135 posters were presented at the conference, specifically during two poster sessions:

Poster Session I: 23 June 2008, chaired by Dénes Dudits

Poster Session II: 24 June 2008, chaired by Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey

A jury consisting of Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey (Espoo, FI), Dénes Dudits (Szeged, HU), Pere Puigdomenech (Barcelona, ES) selected the three award winning posters.

We had the pleasure to award three prices of 200€ (one poster prize was kindly offered by Emendo Bioscience) to the following posters:

1. Chanate Malumpong, University of Nottingham, Leicestershire, UK
Poster number: P 003
Poster title: Investigating meiotic recombination in rice - examining OsDMC1A and OsDMC1B through phenotypic, genotypic, cytological and complementation analysis
Authors: Chanate Malumpong, Katie Mayes, Vera Thole, Philippe Vain, Sean Mayes

2. Roger Hellens, Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
Poster number: P 013
Poster title: The genomics of germplasm exploitation        
Authors: Andy C. Allan, William A. Laing, Richard V. Espley, Mirco Montefiori, Charles Dwamena, Rebecca Henry, Kui Lin-Wang, Andrew P. Dare and Roger P. Hellens

3. Fernando Geu-Flores, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Poster number: P 125
Poster title: A toolkit for engineering multi-enzyme pathways into higher plants
Authors: Fernando Geu-Flores, Morten T. Nielsen, Carl E. Olsen, Mohammed S. Motawia and Barbara A. Halkier

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all poster authors!