2022 PCA Travel Award Recipients

Maketalena Aleamotu’a
I am Maketalena Aleamotu’a from the Kingdom of Tonga, a small Polynesian nation in the South Pacific. I undertook my undergraduate degree and MSc at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, with my Master’s research focused on identifying single-stranded DNA viruses from Tongan bat guano. Having always had an interest in how plants work at the molecular level, I changed fields to plant biology for my PhD. My recently submitted thesis (University of Newcastle, Australia) investigated the cellular and molecular biology of phi thickening development in Brassica roots, and identified novel genetic loci linked to jasmonic acid-induced phi thickening development

Iman Yangaza
Iman is an Assistant lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Dar es Salaam. He holds MSc in Climate Change and Sustainable Development and a BSc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Dar es Salaam. Iman is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Botany at the University of Dar es Salaam. His research is on assessing Avocado's (Persea americana) genetic diversity and productivity in Tanzania. He has attended training, including plant tissue culture in India (2017) and plant molecular biology in Kenya (2021). His interest is in plant biology, climate change, and scientific data mining.

 

PCA Travel Award for PB22

 The PCA Travel Award is designed to assist one Black, Latine, or Indigenous scientist to attend the Plant Biology 2022 (PB22) conference. The conference is being held from July 9-13, 2022 in Portland, Oregon, USA. See below for eligibility requirements and the link to the application form.

Applications are now closed.

The award recipient will receive:

• Full funding for registration fees.
• Full funding for travel and accommodations.
• Administrative assistance in making arrangements for travel and accommodation.
• Introduction to PCA members and activities, before and during the conference.
• Access to 1-2 mentors to provide assistance navigating the conference who will remain connected with the awardee after the conference ends.

The recipient will be notified by March 18, 2022.

 

Eligibility

Those who meet the following criteria are eligible to apply for the PCA Travel Award:

• Black, Latine, or Indigenous scientist
  
• Location: any country
• Career stage: any

 

To Apply

Use the button below to access the application form. To apply you will need to provide:

• First and Last Name
• Email address
• Affiliate Institution
  
• Position Title
• A statement on how attending PB22 will help your scientific career (500 word limit).
  

Deep learning and 3D isosurface rending reveals the spatial relationship of cell mitochondria (blue), Golgi and Golgi vesicles (green) and cell wall with plasmodesmata voids (magenta) in barley root using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy. Photo credt: K. Czymmek

Reconstruction of an Arabidopsis first leaf from a six-day old seedling. Photo credit: F. Bossi

ER marker (green) and anthocyanin (magenta) in Arabidopsis epidermal cells. Photo credit: Alexandra Chanoca (Otegui Lab)