Thursday, 16 May 2024
8:30-9:30 Registration
Session 1 - Cell and Developmental Biology / From cells to organisms
Chair: Yasin Dagdas, Gregor Mendel Institute
09:30 Charlotte Kirchhelle, CNRS Lyon, France
Cell edges: from patterning to growth control
09:55 Aurélia Emonet, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Lignin patterning and evolutionary transitions in explosive fruit
10:15 Michael Raissig, University of Bern, Switzerland
Cell polarity, leaf epidermis patterning and stomatal guard cell morphogenesis in grasses
10:40 Isla Causon, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambrdige University
A role for GABA signalling in petal patterns evolution and development? Insight from the Hibiscus trionum complex
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Poster Session 1
13:00 Lunch
Session 2 - Gene Regulation
Chair: Arturo Marí-Ordóñez, Gregor Mendel Institute
14:00 Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre, UK
Unravelling networks of senescence regulators in wheat
14:25 Aybars Koc, Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement, KU Leuven, Belgium
Exploiting natural genetic variability in meiotic restitution in Arabidopsis to unravel mechanistic
basis of meiotic plasticity under heat stress
14:45 Stefan Grob, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS/University of Strasbourg, France
Paramutation and 3D Genome Folding in Arabidopsis Thaliana
15:10 Mehrdad Shahbazi, Instiute of Experimental Botany AS CR, v.v.i., Olomouc, Czech Republic
Cytonuclear interplay in auto- and allopolyploids
15:30 Group Photo & Coffee Break
Keynote lecture I
introduction by Silvia Ramundo, Gregor Mendel Institute
16:00 Alison Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
A journey through plant metabolism
17:00 Reception/Dinner
18:30 Discussion
20:00 End
Friday, 17 May, 2024
Session 3 - Stress Responses
Chair: Yan Ma, Gregor Mendel Institute
09:30 Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Salk Institute, USA
Charting the Onset of Drought Recovery in Arabidopsis
09:55 Khong-Sam Chia, John Innes Centre, UK
Exploring the Functional Diversity of NLR Immune Receptors in Divergent Land Plant Lineages
10:15 Petra Marhava, Umea Plant Science Center, Sweden
How plants deal with heat and cold: Molecular mechanisms of auxin transport in response
to temperature stress
10:40 Thomas Underwood, University of Oxford, UK
Dealing with cheats in the Legume-Rhizobium symbiosis
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Poster session 2
13:00 Lunch
Session 4 - Evolutionary Biology
Chair: Nick Irwin, Gregor Mendel Institute
14:00 Anne Roulin, Agroscope, Switzerland
Transposable element evolution in plants: What can we (still) learn from small genomes?
14:25 Maaike Jacobine Bierenbroodspot, Geor-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Phylogenomic insights into the first multicellular streptophyte
14:45 Rory Craig, MPI-Tuebingen, Germany
Chlamydomonas as a model for eukaryotic transposon biology
15:10 Jediael Ng, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Unravelling the evolutionary origin of complexity in Rubisco's biogenesis
15:30 Coffee Break
Keynote lecture II
introduction by Liam Dolan, Gregor Mendel Institute
16:00 Dolf Weijers, University of Wageningen, Netherlands
Polar expeditions across kingdoms
17:00 Awards for best talk/poster & closing remarks
17:45 Sightseeing (optional)
19:30 Conference dinner (optional)