The GRC (Gordon research conference) of CO2 assimilation in Plants from Genome to Biome is a leading conference reaching an international audience and providing participants with a productive and science driven atmosphere. The topic of the 2023 meeting was ‘Photosynthetic Efficiency in a Changing Climate’ chaired by Tracy Lawson and Asaph B. Cousins. It focused on providing insight on how CO2 assimilation in photosynthetic organisms has evolved and will respond to the current trends of climate change and how to use that knowledge to prepare and enhanced our agricultural practices. The setting of the GRC meeting allows participants to share and exchange with world leader scientists on cutting edge and unpublished research. Together with the Gordon research Seminar (GRS) event programmed one day before the main conference it provides early career scientists with great opportunities sharing unpublished data, exchanging with great minds, and boosting new thinking and approaches to ongoing questions.
As a participant of the GRS and GRC I am happy to say that the meeting was extremely fruitful. I presented a poster introducing Capitalise aims and my research within it. I had excellent exchanges with postdocs and PI from all over the world working on questions related in part or not to my topic. After careful discussion with my supervisor, I will implement some of the ideas we came up with during this week in my next experiments. I have secured at least one collaboration with the group of Prof Braeutigam from Bielefeld University in Germany. It will be key in the developed of one of my projects and increase the impact of my research publication within the Capitalise consortium. I also collected and provided fresh ideas to my peers and increased my network allowing me to think and plan my career future steps. I also had the opportunity to see and discuss with other members of the Capitalise consortium about coming deadlines and experimental details. Altogether I think it was a great opportunity and exposure for both Capitalise and myself to have been part the GRC meeting 2023.
