The First International Conference on Plant Meristem Biology (Meristem 2016), organized by Shandong Agricultural University will be held in Tai’an, China. Meristem biology is fundamental to plant development and is also a field with exciting new progress. However, there remains no scientific meeting series dedicated the field of meristem biology. The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for established and junior scientists to meet and discuss the role and regulation of meristems. We are committed to developing an exciting program of invited talks, as well as a reasonable number of talks selected from abstracts. It is expected that more than 300 participants from all over the world will attend this conference.