Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction

#dfg_public Research Group (FOR5098) "Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction" coordinated by #Annette_JLU

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More than 100 scientists (39 PIs, 24 Postdocs, 34 PhD-students & 5 sponsors) from 9 different countries (China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, UK, USA) participated to the international ICIPS Symposium (25-28.03.2025) in Berlin.
Thank you to all of you !

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All @DFG_ICIPS members took part in outdoor activities, such as a boat cruise on the Lahn river and a guided tour of the old Gleiberg Castle.🏞️⛴️🛟⛱️🚶🚶‍♀️🏰

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Last month, all @DFG_ICIPS members met at the JLU in Gießen for our 4th annual "Retreat" meeting.
We had some very productive and intensive discussions during the three days of the meeting...

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The German national radio/TV channel @ndr presented on 18.5.2025 some @DFG_ICIPS works done within the group of Prof. Zachgo in Osnabrück during a short documentary entitled:
"Fountain Liverwort (Marchantia) - the discrete Star in research"🌱🎥🤩

https://t.co/PL22MOiWJe

[Sebastian Schornack @dromius]

Very nice poster showing genetic engineering of Arabidopsis flowers by @NickDesnoyer - and great for teaching and outreach @DFG_ICIPS

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Siwei Pang (JLU University Gießen - Germany) presented a poster entitled "The role of JAGGED-like zinc finger transcription factors in the alternation of generations and the origin of multicellular sporophyte" (Poster n°17)

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Thanks to all our sponsors (https://t.co/4iZMJ3smEa, @PlantScienceDBG, @Co_Biologists, @Novogene_Europe & CLF PlantClimatics), we were able to attribute 6 international and national travel grants to early-career researchers to come to Berlin and participate to the ICIPS symposium

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Dr. Emanuela Talarico (University of Calabria- Italy) was selected to present an oral presentation entitled "Pollen-Mediated Control of Ovule Development in Ginkgo biloba: Insights into Auxin Regulation and Epigenetic Mechanisms" (Session 6).

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Two Poster Sessions were organized at the end of the first and second days. These two sessions generated a lot of discussions between the participants of the ICIPS symposium. Twenty-four posters were presented and discussed (see list: https://t.co/WG9kDkl07K).

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- "CoExPlore: Interactive comparative analysis of co-expression networks" by Micha Frederick Keßler (JLU University Gießen)

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One "Flash Talk" session (5min. talk / 3 slides max. per speaker) was organized to allow certain researchers to present and advertise their poster:
- "Role of DNA methylation in asexual endosperm formation" by Dilsher Singh Kulaar (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)

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- "Maternal control of RNA decay safeguards embryo development" by Dr. Gerardo Del Toro-De León (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)