International ICIPS Symposium (Berlin 2025)

WHEN: March 25, 2025 (Tuesday from 3pm) - March 28, 2025 (Friday till 3pm)
WHERE: Berlin (Germany, Europe), near the botanical garden

Here are some of the (101) participants of the International ICIPS Symposium
“Evolution of Plant Reproduction“!

The scientific programme of the Symposium:

The detailed programme can be downloaded here:

ICIPS2025 – detailed scientific programTélécharger

The abstract book can be downloaded here,

ICIPS2025 – abstract book finalTélécharger


while the flyer of the conference can be found here:

ICIPS2025- flyer finalTélécharger


Important information (Venues, Hotel suggestions, Organisation, …) can still be found here or https://www.conferencecentral.org/webpage/view/32


Objectives

The purpose of this 3-day international ICIPS symposium was to bring together researchers (total participants: 101 scientists) from around the world (researchers from 11 different countries were present) interested in exploring the evolution and development of land plant sexual reproduction.

The symposium focused on topics such as the evolution of carpels and fruits, of ovules and seeds, of pollen and their reception/rejection systems, of multicellular embryos and endosperm, 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.

You can look at the “News” section to learn more about what happened during the ICIPS symposium in Berlin.

ICIPS is a research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) focusing on „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 Speakers

  • Madelaine Bartlett (University of Massachusetts Amherst – USA)
  • 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)

Sponsors

Thanks to our sponsors, different prizes and travel grants were available:

  • two prizes for the best Poster, and
  • one prize for the best Talk (only for PhD-student).

Both prizes were awarded at the end of the conference (See “News” sections to know who won).

To help early-career researchers (Master, PhD students or first year postdoctoral researchers) to come to Berlin to participate to this international symposium, a total of six “Travel” grants were also available (See “News” sections to know who are the recipients of these six “Travel” grants):

– three “Travel/Accommodation” grants were attributed to “local” early-career researchers, and
– three “Travel” grants were 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).

To benefit from these “Travel” grants, each applicant needed to contact the conference organizer by email (Dr. Romain Scalone, email: romain.scalone@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de) and sent him a short resume (CV) and a 100-word essay, explaining why she/he is a suitable candidate for the grant and how she/he intended to contribute to the symposium.


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