VIB is organizing the first edition of Translational Research in Crops. TRIC23 is taking place on 22-23 June in De Bijloke in the vibrant city of Ghent.
It will focus on topics such as:
- Healthier crops
- Improving crops through plant architecture
- How do crops cope with biotic stress?
- How do crops adapt to abiotic stress?
- Beneficial interactions of soil microbiome
- Centuries of crop breeding
Developing crops that are more resilient to rapidly changing and harsher environments will be crucial for tomorrow’s food production. Green biotechnology offers solutions to maintain high food productivity while preserving the earth’s valuable ecosystems. This VIB conference ‘Translational Research in Crops’ aims at reviewing how crops cope with stress, how to improve crops through plant architecture, how to produce healthier crops, and the beneficial interactions of the soil microbiome.
The current speaker line-up is as follows:
- Raquel Chan, IAL Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litora, AR
- Barbara De Coninck, KU Leuven, BE
- Idan Efroni, The Hebrew University, IL
- Caixia Gao, Chinese academy of science, CN
- Nathalie Gonzalez, INRAE Bordeaux, FR
- Maria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, US
- Kaisa Kajala, Utrecht University, NL
- Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
- Ndjido Kane, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles, SN
- Martin Lysak, CEITEC, Masaryk University, CZ
- Thelma Madzima, University of Washington, US
- Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre, UK
- Hilde Nelissen, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
- Krishna Niyogi, University of California, Berkeley, US
- Giles Oldroyd, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
- Annis Richardson, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Julia Serres, UC Riverside, US
- Cristóbal Uauy, John Innes Centre, UK
- Dan Voytas, University of Minnesota, US
You can find the program including the first presentation titles on the conference website here.
Present your research
There will be two poster sessions where upcoming researchers can present their work, and five of these will get the opportunity to present their work on the plenary stage joining the above-mentioned key scientists.
On Thursday 22 June, there will be a networking reception following the talks. Conference dinner participants will be able to join the guided tour through charming Ghent on the way to the restaurant. Tickets for the dinner are sold separately. CD tickets are sold separately.
Upcoming deadlines
Don't miss anything by marking the upcoming deadlines in your calendar:
- Travel grant deadline: 30 March
- Abstract deadline: 20 April
- Early Bird deadline: 11 May
- Final registration deadline: 8 June
You can find all the details on the TRIC23 event page.
We look forward to meeting you there.
