The Jubilee Conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Vavilov’s Society of Geneticists and Breeders will be held in Moscow on Nov 8-10, 2016. The theme of the conference is the following:

“50th Anniversary of Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders: Achievements and Perspectives”

The main aim of the event is exchange of experience, networking and discussion of advances, difficulties and perspectives in the field of genetics and breeding in the Russian Federation.

The goals of the event are the following:

• Exchage of experience and sharing information on research in genetics and breeding in the Russian Federation with Russian and foreign specialists.
• Development and stengthening of collaboration between academic and educational organizations, as well as discussion of joint projects and fundamental and applied studies in genetics and breeding.
• Promotion of the newest advances in genetics and breeding.
• Networking with leading foreign specialists in genetics and breeding.

The event includes celebration of the 50th Anniversary of VSG&B as well as scientific sessions that will include talks about the current trends in the genetics and breeding. We invite you to participate in the Conference. For participation, you need to register and send your abstract to the Organizing Committee.

The Programm Committee will choose between participants based on their abstracts and offer the selected authors the opportunity to deliver an oral presentation. The Conference will not include a poster session.

No fee is charged for participation.

You can contact the Conference Office at vogis50@vogis.org

Registration and abstract submission forms will be released in February 2016 at the Conference site.

Working languages of the Conference and Russian and English.

Hope to see you at the Conference,

Organizing Committee