Arabidopsis: The Ongoing Green Revolution!
University of Bristol, 9-10 September 2014
Early bird registration and abstract submission end on Monday (30 June)
On or before 30 June, it costs £150 for academic staff and £120 for postdocs and students - these prices will increase on 1 July to £170 and £140 for academics and postdocs/students respectively, so act now to get the best price! You find out more information
and register online via the link at
http://garnet2014.org/registration/.
The registration fee includes two full days of excellent speakers in five sessions:
1. Genome Biology
2. Physiology and Productivity
3. Natural Variation
4. Systems and Synthetic Biology
5. Plant Interactions with their Environment
Highlight plenary talks are from Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol), Maarten Kournneef (MPI for Plant Breeding Research), Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor Lab), Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh) and Paul Schulze-Lefert (MPI for Plant
Breeding Research). As well as these, the programme also features talks by some of the rising stars of the UK plant science community, and short presentations from selected early career researchers. The preliminary programme is available online at
http://garnet2014.org/programme/ with
oral poster presentation speakers to be selected soon.
There will also be plenty of time to browse posters, and for networking at our free drinks reception. We also warmly invite you to attend our conference dinner at the Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel, priced at £35 per person.
June 30 is also the deadline for abstract submissions, so if you would like to present a poster at GARNet 2014, please see http://garnet2014.org/call-for-abstracts/ for more details. If you are
a student or early career researcher within 4 years of your PhD (or you supervise/know someone who is!) there is still time to be considered for one of our 10 bursary awards - register for the conference and submit an abstract, and if selected we will
refund your conference fee, conference dinner fee, and provide UK travel and one night’s accommodation expenses. For more details please see http://garnet2014.org/bursaries/.