6th – 10th September 2026 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Botanik-Tagung
International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences

#Botanik-Tagung2026

Programme

The preliminary programme will soon be uploaded.

 

Plenary Speaker

​​Dominique BergmannStanford University, USA    ​Katie J FieldUniversity of Sheffield, UK    ​Liam DolanVienna, AT    ​Luke BellUniversity of Reading, UK    ​Laura Lagomarsino  Louisiana State University, USA

  ​Virginia ArmbrustUW, Seattle, USA    ​Asaph AharoniWeizmann Institute, IL    ​Ralph BockMPI Golm, DE  

 

Evening Lecture

​​Ute KrämerRuhr University Bochum, DE 

 

Session Keynotes

​Cell Biology


​Kris VissenbergAntwerpen, BE   Integrative Approaches in Phylogenomics and Biodiversity Research​Marc AppelhansJena, DE   Gene regulation


​Yiliang DingJohn Innes, UK   Applied Botany from Root to Food

​Juttta Ludwig MüllerDresden, DE 

 

​Plant Physiology



​Marjorie LundgrenLancaster, UK   Evolutionary and Molecular Implications to Define Plant-microbial Interactions​Ines TeichertGöttingen, DE   Development



​Miltos TsiantisMPI Köln, DE   Endosymbiontic Organelles


​Florent WaltzBasel, CH 

 

​Signalling ​Asa StrandUPSC, Umea, SE   Algae in Biotic Interactions ​Georg PohnertJena, DE   Lipid Biology ​Damien SoriguéFR   Evolutionary Biology ​Norman WickettWien, AT 

 

​Cell Wall ​Anja GeitmannMontréal, CA   Protein Homeostasis ​Tamar Avin-WittenbergHebrew University, IL   Abiotic Stress ​Marcel QuintHalle, DE   Specialised Metabolism ​Fernando Geu-FloresCopenhagen, DK 

 

​Plant Nutrition ​Jose EstevezBuenos Aires, AR   Biotic interactions ​Kirsten KrauseTromsoe, NO