Welcome to ASPB’s Midwestern Sectional Society!
We promote plant biology across the Midwest and central Canada by fostering collaboration, advancing plant physiology, and creating accessible opportunities for early-career researchers to grow as scientists and leaders.
The Midwestern section began as local society meetings at Purdue and the University of Minnesota (1926) and Illinois (1948). In 1955, at an invitational meeting in Urbana, the groups formally joined forces and became the Midwestern section, and the local university sections disbanded. Today, the Midwestern section boasts the largest membership of any of the sections and continues to hold annual meetings to discuss current research within the section.
States Included: U.S. – Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin; Canada – Manitoba, Ontario
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Announcing the 2027 Section Meeting!
The 2027 ASPB Midwest Meeting will be held jointly with the 2027 Great Lakes Plant Science Conference from April 9-11, 2027 in Lansing, Michigan! More information on the 2027 Meeting will be shared in the coming weeks.
Midwest ASPB executive committee (2025/2026)
Ruthie Angelovici (Chair), University of Missouri, angelovi@msu.edu
Katie Greenham (Vice Chair), University of Minnesota, greenham@umn.edu
Erin Sparks (Secretary/Treasurer), University of Missouri, esparks@missouri.edu
Anuradha Singh (Early Career Representative), Michigan State University, singha57@msu.edu
Christina Arther (Communications Director), USDA-ARS Madison, christina.arther@usda.gov
Mike Mickelbart (Representative to the ASPB Council), Purdue University, mmickelb@purdue.edu
Rebecca Roston (Past Chair), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, rroston@unl.edu