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We cordially invite you to our 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium on April 22 and 23, 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The conference will be held in presence only.  

Program 

Wednesday April 22

08:00 – 08:50      Registration / Coffee

08:50 – 09:00      Welcome Address (Steffen Abel)

                            Session chair: Christin Naumann
09:00 – 10:00      Lucia Strader, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA
                            Using Auxin Response Factors to understand control of transcription in plants

10:00 – 11:00      Matthew Pasek, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
                            Phosphorus on the early earth: building favorable conditions for the origin of life

11:00 – 11:30      Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30      Michael Hothorn, University of Geneva, Switzerland
                            Decoding inositol pyrophosphate-based signaling networks in plants

12:30 – 13:30      Lunch Break

                            Session chair: Jörg Ziegler
13:30 – 14:30      Katharina Bürstenbinder, University of Marburg, Germany
                            Rewiring the toolkit: protein interaction network plasticity and the rise of land plants

14:30 – 15:30      Daniel Kliebenstein, University of California, Davis, USA
                            ‘Das Crazy’: evolution of the glucosinolate pathway across the entire Brassicales

15:30 – 16:00      Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00      Jonathan Gershenzon, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
                            Plant natural products: why plants are strong supporters of diversity and inclusion

Thursday April 23

08:30 – 09:00      Coffee

                            Session chair: Martina Ried-Lasi
09:00 – 10:00      JiÅ™í Friml, Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria
                            Role of cAMP second messenger in plant signaling

10:00 – 11:00      Caroline Gutjahr, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
                            Form and function of a plant fungal symbiosis

11:00 – 11:30       Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30       Pierre Stallforth, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany
                             Natural products from interacting microorganisms and ancient microbiomes

12:30 – 13:30       Lunch Break

                             Session chair: Debora Gasperini
13:30 – 14:30       Darcy McRose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
                             The many faces of redox-active rhizosphere metabolites

14:30– 15:30        Dolf Weijers, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
                             Watching auxin response through the evolutionary lens to understand mechanisms

15:30 – 16:30       Farewell

16:30                    Coffee

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