Welcome to the 9th Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium.

This year's minisymposium will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2008 in the Bioscience Research Building (Rm 1103) at the University of Maryland. This is a different location from last year's. This one day meeting will run from 9:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.. The meeting program includes speakers from throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

In order to give everyone the opportunity to present data, we have a poster session. You do not need to submit an abstract, just bring your most recent posters. The poster session will be held in the seminar room 1103 in the Bioscience Research Building during the lunch and afternoon break hours.

The symposium is free to all participants and provides free lunch and refreshments. However, registration is required. Please register by March 15, so we could have a head count and order appropriate amount of food.

This year's minisymposium will be held back to back with the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists (MAS-ASPB). The MAS-ASPB meeting will be held on Friday March 28. Please see link for more information.

We look forward to seeing you in the spring!

Organizers: Shunyuan Xiao
                     Caren Chang
                     June Kwak
                     Zhongchi Liu
                     Steve Mount
                     Heven Sze
                                        

Sponsors:

                     Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, College of Chemical and Life Sciences
                     Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
                     Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture,
Bio-Rad