Conference Programme

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

  Time  
Registration 09:30 - 10:30
Welcome 10:30 - 10:45
Session 1 10:45 - 11:15

George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
Analysis of the FT/ florigen complex and its role in Arabidopsis meristem development

11:15 - 11:45

Charles Melnyk (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
Building a bridge between species: the science of plant grafting

11:45 - 12:15

Tamara Worzewski (Science Journalism, Germany)
Communicating the Science of Plants outside the expert’s bubble

Lunch Break 12:15 - 13:15  
Session 2 13:15 - 13:45

Aalt-Jan van Dijk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Structure-based machine learning to predict functional specificity of plant proteins

13:45 - 14:15

Boas Pucker (University of Bonn, Germany)
Big Data-Driven Discoveries in Specialized Plant Metabolism

14:15 - 14:45

Sophie Wolf (Leipzig University, Germany)
The Global Spectrum of Plant Function: Patterns, Shifts, and the (Statistical) Power of Community Science

Coffee break 14:45 - 16:00 Poster session | Odd poster numbers
Session 3 16:00 - 16:30

Patience Chatukuta (Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany)
Documenting Indigenous Plant Genetic Resources in Africa: The Case of Horned Melon in Zimbabwe

16:30 - 17:00

Polina Novikova (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
Mechanisms of Recurrent Polyploidization Cycles

17:00 - 17:30

Nick Desnoyer (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Open Flower: Reimagining Arabidopsis as a Platform for Floral Design

     

 

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

  Time  
Session 4 10:15 - 10:45

Jess Bunchek (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
From space to Antarctica: plant testing to support crews in extreme environments

10:45 - 11:15

Marta Del Bianco (Italian Space Agency, Italy)
Space farming: plants as enablers for human space exploration

11:15 - 11:45

Madelaine Bartlett (The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University, Great Britain)
What do we talk about when we talk about angiosperm sex and sex determination?

Conference group picture 11:45 - 12:00  
Lunch break 12:00- 13:15  
Session 5 13:15 - 13:45

Pablo D. Cárdenas (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
From Wild to Tamed: Reimagining Future Crops Through Omics and Local Plant Diversity

13:45 - 14:15

Daniel Zilberman (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
tbd

14:15 - 14:45

Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
tbd

Coffee break 14:45 - 16:00 Poster session | Even poster numbers
Podium discussion  16:00 - 17:00  
Closing remarks 17:00 - 17:15 Poster award
Barbecue 17:15 -