The 5th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association was held and successfully completed on 20. – 22. March 2024, Goettingen, Germany. The conference was organized by a great team led by Susanne Neugart, Tobias Pöhnl, and Layla Engelhardt. The meeting gathered 50 scientists at different stages of their scientific careers from Europe, Asia, and North America. The Delegates had a great time sharing their experiences and research on UV radiation in a broad context. A detailed report will be available soon.
UV4Plants Bursaries for 5th Network Meeting 2024
UV4Plants is offering 4 bursaries of 300 Euros each to early-stage researchers (PhD students and postdocs up to 8 years after their PhD) who will attend the 5th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association (20-22 March 2024 in Göttingen, Germany) and give an oral or poster presentation. The bursaries are paid to successful applicants after the network meeting when the conditions of attendance and presentation have been fulfilled. Applications, including the submitted abstract and a statement (max 200 words) explaining why the applicant merits the award of the bursary should be sent to treasurer@uv4plants.org by 1 March 2024.
5th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association – registration
You are cordially invited to participate in the 5th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association, taking place from the 20.–22. March 2024 in Göttingen, Germany.
Registration is now open.
For details please look into the tab Meeting 2024 and in the SecondCircular2024.
The detailed Program is available here.
5th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association, 20. – 22. March 2024, Goettingen, Germany.
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to share that the 5th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association will be held from 20. – 22. March 2024 in Goettingen, Germany.
For early-stage researchers, a training school will be organized before the meeting from 18 – 19 March 2024.
For more details, please follow the First Circular here.
For the local organizing committee
Prof. Dr. Susanne Neugart
Dr. Tobias Pöhnl
Dr. Layla Engelhardt
For the UV4Plants Association
Prof. Gareth I. Jenkins, President
New report of the United Nations Scientific Assessment Panel
The United Nations Scientific Assessment Panel published the quadrennial assessment report on the implementation of the Montreal Protocol.
This protocol is an international treaty on the control of ozone-depleting substances. About 99% of those banned substances are phased out. Thus, the ozone layer is predicted to recover over the Atlantic by 2066, over the Arctic by 2045, and by 2040 in the rest of the world. The Montreal Protocol also seems to impact global warming, as it is estimated to reduce the predicted temperature rise by 0.3–0.5°C in the year 2100.
The 2022 Assessment Report is available here:
A supplement useful for teaching and popularization of science purposes has also been published:
Topical Collection on Plant Responses to UV Radiation
A Topical Collection on Plant Responses to UV Radiation has been published in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. The collection is an outcome of the 4th Network Meeting of UV4Plants, the International Association for Plant UV Research, held in Kraków in July 2022. Eight excellent articles are available at https://link.springer.com/collections/ihgaeidgge
Young Researchers Symposium on Plant Photobiology 2024 (YRSPP2024)
The Organizers of the Young Researchers Symposium on Plant Photobiology 2024 (YRSPP2024) are inviting early-career researchers to a meeting in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from July 2nd until July 5th, 2024. For more information and registration, see: