Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction

More than 100 scientists (39 PIs, 24 Postdocs, 34 PhD-students & 5 sponsors) from 9 different countries (China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, UK, USA) participated to the international ICIPS Symposium (25-28.03.2025) in Berlin. Thank you to all of you !

All @DFG_ICIPS members took part in outdoor activities, such as a boat cruise on the Lahn river and a guided tour of the old Gleiberg Castle.🏞️⛴️🛟⛱️🚶🚶‍♀️🏰

Last month, all @DFG_ICIPS members met at the JLU in Gießen for our 4th annual "Retreat" meeting. We had some very productive and intensive discussions during the three days of the meeting...

The German national radio/TV channel @ndr presented on 18.5.2025 some @DFG_ICIPS works done within the group of Prof. Zachgo in Osnabrück during a short documentary entitled: "Fountain Liverwort (Marchantia) - the discrete Star in research"🌱🎥🤩 ndr.de/fernsehen/send…

Very nice poster showing genetic engineering of Arabidopsis flowers by @NickDesnoyer - and great for teaching and outreach @DFG_ICIPS

Siwei Pang (JLU University Gießen - Germany) presented a poster entitled "The role of JAGGED-like zinc finger transcription factors in the alternation of generations and the origin of multicellular sporophyte" (Poster n°17)

Dr. Emanuela Talarico (University of Calabria- Italy) was selected to present an oral presentation entitled "Pollen-Mediated Control of Ovule Development in Ginkgo biloba: Insights into Auxin Regulation and Epigenetic Mechanisms" (Session 6).

Thanks to all our sponsors (bsky.app/profile/dfg.de, @PlantScienceDBG, @Co_Biologists, @Novogene_Europe & CLF PlantClimatics), we were able to attribute 6 international and national travel grants to early-career researchers to come to Berlin and participate to the ICIPS symposium

Two Poster Sessions were organized at the end of the first and second days. These two sessions generated a lot of discussions between the participants of the ICIPS symposium. Twenty-four posters were presented and discussed (see list: conferencecentral.org/webpage/viewPr…).

- "CoExPlore: Interactive comparative analysis of co-expression networks" by Micha Frederick Keßler (JLU University Gießen)

- "Maternal control of RNA decay safeguards embryo development" by Dr. Gerardo Del Toro-De León (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)

One "Flash Talk" session (5min. talk / 3 slides max. per speaker) was organized to allow certain researchers to present and advertise their poster: - "Role of DNA methylation in asexual endosperm formation" by Dilsher Singh Kulaar (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)