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
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