Media room

Agropolis plant modeling seminar

Imaging, phenotyping and modelling plant organ morphogenesis

Two full days of conferences : the 11-12th of March 2010

Venue : AGROPOLIS Campus - Montpellier- France

The aim of this two-day meeting is to illustrate the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach associating plant biologists and mathematicians/computer scientists to tackle important problems in plant biology. This seminar is the second in a series of three and will focus onorgan and tissue models.

It follows the 2009 one-day seminar on cellular models.

Confirmed speakers: Imaging growth session: N. Wuyts (INRA, Montpellier), G. Malandain (INRIA,Sophia Antipolis), H. Jönsson (Lund University), R. Smith (Bern University),J.A. Feijó (IGC, Lisboa)

Modelling growth session: H. Poorter (Utrecht University), A. Fleming(Sheffield University), M. Bennett (Nottingham University), A. Boudaoud (ENSLyon), P. Lemaire (Marseille University), J. Chopard (INRIA, Montpellier)

Final program and abstracts are available on http://www.plantnum.agropolis.fr. Registration isfree but compulsory due to space limitation.

To register, send an email to juliette.fabre@supagro.inra.fr before February 27th. Please indicate in your email if you want to have lunch on site (10 euros payable with credit card at the time of the meeting).

Information for access to the Agropolis campus are available on http://www.agropolis.fr/.

Organising Committee: Christophe Godin (INRIA), Christine Granier (INRA), Yann Guédon (INRIA), Soazig Guyomarc'h (IRD), Laurent Laplaze (IRD), Jean Luc Verdeil (CIRAD). This Seminar is organised with the financial support from Agropolis Fondation (http://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/), Agropolis International (http://www.agropolis.fr/) and IFR Daphné