The 12th meeting of the European Calcium Society

摘要

The 12th Meeting of the European Calcium Society (ECS) took place from the 9th to the 12th of September 2012 at the University of Toulouse in Southern France. The meeting was organized by Marc Moreau, Catherine Leclerc and their colleagues and supported by an International Scientific Committee. They put together an excellent program that attracted more than 200 scientists from 26 different countries, not only from Europe, but also from Australia, North- and South America, Japan, China, India, Russia, and the Middle East. The program was started with a Plenary Lecture by Jorg Kudla from the University of Miinster, Germany, who gave a fascinating overview on Ca~(2+)-signaling in plants. Since plant biology was often underrep-resented at previous meetings it was appreciated that at this meeting Ca~(2+)-signaling in plants was represented by a number of outstanding lectures given by Tina Romeis from the Free University of Berlin, by Hillel Fromm from the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel, and by David Barker from CNRS in Auzeville, France.