Trace metal metabolism in
plants -PLANTMETALS
Plantmetals history
The PLANTMETALS Society evolved out of informal contacts, and other collaborative projects, between many of its current members. It has been the COST Action CA19116 PLANTMETALS from 8 October 2020 until 7th of October 2024. Key events of evolution are summarised below.
Date |
Event
|
| February-August 2017 | Idea of creating a COST network on metals in plants by Hendrik Küpper, first discussions with Manuel Gonzalez-Guerrero |
| 17-19 August 2017 |
Minisymposium
"Metals, Plants and People" at the Biology
Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České
Budějovice, Czech Republic organised by Hendrik
Küpper. At this minisymposium, most of the
attendants gathered for a brainstorming to lay the
foundations for a network grant application at COST.
Nathalie Verbruggen, Manuel Gonzalez-Guerrero and
Hendrik Küpper became a core planning group for
writing the proposal. |
| Autumn 2017 to February 2018 |
Writing of the first proposal draft
by the "core planning group" |
| February-April 2018 |
Revisions of the proposal draft
involving a growing number of network members
of the proposal |
| 27 April 2018 |
1st Submission (OC-2018-1-22837),
with 51 proposing research groups/companies from 16
COST member countries |
| 14 November 2018 |
Proposal was evaluated with 56 of 65
possible points --> not funded |
| November 2018-August 2019 |
Revisions of the proposal draft first
again by the core planning group and then again
involving the further growing number of
network members of the proposal |
| 3 September 2019 |
2nd submission (OC-2019-1-23903),
with 60 proposing research groups/companies from 20
COST member countries |
| 25 March 2020 |
Action granted by COST after
evalutation with 45 out of 50 possible points |
| 26 March-13 April 2020 |
Creation of the MoU based on the
technical annex of the proposal first by the core
planning team and then involving the whole network
of proposers |
| 8-9 October 2020 |
1st MC meeting = official start of
the COST Action PLANTMETALS, running until 7th of
October 2024 |
| 5-10 September 2023 |
Decision to to continue the efforts
of the COST Action PLANTMETALS under the same name
to the extent possible without the direct support of
the COST Association, as "PLANTMETALS Society" |
| 17-20 September 2024 |
Decision on the draft statutes of the
Society for Research on Trace Metal Metabolism in
Plants, z.s. - PLANTMETALS Society |
| November 2024 |
Court registration of the Society for Research on Trace Metal Metabolism in Plants, z.s. Společnost pro vızkum metabolismu stopovıch kovů v rostlinách, z. s. (Abbreviation: PLANTMETALS Society) under Act No. 89/2012 Coll. (Civil Code of the Czech Republic) |
designed by Hendrik Küpper,
last modified 19 November 2024