<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.546667px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Colleague,<br><br>The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS) and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) are organising the<br><br><b>International CEPLAS-IPK Summer School 2024 “Translational Plant Biodiversity Research”,<br></b><br>taking place September 22 -26, 2024 in Ilsenburg, Abbey Drübeck (German: Kloster Drübeck), Germany.<br><br>This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students and early postdocs to get an insight into the latest developments in plant science and the exciting research conducted in CEPLAS and IPK, to present their own research, and to network with colleagues and renowned plant scientists.<br><br>We have a fantastic line-up of speakers, excellent workshops and a nice social program. Drübeck Abbey, the venue of the International Summer School, is an old monastery in the Harz Mountains, in the middle of a beautiful low mountain range.<br><br>The programme fee of 80 Euro includes accommodation and full board. Travel costs are not included.<br><br>Further details can be found at<br></span><a href="https://www.ceplas-ipk-summerschool.de/registration/" target="S8LL-FBCeiQP5oR25qCDe_Z" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.ceplas-ipk-summerschool.de</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><br><br>and at the attached poster.<br><br>We should be very grateful if you could circulate the email in your department/school and share it with other colleagues who might be interested.<br><br>For any further questions please e-mail </span><a href="mailto:ceplas-summerschool@uni-koeln.de" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span lang="EN-GB">ceplas-summerschool@uni-koeln.de</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.546667px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>On behalf of the organizing committee<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.546667px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Stanislav Kopriva (CEPLAS)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.546667px;">Jens Freitag (IPK)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.546667px;"></p></body></html>