"We are delighted to announce the first conference on Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment. This meeting will bring together plant scientists working on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, on populations in their natural environment as well as crop species. It will provide a forum to discuss recent advances in plant genome biology aiming at the elucidation of gene function and networks, natural and induced variation and their implications in agricultural breeding programmes."

Topics will include:

• Structural Variation and Pan Genomes
• Artificial Variation and Gene Editing
• Epigenetic Variation
• Natural Variation and Ancient Genomes
• Regulatory Variation and Systems Biology
• Novel Technologies for Genome Analysis