18. Conference of the Genome Research Working Group of the German Plant Breeding Association (GPZ)

CEPLAS will host this year’s conference of the Genome Research Working Group of the German Society for Plant Breeding (GPZ). CEPLAS aims to provide a stimulating conference atmosphere by providing fresh insights into hot topics of tomorrow’s plant breeding.

The conference will be organized into four sessions (Yield Potential and Stability; Biotic and Abiotic Stresses; New Tools; Predictive Plant Breeding) each of which will be composed of keynote lectures and of session talks. Keynote lectures shall give an overview of new approaches currently discussed and relevant for plant breeding. Session talks will be mostly selected from submitted abstracts or by invitation of the organizers. In addition, the conference will contain CEPLAS lectures in which research concepts and results of CEPLAS will be presented.

Confirmed speakers:
Dirk Inzé, VIB Gent
Milena Ouzunova, KWS
Beat Keller, ETH
Holger Puchta, KIT
Chris-Carolin Schön, TUM
Peter Westhoff, HHU
Miltos Tsiantis, MPIPZ
George Coupland, MPIPZ
Maria von Korff Schmising, HHU
Martin Lercher, HHU
Andreas Weber, HHU

Registration required!