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PCA Initiative

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.

Promo image for the Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology workshop Part 2: Data Analysis. This free, virtual workshop will be held on November 30, 2023 from 7:55 AM to 12:40 PM Pacific time.
Join the PCA at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches to Plant Biology from August 10-15, 2025. This GRC provides a forum to discuss and share cutting-edge approaches that explore plant biology from the perspective of individual cells. Join leaders in the field from around the world at this exciting event. Applications close July 13, 2025

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Photo credit Vijaya Lakshmi

Breaking News

20 March 2025
Job opening for an Office Coordinator with the Plant Resilience Institute at Michigan State University. To learn more and to apply: Click Here

17 March 2025
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Position opens up in Plant-Disease Proteomics in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the laboratory of Dr. R. Glen Uhrig. To learn more and to apply: Click Here

26 February 2025
A new job opportunity has been announced for Post Doctoral Fellows with the Libault Lab at the University of Missouri - Columbia. 
For more information and to apply: Click Here


25 February 2025
The PCA is excited to announce the second part of our Spatial Metabolomics Workshop will be on March 5th, 2025! Join speakers across the globe in discussions on cutting-edge single-cell and spatial metabolomics technologies. Register today: 
bit.ly/PCAMetabolomicsII 

February 2025
The PCA is excited to announce that the art exhibit featuring historically significant Black scholars in plant science from last year is back this February to honor Black History Month. 
To Read More: Click Here

31 October 2024

The PCA is excited to introduce the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series! Starting November 12th, 2024, this series discusses how to define plant cell types and states quantitatively and qualitatively using single-cell and spatial omics approaches. Register today: http://bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar and find out more on our upcoming events page

22 October 2024
Join members of the PCA at the AG2PI Ag Single Cell Workshop happening immediately prior the the AGBT-Ag meeting. This workshop titled Empowering G2P in Agriculture: building a collaborative environment for single-cell applications brings together SC experts across domains. Find out more on our upcoming events page.


15 August 2024
The PCA is excited to announce our new Tools and Repositories page! Gathered here are resources for analyzing RNAseq data, genetic databases, annotation tools, and many other exciting resources to better your research.

18 June 2024
The PCA will be at ASPB 2024 in Honolulu, HI hosting multiple talks and a workshop on single-cell omics and biology. Find more information on our upcoming events page as or on the ASPB website.

9 May 2024

The public talk recordings from the Spatial Omics Workshop are now on the PCA YouTube channel.

7 February 2024 
The Plant Resilience Institute at Michigan State University displayed the PCA Art and Science exhibit in the Molecular Plant Sciences building. 

2 February 2024 
The PCA Black Plant Scientists exhibit was showcased at Cornell University for Black History Month. 


​29 January 2024
Members of the PCA scSequencing Committee and collaborators recently published an article on "Best practices for the execution, analysis, and data storage of plant single-cell/nucleus transcriptomics" in The Plant Cell. They discuss challenges and guidelines for single-cell/nucleus transcriptomics in plants to increase the reproducibility and usefulness of these datasets.

19 December 2023
Registration and Abstract Submissions are open for the 3rd PCA Symposium. Applications for the PCA SynBio Hackathon and Travel Award are also open!

18 December 2023
Members of the Plant Cell Atlas who were trained by or were impacted by the life and career of Dr. Philip Benfey share heartfelt remembrances of Philip who passed away earlier this year. Read more.

15-18 November 2023
The PCA will be attending ABRCMS 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona! Come find the PCA booth in the Exhibitor Hall (Booth #1528) to learn more about PCA initiatives and sign up to join our mailing list. 

6 November 2023
The PCA Art and Science exhibit is up on display at Oregon State University's Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. If you are on OSU's campus go check it out in the West Wing of Cordley Hal
l!

26-28 October 2023
The PCA will be attending the 2023 NDiSTEM Conference in Portland, Oregon! Come find the PCA booth in the Exhibitor Hall (Booth #807) to learn more about PCA initiatives and sign up to join our mailing list. 

16 October 2023
Registration is open for Part 2 of the PCA Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology workshop on Data Analysis.

30 July 2023
The first Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology was held in Ventura, CA. Read about attendee perspectives on the conference in our latest blog post.

29 July 2023
Members of the PCA Core Network Participant Group met in person to celebrate accomplishments of the previous year and discuss goals for year 3 of the PCA.

19 July 2023
Learn about how Plant Cell Atlas will be participating at ASPB's Plant Biology 2023 conference!
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
“The Plant Cell Atlas operates predominantly out of Michigan State University. We acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. We affirm Indigenous sovereignty and hold Michigan State University accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.”

For questions about the PCA Initiative please contact us at [email protected].

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