The "Plant Genomics European Meeting" (Plant GEM) is an annual meeting on the subject of genomics in all its facets. The 8th Plant GEM will take place from October 7th till 10th 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal, Europe.

The 8th Plant GEM is sponsored by national plant genomics programmes in Europe.
Latest developments in genome and genomics research are proceeding at an ever increasing speed. The amount of information that has become available with the completion of the sequences of Arabidopsis, Rice, Poplar, and the ongoing sequence efforts in other species, like maize, wheat, barley, tomato, potato, legumes and many others are giving scientists informational resources almost beyond imagination. In parallel, developments in the use of natural variation, in proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, and the development of resources like clone libraries, T-DNA knockout lines, RNAi lines etc. opening new doors for research and innovations.

With these developments new fields of research are emerging. Integrative disciplines as systems biology or molecular ecology are only two examples. The ongoing discussions in our societies about the effects of global climate change, the need for an improvement of renewable resources, safer and healthier food are guiding the developments towards the so called “Knowledge Based Bio-Economy” where plants and therefore plant research are in the spot light.

Plant GEM is an international annual conference designed to be the platform for researchers from Europe and all over the world to discuss latest developments and to exchange new ideas for future projects and to improve cooperation.

We invite you to attend the 8th Plant GEM in Lisbon Portugal from October 07th till 10th 2009.

 

The 8th Plant GEM envisage the following sessions:

• Opening Session. Highlights in Genomics/ Opening Keynote Lectures
• Session 1. Genomics of abiotic stress response
• Session 2. Genomics of biotic interactions
• Session 3. Plant Genomics and sustainable Agriculture
• Session 4. Epigenetics, small RNAs and chromatin structure
• Session 5. Genome structure, evolution and comparative genomics
• Session 6. Bioinformatics and systems networks
• Session 7. Nutrigenomics and molecular farming
• Session 8. Agri-food plant genomics
• Session 9. Genomics for Bioenergy
• Closing Session

 

In addition community organized workshops will take place during P-GEM.
Please visit the program page for more details.