Workshop Description (60 or 90 minutes)
Please provide a ~150-word description of the proposed workshop and a bullet point list of objectives (100 words). Describe the overall topic, presenters and activities. Be sure to address all points described in the workshop rubric. If selected, this description will appear in promotional material and on the event website.Rubric for Workshops
- Expertise of presenters
- Activities allow practice of skills
- Schedule of workshop provides adequate time for presentations and activities
- Cohesive session
- Attendees will gain career skills
- Gender balance
- Career-stage balance
- Under-resourced research participation (examples include first generation in family to attend a university, veteran, indigenous, rural, student contributors)
- Rankings will be based on total score as well as discussion among Program Committee members.
- The Program Committee has a wide variety of experience, both academic and industrial, at many career stages. Each committee member may have slightly different rationales for scoring, and these differences strengthen the evaluation.
- Each Program Committee member will aim for consistency in their rankings.
- Depending on time constraints of the conference, please indicate if the proposed workshop could be presented virtually as part of Plant Biology Global.
Deadline
October 31, 2025
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FAQs
The program committee is seeking content across the following topic areas:
Career Development
Techniques and Applications
Education & Outreach
Other
You must include at least two facilitators and up to seven. Two facilitators, per workshop, will be eligible for the speaker pricing.
Yes. Please advise the proposed facilitators that you have included them in your proposal as they will receive an email from ASPB notifying them of their inclusion in your proposal and requesting them to provide demographic information. This is NEW for 2025, and the change was made based on feedback from 2024.
Two workshop facilitators are eligible for the speaker rate. If more than two facilitators are listed in the proposal, the proposal submitter will be asked to advise ASPB of who should receive the special pricing. Once accepted as a speaker, ASPB will code the speaker profile, and the special rate will be visible. Please note that by Internal Revenue Service tax rules, ASPB must report the difference between the Non-member or Member rate and speaker rate as income and all speakers must provide ASPB with a W-9 or W-8 BEN to receive the speaker rate. Once accepted as a facilitator AND forms received, ASPB will code your profile, and the speaker rate will be visible. Facilitators can opt-out of the speaker rate if they wish.
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