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ICIPS is a research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) focusing on „Innovation and Coevolution In early-land Plant Sexual reproduction“. Webpage: https://dfg-icips.org/

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 11

More than 100 scientists (39 PIs, 24 Postdocs, 34 PhD-students & 5 sponsors) from 9 different countries (China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, UK, USA) participated to the international ICIPS Symposium (25-28.03.2025) in Berlin.
Thank you to all of you !

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Sep 3

... 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 🏞️🛳️⛱️🛟🚶🚶‍♀️🏰.

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · Feb 22

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

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology @gmivienna.bsky.social · Feb 17

The GMI announces a new EMBO workshop titled "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" - right here in Vienna. The hybrid event will be held on November 25-27 at the Vienna BioCenter. Register by August 25 at meetings.embo.org/event/25-plant-evolution.

Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land

The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · May 26

@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"🎥🌱🤩
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Brunnenlebermoos - der unscheinbare Star in der Forschung

Forschende haben herausgefunden, wie anpassungsfähig diese Moosart ist. Kann sie Kulturpflanzen fit für den Klimawandel machen?

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International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research @iasprr.bsky.social · May 13

Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective
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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...

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Annette Becker @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social · May 13

🌱🌻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

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · May 26

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
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Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective - Plant Reproduction

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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):

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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".

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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)

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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).

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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).

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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)

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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).

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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).

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

- "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)

Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS) @icips.bsky.social · Apr 21

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)