PLant sciences in the ANThropocene

2025-03-24 09:00 2025-04-04 PLant sciences in the ANThropocene
Organizing Committee:
  • Olivier Martin
  • Loïc Lepiniec
  • Benoit Alunni
  • Marianne Delarue
  • Alia Dellagi
  • Marie-Jeanne Sellier 

 

Program Manager: Francesca Sconfienza

The two weeks are thematically organized in three segments, focused respectively on « Fundamental research", "Socio-economic challenges around plant science", and "Plants as factories: from chemical compounds to mitigating climate change". Note that all these challenges are of high complexity and depend on several disciplines. Thus, beyond plant biologists and geneticists, some participants will come from agronomy, ecology, social and environmental sciences, economics, and also from chemical, physical and computational sciences.


The attendance will mix high stature senior scientists together with numerous younger ones. Each morning, presentations will be given by leading scientists, while the afternoon sessions will be mainly for brainstorming to engage all participants in strategies and roadmaps to tackle difficult challenges, be they at the level of training the next generation, guiding deciders of public policies, or connecting with the wider public on the importance of plant sciences in the anthropocene.

 

 Institut Pascal
Subjects : Earth and Climate Science, Life Sciences

The objective of this workshop is to address key challenges for the international plant science community, from basic sciences to socio-economic and environmental aspects including climate change.

Organizing Committee:
  • Olivier Martin
  • Loïc Lepiniec
  • Benoit Alunni
  • Marianne Delarue
  • Alia Dellagi
  • Marie-Jeanne Sellier 

 

Program Manager: Francesca Sconfienza

The two weeks are thematically organized in three segments, focused respectively on « Fundamental research", "Socio-economic challenges around plant science", and "Plants as factories: from chemical compounds to mitigating climate change". Note that all these challenges are of high complexity and depend on several disciplines. Thus, beyond plant biologists and geneticists, some participants will come from agronomy, ecology, social and environmental sciences, economics, and also from chemical, physical and computational sciences.


The attendance will mix high stature senior scientists together with numerous younger ones. Each morning, presentations will be given by leading scientists, while the afternoon sessions will be mainly for brainstorming to engage all participants in strategies and roadmaps to tackle difficult challenges, be they at the level of training the next generation, guiding deciders of public policies, or connecting with the wider public on the importance of plant sciences in the anthropocene.