This PLANT EVO DEVO symposium will take place near the botanical garden of Berlin (Germany) between March 25th and 28th, 2025.
Future participants can register using our DFG-ICIPS homepage:
https://dfg-icips.org/berlin2025/
or directly using:
https://conferencecentral.org/32
The purpose of this 3-day international ICIPS symposium is to bring together researchers from around the world interested in exploring the evolution and development of land plant sexual reproduction.
The symposium will be divided in eight successive sessions focusing on the evolution of pollen and their reception/rejection systems, of multicellular embryos and endosperm, of carpels and fruits, of ovules and seeds, of fertilization mechanisms in plants, of (ROS) signalling systems and gene regulatory networks in plant development and reproduction as well as finding bioinformatics solutions to harness EvoDevo challenges.
ICIPS is a research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) studying the „Innovation and Coevolution In early-land Plant Sexual reproduction“. This academic organization is composed by seven research groups from five different German universities (JLU Gießen, UR Regensburg, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, FSU Jena, OU Osnabrück) including six DFG-funded research projects conducted by six Ph.D. students and two postdoctoral researchers.
International invited Speakers:
• Madelaine Bartlett (University of Cambridge – UK)
• James Clark (University of Bath – UK)
• Lucia Colombo (University of Milano – Italy)
• Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham – UK)
• William Friedman (Harvard University – USA)
• Tetsuya Higashiyama (Nagoya University & University of Tokyo – Japan)
• Gwyneth Ingram (French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS – France)
• Kerstin Kaufmann (Humboldt University of Berlin – Germany)
• Claudia Köhler (Max Planck Institute in Potsdam – Germany)
• Isabel Monte (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen – Germany)
• Andrew Plackett (University of Birmingham – UK)
• Hughes Renault (University of Strasbourg – France)
• Uwe Scholz (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research – Germany)
• Sebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge – UK)
• Charlie Scutt (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon – France)
• Meng-Xiang Sun (Wuhan University – China)
Organizing Committee:
• Annette Becker (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen JLU)
• Thomas Dresselhaus (University of Regensburg UR)
• Duarte Figueiredo (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology MPI)
• Alexander Goesmann (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen JLU)
• Stefanie Müller-Schüssele (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau RPTU)
• Stefanie Sprunck (University of Regensburg UR)
• Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena FSU)
• Sabine Zachgo (Osnabrück University OU).
Thanks to our sponsors, different prices and travel grants are available:
• one price for the best Poster, and
• one price for the best Talk (only for early-career researchers).
Both prices will be awarded at the end of the conference.
To help early-career researchers (Master, PhD students or first year postdoctoral researchers) to come to Berlin and participate to this international symposium, a total of six “Travel” grants is also available:
• three “Travel/Accommodation” grants will be attributed to German early-career researchers, and
• three “Travel” grants will be attributed to early-career researchers affiliated to institutions located outside Germany (in Eastern/Central/Southern Europe, in Asia or Africa and in Northern/Central/Southern America).
If you would like to benefit from these “Travel” grants, please contact the conference organizer by email (Dr. Romain Scalone, email: romain.scalone@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de) by sending him a short resume (CV) and a 100-word essay, explaining why you are a suitable candidate for the grant and how you intend to contribute to the symposium.
If you have any questions about the conference or the registration, please do not hesitate to contact the conference organizer by email: romain.scalone@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de.
Hope to see you all in Berlin
