Conferences

We invite you to join the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) as we return to the Mermaid City, Norfolk, Virginia, for a one-of-a-kind experience. Join us from June 7 to 10, 2025, for this exceptional scientific program addressing both the latest developments in and core fundamentals of in vitro plant and animal biotechnology and genomics. Plenary sessions will focus on environmental risk assessment of genetically engineered organisms, the use of artificial intelligence in applied research, and engineering organisms for extreme environments. The program begins with a full day of workshops on Saturday, June 7, 2025, addressing tissue media formulation, fundamentals of modular cloning, and risk assessment. This is an opportunity to build professional relationships through conversations with leading experts in a casual atmosphere, to present your research and receive feedback from some of the most respected names in the field, and to network and make new connections with your peers from around the world.

We are also pleased to share that S. Eliza Lockwood, MD, FACMT, Medical Affairs Lead, Sr. Science Fellow at Bayer U.S. – Crop Science, will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2025 Meeting. An emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist with a long-standing interest in global health, Dr. Lockwood has become increasingly involved with global health and humanitarian relief projects. She organized a relief mission to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, started the Scholar Track in Global Health for the Washington University Div. of Emergency Medicine, and was one of the Global Health Scholars for the Dept. of Internal Medicine. Dr. Lockwood began to realize that to have a sustainable impact in global health, she needed to find creative ways of addressing malnutrition and insect-borne illness, two of the most commonly encountered public health problems in developing countries. She started working as the Medical Affairs Lead for Bayer, a global seed and chemical company with innovative technology that has great potential to remediate malnutrition. Her June 8th keynote talk will be on “One Health: From Plague 0and Pestilence to Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides and Public Health”.

SIVB strongly believes that students are the future of science. To support our vision to encourage education and scientific informational exchange, special opportunities will be available to assist professional development of students. SIVB offers free student registration and membership initiatives, a student awards program, and student oral and poster presentation competitions. Visit sivb.org/meetings/student-and-post-docs for more details.

Timeline:
Early Placement Abstract Submission: January 31, 2025
Student Award Application:  January 31, 2025
Student and Post Doc Oral Presentation Competitions: January 31, 2025
Regular Abstract Submission: February 29, 2025
Regular Registration: February 28, 2025
Extended Abstract Submission: March 31, 2025
Hotel Reservations: April 28, 2025
Advanced Registration: May 6, 2025

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you to Norfolk during HarborFest this June.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
E-Mail: sivb@sivb.org

https://sivb.org/meetings

The 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology will be hosted in Vancouver Canada on the campus of the University of British Columbia. UBC resides on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, and has been a place of learning for hundreds of years. We hope to bring together scientists and academics, young and old, to discuss the latest breakthroughs in fundamental plant cell wall biology. The conference will be in-person only, and the venue and meeting structure will be determined with the purpose of providing exciting networking opportunities and time to forge new research collaborations. We aim to carry on the traditions of this highly innovative and collaborative research community, and are excited to welcome the conference to Canada for the first time. See you in Vancouver in July 2025!

https://plantcellwallmeeting2025.ca/

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Scientific Conference on "Sustainable Horticulture from Plant to Product: Challenges in Temperate Climate–2025", which will take place in Riga, Latvia, from 20 to 22 August 2025. This conference will serve as a platform for leading researchers, scientists, industry professionals, and policymakers to address the challenges and opportunities of sustainable horticulture in temperate climates.

The event will feature a series of keynote lectures, oral presentations, field excursions, and thematic sessions that will explore a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Innovations in breeding of horticultural crops.
• Sustainable use of genetic resources.
• Sustainable growing for climate change mitigation.
• Soil and balancing of greenhouse gases.
• Plant protection.
• Post-harvest and food processing.
• Precise horticulture and smart farming.

Given your expertise in this area, we would be honoured to have you present your research at this esteemed event. We encourage you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, share your latest findings, and engage with fellow researchers and practitioners to foster collaboration and innovation on solutions to the pressing challenges faced by the horticulture sector.

Key Dates

• Registration and abstract submission deadline: 5 May 2025.
• Late registration deadline: 11 August 2025.
• Conference dates: 20–22 August 2025.

For more details, including the conference program, submission guidelines, and registration information, please visit our official conference website at https://ej.uz/lathortconference.

We hope to welcome you to Riga for what promises to be an exciting and impactful event.

Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at conference@lathort.lv.

QR code to conference website:

https://www.darzkopibasinstituts.lv/lv/conference

Dear GA and SIF Members, Colleagues and Executives,

Dear scientists involved in Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research,

We are proud to announce the 73rd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), jointly with Italian Society of Phytochemistry (SIF) which will be hosted at the Royal Continental Hotel, Naples, Italy from August 31 to September 3, 2025.

After exactly 20 years (the last Italian GA Meeting was the 53rd organized in Florence in 2005) the Society selected the Italian peninsula and in particular Naples as the 2025 Annual Congress location, this year jointly with SIF. Naples is one of the most beautiful and typical marine Italian cities, rich of historical places, traditions, ancient and modern arts, the perfect place to get inspired not only from a scientific point of view.

We believe that GA2025 will bring together renowned scientists from all over the world and we would be grateful if you could actively attend to this exciting event.

The conference aims at expanding the current knowledge on all aspects of natural product research. The scientific program will include invited keynote lectures, short lectures, poster sessions, as well as pre-event workshops; the following main scientific topics will be covered:

1. Ethnobiology - Ethnobotany –Ethnopharmacology
2. Chemistry and bioactivity of natural products (including terrestrial and marine source)
3. Analysis and authentication – Quality control – Metabolomics
4. Bioengineering, bioinformatics and chemoinformatics in natural products drug discovery
5. Biodiversity, circular bioeconomy, innovative green extraction procedures and climate change
6. Herbal medicinal products, natural cosmetics, nutraceutics, and food supplements from conception to the market – Botanical safety assessment
7. Essential oils - Clinical and environmental uses
8. Cutting edge technologies in natural product drug discovery, formulation and development
9. Fungi as medicines and functional foods - their potential and risks
10. Botanicals in veterinary medicine and feed

Looking forward meeting you in Naples for an outstanding scientific meeting and an unforgettable stay.

http://www.ganaples2025.org