About the Workshop
The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, increasing the O2 content – and eventually sculpting the terrestrial environment through their impacts on global carbon, hydrological and nutrient cycles. Today the diversity of these organisms contributes to planetary homeostasis and provide buffering against anthropogenic interventions such as emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. This EMBO Workshop will bring together a diverse community of scientists investigating diverse plant groups – algae, and spore-producing land plants (bryophytes, lycophytes and ferns) – long neglected as molecular genetic experimental organisms. This research area has been revolutionised by the development of phylogenetically diverse model organisms that are genetically tractable, and the availability of whole genome sequences and transcriptome data. These resources have allowed the community to generate and test specific hypotheses about the evolution of plants that will be presented at this EMBO Workshop. This will be the fourth in a series of EMBO workshops – Vienna (2016), Lisbon (2018), Bhubaneswar (2022).
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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.
