Election results and decisions of the Section’s meeting
On 8th September 2026 our section members have elected Deren Büyüktaş (Georg-August-University Goettingen) as their new vice-spokesperson in our meeting at Botanik-Tagung, the International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences. She succeeds the previous vice-spokesperson, Prof. Dr Dominik Begerow of the University of Hamburg. The current Section’s spokesperson, Dr Sophie de Vries, was confirmed in her office at our meeting in Bochum, Germany. Dr Moritz Sexauer from the University of Würzburg was also newly elected as the Section’s representative for early-career researchers (ECR). The members present at the Section's meeting also approved the Section’s new procedural rules and agreed to continue waiving membership fees.