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

Objectives

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 focus 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.

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.

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)

International Speakers

• Madelaine Bartlett (University of Massachusetts Amherst – USA)
• 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)
• Claudia Köhler (Max Planck Institute in Potsdam – Germany)
• Isabel Monte (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen – Germany)
• Andrew Plackett (University of Birmingham – UK)
• 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)

Registration for the international ICIPS Symposium will open during summer 2024 !!