The Global Plant Events Calendar is celebrating 5th anniversary

Exactly 5 years ago, in January 2019, Agrisera and Plantae decided to launch The Global Plant Events Calendar to support the plant science community with a good overview of worldwide meetings, conferences and workshops, both in person and online.

The calendar served as an important resource during the pandemic, when many meetings were cancelled or converted to online events. All events submitted to the calendar are curated, to exclude meetings that do not fit the plant community, as well as so-called "predatory conferences".

"The calendar is about inclusion, education and quality. We promote smaller, local meetings along with the big, popular ones," says Agrisera's Technical Support Manager, Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund, in a recent interview conducted by ASPB.

She continues; "And you can think about it like this: if you dive into the cell and look at the organelles and research about it, and then if you take that up and translate it into the tree standing in the forest and being exposed to the climate, the calendar will cover almost every event remotely related to that process. So, this is a metaphor for what this calendar is really covering. It’s all the factors of plant science, internal and external. Big and small."

You are welcome to read the full story of the calendar in the interview by Rachel Belsky, ASPB Peer Review & Content Review Coordinator.

On average, there are around 200 meetings listed in the calendar each year. Over the last few years, the calendar has become recognized by organizers of highly recognized meetings, such as GRC (Gordon Research Conferences) and the Global Plant Council.

The Global Plant Events Calendar is celebrating 5th anniversary

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