09:00 – 09:45 Registration and poster mounting
09:45 – 10:00 Welcome address
10:00 – 10:30 Tarenna and Nesotarenna (Dialypetalanthoideae – Pavetteae) in Africa and Madagascar – Petra De Block
10:30 – 11:00 Phylogeny of the Paleotropical tribe Mussaendeae (Rubiaceae - Dialypetalanthoideae), with particular emphasis on the Madagascar-centered genus Bremeria – Sylvain Razafimandimbison
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Generic delimitations in the African Pentanisia clade (Rubiaceae, Rubioideae, Knoxieae) – Elmar Robbrecht
12:00 – 12:30 The genera Chassalia, Eumachia, Geophila, and Hymenocoleus (Rubiaceae) in tropical Africa – Olivier Lachenaud
12:30 – 13:00 Understanding the morphological diversity of flowers in Rubiaceae. A floral ontogenetic approach focusing on floral cups – Alexander Vrijdaghs
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:00 New insights into Psychotria sect. Cephaelis: chemical and palynological evidence reinforces its placement in Palicourea – Carla Bruniera
15:00 – 15:30 A new, new view of the Rubiaceae genus Palicourea (Palicoureeae) – Charlotte Taylor
15:30 – 16:00 Mexican Rubiaceae continue to amaze us, and also to puzzle us – Helga Ochoterena
16:00 – 16:30 Poster session
16:30 – 18:30 Welcome reception
09:30 – 10:00 The early commercial coffee cultivation in Africa: a story at the intersection of commerce and science, complemented with some reflections – Piet Stoffelen
10:00 – 10:30 Reconstructing the historical spread of Coffea arabica varieties using herbarium genomics – Yves Bawin
10:30 – 11:00 Genetic diversity of wild Coffea canephora populations in the Yangambi region: current status and conservation threats – Jonas Depecker
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 The Democratic Republic of Congo as a centre of wild coffee diversity: distribution, risks, and conservation needs – An-Sofie Tas
12:00 – 12:30 Shade tree species and 15N-labelled urea timing affect nitrogen uptake and distribution in Ethiopian coffee agroforestry systems – Bezawit Mekonnen
12:30 – 13:00 A century of botanical illustration of Rubiaceae at Meise Botanic Garden – Hilde Orye
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:00 Homoploid hybrid speciation within a radiation of Coprosma (Anthospermeae, Rubiaceae) on a remote oceanic island – Theodore Brook
15:00 – 15:30 Some considerations on the ecology of Hamelia patens in Martinique: non-invasive establishment – Jean-Philippe Claude
15:30 – 16:00 Bioprospecting antivirals in a hotspot for rubiaceous biodiversity – María Aurora Londoño Avendaño
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and networking
09:30 – 13:00 In-house activities at Meise Botanic Garden
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Coffee tasting at KAWA bar – Robrecht Bollen
18:30 – 20:30 Conference dinner at Atomium Restaurant
09:30 – 10:00 Update on the generic names in Rubiaceae and the context and patterns in their naming – Brecht Verstraete
10:00 – 10:30 Taxonomic advances and knowledge gaps in Malesian Rubiaceae: insights from Ophiorrhiza (Rubiaceae) and New Guinea diversity studies – Anna Trias-Blasi
10:30 – 11:00 Delineating areas of endemism for Rubiaceae in the Philippines – Jennifer Saladaga
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Tackling the species-rich genus Timonius (Rubiaceae) – Junhao Chen
12:00 – 12:30 A review of recent work and future directions in the Canthium alliance (Vanguerieae) in Asia – Louise Neo
12:30 – 13:00 Diversity of floral features and their phylogenetic affinity in Acranthera, with a focus on Bornean taxa – Pui Kiat Hoo
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:00 The genus Tarenna (Rubiaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia – Junhao Chen
15:00 – 15:30 How do opposite leaves constrain plant architecture? Insights from the Asian Rubiaceae – Louise Neo
15:30 – 16:00 Closing address
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and networking