Mid Atlantic Section ASPB Annual Spring Meeting
March 28 (Friday) 9:00AM-5:30PM, 2008
Bioscience Research Building (RM 1103)
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
(Bioscience
Research Building is adjacent to Biology-Psychology
Building)
Key Note speaker: Dr. Ralph S. Quatrano
Spencer T. Olin Professor
Washington University
"Physcomitrella: The system and genome to address plant functions"
The keynote seminar will be at 12:00-1:00 in 1103 Bioscience Research Building
Plant biologists in the Mid-Atlantic region are invited to participate and attend this meeting.
Plant biologists, especially undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs, are encouraged to present their work in 15 min oral presentations. Please submit a one page abstract when registering for the meeting in order to be considered for oral presentation.
Registration
is required (deadline March 15)
Regular member: $25.00 (pay at door-cash or check)
Student or postdoc: $10.00 (free for those who present their work at the
meeting)
The MAS-ASPB will be
held back to back with the Plant
Biology Minisymposium 2008 (March 29, Sat)
At the same location (1103 Bioscience Research Building, University of
Maryland)
The minisymposium is free to all
but registration is also required
MAS-ASPB Spring Meeting Organizers
Zhongchi Liu, Chair of MAS-ASPB, zliu@umd.edu 301-405-1586
Mauricio Bustos, Secretary-Treasurer, bustos@umbc.edu
Robert P. Donaldson, MAS-ASPB Section Representative, robdon@gwu.edu,
(202) 994-6094
Hotels
Quality Inn
7200 Baltimore Blvd
College Park, MD 20740 1.800.221.2222; 301.864.5820
Hotel is ~15 min walk from the meeting location
Comfort Inn and Suites
9020 Baltimore Blvd.
College Park, MD 20740
800-228-5150 (0.8 miles from campus)
Travel
By Metro: College Park/U. Maryland Metro Station on the green
line
Free shuttle bus (red/white U Md) to Stamp Union.
By plane:
From DCA Airport
You can take the Metrorail from the airport. Take the Yellow Line (toward
Mt. Vernon Square), transferring to the Green Line (toward Greenbelt),
and get off at College Park/U of MD metro station.
From BWI Airport
Supershuttle ~$15
1-800-258-3826
www.supershuttle.com
By train:
Train Station- New Carrolton or Union Station in Washington DC (has access
to Metro rail)
From New Carrolton, take a cab or arrange a ride (about 15-20 minutes
drive)
Parking on University
of Maryland campus
Friday: For the MAS-ASPB meeting there are reserved parking spots in the
Union Lane parking garage for non-UMCP participants. Parking tickets can
be validated at the registration table during the the meeting.
Saturday-Parking is free in Regent's Drive Parking Garage
