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Meeting Report: Plant Science Student Conference (PSSC) 2015 – Young researchers in green biotechnology

The Plant Science Student Conference is highly interdisciplinary with the common denominator green biotechnology and has a long tradition of bringing together young scientists in the green biotechnology region of Halle-Jena-Leipzig. Among others, two Leibniz institutes, the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research and institutes of nearby universities have joined their forces to create a plant-based bioeconomy (ScienceCampus Halle) and investigate biodiversity (iDiv). To connect eager graduate students, the PSSC is an annual student conference alternating in location between the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle (Saale) and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben. This year, more than 70 graduate students participated in the 11th PSSC at the IPB from 2nd–5th June 2015. Headed by the PhD speakers of the IPB, a team of 15 students catered for the scientific, social, and financial issues as well as the PR for the conference. According to organizer Hendrik Treutler, “the PSSC gathers the bright minds of tomorrow‘s plant biotechnology” and is thus a perfect chance to build networks. After a warm welcome by Prof. Dierk Scheel, the conference was kicked off on Tuesday afternoon. Altogether 23 students presented their work in short talks in various sessions about bioinformatics, metabolomics, genetics, signaling, development, and plant defense. Furthermore, 34 posters were discussed in two poster sessions.