19th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology

The UV4Plants Association is pleased to encourage Members to attend the virtual 19th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology, held from August 30 to September 3, 2021. In particular, we would like to encourage Early Stage Researchers to participate in the Congress. Thus we are offering Bursaries of 50 Euro to facilitate payment of the attendance fee, for the first 25 ESRs who will submit an abstract to the Congress by the 31st of May and pay the UV4Plants Membership fee by the 30th of June 2021. PhD students and ESRs (up to 7 years after obtaining their PhD degree) are eligible to apply for the bursary. Please send the copy of the email message received after the abstract submission to the Secretary (secretary@uv4plants.org). The following sessions of The Congress are organized by members of the UV4Plants Association. Abstracts for oral or poster presentation are welcomed and should be submitted via the Congress website (https://salzburg2021.photobiology.eu). The Plant UV Photoreceptors symposium is chaired by Gareth Jenkins. The Interactions of UV and other environmental factors in regulating plant growth and development symposium is chaired by Éva Hideg and Marcel Jansen. The Responses of non-flowering plants to UV radiation symposium is chaired…

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UV4Plants 3rd Network / 1st virtual Meeting, October 13th ─ 16th 2020

A great and unforgettable meeting is over! The conference was perfectly organized by Wolfgang Bilger and Frauke Pescheck with the technical support of Carina Lietz and Christiana Anagnostou from the University of Kiel, Germany. There were 125 participants from 30 countries. It was conducted using Zoom and the Mattermost platform, which provided space for formal and informal chats. The meeting consisted of 6 sessions and two discussion panels. The organizes have even provided a Musical Dinner, which served great music from Germany, Poland, and Ireland, instead of meals. It was a formidable get-together party. Out of posters and presentations prepared by ESR researchers, four of them: Zheng Zhou, Aneta Bazant, Laura Díaz-Guerra, and Alicia Perera-Castro were awarded 100 Euro bursary (to be used for a future UV4Plant event). The meeting was preceded by a successful Virtual Training School, with 25 participants.

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Virtual 3rd UV4Plants Network Meeting 2020

Dear Participants of the 3rd UV4Plants Network Meeting 2020 and dear interested UV-researchers,

after a long period with hope and discussions we want to inform you that the 3rd UV4Plants Meeting will take place in a virtual form. It is a pity that we cannot meet in person, but on the other hand, this format will open our community to participants from all over the world. We are excited to adapt the conference to the new format. We hope that you will help us with your participation to make the first virtual UV4Plants Meeting a vital and exciting conference!

We are opening the meeting again for new participants. New registrations can be done by email to meeting2020@uv4plants.org. Deadline for submission of new or additional poster presentations will be September 15th. Registration fees are 40 Euros and for students 20 Euros. Refund of the difference to the former fees will be organised soon. For new registrations, please, transfer the conference fee to the bank account given on the Conference Web Page.

The dates for the meeting will be from October 13th to October 16th. Corresponding to the different time zones, we are envisaging a core time from 12:00 to 18:00 Central European Summer Time for the oral / poster presentations.

With best wishes,
Frauke Pescheck and Wolfgang Bilger