning and CUREs in Undergraduate Plant Science Education
Brit Moss, Whitman College and Thelma Madzima, University of Washington- Bothell, USA

Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis
Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State University, USA and Simon Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Translational Regulation of Gene Expression
Catharina Merchante, University of Málaga, Spain; Astrid Gadeyne, VIB-UGent, Belgium and Pamela A. Ribone, Sainsbury, University of Cambridge, UK

Sensing the Cell Wall: Mechanical Signals and Downstream Responses
Lauri Vaahtera, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway and Nora Gigli Bisceglia, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Metabolite-mediated Regulation of Plant Growth and Development
Hiroshi A. Maeda, UW-Madison; Mark Estelle, University of San Diego, and Jazz Dickinson, USA

From Basic Research to Genome Editing and Sustainable Agriculture
Huachun Larue and Xiaoyu Liu, Bayer Crop Science, USA

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Confirmed Community Workshops
(60 minute long) 

WORKSHOP TITLE, ORGANIZER(S), PROGRAMS TBA

Running a Research Group in the Next Generation
Jacqueline Monaghan, Queen's University and Heather McFarlane, University of Toronto, Canada

Social Media and Science Communication
Javier Brumos, North Carolina State University, USA and Eva Hellmann, Sainsbury at Cambridge University, UK

The Cell Cycle in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Responses
John Larkin, Louisiana State University and Adrienne Roeder, Cornell University, USA

Quantitative Development in the Digital World
Margaret Frank, Cornell University, and Sam Leiboff, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Stress Granules in Plants as Novel Mechanism in Stress Signaling
Monika Chodasiewicz (Kosmacz), Max Plank Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

Taking an Equity Lens: Empowering Women in Computational Biology
Aleksandra Beric, Danforth Center, USA

Utilizing Arabidopsis in the Classroom: Empowering Students and Your Research Program
Siobhan Braybrook, UCLA and Liza Conrad, Eckerd College, USA

Arabidopsis Informatics
Nicholas Provart, University of Toronto, Eva Huala and Tanya Berardini (TAIR) 

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