PROGRAMME

MONDAY 3RD JULY 2023

08:00 – 09:15 No onsite registration – Self printing terminals available
09:15 – 09:30 Opening Ceremony
09:30 – 10:15

Malcom Bennett

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

10:15 – 11:00 Raffaella Balestrini
A central role of root symbionts: the plant response to environmental stresses
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00

Yoan Coudert

Plant and algal development and evolution

Martin Lascoux

The genetic architecture of quantitative traits in plants

Fabrice Roux

The genetics of natural variation of plant- plant interactions

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Marie Barberon
Plasticity of root permeability for nutrient acquisition
14:45 – 15:30 Juliette de Meaux
Polygenic selection and the evolution of gene expression in Arabidopsis lyrata
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30

Laura de Gara

Plant adaptation to climate changes                               

Mathilde Grelon

Chromosome                                              dynamics

Maud Tenaillon

Domestication in retrospect and the future of breeding

 

TUESDAY 4TH JULY 2023

09:00 – 09:45

Kirsten Bomblies

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

09:45 – 10:30 Karel Riha
P-bodies and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plant reproduction and stress response
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30

Laurent Laplaze & Abdelazziz Smouni

Plant responses to abiotic stresses                                                            

Josep Casacuberta

Genome editing and its use for plant breeding

Susana Coelho

Plant reproduction: mechanisms and evolution

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Mark Aarts
Arabidopsis thaliana natural variation for photosynthesis: a model to guide improving crop photosynthesis?
14:15 – 15:00 Davide Bulgarelli
Structure, function and host control of the rhizosphere microbiota
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00

Bruno Contreras-Moreira

Comparative genomics

Rosa Lozano-Durán

Plant Immunity

Ben Field

Organellar biology

17:00 – 18:00 Poster Session A
   

 

WEDNESDAY 5TH JULY 2023

09:00 – 09:45

Aline Muyle

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

09:45 – 10:30

Bruno Contreras-Moreira

Learning to build and interrogate the pangenome of Brachypodium distachyon

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30

Leandro Quadrana

Epigenetic mechanisms and responses in plants

Jéméry Lothier

Macro- and micro-nutrient in plants                           

Ivan Reeyna-Llorens

Synthetic biology

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

 

THURSDAY 6TH JULY 2023

09:00 – 09:45

Rosa Lozano-Duran

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

09:45 – 10:30 Gwyneth Ingram
Controlling communication during reproductive development: The genesis and roles of apoplastic barriers
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Raffaella Balestrini
Interfaces with plant and soil microbiota

Xenie Johnson

Photosynthesis: understanding and progress in its manipulation

Benoît Landrein

Plant biomechanics: from molecules to organisms

12:30 – 13:00 Closing Ceremony