Preliminary Programme

Sunday, 23 August

Individual arrival at the hotels booked by the participants in Quedlinburg, Germany
17:00
Registration
Venue: Hotel Schlossmühle in Quedlinburg
18:00 - 21:00
Official Opening, Welcome Reception and Keynote Lectures by
Wim de Vries "Reconciling safe and required nitrogen inputs in view of environmental impacts and food production" (Wageningen University, Netherlands)

Venue: Hotel Schlossmühle in Quedlinburg

Monday, 24 August

08:15
Transfer from Quedlinburg to Gatersleben
The IPK conference centre will be open for registration from 8:30 am
09:00
Session I: Mechanisms of Nitrogen uptake from the soil
Lixing Yuan "Nitrate Signaling Coordinately Regulates Root and Shoot Growth in Plants" (China Agricultural University, China)
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session I continued: Mechanisms of Nitrogen uptake from the soil
13:00
Lunch Break
13:45
Session II: Nitrogen metabolism
Guohua Xu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Session III: Nitrogen translocation and long-distance signaling
Hitoshi Sakakibara (Nagoya University, Japan)
18:30
Poster Session and Fingerfood
21:15
Transfer from Gatersleben to Quedlinburg

Tuesday, 25 August

08:15
Transfer from Quedlinburg to Gatersleben
The IPK conference centre will be open for registration from 8:30 am
09:00
Session III continued: Nitrogen translocation and long-distance signaling
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session IV: Cellular Nitrogen sensing and signaling
Eva Benková (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
Anne Krapp (INRAe Versailles, France)
13:00
Lunch Break
14:00
Tours of IPK's various research facilities
– Automated shoot and root phenotyping, including the IPK PhenoSphere
– Genebank and sequencing platforms
– Field collections and experimental plots
17:00
Coffee Break
17:30
Poster Session II
19:00
Barbecue evening at the IPK Beer Garden
21:00
Transfer from Gatersleben to Quedlinburg

Wednesday, 26 August

08:15
Transfer from Quedlinburg to Gatersleben
The IPK conference centre will be open for registration from 8:30 am
09:00
Session IV continued: Cellular Nitrogen sensing and signaling
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session V: Systems biology and artificial intelligence to study Nitrogen regulatory pathways
Tim Jeffers (New York University, Center for Genomics ans Systems Biology, USA)
13:00
Lunch Break
13:45
Excursion
Guided tour of the UNESCO World Heritage town of Quedlinburg

Alternatively

A guided tour of the medieval town of Wernigerode, also known as the 'Colourful Town in the Harz Mountains'

The excursions will start after lunch, with buses departing from the IPK Leibniz Institute in Gatersleben. The Wernigerode excursion will end in Quedlinburg, giving participants plenty of time to reach their hotels and walk to the Schlossmühle Hotel for the conference dinner.
19:00 - 23:00
Conference Dinner in Quedlinburg

Venue: Hotel Schlossmühle in Quedlinburg

Thursday, 27 August

08:15
Transfer from Quedlinburg to Gatersleben
The IPK conference centre will be open for registration from 8:30 am
09:00
Session VI: Nitrogen use efficiency and sustainability
Chengcai Chu "NRT1.1B: A dual nitrate transceptor and ABA receptor" (South China Agricultural University, China)
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Session VII: Rhizosphere effects and nitrogen-cycling microbiomes affecting nitrogen use efficiency
Peng Yu (Technical University Munich, Germany)
12:45
Closing Remark
13:00
Lunch Break and End of Nitrogen 2026