About the Workshop
This unique meeting started in 2001 in USA as “The International Symposium on Plant Photobiology” and since then the organisation responsibility circulates voluntarily between scientists from Asia, the Americas and Europe every two years.
It is the single platform where plant photobiology leaders as well as upcoming talents across the globe gather on their own interest to share their latest mostly unpublished results and discuss future directions. This helps the community to exchange up-to-date techniques and approaches to address the different biological problems taken by the different leading groups. This EMBO workshop on “current trends in Photobiology” will bring together researchers from North and South America, Europe and Asia to present their latest works on the role of photoreceptors as thermo-sensors, how light-perception is linked to plant competition, neighbour detection, nutritional uptake, flowering, stress response, circadian clocks, and recent advances in new optogenetic tools that use light to manipulate cellular signalling.
This year, it was decided by the organisers to take this 11th meeting of international photobiology under the umbrella of EMBO so that, a better hybrid workshop with high impact and higher quality can be achieved and most likely would continue in subsequent years, bi-annually by next organizers.
The EMBO-ISPP satellite meeting will take place 15 – 16 January at the IISER Bhopal, India. The poster can be found here.
About EMBO Courses and Workshops
EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender).
Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable.
