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SUMMARY:Honoring the Gift: A Share-Alike Approach to Free Access to Seeds and Collaborative Futures
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Claudia Irene Calderón\, Jean-Michel Ané and Jorge L. Contreras. \nSeeds represent more than just genetic material. They are gifts that embody community stories\, cultural memory\, and ecological adaptation\, serving as the foundation of our food systems. This talk will delve into how we can honor these gifts through ethical frameworks and collaborative practices that safeguard free access and reciprocity. We will begin by sharing lessons from the MaSE project\, which promotes mutual learning between Indigenous communities and academic institutions to develop culturally grounded guidelines for seed sovereignty collaboratively. Next\, we will explore the scientific and ethical dimensions surrounding research on nitrogen-fixing maize landraces from Oaxaca. This case exemplifies both the promise of agroecological innovation and the risks of biopiracy when Indigenous contributions are overlooked. Lastly\, we will examine legal approaches to open seed germplasm transfers\, such as Bioleft (in Argentina) or the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI)\, which seek to challenge restrictive intellectual property regimes and foster commons-based stewardship. Together\, these perspectives encourage us to envision collaborative futures where diverse forms of knowledge\, cultural commitments\, scientific advancements\, and legal frameworks converge to safeguard biodiversity and promote ethical sharing. \n \nBiographies\nProfessor Jean-Michel Ané is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in both the Department of Bacteriology and the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His primary research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms that drive efficient symbiotic relationships between plants and microbes. The ultimate aim of his work is to leverage this understanding to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability for the production of food\, feed\, and biofuels. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nProfessor Jorge Contreras is a Distinguished University Professor\, the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City\, Utah\, USA. His research focuses on intellectual property and innovation law\, and he has written extensively on patent pledges and other forms of open innovation in the life sciences. \n  \n  \n  \nDr Calderón is an Affiliated Professor at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and a Teaching Faculty in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work uses participatory and transdisciplinary approaches to advance just agroecological transitions. With extensive experience at the intersections of gender\, indigeneity\, health\, and agroecology\, she is committed to re-centering ancestral knowledge and fostering respectful collaborations that value different ways of knowing. Through initiatives such as MaSE “Maize Sovereignty for Everyone\, Mutual Learning for the Defense and Culturally Acceptable Use of Indigenous Biodiversity”\, she promotes mutual learning between Indigenous communities and academic institutions to co-create ethical frameworks for seed sovereignty that safeguard biodiversity and strengthen sustainable food systems. \n  \n  \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/honoring-the-gift-a-share-alike-approach-to-free-access-to-seeds-and-collaborative-futures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260303T100000
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Frank Sainsbury
DESCRIPTION:The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series\, presented by Dr Frank Sainsbury. \nReprogramming Viruses to Protect Plants from the Inside and Out\nViruses are deceptively simple and remarkably potent. They infect all forms of cellular life and while viruses are known for disease\, they exist as partners in different types of symbiotic relationships with their hosts\, ranging from parasitic to mutualistic. Thanks to modern biotechnology they have also been harnessed for bespoke benefits in medicine and agriculture. My research group uses recombinant virus-like particle expression to understand the structure-function relationship of virus capsids and to rebuild viruses as containers for proteins and non-native nucleic acids. Using these approaches\, we are exploiting some of the unique properties of viruses to devise ways to prevent the spread of plant pests and pathogens\, including nematodes and disease-causing viruses. The environmental stability of bacteriophage capsids makes for long-lived carriers of RNA-based pesticides to soil. The ability of persistent plant viruses to exist relatively unchanged for millennia inside their hosts provides an opportunity to bestow crop resistance to herbivores and parasitic plant viruses via enduring extrachromosomal transcription in plants. Both projects support our goal to use reconstructed and reprogrammed virus-like particles as delivery vehicles in challenging environments where stability and/or transfer of sensitive cargos are current bottlenecks. \n \nDr Frank Sainsbury\nGriffith University \nDr Frank Sainsbury leads a physical virology lab at Griffith University. His research group is primarily interested in virus capsids\, pushing the boundaries of how they assemble\, and what can be learned from using them as biochemical reaction vessels and delivery vehicles. Dr Sainsbury trained as a plant virologist at the John Innes Centre in the UK and was hooked by the deceptive simplicity of viruses and by their potential for use in biotechnology. His PhD work included the invention of protein expression systems in plants that have supported Phase III clinical trials of influenza vaccines and led to a major UK innovation award. Since taking up an ARC DECRA at the University of Queensland in 2014\, he has developed a program of research into the assembly\, engineering\, and uses of virus-like particles. In 2018 he was awarded a CSIRO Fellowship in Synthetic Biology to explore the directed assembly of virus coat proteins into protein cages with non-natural geometries. He subsequently moved to Griffith University and in 2023\, he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship to evolve virus capsids for applied uses in agriculture and health.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-frank-sainsbury/
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
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SUMMARY:Do Sacred Plants Have Standing? Religious Freedom of Expression & Biocultural Recovery of Sacred & Ceremonial Plants
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gary Nabhan. \nIndigenous communities and other traditional ethnic enclaves have long integrated sacred and ceremonial plants into their spiritual traditions\, but the affirmation of their legal rights to protect and maintain cultural access to such plants has been fraught with outdated conceptions of what “religion” and “legitimate practice of spiritual traditions” entails\, especially with respect to plants and animals used in ceremonies and their legal status as “sacred persons”. Case studies from the contested U.S.-Mexico border and war-torn Middle East will suggest some ways that public perception and case law are evolving to accommodate these Indigenous rights more fully. \n \nBiography\nGary Nabhan PhD is a contemplative desert ecologist and Franciscan Brother. He founded the Sacred Plants Biocultural Recovery Initiative and worked with indigenous spiritual leaders and elected officials to declare the saguaro cactus as a sacred sentient being with legal protection on 100\,000 ha of Sonoran Desert lands. He is author\, Coauthor or editor of 35 books in 6 languages and over 150 scholarly articles and book chapters. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/do-sacred-plants-have-standing-religious-freedom-of-expression-biocultural-recovery-of-sacred-ceremonial-plants/
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SUMMARY:Bad to Think With: Plants and Property Relations
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Veit Braun. \nAnimals\, Claude Lévi-Strauss famously said\, are not just good to eat but good to think with: they elucidate the structure of social relations. But what about plants? In this talk I argue that the ways we relate to plants on the one hand and the matrix of people and things on the other offered by property thought are a bad match. Much of what plants are and do does not neatly fit into the categories of subject and object or body and idea; nor can the problems caused by intellectual and tangible property in plants easily be addressed by the critique of property. To elaborate this point\, I want to sketch the trajectories on which plants go astray and slip through our matrices of property (including my own) by exploring some of what has happened in the legal landscape of especially European plant breeding over the last 20 or so years. Whether we should run after plants and leave property behind or\, conversely\, try to patch up the structure of property relations depends on what we care about more: saving plants or saving property. \n \nBiography\nVeit Braun is a sociologist and Research Associate at the University of Augsburg\, Germany. His work is situated at the intersection of law\, economics and biology. Veit has studied the contemporary crises of property in plant breeding and the organisational and temporal logics of animal biobanks. He is currently leading the research project ‘More and Less’ on the mutable identity of nitrogen in society. His book At the End of Property: Patents\, Plants and the Crisis of Propertization was published by Bristol University Press in 2024. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/bad-to-think-with-plants-and-property-relations/
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CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
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SUMMARY:Plant Success Research Retreat 2026
DESCRIPTION:The sixth annual Plant Success Research Retreat will occur in the week beginning 22 June 2026. The retreat is open to all Centre Members to attend in person and virtual attendance will also be available. \nMore details to come.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plant-success-research-retreat-2026/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260713T080000
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SUMMARY:Winter School in AI and Predictive Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:The Winter School in AI and Predictive Agriculture is a free event to share the collective learnings of experts from The University of Queensland in the use of AI and predictive analytics in Agriculture and Sustainability. The event will be held on 13-15 July 2026 at The University of Queensland St Lucia Campus\, Brisbane and will feature seminars\, case studies and hands-on workshops. \nThe Winter School aims to: \n\nBuild capacity in applied AI for agriculture\, especially amongst PhD students\, EMCRs and industry participants;\nProvide participants with practical skills\, not just knowledge;\nDemonstrate AI as an enabler to make standard agricultural technologies more accessible.\n\nWe are currently seeking registrations for this event\, please complete the form here if you would like to participate > \nMonday 13 July: AI Toolkit and Foundations\nAll day: Lecture\, online or in person. Morning tea and lunch will be provided for in person attendees.\nAttendees will learn the foundations of AI in an accessible way to support the applied case studies and hands‑on workshops in the following days. Topics will include: \n\nIntro to Neural Networks\nAI Models and Embeddings\nTransformers and LLMs\nAgentic AI\nAI tools deployment\n\n\nTuesday 14 July: Phenotyping\nAM: Lecture\, online or in person. Morning tea will be provided for in person attendees.\nAttendees will explore how the AI Toolkit can be applied to advanced predictive phenotyping through expert seminars and real-world case studies. Topics will include: \n\nSensors and point clouds\nMachine learning for phenotyping\nFoundation models for crops\nHigh throughput platforms and 3D digital twins\nUAV image data processing\n\nPM: Hands-on workshop\, in person only (spaces limited). Lunch will be provided.\nParticipants will apply the methods introduced on real-world problems. \n\nWednesday 15 July: Genomic prediction\nAM: Lecture\, online or in person. Morning tea will be provided for in person attendees.\nAttendees will learn how AI methods can be leveraged for genomic prediction via expert seminars and applied case studies. Topics will include: \n\nFundamentals of Genotype-to-Phenotype models\nEnsemble models\nGraph Neural Networks applied to genomic prediction\nMarker selection using biological priors and networks\nAgentic coding to build a genomic prediction pipeline\n\nPM: Hands-on workshop\, in person only (spaces limited). Lunch will be provided.\nParticipants will apply the methods introduced on real-world problems. \nSpaces for hands-on workshops are strictly limited. \n  \nScientific and Technical Committee\nDavid Kainer\nSenior Research Fellow\, The University of Queensland\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success \nGenomic prediction and graphs. \n  \nAlex Wu\nSenior Research Fellow\, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation \nField-level design/prediction\, optimisation and machine learning with crop models to explore G×E×M interactions and design optimal crop ideotypes. \nLiqi Han\nResearch Fellow\, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation \nCrop Digital Twins\, High Performance Computing\, Artificial Intelligence\, High Throughput Phenotyping. \n  \nBrodie Lawson\nPostdoctoral Researcher\, Queensland University of Technology\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success \nCrop growth modelling across scales\, including plant signalling\, cell-growth and physiology. Gaussian process regression as a surrogate to true modelling to create fast models for crop simulators. \n  \nChristos Mitsanis\nPhD Student\, The University of Queensland\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success \nAgentic AI\, mechanistic networks and CGMs. \n  \nSophie (Qiaomin) Chen\nResearch Fellow\, The University of Queensland \nMulti-scale precision agriculture. Integrates crop modelling with machine learning. modelling of crop traits using simulation-generated data sets. \n  \nSebastian Lopez-Marcano\nSenior Manager Analytics\, The University of Queensland \nData analytics\, workflows. \n  \nJavier Fernandez\nResearch Fellow\, The University of Queensland \nCrop and agronomic modelling. \n  \nEric Dinglasan\nSenior Research Fellow\, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation \nOptimisation strategies for QTL stacking models. Adapts methods proven in animal breeding to crops. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/winter-school-in-ai-and-predictive-agriculture/
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SUMMARY:Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium IV
DESCRIPTION:Event information\nThe ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success is coordinating the next Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) symposium in November 2026 in Brisbane\, Queensland. The symposium will focus on a range of topics related to the study of GxExM interactions and their importance for crop improvement. \nThe symposium will be conducted to stimulate new approaches\, building on a foundation of sharing understanding and insights from case studies\, leading to discussion of ideas that will advance experimental\, modelling and prediction methods to enhance crop improvement strategies. \nThe presentations and discussions during the symposium will be recorded (whenever permission is granted) and made available online\, to improve accessibility for all participants. If you have any questions about the format of the meeting or your potential for involvement\, please contact plantsuccess@uq.edu.au. \nExpressions of interest have closed. The event will be held on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 November 2026 in Australia\, more information and registration instructions will be circulated soon. \nGxExM Background\nThe potential importance of GxExM interactions has been considered for many performance properties of agricultural systems. There are complex and growing pressures acting upon the global crop systems on which we depend for our livelihoods. \nUniversally\, significant yield gaps have been identified between potential and realised on-farm crop productivity for most crop systems. Further\, the sustainability of the current and required levels of crop productivity to meet the expectations of future needs are continually questioned. \nThe challenges are diverse\, complex and multi-faceted. Crop breeders seek to utilise available genetic resources to develop improved cultivars. \nCrop agronomists seek to define agronomic management practices that will work for the improved cultivars. \nFarmers seek to combine the improved cultivars with appropriate agronomic practices to achieve a target on-farm productivity while balancing short and long-term risks and rewards. \nThere have been and continue to be many calls for integrated efforts. \nThere are successful examples of integrated efforts between breeders\, agronomists in partnership with farmers. A number of such efforts have emphasised the importance of considering the potential influences of GxExM interactions at multiple levels within the crop systems.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/genotype-by-environment-by-management-gxexm-symposium-iv/
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