The internationally renowned series of New Phytologist Symposia (NPS) aim to support emerging and key areas of research. Usually these meetings would be expected to extend over one to three days, with invited speakers and a maximum of 120 delegates. In this way we hope to provide an informal atmosphere for the stimulation and exchange of ideas and the building of collaborations. We particularly encourage the involvement of early-phase career scientists and as such a number of travel grants will be awarded in association with each meeting.

If you are interested in organising a New Phytologist Symposium in the future, please complete the proposal pro forma and email this to the Managing Editor Holly Slater by the end of February. Please note that proposals are considered approximately two years in advance of the event. You are also welcome to contact the Managing Editor with preliminary enquiries at any time of the year.

Forthcoming Symposia in 2012

28^th New Phytologist Symposium
Functions and ecology of the plant microbiome
Rhodes, Greece, 18–21 May, 2012

29^th New Phytologist Symposium
Stomata
Manchester, UK.  2–4 July 2012

30^th New Phytologist Symposium
Immunomodulation by plant-associated organisms
California, USA. 16–19 September 2012

Forthcoming for 2013

31^st NPS Orchid symbioses: models for evolutionary ecology
Date: TBC - May, 2013
Italy

32^nd NPS: Plant interactions with other organisms
Date: TBC November, 2013
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Previous New Phytologist Symposia

27^th NPS Stoichiometric flexibility in terrestrial ecosystems under global change
Arizona, USA, 2011

26^th NPS Bioenergy trees
Nancy, France, 2011

25^th NPS Colonization of the terrestrial environment
Bristol, UK, 2010

24^th NPS Plant respiration and climate change
Oxford, UK, 2010

23^rd NPS Carbon cycling in tropical ecosystems
Guangzhou, China, 2009

22^nd NPS Effectors in plant–microbe interactions
Versailles, France, 2009

21^st NPS The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Montpellier, France, 2008

20^th NPS Arsenic: Unravelling its metabolism and speciation in plants
Aberdeen, UK, 2008

19^th NPS Physiological sculpture of plants: new visions and capabilities for crop development
Oregon, USA, 2008

18^th NPS Calcium–based signalling systems in plants
Dublin, Ireland, 2007

17^th NPS Systems Biology and the Biology of Systems: how, if at all are they related?
Buxton, Derbyshire, UK, 2007

16^th NPS Impact of genomics on fungal biology
Nancy, France, 2006

15^th NPS Networks in Plant Biology
London UK, 2006

14^th NPS New directions in plant ecological development
London UK, 2006

13^th NPS The role of the extracellular matrix in the control of plant development
London UK, 2005

12^th NPS Functional genomics of environmental adaptation in Populus
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA, 2004

11^th NPS Plant speciation
Nova Scotia, Canada, 2003

10^th NPS Functional genomics of plant-microbe interactions
Nancy, France, 2002

9^th NPS Heavy metals and plants - from ecosystems to biomolecules
Philadelphia, USA, 2002

8^th NPS Impact of soil microbes on plant population dynamics and productivity
Helsinki, Finland, 2002

7^th NPS Stomata 2001
Birmingham, UK, 2001

6^th NPS Signalling in plants
Wye, UK, 2000
Held in collaboration with The Biochemical Society

5^th NPS Root dynamics and global change - an ecosystem perspective
Tennessee, USA, 1999

Held in collaboration with GCTE

4^th NPS At the crossroads of plant physiology and ecology - causes and consequences of variation in leaf structure
Montpellier, France, 1998

3^rd NPS Major biological issues resulting from anthropogenic disturbance of the nitrogen cycle
Lancaster, UK, 1997

2^nd NPS Putting plant physiology on the map - genetic analysis of developmental and adaptive traits
Bangor, UK, 1997

1^st NPS Plant-microbe symbiosis - molecular approaches
York, UK, 1995