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The 2015 Meeting of the Saclay Plant Sciences Laboratory of Excellence took place on March 19-20, in the amphitheater of the Institute of Plant Sciences Paris Saclay (IPS2). 

The afternoon of Thursday 19^th was devoted to the presentation of the SPS project’s state of advancement in front of the members of its International Scientific Advisory Board. To allow SPS scientists to present their latest findings in front of the Scientific Advisory Board, this part of the SPS Meeting was reserved for SPS members only or upon invitation for the representatives of our institutions and the ANR.

On Friday 20^th, we had the pleasure to hear talks (in English) from a special guest (Dirk Inze), members of the SPS Scientific Advisory Board (Cathie Martin, Bernd Weisshaar) and SPS members (Cécile Raynaud, Romain Le Bars, Raphaël Mercier, Herman Höfte). 

Program

Thursday March 19, 2015 (for SPS members only or upon invitation)

2:00PM - General advancement of the SPS project (organization, financial aspects, working groups…)

3:00PM - Poster session: flagship projects, projects selected through SPS open calls

4:00PM - Coffee Break

4:30PM - General discussion

Friday March 20, 2015 (open to all)

9:00AM - Dirk Inze - “Plant growth beyond limits”

9:45AM - Cécile Raynaud - “Interplay between DNA replication and maintenance of genome integrity in Arabidopsis”

10:30AM - Coffee Break

11:00AM - Cathie Martin - “Reprogramming of primary metabolism facilitates metabolic engineering of bioactive compounds in tomato fruit”

11:45AM - Herman Höfte - “Perception of cell wall integrity by Receptor Like Kinases”

12:30PM - Lunch (offered by SPS)

2:00PM - Bernd Weisshaar - “The sugar beet genome sequence, steps to its improvement and a use case”

2:45PM - Romain Le Bars - “Autophagosome formation in plants”

3:30PM - Coffee Break

4:00PM - Raphaël Mercier - “Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers”

4:45PM - End of the meeting

Download the abstracts of the talks

Venue

IPS2
Rue de Noetzlin
Bâtiment 630
Plateau du Moulon
91190 GIF SUR YVETTE