Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference

The Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference will be held this year from July 13-18, 2008.  This conference has traditionally covered a range of exciting topics and the 2008 conference will continue in that tradition. There will be sessions on bioenergy, metabolism, new methods to study genomes, proteomes and metabolomes, plant-microbe interactions, plant hormones, and epigenetics. This conference is a great opportunity to become familiar with the current state of the art in a broad range of disciplines and to exchange ideas about what are the next major questions in plant biology.

The program can be found at: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=plantmol

Additional speakers in each session will be selected from submitted abstracts. There will also be a poster session each day.  Thus, everyone who wants to present their science will have an opportunity to do so.

Also, the meeting will be held at Holderness School in New Hampshire. It is an outstanding site: a beautiful campus, a great meeting room, and, in my opinion, the best staff of any Gordon Conference (the creations of the dessert chef alone are worth the trip, but there is also fresh-baked bread).  

Richard Amasino
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin
433 Babcock Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1544