Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS)

... all @icips.bsky.social members and guests took part in outdoor activities, such as a boat cruise on the Lahn river and a guided tour of the old Gleiberg Castle 🏞️🛳️⛱️🛟🚶🚶‍♀️🏰.

Last month, all @icips.bsky.social members met at the JLU in Gießen for our 4th annual "Retreat" meeting.
We had some very productive and intensive discussions during the three days of the meeting...

Are you interested in plant evolution? 🦠🌱🫛
Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social for the 4th #EMBO Workshop "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" on November 25-27 2025
Submit your abstract by August 25!
#algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #plantevodevo

Brunnenlebermoos - der unscheinbare Star in der Forschung Forschende haben herausgefunden, wie anpassungsfähig diese Moosart ist. Kann sie Kulturpflanzen fit für den Klimawandel machen?

@icips.bsky.social on TV📺:
The German national radio/TV channel NDR presented on 18.5.2025 some ICIPS works done within the group of Prof. Zachgo in Osnabrück during a short documentary entitled:
"Fountain Liverwort (Marchantia) - the discrete Star in research"🎥🌱🤩
www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective - Plant Reproduction Key message We link key aspects of land plant reproductive evolution and detail how successive molecular changes leading to novel tissues and organs require co-evolution of communication systems betwe...

Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌱🌻Finally out! All ICIPS PIs had their say in a seminal 31 page review on the evolution of land plant sexual reproduction. With lots of fine figures to share! Thanks to @icips.bsky.social and @dfg.de for funding our work.
#PlantScienceResarch, #PlantEvoDevo
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Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective - Plant Reproduction Key message We link key aspects of land plant reproductive evolution and detail how successive molecular changes leading to novel tissues and organs require co-evolution of communication systems betwe...

Happy to announce the publication of a review paper presenting the whole @icips.bsky.social work in Plant Reproduction (@iasprr.bsky.social):
Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

– Nicholas Desnoyer (University of Zürich): “Open Flower: A blooming model for teaching, outreach and research” (Poster n° 22).

– Camille Salaün (Max Planck Institute – Potsdam): “Genetic determinants of autonomous endosperm formation in Arabidopsis” (Poster n° 4),

Ms. Caterina Baldi (Sponsor: @novogene-europe.bsky.social) & Prof. Annette Becker (JLU University Gießen) awarded the diploma for the best poster to the two winners (they obtained the same number of votes):

Congratulations to Melanie Trupp (Osnabrück University), who won the best PhD Talk prize for her oral presentation “Contribution of the TGA TF to the evolution of sexual reproduction” given during the session 7 "Co-Evolution of Signaling Systems and Gene Regulatory Networks in Plant Development".

Siwei Pang (JLU University Gießen - Germany) presented a poster entitled "The role of JAGGED-like zinc finger transcription factors in the alternation of generations and the origin of multicellular sporophyte" (Poster n°17)

Dr. Emanuela Talarico (University of Calabria- Italy) was selected to present an oral presentation entitled "Pollen-Mediated Control of Ovule Development in Ginkgo biloba: Insights into Auxin Regulation and Epigenetic Mechanisms" (Session 6).

Nicola Babolin (University of Milano - Italy) was selected to present an oral presentation entitled "Maternal regulation of nutrients availability plays a pivotal role during ovule and seed development" (Session 6).

Pavla Novotná (Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno - Czech Republic) presented a poster entitled "How to elucidate dosage compensation and parental conflict in Silene latifolia" (Poster n°12)

Yukiho Toyama (University of Tokyo - Japan) was selected to present an oral presentation entitled "Tissue-specific transcriptome analysis and chemotactic behavior observation reveal the intermediate evolutional state in male reproductive cells of Gymnopserm Cycads" (Session 5).

Bridget Bickner (Harvard University - USA) presented a flash talk/poster entitled "Evolution and development of ovule packaging variation in the Phlox genus" (Flash Talk & Poster n° 3).

Thanks to all our sponsors (@dfg.de, @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social, @novogene-europe.bsky.social & CLF PlantClimatics), we were able to attribute 6 international and national travel grants to early-career researchers to come to Berlin and participate to the ICIPS symposium

- "CoExPlore: Interactive comparative analysis of co-expression networks" by Micha Frederick Keßler (JLU University Gießen)

- "Maternal control of RNA decay safeguards embryo development" by Dr. Gerardo Del Toro-De León (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)

- "Genetic determinants of autonomous endosperm formation in Arabidopsis" by Dr. Camille Salaün (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)

- "Evolution and development of ovule packaging variation in the Phlox genus" by Bridget Bickner (Havard University)

- "Duplication of MADS-box genes in land plants empowered the functional divergence between sporophytes, gametophytes and endosperm" by Dr. Yichun Qiu (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)

One "Flash Talk" session (5min. talk / 3 slides max. per speaker) was organized on Wednesday afternoon (26.03) to allow certain researchers to present and advertise their poster:
- "Role of DNA methylation in asexual endosperm formation" by Dilsher Singh Kulaar (Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)

Session 8 about Bioinformatics solutions to harness the EvoDevo data universe chaos on Friday (28.03) midday (Chair: Alexander Goesmann):

Session 7 about Co-Evolution of Signaling Systems and Gene Regulatory Networks in Plant Development on Friday (28.03) morning (Chair: Sabine Zachgo):