Conference Programme

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel Zilberman (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
Long-term epigenetic inheritance and phenotypic diversity in natural populations

Adrian Nievergelt (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany)
The cost of swimming: a hot take on an old problem

Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Taking scientific workflow seriously