Society and Services

Early Career Professional Representative for the Program Committee , American Society of Plant Biologists Oct. 2023 - to date

• The Program Committee, chaired by the secretary, shall plan, arrange, and publicize the annual programs of the Society.

• Program committee member for the coming PlantBio25 conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

• As a program committee member organized the PlantBio24 conference in Hawaii, USA

Host Plantae Webinar, 19 September 2023

• Proposed and co-hosted webinar on "Enhancing Teaching Skills for Plant Scientists"

• Plantae webinar series is part of American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), CLICK to watch the webinar recording

Manuscript Reviewer 

• Plant Cell Reports,  Springer Science+Business Media

• Frontiers in Plant Science

• Planta, Springer Nature (New York, US), ISSN: 0032-0935, 2023 

• Humanities & social sciences communications, Springer Nature (London, GB), ISSN: 2662-9992

• Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv., Acdemic journals, ISSN: 2141-243X, 2014 

Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Plant Science, Jul 2023 - to date

Key responsibilities:

• • Reviewing and editing

Plantae Fellow, American Society of Plant Biologists, Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 

Key responsibilities:

• • Creating and curating content, facilitating and hosting discussions, and otherwise fostering growing global plant science community.

Contributions:

• • 9 Ways to Make Yourself Visible as a Researcher - Plantae

  • Targeted gene silencing using nanoparticles assisted delivery of dsRNA into developing pollen - The Global Plant Council

  • Targeted gene silencing using nanoparticles assisted delivery of dsRNA into developing pollen - The Global Plant Council

  • The splicing factor RNA BINDING PROTEIN 45d regulates temperature-responsive flowering

  • Extensive genome study to boost yield and improve agronomic traits in chickpea

Moderator, IPMB, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 03 Dec 2021

Key responsibilities:

• • I moderated a discussion that convened members of the Young Investigator Association(YIA) of the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology(IPMB), Academia Sinica, and the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) for the progress evaluation and setting future goals for the institution. I had the opportunity to exchange opinions with some of the leading plant biologists, namely Blake Meyers, Julia Bailey-Serres, John Harada, Sheng Yang He, David Jackson, Hiroo Fukuda, George Coupland, Dirk Inzé, David Baulcombe and David Baulcombe. 

Guest lectures/invited talks

• • Guest Talk: Farmers Day Celebration, Real School, Mumbai, India, 23rd Dec 2022

  • Guest lecture: VIT university, Vellore, India, 28 August 2021 

  • Guest Teacher: The World In Your Classroom, Taipei Municipal Yucheng Senior High School, Taiwan, Jun 2019