MONDAY 3RD JULY 2023
PROGRAMME
| 08:00 – 09:15 | No onsite registration – Self printing terminals available |
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| 09:15 – 09:30 | Opening Ceremony |
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| 09:30 – 10:15 |
Uncovering the hidden half of plants: discovering novel ways roots sense and adapt to heterogeneous environments |
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| 10:15 – 11:00 | Raffaella Balestrini A central role of root symbionts: the plant response to environmental stresses |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 – 13:00 | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 14:45 | Marie Barberon Plasticity of root permeability for nutrient acquisition |
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| 14:45 – 15:30 | Juliette de Meaux Polygenic selection and the evolution of gene expression in Arabidopsis lyrata |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 |
Plant adaptation to climate changes |
Chromosome dynamics |
Domestication in retrospect and the future of breeding |
TUESDAY 4TH JULY 2023
| 09:00 – 09:45 |
Getting organised – the (re)evolution of fertility after genome duplication |
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| 09:45 – 10:30 | Karel Riha P-bodies and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plant reproduction and stress response |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Laurent Laplaze & Abdelazziz Smouni Plant responses to abiotic stresses |
Genome editing and its use for plant breeding |
Plant reproduction: mechanisms and evolution |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
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| 13:30 – 14:15 | Mark Aarts Arabidopsis thaliana natural variation for photosynthesis: a model to guide improving crop photosynthesis? |
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| 14:15 – 15:00 | Davide Bulgarelli Structure, function and host control of the rhizosphere microbiota |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
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| 15:30 – 17:00 |
Comparative genomics |
Plant Immunity |
Organellar biology |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Poster Session A |
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WEDNESDAY 5TH JULY 2023
| 09:00 – 09:45 |
Gene DNA methylation in plants: selective pressures and sex chromosome evolution |
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| 09:45 – 10:30 |
Learning to build and interrogate the pangenome of Brachypodium distachyon |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Epigenetic mechanisms and responses in plants |
Macro- and micro-nutrient in plants |
Synthetic biology |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
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| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster Session B |
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| 14:30 – 15:30 | Poster Session C |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 |
Round-table Plant Act |
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THURSDAY 6TH JULY 2023
| 09:00 – 09:45 |
How to conquer a plant using just eight genes: learning from geminiviruses |
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| 09:45 – 10:30 | Gwyneth Ingram Controlling communication during reproductive development: The genesis and roles of apoplastic barriers |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 | Raffaella Balestrini Interfaces with plant and soil microbiota |
Photosynthesis: understanding and progress in its manipulation |
Plant biomechanics: from molecules to organisms |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Closing Ceremony |
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