BARCELONA, MAY 8-11

At the forefront of plant research 2023

Workshop

Preliminary Programme

Day 1

Monday, May 8th



08:00 | Registration

09:00 | Welcome from the organizers

09:15 | Dominique Bergmann Building resilient leaves and stomata in and for a changing world

10:00 | Sean Cutler Title TBA



10:45 | Coffee


11:15 | Britt Koskella Leveraging the above ground (phyllosphere) microbiome for plant health

12:00 | Teva Vernoux Auxin in development: where to respond, when to respond and how to respond?

12:45 | Marja Timmermans How to make a flat leaf: Pre-patterns, small RNA morphogens and Turing dynamic



13:30 | Lunch / Posters


14:30 | Xiaoqi Feng Epigenetic regulation of plant germline development

15:15 | Keith Slotkin The initiation of transposable element silencing in plants



16:00 | Coffee


16:30 | Angela Hancock Adaptation to novel environments

17:15 | Hao Yu RNA modification underlies plant development and stress responses

18:00 | Elena MontePhotosignaling for plant adaptation to environmental challenges

Day 2

Tuesday, May 9th


09:00 | Xuemei Chen Noncanonical RNA caps

09:45 | Stephen P. Long More productive future-proofed crops via manipulation of photosynthesis to address global food security in 2050



10:30 | Coffee


11:00 | Cristina Ferrándiz Don’t stop me now: the end of reproduction in annual plants

11:45 | Daniel Van Damme Mechanistic insight into plant endocytosis

12:30 | Rosa Lozano-Durán Chasing geminiviruses to understand plant biology



13:15 | Lunch / Posters


14:30 | Joy Bergelson Ecological Genomics of Local Adaptation in A. thalianay

15:15 | Olivier Hamant How transcriptional noise and mechanical conflicts contribute to organ shape reproducibility


16:00 | Coffee


16:30 | Ross Sozzani The Goldilocks principle, just the right amount of growth

17:15 | Liam Dolan De novo development of polarity in plant cells


Day 3

Wednesday, May 10th

MORNING SESSION
Joint Session with “Genomics-assisted breeding for boosting crop and livestock improvement”

09:15 | Cristobal Uauy Crop breeding as a DNA-assembly problem

10:00 | Nils Stein The barley pan-genome: large structural genome variation is not rare



10:45 | Coffee


11:15 | Bruno Contreras-Moreira Upgrading the gene annotation at the population level reveals the diverse pan-gene set of Asian rice

12:00 | Dani Zamir Epistasis time

12:45 | Danelle Seymour Integrating scales to traverse the genotype-phenotype divide in citrus


13:30 | Closing remarks for “At the forefront of plant research 2023”




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