We look forward to greeting you at the XIX International Botanical Congress in 2017.

Plenary Lectures (in alphabetical order by speaker)

Spencer C.H. BARRETT
University of Toronto
CANADA
Biography
Title:  Evolution of Plant Sexual Diversity
Michael BEVAN
John Innes Centre
UK
Biography
Title:  Applications of genomics to crop plant improvement
Michael DONOGHUE
Yale University
USA
Biography
Title:  On the exceptional value of model lineages in systematics and comparative biology
Thomas DRESSELHAUS
University of Regensburg
GERMANY
Biography
Title:  Fertilization Mechanisms: A Comparison of Eudicots and Grasses
Joseph ECKER
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
USA
Biography
Title:  Deconstructing the Plant Regulatory Genome: Enabling Technologies
Jing-Yun FANG
Institute of Botany, CAS
CHINA
Biography
Title:  Structural characteristics of forests and diversity of woody plants in China
Jia-Yang LI
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
CHINA
Biography
Title:  Understanding the molecular basis of rice plant architecture
Elliot MEYEROWITZ
California Institute of Technology
USA
Biography
Title:  Computational Morphodynamic Approaches to Pattern Formation in the Shoot Apical Meristem of Arabidopsis
Suzanne RENNER
University of Munich
GERMANY
Biography
Title:  The origin of economically important species of Cucumis, Citrullus, and Momordica – combining Chinese genomics know-how and old European herbaria to find wild relatives
Loren RIESEBERG
University of British Columbia
CANADA
Biography
Title:  Plant Evolution in the Anthropocene
Pamela SOLTIS
University of Florida
USA
Biography
Title:  Linking Heterogeneous Data in Botanical Research
Jian-Kang ZHU
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS
CHINA
Biography
Title:  Decoding the epigenetic language of life