9-10 October 2023: An Open plenary conference was organized at Hôtel Occidental Sfax.

This conference aims to show the power of different omics tools in understanding complex biological questions. Different topics have been covered ranging from whole genome sequencing methods, to genome annotation and evolutionary analysis to the comparative genome-wide analysis of transcriptomes and proteomes and the latest bioinformatics tools.

Main topics

-Genome sequencing

-Genome analysis, comparative plant genome analysis

-Proteomics

-Metabolomics

-Plant hormones

-The interactome and network analysis

Keynote speakers 

Prof. Klaus MAYER (HMGU, Germany): “A brief history of plant genomes and the challenge of cereal genomes”

Dr. James CANHAM (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK): “GetGenome: Democratisation of genomics for the global scientific community”

Dr. Georg HABERER (HMGU, Germany): “NGS based genome assembly, genome annotation and variomics”

Dr. Mahmoud GARGOURI (Centre of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Tunisia): “A Multiomics and Metabarcoding approach to boost growth and abiotic tolerance of economically valuable crops”

Dr. Manuel SPANNAGL (HMGU, Germany): “Pangenomes and super pangenomes in cereal and plant genomics”

Dr. Nadia KAMAL (HMGU, Germany): “Gene-families and Transcriptomics in Plant Genomics”

Prof. Pascal FALTER-BRAUN (HMGU, Germany): “Network centric analysis of plant hormone pathways and their protein interactome”

Dr. Ahmed DEBEZ (Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Tunisia): “Characterization of the adaptive responses of the halophytic plant Cakile maritima to abiotic stresses: contribution of the proteomic approach”

Dr. Daniele DONDI (University of Pavia, Italy): “Tools and techniques for plant metabolomics”

Dr. Elien GULDENTOPS (University of Ghent, Belgium): “The use of high throughput sequencing for the detection and identification of viruses and phytoplasmas in plants”

*if interested in the presentations, please contact us at inplantomics@usf.tn