Dear Plant Biologists and Colleagues fascinated by and interested in plants!

We look forward to meet you 29 August - 2 September in Olos, Lapland ( Finland ) at the 5th EPSO Conference!

The deadline for registration and for abstract submission is extended to 9 July 2010 .

With best wishes

Karin Metzlaff (European Plant Science Organisation) and Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey (VTT Espoo), the conference coordinators

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Details 

The European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), invites you to The Plant Science Conference in Europe

5^th EPSO Conference: "Plants for Life"

Olos ( Lapland ), Finland , 29 August - 02 September, 2010

Programme

including excellent additions to the original April programme (e.g. Keynote on RNA silencing signals, Workshop towards Research Action Plan "Plants for the Future"), new lecture theatre, beautiful landscape and season http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXRYX-XD-QY - the ingredients to a unique conference!

Speakers and Topics

The EPSO conference brings the latest unpublished research to your attention and features excellent speakers:

• Jonathan Jones and Olivier Voinnet (Keynotes);
• Mike Bevan, Pere Puigdomenech, Jean-Christophe Glazmann, Andreas Graner, Alan Schulman (Crop genomes);
• Arjen van Tunen, Maarten Koornneef, Richard Thompson (Breeding tools and strategies);
• Thomas Boller, Ulrich Schurr, Dierk Scheel, Bruno Touraine (Plant health);
• Wilhelm Gruissem, Patricia Reilly, Tim Willis, Shivaji Pandey (Science Policy);
• Heribert Hirt, Philippe Ciais, Chiara Tonelli, Mark Fennell (Climate change and plant production);
• Ian Woodward, Jenny McElwain, Gail Taylor , Alexander Platt (Climate, ecosystems and genomics);
• Bernhard Schmid, Hugh W. Pritchard, Jelena Aleksic (Biodiversity);
• Jan Traas, Jane Langdale, Dani Zamir, Ruben Gutzat (From plant architecture to traits);
• Stefan Jansson, Wout Boerjan, Tomas Vanek, Hely Haeggman (Tree biology for multiple uses);
• Maurice Moloney, Kazuki Saito, Eva Stoger, Werner Roos (From metabolites and recombinant proteins to plant-made-pharmaceuticals);
• Bruce Osborne, Riitta Puupponen-Pimia, Michel Oren-Shamir, Jan K Schjoerring (Plants nutritional quality and value);
• Eva-Mari Aro, Kazimierz Strzalka (From photosynthesis to solar fuels)

...and workshops on

• Outreach and Education (Jan Kellmann)
• Towards the Research Action Plant 'Plants for the Future' (Ulrich Schurr and Karin Metzlaff).

Posters

There will be a permanent poster exhibition. Two poster sessions will be held, the three best posters will be awarded. Oral presentations have been allocated to submitted abstracts.

Programme and Registration

via http://www.epsoweb.org/event/conference/finland-2010 . A reduced registration fee applies to EPSO Personal Members.

Travel

Finnair tailored flights for one-day travel to and from the conference on Saturday (28.8.), Sunday (29.8.) and Thursday (2.9.). http://www.epsoweb.org/5th-epso-conference-travel-finland-2010

Contact

Nadia Khawaja, EPSO, E-mail:  Nadia.Khawaja < a > epsomail.org

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Conference Site

http://www.epsoweb.org/event/conference/finland-2010