KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE BOTANISCHE VERENIGING (KNBV)

Scientific meeting of the section

‘PLANT REPRODUCTION’

Of the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands

Thursday November 6, 2003


This meeting will be held at Plant Research International, “Grote Zaal” Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen and is particularly devoted to the ‘Hugo-de-Vries´ award that will be presented to Richard Immink for the best Ph.D thesis in the field of Botany of 2002.
The ‘Hugo-de-Vries’ award is granted by the ‘Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands’ and the ‘Stichting Hugo-de-Vries Fonds’ in collaboration with NIBI.

Presentations

12.45-13.15 Coffee & Tea
13.15-13.45 Molecular control of ovule development in Arabidopsis
Martin Kater, University of Milan, It.
13.45-14.15 Signalling through Arabidopsis thaliana SERK receptors
Sacco de Vries (WU, Wageningen)
14.15-14.45 A conserved mechanism controls the switch to flowering in conserved species
Ronald Koes (VU, Amsterdam)
Tea/coffee
15.15-15.45 Comparative biology and evolution of MADS box genes
Tom Gerats (RUN, Nijmegen)
15.45-15.55 Ben Cornelissen, chairman of the election committee, will present the Hugo-de-Vries award to Richard Immink.
16.00-16.45 Lecture by the laureate, Richard Immink (PRI, Wageningen)
MADS box transcription factor complexes: "The dictators of plant development"
16.45 Borrel/Drinks

For more information, contact
Gerco Angenent
Chairman Section “Plant Reproduction”
Plant Research International, Postbus 16, 6700 AA Wageningen
Tel: 0317 477131; E-mail: Gerco.Angenent@WUR.NL