The "Plant Genomics European Meeting" (Plant GEM) is an annual meeting on the subject of genomics in all its assets. The 7th Plant GEM will take place from September 24th till 27th 2008 in Albena, Europe, Bulgaria.

The 7th Plant GEM is sponsored by national plant genomics programmes in Europe as well as by the European Research Area Network Plant Genomics (ERA PG). 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 7th Plant GEM in Albena Bulgaria from September 24th till 27th 2008.

 

The 7th Plant GEM envisage the following sessions:

• Opening Session. Highlights in Genomics/ Opening Keynote Lectures
• Session 1. Emerging Plant Genomics Tools and Platforms
• Session 2. Genomes of Model Plants and Crops
• Session 3. Genome Structure & Comparative Genomic Approaches
• Session 4. Gene and genome evolution under domestication
• Session 4a. (in parallel) Genomics perspectives for cooperation of Black Sea Biotechnology Association (BSBA) and ERA-PG
• Session 5. Natural Variation & Ecosystem Genomics
• Session 6. Plant Systems Oriented Genomics
• Session 7. Bioinformatics & Process Oriented Approaches
• Session 8. Phenotypic Plasticity on Biotic & Abiotic Stresses
• Session 9. Genomics for Agriculture Sustainability & Food Security
• Session 10. Epigenetics, Small RNAs and Chromatine Structure
• Session 11. Nutrition and Health Related Plant Genomics
• Session 12. Genomics for biosafety in plant biotechnology

 

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