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The proceedings of the meeting will be published as a stand-alone issue of Biochemical Society Transactions (online and in print) and a stand-alone volume of the online Symposia Series.

Symposium background
Plants maintain the correct compliment of organelles and regulate their spatial distribution within the cytosol not only during cell division, but also during growth, differentiation and throughout the life of the cell. This involves a fascinating level of coordination in time and space. The meeting will explore the latest theories and data on the replication of cytoplasmic organelles and the mechanisms that may be involved in the three dimensional organisation of the cytoplasm.
Questions to be addressed will include the importance of proteins such as dynamin in organelle fission, whether peroxisomes and Golgi arise de novo from the endoplasmic reticulum, how the endoplasmic reticulum maintains its structure, what regulates the size and number of mitochondria, how plastids divide, whether different vacuolar types differentiate in the early embryo and how the nuclear envelope is organised and involved in nuclear positioning.

We have gathered together leading experts in organelle biology and welcome offered papers and posters to make this an important two day meeting for anyone interested in the spatial organization and regulation of the plant cell and its organelles.