The Plant Science Student Conference (PSSC) is a plant orientated conference which is organized by PhD students. This conference takes place in a yearly manner at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle (Saale) or at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben. The participants are also PhD students who present and discuss their research topics. In this year the PSSC took place in Halle. There were 63 participants.


Everyone who join the conference has to contribute a talk or a poster. The best contributions were awarded by a experienced jury (Prof. Dr. Teun Munnik, Prof. Dr. Ingo Heilmann, Prof. Dr. Claus Wasternack, Dr. Michael Walter) and by the PhD students themselves.

Best talks awarded by the jury: 1. Martin Stegmann (IPB) 2. Anja Raschke (IPB) 3. Raimund Nagel (MPI Jena) (from right)

Best poster awarded by the jury: 1. Pascal Pecher (IPB) 2. Stephanie Werner (MLU) 3. Daniel Penselin (IPB) (from left)

The PhD awards: Talk Hendrik Mehlhorn (IPK) Poster Susanne Forner (IPB)

Dr. Teun Munnik
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

Prof. Dr. Paul Schulze-Lefert
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne

Prof. Dr. Werner Klaffke
Unilever Foods R & D

Prof. Dr. Ingo Heilmann
Institute for Biochemistry und Biotechnology, MLU