UKPSF Events

UKPSF Annual Conference 2012

Date: 18-19th April 2012

Location: John Innes Centre, Norwich

Over 200 plant scientists from the lab, field, classroom and industry came together for Plant Sci2012, the inaugural research conference of the UKPSF, held at the John Innes Centre this April. The meeting was the first annual conference organised by the UKPSF to showcase the wealth of plant science in the UK, and provided a unique arena for plant and crop scientists from across the UK to come together and share their knowledge and expertise amongst their contemporaries.

Sir John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government was invited to give the keynote speech, summarising the importance of plant science within the context of his ‘Perfect Storm’; a term he first coined in 2009 to summarise the food shortages, water scarcity and insufficient energy supplies caused by an increasing population, urbanisation, increased consumption and the effects of climate change.
Speakers included Sandy Knapp (Natural History Museum), Julian Hibberd (University of Cambridge), Ian Graham (CNAP), Bill Davies (University of Lancaster) Richard Summer (RAGT) and Giles Oldroyd (John Innes Centre) to name but a few.

We are now planning UK PlantSci 2013; more details available soon.

UK PlantSci2012 is a SEB Symposium, many thanks to our main meeting sponsor the Society of Experimental Biology.