Speakers
Session 1: “The Big Picture: Monitoring (plant) biodiversity at a grand scale”
Christoph Schwörer
University of Bern, Switzerland
“Reconstructing past plant diversity in the European Alps”
“Bottlenecks for the operationalization of Essential Biodiversity Variables to inform policy in Europe”
“Host plant availability drives the spatio-temporal dynamics of interacting metapopulations across a fragmented landscape”
Session 2: “Zooming In: Genetic adaptations to the changing environment”
“Rewriting the epigenome: how an alpine plant scales new heights”
Gal Ofir
Max Planck Institute of Biology, Germany
“Monsters and treasures of plant genomic islands”
Tonni Grube Anderson
University of Zürich, Switzerland
“We will block you: The Interplaying role of chemical and physical barriers in roots”
Session 3: “Moving Forward: policy pathways to foster biodiversity in the face of change”
Millie Chapman
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
“Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future”
Robert Finger
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
“Harnessing Agricultural Policy to Support Biodiversity Outcomes”
Katalin Csilléry
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
PSC Symposium 2026 