Thank you so much to all attendees who made the 2026 PSNA meeting a big success! We look forward to meeting you again next summer at Cornell University!
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Please join us for the 65th Annual Meeting of The Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA) at the Memorial Union of the University of Wisconsin-Madison! The PSNA meeting will showcase a broad range of exciting research, including the chemistry, biochemistry, synthetic biology, evolution, and chemical ecology of plant natural products, as well as their impact on plant and human physiology. The PSNA society is is a highly supportive community of scientists dedicated to advance phytochemical research. We put a special emphasis on supporting early-career researchers by selecting many of our oral presentations from submitted abstracts and offering numerous awards for students, postdocs, and beginning investigators. We look forward to welcoming you to UW-Madison this summer!
Full conference program (link to PDF file)
Table of posters (link to PDF file)
Keynote session
Emerging technologies in phytochemical research
Chemical ecology and phytochemical functions
Primary and specialized metabolic pathway discovery and evolution
Plant-derived nutrition and medicine for human health
Indigenous medicinal uses
Plant metabolic regulation and synthetic biology
Natalia Dudareva (Purdue Univ.)
Jamie Blum (Salk Institute)
Philipp Zerbe (UC Davis)
Stacey Smith (Univ. Colorado)
Gaurav Moghe (Cornell Univ.)
Hannah Wayment-Steele (UW Madison)
Björn Hamberger (Michigan State Univ.)
Kathy Darragh (Indiana Univ.)
Amy Trowbridge (UW Madison)
Prashant Sonawane (Univ. Missouri)
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum (Harvard Medical School / Boston Children’s Hospital)
Integration of A.I. into phytochemical research
Career workshops for both academic and non-academic jobs
Discoveries to commercialization
Dorothea Tholl (Virginia Tech)
Jing-Ke Weng (Northeastern)
Satya Swathi Nadakuduti (Univ. Florida)
Quentin Dudley (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
Bethany Mostert (North Carolina State)
Lucas Busta (Univ. Minnesota-Duluth)
Hiroshi Maeda (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
Prashant Sonawane
Kathy Darragh
Hannah Wayment-Steele
Jing-Ke Weng
Satya Swathi Nadakuduti
Luke Busta
Quentin Dudley
Bethany Mostert
Hiroshi Maeda
Dorothea Tholl
Thanks to all sponsors and exhibitors for 2026 PSNA meeting!
January 30, 2026 - Deadline for the nomination of the 2026 PSNA Arthur Neish Young Investigator Award.
January 30, 2026 - Deadline for the application of the 2026 Plant Journal-PSNA Early Career Award.
April 1, 2026 - The deadline for the 2nd round of student/postdoc Travel Awards to attend 2026 PSNA meeting.
April 15, 2026 - Early Registration closed.
April 30, 2026 - Abstract submission deadline for oral presentations (talks).
May 25, 2026 - Abstract submission for poster presentations.
May 31, 2006 - The last day for Meeting registration.
June 15, 2026 - The 2026 PSNA meeting starts!