Goethe-Universität — PopBio 2024

36th conference on Plant Population Biology - PopBio 2024

We warmly welcome you to the 36th annual conference on Plant Population Biology, also known as PopBio 2024! Our conference will be held at the Riedberg Campus of Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from the 2nd to the 4th of May 2024.

Our international conference is an annually recurring event fostered by the specialist group 'Plant Population Biology' (also known as PopBio) of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and hosts about one hundred participants each year. Oral and poster contributions cover a wide range of subdisciplines within plant ecology, such as population ecology and population genetics, functional plant ecology, evolutionary ecology, and restoration and conservation biology. Important aims are to offer a stage for early-career scientists and to promote scientific exchange among participants.

We have invited five distinguished keynote speakers - Elena Hamann, Severin Irl, Ruben Milla, Hendrik Poorter and Marina Semchenko - who will introduce individual sessions. A conference dinner is planned for Friday the 3rd of May 2024 in the famous Sachsenhausen district in Frankfurt. On Saturday the 4th of May, after the official closing of the conference at 13:00, we offer an excursion to Monte Scherbelino, a former waste dump that has been turned into a nature reserve and is slowly building up an exciting portfolio of biodiversity.

We hope this attracts you to participate and we look forward to welcoming you soon in Frankfurt! You can register and submit your abstract here.
The deadline for abstract submission is the 8th of March.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us through popbio2024@bio.uni-frankfurt.de.

The organisers

Programme

The conference programme is currently under construction.

A viewable and downloadable schedule will be published here after talk and poster presentations have been assigned (anticipated during the second half of March).

In brief, the conference starts with a welcome reception in the Science Garden on Wednesday 1 May 2024 in the late afternoon and early evening.
The conference itself takes place in the Otto-Stern-Zentrum over the course of 2.5 days:

Thursday 2nd of May 2024 from 9:00 till 17:00
Friday 3rd of May 2024 from 9:00 till 17:00
Saturday 4 May 2024 from 9:00 till 13:00

The conference dinner is on Friday 3 May 2024 at 19:00.
The excursion to Monte Scherbelino on Saturday 4 May 2024 starts at 13:00 and we plan to be back on the Riedberg Campus by 18:00.

Events

Excursion

We offer a guided excursion to Monte Scherbelino in the afternoon of Saturday 4th of May, after the official closing of the conference. Monte Scherbelino is a former waste deposit in the outskirts of Frankfurt which has been turned into a nature reserve and is slowly building up an exciting portfolio of biodiversity – a hopeful example of how humankind's negative effects on its environment can be undone. We hope you will join us to this fascinating location! Transportation by coach to and from Monte Scherbelino will be provided and we plan to be back at Riedberg Campus latest at 18:00. A lunch bag will be provided.

More detailed information here.

Registration for this event will be available here.
Transportation will be provided to and from the event.

Keynotes

Registration

The PopBio2024 Conference participation ticket includes two-an-a-half days of talks and poster presentations, daily lunch and coffee catering, and the additional options to book attendance to the conference dinner on Friday evening at Depot 1899 and a guided ecological excursion on Saturday afternoon.

Registration for the conference and abstract submission is handled via the Converia online registration tool. Please register here.

***If you are a Goethe Uni student and want to participate in the Popbio Module please register per email at popbio2024@bio.uni-frankfurt.de, please include your full name, immatriculation number and your field of study.***

Registration Deadlines

08.03.2024 is the last day to submit an abstract for a talk

08.03.2024 is the last day to register for the reduced early bird fee

22.03.2024 is the last day to submit an abstract for a poster

17.04.2024 is the last day to register for the Friday night dinner

**Registration for the conference dinner is closed. If you wish to register for the dinner but have missed the deadline, please write us an email: popbio2024@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

*Even after abstract submissions are closed, registration as an attendee will be open until the end of the conference!

Abstract submission rules

Please note that abstract submission is closed as of 22.03.2024

After registration for the conference, you can submit an abstract on the same Converia website. Please prepare a title for your talk or poster and an abstract that is no longer than 300 words. You should also provide the names, affiliated institutions and email addresses of all contributing authors. (The Converia website by default allows you to provide more details about the authors, but for the purpose of the PopBio 2024 conference it suffices to provide their names, affiliated institution and email addresses).

If there are any questions or concerns regarding conference and event participation or abstract submission please send us an email at popbio2024@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Fees

Early Bird

Student + GfÖ membership - €120
Student - €150
Standard + GfÖ membership - €190
Standard - €250

Regular

Student + GfÖ membership - €170
Student - €200
Standard + GfÖ membership - €240
Standard - €300

Organisers

Frankfurt am Main

To help you orient on the Riedberg Campus, please see the aerial map with routes here.

To get to Riedberg Campus, whether from the train station or the airport, use public transport to get to "Hauptwache" metro station and take metro U8 from there to "Uni Campus Riedberg" metro station.

Alternatively, take metro U3 from "Hauptwache" metro station to "Niederursel" metro station and walk up the hill, continuing over the traffic bridge until you reach Riedberg Campus (aprox. 8 min. walk).

If you come by car: parking areas on Campus Riedberg are reserved for employees only. There is ample opportunity to park in public parking spaces in the Riedberg residential area.

The welcome reception on Wednesday 1 May takes place in the Wissenschaftsgarten and the conference itself takes place in the Otto-Stern-Zentrum, the yellow building very close to the "Uni Campus Riedberg" metro station. The talks take place in lecture hall 3 (H3) and the poster session and coffee brakes are in the foyer in front of it. Lunch breaks take place in the "Pi x Gaumen mensa" in the Biozentrum building close by.

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