PROGRAM: MAY 23, 2025
VENUE: IMP LECTURE HALL AND GMI ATRIUM
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome remarks by Magnus Nordborg, Markus Kiess & Liam Dolan
09:15 – 10:10
Keynote lecture
Julia Bailey-Serres – (Re)shaping roots and symbiotic interactions in wet and dry soils
SESSION 1: CELL FATE AND CELL DIVISION
10:10 – 11:00
Session chair: Arturo Marí-Ordóñez
Karel Říha – RNP condensates in cell fate transitions: the emerging roles of P-bodies and Cajal bodies
Petra Bulankova – The unexpected features of mitotic division in diatoms
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
SESSION 2: DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT
11:30 – 13:10
Session chair: Yan Ma
Thomas Greb – Roads to complexity: the making of plant vascular tissues
Javier Agustí – Adaptation and development in plants
Tomokazu Kawashima – Actin tug-of-war: controlling endosperm nuclear movement to determine final seed size in Arabidopsis
Aleš Pečinka – Understanding parental conflict and genomic imprinting in barley
13:10 – 13:20
Group photo
13:20 – 14:30
Lunch
SESSION 3: PLANTS IN DEFENSE MODE
14:30 – 15:45
Session chair: Silvia Ramundo
Claudia Jonak – Plant stress tolerance mechanisms
Marion Clavel – One-sixth of the GMI's lifespan: Viruses and selective autophagy come together
Elwira Smakoswka-Luzan – Unveiling nature: the role of cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases in environmental sensing
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee break
SESSION 4: PLANTS IN A CHANGING WORLD
16:15 – 17:30
Session chair: Nicholas Irwin
Kelly Swarts – Climate adaptation in natural forest trees
Polina Novikova – Mechanisms of recurrent polyploidization cycles
Wolfgang Busch – From the GMI to global climate change solutions: harnessing plant science for a sustainable future
17:30 – 17:45
Closing remarks by Yasin Dagdas
18:00 – 23:30
Party