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The 23rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR) will be held at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria from 3-7 July 2012. The annual conference is the largest gathering of scientists working on the model plant Arabidopsis. Over 800 participants from around the world are expected to attend the four day meeting.
Scientific Program
The program includes two keynote lectures, sixteen scientific sessions, and two poster sessions covering all aspects of Arabidopsis research. There will be a total of 74 oral presentations and over 600 posters. Twenty-four of the speakers (four per concurrent session) will be chosen from the best submitted abstracts for the session. A copy of the conference schedule can be downloaded here.
Keynote Speakers
Steve Henikoff - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Marc Vidal - Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Harvard University, USA
Plenary Sessions
Epigenetics
Plant Defense
Responses to the Abiotic Environment
Cell Biology
Natural Variation
Genetics and genomics beyond A. thaliana
Systems Biology & Metabolism
Development
Concurrent Sessions
RNA Mediated Regulation
Bioenergy
Interactions with the Biotic Environment
Novel Tools/Bioinformatics
Plant Hormones
MASC Roadmap: The next decade
of Arabidopsis research
Lifting of Yield Barriers in Breeding
Systems Biology of Development
Official website:
http://www.icar2012.org/
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