Program

  • Monday, June 23, 2025: Registration and Welcome, Full-day of Presentations (lunch on your own)
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2025: Full-day of Presentations (lunch on your own)
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2025: Tour (Half-day tour of Valent BioSciences; Half-day tour of the Chicago Botanic Gardens); Closing Dinner
  • Thursday, June 26, 2025: Full-day of Presentations, Announcement of ISHS Young Minds Awards, ISHS Business meeting with vote for host/location of the succeeding Symposium, Closing ceremony

The symposium will comprise seven non-concurrent sessions, divided into quarter to half days, each hosted by a member of the scientific committee with notable expertise in the session. A 20-minute ‘perspectives’ lecture will begin each session.

  • Fundamental/Molecular Biology
  • Application Technologies and environmental regulation of bioregulator penetration
  • Dormancy
  • Floral induction, formation, flowering, and fruit set
  • Vegetative and Reproductive Growth and Development
  • Fruit maturation and harvest
  • Postharvest biology/storability and quality retention/postharvest disorders

As the agenda details are finalized, additional information will be added here. 

 

Visiting Michigan and Michigan State University

For those of you remaining in the Chicagoland/Midwest US area after the conference, we would welcome one-day visits to Michigan State University (located in East Lansing, Michigan), its research farms, and regional fruit industry sites in the week following the conference June 30 – July 3.  While we cannot arrange travel from Chicago or provide area lodging, we would be very happy to set up an informal tour once you make it to East Lansing. Lodging options in the East Lansing area.

If you have an interest in visiting, from Chicago you can take an afternoon train directly to East Lansing or, if you are driving, expect a drive of about four hours from downtown Chicago (link).  We’ll work with you to tailor your visit according to your interests. Please contact Randolph Beaudry (beaudry@msu.edu; +1-517-353-0303) by June 7, 2025. We can only accommodate a handful of participants, so plan early if you have a keen interest.

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