ISSS2023 Conference

The ISSS Conference is a biennial conference organised by the @IntlSeedSciSoc. The 2023 ISSS Conference will take place July 3rd-7th in Paris.

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Save the date! The 14th Biennial @IntlSeedSciSoc conference will take place in Paris, 3-7 July 2023.

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Many thanks to the jury for their dedication: @Loic_Rajjou, Ewa Kalemba, Frank Lanfemeijer, Charlotte Seal, Hector Perez, Manuela Nagel @Manu81528677, Jerome Verdier @IRHS_Seed_lab and Leonie Bentsink @LBentsink

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We are delighted to now announce the Marc Cohn best poster and best presentation prizes. Congratulations to Jonas August for the best presentation and to Michael Gasper, Nicki Marami-Zonouz and Fatima Pollo-Rodriguez @fatimapollo for the best posters 👏🌱

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Dr Steven Footit gave the Alfred Meyer Plenary Lecture: Seeds as climate adapted environmental sensors

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New PI 🚨 Dr Silva Artur will start as an assistant professor in the fall. Watch out for open positions!

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Yesterday Mariana Silva Arthur @plantscifyi gave the Mike Black founder lecture. She presented her past work on vegetative and reproductive dessiccation tolerance.

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Dr Kawashima went on to tell us how actin filaments play a crutial role to keep nuclear position during endosperm divisions. More stuning live imaging.
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Now Dr Tomokazu Kawashima takes the stage to open the genes to seed biology session. He will present his investigations on the cellular dynamics in plant fertilization and endosperm development

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Supported by superb live imaging experiments, Dr Kawashima presented the mechanism allowing the actin flow reponsible for fertilisation in plants. This work can be found here: https://t.co/4kpQoTE5WT and https://t.co/WKwxosB3g3

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The difficulty is that tropical species have a wide range of dessication sensitivity/tolerence. This is a huge challenge for their conservation.

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Dr Steiner presents published and unpublished data on cryopreservation of various tropical seeds https://t.co/JIekus8OaW

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Dr Neusa Steiner opens the biodiversity and plant protection session. She presents how diverse tropical seed physiologies drive ex situ seed conservation strategies.

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Dr Steiner starts by reminding that the brazilian atlantic forest is among the main biodiversity hotspots

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Dr Simonin goes on to present a synthetic ecology approach using synthetic communities for seed microbiome engineering

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We start this afternoon with a Keynote speaker Marie Simonin @MicrobialMarie who present her work on the Influence of seed microbiota on germination and emergence.

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Dr Simonin starts by presenting the power of meta-analysis to characterize the seed microbiome https://t.co/pHeM3VMK15