PCA Initiative
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The Plant Cell Atlas (PCA) will be a community resource that comprehensively describes the state of various plant cell types and integrates high-resolution location information of nucleic acids, proteins, and metabolites within plant cells.
Our published perspective, "Towards Building a Plant Cell Atlas", provides a vision for the PCA Initiative. We also held a Kick-off Workshop in Spring/Summer 2020 and a Symposium in Dec 2021 to discuss how to best build this community resource and to highlight research that will be needed to build a Plant Cell Atlas. This initiative is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (Grant #'s 1916797 & 2052590), Carnegie Institution for Science's President Fund, and BASF. |
Learn more here about the 2023 Gordon Research Conference to be held in person in Ventura, CA. Applications are open now!
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Breaking News27 April 2023 Registration is open for a new PCA workshop called “The Missing Link: Broadening Participation and Embracing Biodiversity in Scientific Research.” Speakers will discuss anti-colonial research frameworks, innovative capacity-building efforts, and forward-thinking technology transfer. 26 April 2023 We are launching a new PCA committee focused on Spatial Omics! If you are interested in joining the PCA Spatial Omics Committee, fill out this brief form. 3 April 2023 The full program for the GRC on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology is up! Go check it out and apply to the conference. 31 March 2023 Our first blog post is up! Check it out to learn more about Joan Josephine C. Kimutai, the “Best Talk” award winner at the JR Biotek-PCA African Scholar Ph.D. Mentoring Program Celebration and watch our interview with her. 17 March 2023 Registration is open for a PCA workshop on Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology - Part I: From plants to data generation! 15 February 2023 Meet our 2023 PCA Travel Award Recipient, Oluwatoyosi Adaramodu! 7 December 2022 The Program Book for the 2022 PCA Symposium is now available. View (PW: PCA2022) or download it and be sure to register! 3 November 2022 An article on Toward a Data Infrastructure for the Plant Cell Atlas was published in Plant Physiology by PCA members and collaborators! 31 October 2022 PCA will be at #ABRCMS2022 November 9-12 in Anaheim, California. The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists is one of the largest communities for underrepresented scientists in STEM. Come by booth #521 to chat with Sterling Field and Evan Saldivar about PCA's work, and commitment to building a diverse scientific community. Check out open positions within the PCA network! 24 October 2022 PCA’s Selena Rice and Elena Lazarus will be at the @SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 27-29. If you're onsite, come by booth #1725 to say hello! Learn more there, or on our website, about open plant science positions and fellowship opportunities. #2022NDiSTEM #TrueDiversity |
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