The Plant Cell Atlas (PCA) attends and hosts a variety of events to support our mission: to build a diverse scientific community that will set standards for generating and integrating large plant data sets, create high-quality resources and tools to advance plant science, and provide excellent networking and interdisciplinary training opportunities for early career scientists.

Upcoming Events

Three-Part Data Reproducibility Workshop Series!
February 9-11, 2026
​9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST
The Data Management and Infrastructure and Single-Cell Sequencing committees of the Plant Cell Atlas are organizing a workshop series that aims to equip participants with essential skills and knowledge to achieve the critical goal of ensuring data reproducibility in single-cell research, especially as the technology that enables this research strategy becomes more widely adopted, and the utility of the data generated grows in scale. 

This 3-part workshop will take place over three days and will cover: 

Day 1 (February 9, 2026 - 9:00 AM PST): Version control (git) for single-cell code repositories and recording sample metadata
Day 2 (February 10, 2026 - 9:00 AM PST): Reproducibly running single-cell preprocessing pipelines using Docker
Day 3 (February 11, 2026 - 9:00 AM PST): Using reproducible workflows in R and/or Python for analyzing and visualizing single-cell data

Each workshop will consist of a 30-minute introduction to the topic followed by a 60-90 minute live demonstration. Participants will learn practical approaches to enhance the reproducibility of their single-cell data analysis, leading to more robust and reliable research outcomes.

​You can register for this event here!

Previous Events

2025

August 10-15, 2025
Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches to Plant Biology

July 26-30, 2025
ASPB 2025

June 16-20, 2025
ICAR 2025 

April 5-6, 2025
Michigan State University Science Festival

March 29-30, 2025
AG2PI Ag Single Cell Workshop

March 5, 2025
Plant Cell Atlas Metabolomics Workshop: Part II

November 12, 2024 to September 16th, 2025
Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series

2024
August 14-15, 2024
Plant Cell Atlas SynBio Hackathon

August 13-14, 2024
3rd Plant Cell Atlas Symposium
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July 15-19, 2024 
ICAR 2024 

​June 22- 26, 2024
ASPB 2024

​May 9, 2024
Spatial Omics Workshop

June 4-7, 2024 
Plant Cell Dynamics XI​
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2023
November 30, 2023
Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology - Part II: Data Analysis (Virtual Workshop)

November 15, 2023 - November 18, 2023
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS)

October 26, 2023 - October 28, 2023
SACNAS National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference 

October 16, 2023 - October 20, 2023
XX National Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Congress

September 24, 2023 - September 27, 2023
XXXIV Argentinean Meeting of Plant Physiology

August 10, 2023 - August 13, 2023
Soy23 International Conference

August 5, 2023 - August 9, 2023
ASPB Plant Biology Conference

July 30, 2023 - August 4, 2023
Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology

July 16-20, 2023
62nd Annual Phytochemical Society of North America Meeting

July 4-8, 2023
The 24th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances

June 22-23, 2023
Translational Research in Crops

June 22, 2023
The Missing Link: Broadening Participation and Embracing Biodiversity in Scientific Research (Virtual Workshop)

June 15, 2023 - June 16, 2023
AG2PI Conference: Mapping the Future of Agricultural Genome to Phenome Research

June 5, 2023 - June 9, 2023
33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research

May 15, 2023
Biodiversity Cell Atlas Meeting

May 3, 2023
Norwich Single-Cell Symposium 2023

April 14, 2023
Single Cell Sequencing Techniques in Plant Biology - Part I: From plants to data generation (Virtual Workshop)

2022
December 12 & 13, 2022
2022 Plant Cell Atlas Symposium (​Virtual Symposium) 

November 9-12, 2022 
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)

October 27-29, 2022
SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference

July 9-13, 2022
ASPB/CSPB Plant Biology 2022

May 19, 2022
Plant Cell Atlas Multiplex Microscopy Symposium (Virtual Workshop)

2021
December 9 & 10, 2021
First Plant Cell Atlas Symposium (Virtual Symposium)

October 19, 2021
Plant Cell Atlas Spatial Metabolomics Workshop (Virtual Workshop)

September 27, 2021
Plant Cell Atlas Writing Accountability Group Kick-Off

July 26, 2021
Plant Cell Atlas Career Panel Workshop (Virtual Workshop)
Academic Careers of the Future

June 21-25, 2021
ICAR 2021 Mini-Symposia
31st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Virtual Conference)

April 8, 2021
Plant Cell Atlas Spatial Proteomics ​Workshop (Virtual Workshop)
Spatial Proteomics in Plants: How to map the location and connection of proteins

February 23, 2021
Plant Cell Atlas Single Cell Sequencing Workshop (Virtual Workshop)

2020
May 15, May 22, and June 2, 2020
Plant Cell Atlas Initiative Inaugural Workshop
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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