Events

December 5, 2024

The RESPONSE Symposium 2024: "RESPONSE - to society and policy needs through plant, food and energy sciences" of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC) will take place at ETH Zurich. Please have a look at it for registration and further information.

August 18-23, 2024

MPB at the external page EUCARPIA 22nd General Congress in Leipzig "Global Challenges for Crop Improvement". 

June 3-7, 2024

"Studienwochen für Gymnasiastinnen und Gymnasiasten" at ETH Zurich. Please find further information here. 

January 24, 2024

Current Challanges in Plant Breeding "Breeding for Diversification", 8th annual seminar of the SGPW_SSA Working Group on Plant Breeding at ETH Zurich. Please find the program Download here (PDF, 282 KB). 

December 8, 2023

25th Anniversary Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center: Impact of plant sciences on our lives - food, environment, health and knowledge. Visit the external page conference website for details and registration. 

September 18-20, 2023

MPB at the 4th PlantEd Conference - Genome Editing in Plants in Porto, Portugal. Please find further information external page here.

September 11-16, 2023

MPB at the XVI EUCARPIA Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics in Dresden. Please find further information external page here. 

September 10-14, 2023

MPB at the EUCARPIA Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section Conference in Brno. Please find further information external page here. 

June 22, 2023 

"How grasses avoid inbreeding" from 19.00h until 22.30h in the Botanical garden in Zurich
The Molecular Plant Breeding group is contributing to the Nachtaktiv event organized by Creativlabz in the Botanical garden in Zürich. The theme of this event is “Plant dating”. This event aims to bring science and scientists closer to the young public, by organizing night tours of the botanical garden, coupled with exhibits of research projects. During this evening we will be showing some of the different mechanisms that plants have developed to avoid self-pollination, with a focus on self-incompatibility in grasses.
For registration and more information: external page https://creativelabz.ch/nachtaktiv-plant-dating/

March 13, 2023

The event from SCNAT with the title external page "Moderne Pflanzenzüchtung: Mehr Agrobiodiversität für eine umweltschonende Landwirtschaft" (only in German) will take place from 16.00h until 18.00h in Hotel Ador in Bern. Please register until March 8, 2023. 

January 25, 2023

The 7^th annual seminar of the SGPW-SSA Working group on Plant Breeding "Current Challenges in Plant Breeding: New Plant Breeding Techniques - Definition, Regulation, Potential and Acceptance" will take place at ETH Zurich, LEE E101, on Wednesday, January 25, 09:00 - 17:00h. Please find here the Download program (PDF, 274 KB).

December 7, 2022

Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center. We are looking forward to exiting talks given by a diverse panel of speakers highlighting the relevance of spatial organization in plant sciences from the perspectives of the cellular space, the plant space, the ecosystem space, and even the outer space! To the external page program

September 14, 2022

Annual Symposium of the Genetic Diversity Center at ETH Zurich. The Symposium will take place on-site on Wednesday, 14. September 2022 from 10:00 to 16:30 in LEE E101, ETH Zurich. To the program

May 11 - November 11, 2022

New ideas for a healthy world: Celebrating 10⁺ Years of collaboration Across the Food System organised by the World Food System Center. Please find here the program.

May 4 - June 1, 2022

Five presentations on the topic "Kulturpflanzen - von der Entstehung bis zur heutigen Bedeutung" are organised by Volkshochschule beider Basel. Please find here the external page program.

January 27, 2022

SGPW-SSA seminar Download "Current Challenges of Plant Breeding" (PDF, 265 KB) with the title "Plant Breeding a(nd) Data Science".  

December 8, 2021

The Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC) "Patterns in Nature and Plant Sciences" will take place at ETH Zurich, Auditorium Maximum HG F30, Rämistr 101, Zurich. Please find here the external page program. 

September 5-9, 2021

The EUCARPIA-Section Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Meeting on "Exploiting genetic diversity of forages to fulfill their economical and environmental roles” will take place in Freising, Germany. Please find further information external page here

August 22-27, 2021

The 21^st General Congress EUCARPIA with the title: "Breeding: the key to innovative solutions" will take place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Please find further information external page here

June 2, 2021

The "Download 8. Fachtagung Dialog Grün (PDF, 2.1 MB)" of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center with the title "De-novo-Domestikation - Erforschung und Erschliessung pflanzengenetischer Ressourcen" (only in German) will take place from 09.15 - 17.00h, online via Zoom. 
external page Please register before June 1, 2021. The link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to registered participants shortly before the seminar.

From April 27, 2021 onwards

150 Years Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich
Please find facts and stories on our anniversary website and follow our online event on May 4, at 10 a.m.

January 26, 2021

Current Challenges in Plant Breeding 2021 will take place on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 11:00 - 16:00 online via Zoom.
Please find external page here the invitation, the program and the link for registration.
Please register before 24.01.2021, the link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to registered participants shortly before the seminar.

December 10, 2020

As part of the World Food System Center Research Symposium 2020, a webinar on Plant Breeding for Global Food Security will take place on Thursday, December 10, from 16.00 until 17.30 CET. Presentations from the World Food System Center Research Programs will be featured and provide insights to current plant breeding research. The panel discussion will further highlight how the research contributes to the future of plant breeding and its implications for global food security and a planetary health diet.
external page Register for this free, public event, hosted on Veertly 

December 2, 2020

Connectivity – Plant Interactions Reloaded The PSC Symposium 2020 will take place via Zoom and highlight the manifold interactions plants are engaged in.

October 20, 2020

A public webinar on Download Pathways for Advancing Pesticide Policies (PDF, 1.1 MB) is taking place from 11.00 to 12.30h via Zoom.
In this webinar, key challenges and pathways for advancing European pesticide policies as well as the role of modern plant breeding will be discussed. For more information and registration: https://worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/outreach-and-events/past-events/Pathways-for-advancing-pesticide-policies.html

September 15, 2020

The award ceremony KITE Award will take place at ETH Zurich. Please find further information and the programme here

August 28, 2020

The Master's degree graduation ceremony 2020 of Agricultural and Food Sciences will take place at ETH Zurich. This year, Marius Hodel will receive the ETH Medal for his Master thesis work on “Identification and characterization of long terminal repeat retrotransposons in Lolium multiflorum”. Additionally, Dr. Carlotta Sartori will receive the Hans Vontobel-Award 2020 for her doctoral thesis “Detection and sanitation of Staphylococcus aureus genotype B in Swiss dairy herds”.

April 3-6, 2020 CANCELLED

The Keystone Symposia external page "Plant Genome Engineering: From Lab to Field" is taking place in Colorado. The symposia will showcase advances in genome editing for crop improvement. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Simon Bull has been invited to present his research on crop genome editing.

March 17-18, 2020 POSTPONED

The event Journées céréales à paille INRAE - Agroscope – Gembloux (CRA-W, Centre Wallon de Recherches Agronomiques, Gembloux) will take place in Changins. This meeting concern cereals scientist from INRAE, from CRA-W and the breeders from Agroscope. This year exceptionally, as the meeting is organized in Switzerland, are also invited scientist from other Swiss Institutions (ETH Zurich and University of Zurich) and other Agroscope groups.

March 12, 2020

The joint Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of Switzerland with the topic “Healthy soils for productive and sustainable crop production” takes place at ETH Zurich. external page Registration and Information

January 28, 2020

Current Challenges in Plant Breeding – the Download program (PDF, 276 KB) of the 4th annual seminar of the SGPW-SSA working group on plant breeding is out now.

January 11-15, 2020

Four workshop presentations of the Molecular Plant Breeding group at the external page Plant and Animal Genome XXVIII Conference in San Diego, USA.

December 2-6, 2019

Lukas Wille will attend the International Symposium external page miCROPe with the title "Microbe-Assisted Crop Production-Opportunities, Challenges & Needs" in Vienna. He will present his work on pea patogens and resistance. On December 6, he will additonally give a talk at the 2nd EUCARPIA Workshop on Implementing Plant-Microbe Interactions in Plant Breeding.

December 11, 2019

The Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC) with the title "Plant Response to Environment across Scales" will take place at the ETH Zurich, Auditorium Maximum HG F30. Please find further information external page here.  

November 5-7, 2019

Dr. Simon Bull will attend the E.U. COST Action for Plant Genome Editing external page PlantED conference in Serbia. He will present research about genome editing in crops, including apple and cassava. The meeting will address scientific questions as well as discuss policy, regulation and impact of genome editing in Europe.

October 31, 2019

World Food System Center (WFSC) Research Symposium will take place at the ETH Zurich, Auditorium Maximum HG F30. Please find further information and the program here.

October 31, 2019

EUCLEC training workshop "Genotyping, Phenotyping, Data Management and Analysis in Plant Breeding" will take place in Hotel Holiday Inn, Brno, Czeck Republic. external page Livestream from October 31, 09.00h.

October 29-30, 2019

Second annual meeting of the EU Project external page EUCLEG will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, with presentations of Lea Frey, MPB ETH Zurich, Dr. Christoph Grieder, Agroscope Reckenholz, and Dr. Roland Kölliker, MPB ETH Zurich.

October 21-22, 2019

IAS Doctoral Symposium: The yearly event for doctoral students of the Institut of Agricultural Sciences (IAS) is taking place at Hotel Allegro in Einsiedeln SZ. This event serves, primarily for first-year doctoral students at IAS, as a platform to introduce themselves to their scientif research areas and exchange knowledge. It is also an opportunity for social networking.  

September 11, 2019

GDC Symposium 2019 will take place in the LEE building at the ETH Zürich. Please find further information in the Download program (PDF, 252 KB).

August 30-September 1, 2019

Scientifica 2019, the Zurich Science Days, under the topic: "Science Fiction - Science Facts" will l take place at the University of Zurich and at ETH Zurich. More information available under external page Scientifica 2019. 

June 24-27, 2019

EGF-EUCARPIA Joint Symposium 2019 with the title "Improving sown grasslands through breeding and management" will take place at the ETH Zürich. Please find further information external page here

May 18, 2019

The 5th international "Faschination of Plants Day" (external page FoPD) under the umbrella of European Plant Science Organisation (external page EPSO) will take place. Enjoy it!

March 18-20, 2019

The 15th Gatersleben Research Conference on "Applied Bio-
informatics in Crops" will take place at the Leibniz Institute of Plant
Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany. Please find further information in the external page program.

March 14, 2019

The 27th Annual Conference of Swiss Society of Agronomy with the
title "Diversität in der Forschung für einen vielfältigen Pflanzenbau" will take place in Zollikofen. Prof. Bruno Studer, Miguel Loera and Lea Frey from the Molecular Plant Breeding group will participate at the external page Conference.  

February 1, 2019

The seminar Current Challenges in Plant Breeding is taking place at ETH Zürich with the title: Digital Plant Breeding - Hype or the Way Forward?". Please find further information in the Download program (PDF, 298 KB).

January 12-16, 2019

Dr Dario Copetti and Michelle Nay from the Molecular Plant Breeding group are presenting at the Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) in San Diego:
Dario with the presentation W591: "external page Characterization of a Lolium multiflorum Diploid Assembly"
Michelle with the presentation W792: "external page Pathotype-Specificity of Angular Leaf Spot in Common Bean – Genome-Wide Association Studies and Implication for Resistance Breeding in Latin America and Africa"

December 5, 2018

PSC (Plant Science Center) Symposium "Breakthroughs in Plant Sciences" will take place on December 5, 2018, at the ETH Zurich, HG F30 (Audi Max). Please find further information Download here (JPEG, 736 KB)

November 8, 2018

WFSC (World Food System Center) will held a research symposium on November 8, 2018, at the ETH Zurich, HG F30 (Audi Max). Please find further information here

September 11, 2018

GDC (Genetic-Diversity-Centre-Zurich) will held a symposium on September 11, 2018, at the ETH Zurich Zentrum, LEE Building E 101. Please find the programme Download here (JPEG, 179 KB)

August 27-31, 2018

XV^e European Society for Agronomy (ESA) Congress in Geneva. The topic of the conference will be "Innovative Cropping and Farming Systems for High Quality Food Production Systems”. ESA 2018 is organized by four Swiss institutions involved in agricultural research (Agroscope, ETH Zurich, FiBL Switzerland and the Swiss Society of Agronomy). Save the date and find out more details external page here

February 1, 2018

external page SVIAL has organized the event "Genome editing in Agro-Food" which will take on February 1, 2018, in Technopark, Zurich. Please find the programme Download here (PDF, 157 KB)

January 30, 2018

The 2^nd annual seminar of the SGPW-SSA Working Group Plant Breeding “Current Challenges in Plant Breeding: Potential and Limitations of Genomic Selection in Plants” will take place on January 30, 2018 at the ETH Zurich, hosted by MPB and external page SGPW-SSA

November 27-29, 2017

PlantHUB 1st Annual Meeting: On Monday, 27 November all PlantHUB research consortium members meet for a retreat. Please find further information external page here

September 26, 2017

The event Paris Plant Breeding Symposium 2017 will take place under the motto Genetic Diversity: a Cornerstone of Plant Breeding. Please find further information external page here  

September 11-14, 2017

The EUCARPIA joint meeting "Breeding Grasses and Protein Crops in the Era of Genomics" will be held this year in Vilnius LT. Please find further information external page here

September 5, 2017

Please find here Download the programme (PDF, 187 KB) for the GDC Symposium which will take place at ETH Zurich.  

June 6-8, 2017

The USYS Conference 2017 will take place in Davos. No other ETH department spans as many different research areas as D-USYS. This great thematic diversity and the intensity of daily academic life make it difficult to learn more about the exciting science done in other disciplines and prevent many department members from cultivating contacts outside of their own research groups or institutes. The USYS Conference aims to change this. Please find further information here

January 31, 2017

1st Annual Seminar of the SGPW Working Group Plant Breeding
"Genome editing - potential and challenges for plant breeding".
Download Read more (PNG, 181 KB) and find the program Download here (JPEG, 449 KB)

January 14-18, 2017

The Plant and Animal Genome XXV Conference (PAG) in San Diego (CA) is designed to provide a forum on recent developments and future plans for plant and animal genome projects. Please find detailed information external page here

December 1, 2016

PSC Symposium 2016 with the motto "Plants for health" will take place at ETH. Please find more information external page here

November 4, 2016

The World Food System Symposium 2016 will take place at ETH Zurich where Mike Ruckle and Lukas Wille from our group are participating with posters. Please find further information here

August 29-September 1, 2016

The 20th General Congress of EUCARPIA, "Plant Breeding, the Art of Bringing Science to Life", will be held in Zürich. The conference, which is organized by Agroscope, ETH Zürich Crop Science group and COST Action FA 1208, will be focused on modern tools and studies to help plant breeding such as genomics tools available, stress tolerance, secondary metabolites, phenomics, plant-microbe interaction, genetic resources. The Forage Crop Genetic group is taking part in the organisation of the conference and will also present some of its work. external page Read more

May 2-3, 2016

The „Gemeinschaft zur Förderung von Pflanzeninnovation e.V. (GFPi)“, section Forage Crops is visiting Switzerland and the Forage Crop Genetics group in Lindau-Eschikon. We are looking forward to an interesting day! external page Read more

January 9-13, 2016

The Forage Crop Genetic group at the external page International Plant and Animal Genome XXIV conference. Steven Yates has presented his work untitled “Modelling leaf growth and transcriptional response of perennial ryegrass to drought stress”.