Thursday, 25th of May, 2023
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome Remarks
1st Session- Cell and Developmental Biology / From cells to organisms
Chair: Yasin Dagdas
09:30-09:55 Helene Robert Boisivon, CEITEC Masaryk University, Czech Repbulic
Impact of high temperatures on seed development
09:55-10:15 Erin Cullen, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
A Novel Function for the Cuticle in Explosive Seed Launch?
10:15-10:40 Sebastian Soyk, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Understanding the unexpected - dissecting genetic interactions with impact on crop productivity
10:40-11:00 Ziqiang Patrick Li, Laboratory of membrane biogenesis, CNRS, France
How do plants form Plasmodesmata?
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Poster Session 1
13:00-14:00 Lunch
2nd Session- Gene Regulation
Chair: Arturo Marí-Ordóñez
14:00-14:25 Javier Gallego-Bartolome, IBMCP Valencia, Spain
The MINU-associated SWI/SNF complex is involved in nucleosome positioning and
transcription start site selection in Arabidopsis
14:25-14:45 Yoav Voichek, Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna
Controlling transcription from within transcribed regions in plants
14:45-15:10 Polina Novikova, MPI Cologne, Germany
Overcoming fertility issues in polyploids
15:10-15:30 Alicia Michael, University of Basel, Biozentrum, Switzerland
How do transcription factors interpret and influence chromatin structure?
15:30-16:00 Group Photo & Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Keynote lecture I
introduction by Liam Dolan
Siobhan Brady, University of California Davis, USA
Cell Type Differentiation and its Integration with the Environment
17:00-18:30 Reception
18:30 Discussion: "Good practices in research and mentoring"
Friday, 26th of May, 2023
3rd Session- Stress Responses
Chair: Silvia Ramundo
09:30-09:55 Inge de Clercq, VIB Ghent, Belgium
Towards unterstanding inter-organelle communication during plant stress responses.
09:55-10:15 Natalia Wozniak, Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Towards understanding the genetic basis of enhanced Cd hypertolerance
in Arabidopsis halleri
10:15-10:40 Phil Carella, John Innes Centre, UK
Macroevolutionary dissection of infection and immunity in land plants
10:40-11:00 Mariana Schuster, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany
Proteolytic processing of plant receptor-like kinases and receptor-like proteins
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Poster session 2
13:00-14:00 Lunch
4th Session- Evolutionary Biology
Chair: Kelly Swarts
14:00-14:25 Jan de Vries, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany
Functional genomics and the stress response toolkit of the earliest land plants
14:25-14:45 Haoran Xue, University of Potsdam, Germany
Genomic evidence for large structural variation and hemizygosity underlying
the tristylous floral polymorphism
14:45-15:10 Michal Breker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Genetic tricks in a green playground - Utilizing novel genetic tools to address
plant cell biology problems
15:10-15:30 Eftychios Frangedakis, University of Cambridge, UK
What can hornworts teach us?
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Keynote lecture II
introduction by Yasin Dagdas
Rosa Lozano-Duran, ZMBP Tuebingen, Germany
Plant manipulation by geminiviruses: from virulence to immunity and back
17:00-17:15 Closing remarks
17:45 Sightseeing (optional)
19:30 Conference dinner (optional)
'Gigerl, der Stadtheurige'
Rauhensteingasse 3/Blumenstockgasse
1010 Vienna