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The ACPNB committee are delighted to confirm that the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) will return to organise CPNB26, following a successful event in 2024.

Furthermore AAB provide £1000 to sponsor the meeting, which will be associated with the offer of free AAB membership for a calendar year. 

Benefits of AAB membership include reduced registration fee for all AAB events (https://www.aab.org.uk/events/), 10% discount in APC charges for Plant Biotechnology journal and eligibility for AAB travel grants.

We are delighted that Professor Mike Rivington from James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen has agreed to provide the opening keynote talk at CPNB24 on 'Climate change impacts on land: a north-south divide'.

We are delighted to update the draft schedule for CPNB24 on December 20th 2023! It is already a very interesting schedule, although we encourage additional submissions that feature Potato research!

Download Draft Schedule here

Keynote Speakers confirmed.

James Brosnan is Director of Research at the 'The Scotch Whisky Research Institute

Ewen Mullins is the Head of Crop Science Department at Teagasc. https://www.teagasc.ie/contact/staff-directory/m/ewen-mullins/

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November 1st is Abstract submission deadline for submission of Oral and Poster presentations at CPNB24.

We are happy to receive a 'place-holder' submission with a title by that time so that we cabn set the schedule for the meeting. The complete abstract can be submitted later in 2023.

Please submit here -> https://www.aab.org.uk/conferences/submit-an-abstract-for-cpnb-2024/