Support for scientific meetings 

The New Phytologist Foundation supports symposia, conferences and meetings that furthers plant science research around the world. This can be in the form of a grant or sponsorship of the event. Below we detail the events that we have supported. If you are interested in discussing support for your event, please contact the Events and Promotions Manager for further information.  

2024

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK. 2 February.
• Molecular Plant Science Symposium, Freiburg, Germany. 20–22 March.
• XV International Symposium on Plant Biotechnology, Santa Clara, Cuba. 7–10 May.
• French Mycorrhiza Days, Montpelier, France. 14–16 May.
• Interdisciplinary Plant Group 40th annual symposium: Plant Hormones at the Intersection of Stress and Development, University of Missouri, USA. 21–24 May.
• 8th European Workshop on Plant Chromatin, Barcelona, Spain. 21–24 May.
• Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology, Holderness, NH, USA. 8–14 June.
• Mycological Society of America Annual Meeting: Expanding Networks, Markham, Ontario, Canada. 9–12 June.
• Botany 2024, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. 15–19 June.
• Plant Calcium Signalling Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal. 1–4 July.
• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 60th Annual Meeting, Kigali, Rwanda. 14–18 July.
• 34th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), San Diego, CA, USA. 15–19 July.
• XX International Botanical Congress, Madrid, Spain. 21–27 July.
• Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, USA. 4–9 August.
• International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM) 12, Manchester, UK. 6–11 August.
• Gordon Research Seminar: Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton, Andover, MA, USA. 10–11 August.
• Innovation in plant and soil sciences to tackle critical global challenges: Climate change adaptation and mitigation symposium, Sheffield, UK. 12–13 August.
• Botanical University Challenge, Oxford, UK. 28 August.
• Trilateral Early Career Researcher Symposium in Plant Science, Lyon, France. Date TBC.
• Perspectives on Protein Networks in Plants, Strasbourg, France. 19–20 September.

2023

• Botanical University Challenge 2023, Reading University, Reading, UK
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK, 2 February
• Gordon Research Conference: Plant Herbivore Interactions in Action: Fundamentals to Applications, Ventura, CA, USA, 26 February–3 March
• Global Soil Biodiversity Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 13–15 March
  Two poster prizes
• 19th International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology, Taipei City, Taiwan, 27–31 March
  Poster prize
• Botanical Microscopy Meeting 2023, Norwich, UK, 2–4 April
• Gordon Research Conference: CO₂ assimilation in plants, from genome to biome, Tuscany, Italy, 7–12 May
• 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR), Chiba, Japan, 5–9 June
• Evolution, Albuqerque, USA, 21–25 June
• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Coimbatore, India, 2–6 July
  Poster prizes
• Trees in time: the 7th annual BIFoR community meeting, Birmingham, UK, 4–5 July
• European photosynthesis workshop, Castle Lautrach, Germany, 11–4 July
  Early career researcher speaker prize
• IS-MPMI Congress, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 16–20 July
  Support for early career researcher attendance and Liana Burghardt hosting a symposium session
• Botany 2023, Boise, Idaho, USA, 22–23 July
• Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, USA, 6–11 August
• 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology, Lyon, France, 20–25 August
• 8th European Phycological Conference, Brest, France, 20–26 August
• III South American Symposium on Mycorrhizas, Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia, 28–30 August
• The 2023 Jasmonate Meeting, Halle, Germany, 29 August–3 September
  Poster prize
• Plastid Preview 2023, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7–8 September
• Sponsorship of the European Plant Science Retreat for PhD students, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 12–15 September
• iMMM6, Cambridge, UK, 25–27 September
• Plant Peptides and Receptors meeting, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2–4 October
• 11th International Symposium on Plant-Soil Interactions at Low pH (PSILPH), Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, 16–21 October
• Australian Society of Plant Scientists conference, Hobart, Australia, 28 November–1 December
  Poster prizes

2022 

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK
• The 31st Western Photosynthesis Conference – 24 – 25 March 
• Monogram Conference 4 – 6 April 
• XIV International Symposium on Plant Biotechnology 3 – 6 May 
• BES: Aboveground-Belowground Interactions 11 – 13 May 
• Gordon Research Conference - Salt and Water Stress in Plants 22 – 27 May 
• ICAR 2022 20 – 24 June 
• BIFoR Community Meeting 22 – 23 June 
• Evolution 2022 24 – 28 June 
• Plant Biology 2022 9 – 13 July 
• 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 10 – 14 July 
• FASEB Mechanisms of Plant Development 24 – 29 July 
• Botany 2022 24 – 27 July 222
• ICOM11 & iMMM5 International Molecular Mycorrhiza 31 July – 5 August 
• Ecological Society of America 2022, including support for the Biogeosciences section of the ESA 14 – 19 August
• Padiba 2022 13 – 15 September
• Xylem International Meeting (XIM5) 19 – 21 September
• 7th Global Botanic Gardens Congress 25 – 29 September
• ISPA22 – International Society for Plant Anaerobiosis Conference 25 – 29 September
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 12 – 16 December 
• BES Annual meeting 2022 18 – 22 December