PROGRAMME

09:00 – 09:30 Opening Ceremony
09:30 – 10:15

Uncovering the hidden half of plants: discovering novel ways roots sense and adapt to heterogeneous environments

Keynote Speaker: Malcom Bennett

10:15 – 11:00

A central role of root symbionts: the plant response to environmental stresses
Keynote Speaker: Raffaella Balestrini

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00

 

 

Plant and algal development and evolution

Chaired by: Yoan Coudert

 

Interfaces with plant and soil microbiota   

Chaired by: Raffaella Balestrini

 

The genetic architecture of quantitative traits in plants

Chaired by: Martin Lascoux

 

Air channels create a directional light signal to regulate hypocotyl phototropism

Christian FANKHAUSER

 

Impact of double root symbiosis (arbuscular mycorrhiza and nodulation) on nutrient distribution in cereal crop-legume interaction

Pierre-Emmanuel COURTY

Fusing genome simulation and crop models for computer-aided breeding in future environments

Arnaud DESBIEZ-PIAT

 

 

Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals

Lucie RIGLET

Evolution of microbial community dynamics during field retting of hemp « Cannabis Sativa L. »

Eliane BOU ORM

Regulation of sulfur content in Arabidopsis thaliana natural variants

Daniela RISTOVA

 

A new framework for root gravitropic response kinetics

Marta DEL BIANCO

 

 

Psychrotolerant plant-associated bacteria can enhance cold tolerance in crop plants

Michele PERAZZOLLI

 

Pervasive Under-Dominance in Gene Expression Underlying Emergent Growth Trajectories in Arabidopsis thaliana Hybrids

Wei YUAN

 

Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae

Paula Elomaa

 

Role of zaxinone, a novel growth-promoting apocarotenoid metabolite, in shaping rice rhizomicrobiota

Teresa MAZZARELLA

 

Reconsidering photoperiod-sensitivity for maize adaption to climate change

Justine DROUAULT

 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Plasticity of root permeability for nutrient acquisition
Keynote Speaker: Marie Barberon
14:45 – 15:30 Polygenic selection and the evolution of gene expression in Arabidopsis Iyrata
Keynote Speaker: Juliette de Meaux
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00

 

 

Macro and micro nutrients in plants 

Chaired by: Jérémy Lothier

 

Domestication in retrospect and the future of breeding

Chaired by: Maud Tenaillon

 

Chromosomes and chromatin dynamics 

Chaired by:  Mathilde Grelon

 

 

The ability of Sorghum bicolor to cope with ammonium nutrition depends on root PEPC activity

Marín Peña AGUSTÍN JAVIER

Changes in competitive ability over the course of durum wheat domestication are mediated by plant functional traits

Taïna LEMOINE

Chromatin dynamics during fertilization of a liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha

Tetsuya HISANAGA

 

Effect of N and Fe deficiencies in poplar roots and root exudates metabolites

Maria Teresa CIESCHI VILLALBA

Genetic and phenotypic diversity in timothy and a closely related species

Yousef RAHIMI

Identification of the first synaptonemal complex central element proteins in plants

Marion PEUCH

 

Regulation of CRFs in plant nitrogen (N) sensing and signalling

Marina BORGES OSORIO

Genome-wide association studies on DNA pools identifies promising maize landraces and genomic regions to develop next generation varieties

Stéphane NICOLAS

Horizontal gene transfer in Hordeum species

Marek SZECÓWKA

 

To be or not to be: a glimpse of micronutrients role in the prediction of plant tissue fate in soybean embryo axis

João Paulo RODRIGUES MARQUES

Soil, climate and host genotype shape the seed transmissible microbiome structure in the fonio cereal

Heribert HIRT

FESPB Award for Best Young Scientist

Exploring the Genetic Variability of Bean Germplasm for Nutritional Benefits

Carla Sofia Santos

 

Unravelling the spatiotemporal component of carrier-mediated nutrient transport in Arabidopsis thaliana roots

Kevin ROBE

FESPB Award for Best Young Scientist

Adaptation and mitigation strategies for grapevine response to climate change based on its physiology

NazarethTorres

 

 

09:00 – 09:45

Getting organised – the (re)evolution of fertility after genome duplication

Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Bomblies

09:45 – 10:30

P-bodies and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plant reproduction and stress response

Keynote Speaker: Karel Riha

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00- 12:30

 

 

Plant responses to abiotic stresses (1)

Chaired by: Laurent Laplaze & Abdelazziz Smouni

 

Plant reproduction: mechanisms and evolution

Chaired by: Susana Coelho

 

Genome editing and its use for plant breeding

Chaired by: Josep Casacuberta & Ivan Reyna-Llorens

 

 

Improving tomato plant growth under salt and heat stress – rhizosphere-based solutions

Bruno SOUSA

 

The F-box protein UFO controls flower development by redirecting the master transcription factor LEAFY to new cis-elements

Francois PARCY

Controlling transcription from within transcribed regions in plants

Yoav VOICHEK       

 

 

Coupling chloroplast activity to environmental constraints: TOR set the brake on photosynthesis

Stefano D’ALESSANDRO

 

Timely endosperm elimination in Arabidopsis requires a programmed cell death pathway regulated by NAC transcription factors

Nicolas M. DOLL

An iterative gene editing strategy broadens eIF4E1 genetic diversity in Solanum lycopersicum, triggering resistance to multiple potyvirus isolates

Kyoka KUROIWA

 

RabA-mediated plasma membrane trafficking increases plant tolerance to drought and heat

Yehoram LESHEM

MAP kinase signaling in cell polarity – a lesson from the plant embryo

Martin BAYER   

Predictable gene editing through Prime Editing in model plants and potential for crop breeding

Fabien NOGUE

 

New insights on magnesium deficiency-induced molecular alterations in Arabidopsis thaliana

Armand D. ANOMAN

 

Evolutionary interplay between polyploidy and self-incompatibility in plants: case studies from allo- and autotetraploid Brassicaceae lineages

Xavier VEKEMANS

CRISPR-based tool development to engineer plant genomes at the megabase scale

Júlia ARRAIZA RIBERA

 

12:30 – 12:45

Publishing with Molecular Plant and Plant Communications

Symposium by Molecular Plant

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15

Arabidopsis thaliana natural variation for photosynthesis: a model to guide improving crop photosynthesis?

Keynote Speaker: Mark Aarts

14:15 – 15:00

Structure, function and host control of the rhizosphere microbiota

Keynote Speaker: Davide Bulgarelli

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00

 

 

Plant responses to abiotic stresses (2)

Chaired by: Laurent Laplaze & Abdelazziz Smouni

 

Organellar biology

Chaired by:Ben Field

 

 

Comparative genomics

Chaired by: Bruno Contreras-Moreira

 

 

 

Physiological, and molecular responses of the Greek Mustard (Hirschfeldia incana L.) to Pb stress

Said EL HASNAOUI

 

CRY1-to-GUN1 anterograde pathway promotes early PSII biogenesis

Chaojun CUI

 

The first pan-genome of a non-vascular plant broadens the understanding of land plants adaptation to their environment

Chloé BEAULIEU

 

Characterization of a uranium-tolerant green microalga with high potential for the remediation of metal-polluted waters

Camille BEAULIER

Genetic inactivation of mitochondrial complexes I and IV in Physcomitrium patens: deciphering the role of respiration in plant bioenergetics and primary metabolism

Antoni Mateu VERA VIVES

Adapting CRISPR from Physcomitrium patens to sexually dimorphic moss, Ceratodon purpureus

Emilie-Katherine TAVERNIER

 

 

Physiological drought responses of plane trees in an urban context and impact on isoprene emissions

Juliette LEYMARIE

Role of mitochondrial activities in the under-ground early development of Arabidopsis seedlings

Livia MERENDINO-ISENI

The evolution of Arabidopsis centromeres

Fernando RABANAL

 

 

Restricted O2 consumption in pea roots induced by hexanoic acid is linked to depletion of Krebs cycle substrates

Sara GARGIULO

Cytonuclear interactions in auto- and allopolyploids of Festuca-Lolium complex

Jana SZECÓWKA

 

Divide and conquer: Evolutionary adaptations of the plant cytoskeleton during cell division

Katharina BÜRSTENBINDER

 

17:00 – 18:00 Poster Session A
   

 

09:00 – 09:45

Gene DNA methylation in plants: selective pressures and sex chromosome evolution

Keynote Speaker: Aline Muyle

09:45 – 10:30

Learning to build and interrogate the pangenome of Brachypodium distachyon

Keynote Speaker: Bruno Contreras-Moreira

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

 

 

Plant adaptation to climate change

Chaired by: Laura de Gara

 

 

Epigenetic mechanisms and responses in plants

Chaired by: Leandro Quadrana

 

Mechanics and stress responses

Chaired by: Benoit Landrein

 

 

 

Partial root drying of maize grown in a split-root system leads to local and systemic metabolic adjustments and hydraulic redistribution

Monika WIMMER

 

Uncovering the gene expression regulatory mechanisms underlying self-incompatibility dominance networks in Arabidopsis

Rita A. BATISTA 

 

Limited water stress modulates expression of circadian clock genes in Brachypodium distachyon roots and induces differential response of proline-metabolism related genes

János GYÖRGYEY

 

Two examples of genome-wide evolutionary response of European forest trees to past climate changes

Martin LASCOUX

 

Global increase of the nuclear transcriptional regime during Arabidopsis photomorphogenesis: effects on gene expression

Clara RICHET-BOURBOUSSE

Dynamics of the calcium signal elicited by mechanical stimulation of Arabidopsis root

Sébastien THOMINE

 

 

Exploring phenotypic space for mining genotypes and alleles in maize

Jonas RODRIGUEZ 

 

Deciphering the epigenetic and molecular logic of WOX5 function in the columella stem cell niche of Arabidopsis thaliana

Ning ZHANG

Multiscale modelling of cell adhesion and separation in plants

Rawen BEN MALEK

 

 

Impact of development-induced structural changes on drought responses of winter oilseed rape leaf – NMR relaxometry, water relations and multi-omics investigations

Pierre-Nicolas BOULC’H

Mechanism of E3 ubiquitin ligase SlXERICO1/3 regulating high temperature resistance in tomato plants

Kaixin WANG

 

It’s just a phase: Structural characterization of LLPS and its role in temperature sensing in plants

Chloe ZUBIETA

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Poster Session B
14:30 – 15:30 Poster Session C
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30
Round-table Plant Act

 

09:00 – 09:45

How to conquer a plant using just eight genes: learning from geminiviruses

Keynote Speaker: Rosa Lozano-Duran

09:45 – 10:30

Controlling communication during reproductive development: The genesis and roles of apoplastic barriers

Keynote Speaker: Gwyneth Ingram

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

 

Plant Immunity

Chaired by: Rosa Lozano-Duran

 

Photosynthesis: understanding and progress in its manipulation

Chaired by: Xenie Johnson

The genetics of natural variation of plant- plant interactions

Chaired by: Fabrice Roux

 

Investigating antiviral defenses protecting plant stem cells and germline

Marco INCARBONE

From Algae to Sea Slugs: Functioning of Stolen Chloroplasts in Animal Cells

Luca MORELLI

Evolution of cooperation in post-green revolution durum wheat cultivars

Michel COLOMBO

 

Gradual immune system maturation in the root affects plant microbe interaction

Elhanan TZIPILEVICH

Two vacuolar channels from the ALMT family regulate C4-organic acids metabolism

Roxane DOIREAU

Chromatin regulation of and by gene islands in plants

Louis-Valentin METEIGNIER

 

 

Role of the plasma membrane signalling during plant virus propagation

Sébastien MONGRAND

From oxidative stress to antenna quenching: regulation of qH-energy dissipation in plants

Aurélie CREPIN

Identification of genes and metabolites controlling plant-plant interaction (Allelopathy)

Sophie JASINKSI

 

Engineering danger sensing and signaling in plant immunity: use of oligosaccharins to enhance durum wheat resistance to fusariosis

Valentina BIGINI

 

Chloroplast redox status modulates leaf development via changes in proteasomal activity and endoreduplication index

Arce ROCIO CECILIA

 

Molecular bases of plant-plant interactions: identification of the molecular pathways depending on ESC-1, a RLK involved in the competitive response in Arabidopsis thaliana

Marie INVERNIZZI

12:30 – 13:00 Closing Ceremony