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I. Biology and Biotechnology in Ferns 1. Alexandru M.F Tomescu (Humboldt State University, USA). Title: Seed-free plant vegetative morphology – a developmental perspective. 2. Jan de Vries (Dalhousie University, Canada). Title: Azolla – a model system for symbiotic nitrogen fixation and evolutionary developmental biology. 3. Helena Fernández, Alejandro Rivera y Mª Jesús Cañal. (Oviedo University, Spain). Title: The fern gametophyte as a model to study apomixis. 4. Ajij Pratap Singh (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India). Title: Biotechnology in clone gametophytes: future perspectives of homosporous ferns.  5. Tomiczak, K; Domrzalka, L.; Grzyb, M; Jan Rybczynski. (Polish Academy of Sciences, Botanical Garden, Poland). Title: In vitro morphogenic events in ferns: from spores and protoplasts to plant. 6. Anna Mikuła et al. (Botanical Garden, Poland). Title: Experimental and practical applications of fern somatic embryogenesis. II. Evolution, Conservation and Biodiversity of ferns 7. Emily Sessa. (University of Florida, USA) Title: Fern Evolution and Classification. 8. Kelly K.S. Matsunaga (University of Michigan, USA). Title: Exploring the role of auxin in the evolution of tracheophyte body plans. 9. Daniel Ballesteros and Valerie Pence (Royal Botanic Gardens, UK) Title: Fern conservation: the experience of 25 years of spore, gametophyte and sporophyte ex situ storage, in vitro culture, and cryopreservation" 10. Carrapico, F. (University of Lisboa, Portugal) Title: Symbiogenesis and the evolution of biological complexity. Azolla as a case study. III. Ferns as genetic and metabolic resources 11. Chi-Lien Chen (University of Iowa, USA). Title: Gametophyte and sporophyte transformation. 12. Ashley Cannon and Stanley Roux (University of Texas, USA). Title: Generation of transgenic Ceratopteris richardii spores to analyze Ca2+ dynamics during gravity-directed polarization. 13. Janos Vetter (Szent Istvan University, Hungary). Title: Secondary metabolites of ferns. 14. Liliana Cristina Soare and Nikoleta Anca Sutan (University of Pitesti, Romania). Title: Current trends in ferns/pteridophytes extracts: from plant to nanoparticles. IV. Ferns and Environment 15. Yanshan Chen, Lena Ma and Bala Rathinasabapathi (Nanjing University, China, and University of Florida, USA). Title: Molecular biology of arsenic hyperaccumulator ferns: Novel genes to understand extraordinary arsenic tolerance, uptake and metabolism and their implications for crop improvement strategies 16. Pei-Hsuan Lee, Yao-Moan Huang, and Wen-Liang Chiou. (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taiwan). Title: Fern phenology 17. Jill Farrant (University of Cape Town, South Africa). Title: Moria caffrorum as model to study desiccation tolerance. 18. Marina López-Pozo, Beatriz Fernández-Marín, Jose Ignacio García-Plazaola and Daniel Ballesteros. (University of Pais Vasco, Spain) Title: Desiccation tolerance in ferns: from the unicellular spore to the multi-tissular sporophyte. 19. David Rodríguez de la Cruz (University of Salamanca, Spain). Title: New insights on atmospheric fern spore dynamics. 20. José Maria Gabriel y Galán (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain). Title: Ecological role of some hormones on spore germination of temperate forest ferns. 21.  José María Gabriel y Galán (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain). Title: Ecomorphology of stomata in temperate ferns under contrasting environments. 22 Myriam Catalá, Marta Esteban, Eugenia López López, Jacinto Elías Sedeño-Díaz, Joseph A. Rodriguez Romero, Luis G. Quintanilla (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Title: Recent advances in the use of mitochondrial activity of ferns spores in American and European ferns models for the assessment of acute toxicity. 23.  Myriam Catalá, Helena García-Cortés, José L. Rodríguez-Gil (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Title: Update on the assessment of chronic phytotoxicity using fern spore biomarkers. 24. Bhupinder Dhir (University of Delhi, India) Title: The role of ferns in environmental cleanup.