Keynote speakers
Invited speakers
Sebastian Pfeilmeier, Molecular Plant Pathology, University of Amsterdam
Dorota Kawa, Plant Stress Resilience & Experimental and Computational Plant Development, Utrecht University
Wim Vriezen, Brightlands Future Farming Institute, Maastricht University
Kin Pan Chung, Plant Physiology, Wageningen University & Research
Andre Kuhn, Plant Cell Biology, University of Amsterdam
Alexander Haverkamp, Entomology, Wageningen University & Research
Programme 2026
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Monday March 30th
09:00 – 09:45 Registration
09:45 – 09:50 Luisa Trindade, EPS director
09:50 – 10:00 Welcome Chair Annual Meeting organizing committee
10:00 – 10:45 Keynote Speaker Mazi Jalaal, “On Biophysics of Chloroplast Motility ”; Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
10:45 – 11:10 Invited Speaker: “Dorota Kawa,” Optimizing Root Cellular Architecture for Stress-Resilient Crops”; Utrecht University
11:10 – 11:40 Break
11:40 – 12:25 Keynote Speaker: Tinde van Andel, “From story to science: how to verify a legend”; Ethnobotany, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre
12:25 – 12:50 Invited Speaker: Sebastian Pfeilmeier, ”Plant infections by Xanthomonas campestris: a lens into tissue-specific virulence and immunity ”; University of Amsterdam
12:30 – 12:55 Invited speaker: Sebastian Pfeilmeier, University of Amsterdam
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Session 1
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:45 Parallel Session 2
17:00 – 18:00 PI hour
17:00 – 18:00 PhD/Postdoc hour
18:15 – 19:30 Dinner
19:30 – 21:15 Poster session
21:30 – 22:30 Pub quiz and Bowling
22:30 – 00:30 Drinks and party
Tuesday March 31st
09:00 – 10:15 Parallel session 3
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:45 Parallel Session 4
11:45 – 13:15 Lunch
10:45 – 11:45 Parallel Session 4 (A-D)
11:45 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 13:30 EPS Awards
13:30 – 14:15 Keynote speaker: Pierre-Marc Delaux, “Evolution of plant – microbe interactions”; University of Toulouse
14:15 – 14:40 Invited speaker: Wim Vriezen,” Embedding Breeding Reality in Plant Science: Why Impact Starts with Phenotype”; Brightlands Future Farming Institute, Maastricht University
14:40 – 15:10 Break
15:10 – 15:35 Invited speaker: Alexander Haverkamp,”The botanical instinct: How butterflies became the better plant scientists”; Entomology, Wageningen University and Research
15:35 – 16:00 Invited speaker: Kin Pan Chung, “Cytoplasmic genetics · Inheritance · Physiology”; Wageningen University and Research
15:35 – 16:20 Invited speaker: Andre Kuhn, “Navigating a complex world: Deciphering mechanisms of early signal integration in plants”; University of Amsterdam
16:20 – 16:35 Poster awards and final remarks
16:50 – 17:30 Departure
