COS SymposiumThe EMBO Lecture: Early Land Plant Evolution

The EMBO Keynote Lecture is part of the “Life in Context – Organismal Sensing and Adaptation in the Natural Environment” symposium hosted by the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) of Heidelberg University on 22 and 23 July 2024. Prof. Dr Liam Dolan of the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology will speak on the topic of “Early Land Plant Evolution: De Novo Development of Polarity, the First Body Axis and the Stem Cell Niche in Marchantia Polymorpha”. His research uses genetics to discover how plants and their cells develop and evolve with a main focus on the identification of mechanisms that control the development and differentiation of specialized plant cell types. His research on the adaptation of early plant life to the land encompasses environmental adaptation on the cellular and evolutionary scale.