[Arabidopsis] Closing in 12 days! Online Registration for ICAR 2009

[Joanna Friesner]

Dear All
The 20th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research will take place
30th June - 4th July 2009 in the historic and vibrant city of Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK.
http://arabidopsis2009.com/

Online registration for the conference closes on the 15th June, so if you
have not yet registered for the meeting please make sure you register soon
by visiting
http://arabidopsis2009.com/registernow.html

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The keynote speaker at ICAR 2009 will be the Lasker Prize winning scientist
Prof. David Baulcombe
 
We have a great programme of world-renowned speaker confirmed including
Enrico Coen, Caroline Dean, Joe Ecker, Jiri Firml, Nicholas Harberd,
Alistair Hetherington, Andrew Millar, Ben Scheres, Mark Stitt and Jian-Kang
Zhu. For a full programme visit http://arabidopsis2009.com/programme.html
and http://arabidopsis2009.com/speakers.html

The conference will consist of two plenary sessions each morning and four
concurrent sessions each afternoon, which will include presentations chosen
from submitted abstracts. The conference will feature a number of
community-led workshops that will provide opportunities for
focused discussion, whilst three poster sessions will provide ample time for
research discussion. Delegates will also have a free afternoon between the
Friday morning sessions and evening poster session to engage in networking,
scientific discussion and to explore Edinburgh and it¹s surroundings.
 
We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh.

Ruth Bastow