Asaph Aharoni
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
Overview
This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, with the option to attend virtually. Please see EMBL’s COVID-19 safety recommendations if attending the on-site event.
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Symposium overview
This inaugural EMBO | EMBL Symposium aims to showcase the future of plant biology. Going beyond the limited number of model plants that plant biologists have historically focused on (e.g. Arabidopsis, corn, rice), it is nowadays possible to use comparative approaches to uncover the mechanistic basis and the evolutionary drive for the enormous phenotypic variation among the 400,000 species of plants on Earth.
Europe has a large and thriving community of plant biologists, with particular expertise in plant diversity at the genomic, genetic and metabolic levels. This conference will bring together experts from four major topical threads, namely plant genomics, metabolism, genetic engineering, and evolution, all of which are strongly represented across Europe.
Speakers
Robin Buell
University of Georgia
USA
Christine Faulkner
John Innes Centre
UK
Xiaoqi Feng
John Innes Centre
UK
Fernando Geu-Flores
Uiversity of Copenhagen
Denmark
Tonni Grube Andersen
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Germany
Xiaoguang Lei
Peking University
China
Edwige Moyroud
University of Cambridge
UK
Anne Osbourn
John Innes Centre
UK
Leandro Quadrana
IBENS – Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure
France
Aleksandra Skirycz
Boyce Thompson Institute
USA
Noah Whiteman
University of California, Berkeley
USA
Scientific organisers
Barbara Ann Halkier
Uiversity of Copenhagen
Denmark
Sarah E. O’Connor
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Germany
Detlef Weigel
Max Planck Institute for Biology
Germany
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About
EMBO | EMBL Symposia promote scientific communication and collaboration in the European research area. They provide scientists with a platform to discuss and exchange ideas on forward-looking topics and new developments in the life sciences.
Topics emphasise upcoming developments and the interdisciplinary nature of related fields. Jointly funded and organised by EMBO and EMBL – and complementary to their respective courses, workshops, and conference programmes – the symposia promote scientific communication and collaboration.
All symposia are held in the EMBL Advanced Training Centre (ATC) in Heidelberg, Germany, or virtually.
