Conference Programme

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

  Time  
Registration 09:30 - 10:30
Welcome 10:30 - 10:40
Session 1 10:40 - 11:10

Markus Schmid (SLU, Sweden)
How to tame a PORCUPINE: A short tale of temperature, splicing, and plant development

11:10 - 11:40

Nicoletta Liguori (ICFO, Spain)
Photosynthetic proteins in action! How do photosynthetic organisms switch photoprotection on?

11:40 - 12:00

Viviana Correa Galvis (Infarm, Germany)
Control Environment Agriculture: How plant scientists can contribute to overcome the challenges humanity faces when it comes to food production

12:00 - 12:20

Charlie Cotton (Cambrium, Germany)
Founding a start‐up in Germany

Lunch Break 12:20 - 13:30  
Session 2 13:30 - 14:00

Alexander Jones (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Bringing into focus the cellular dynamics of plant hormones using fluorescent biosensors

14:00 - 14:30

Georg Hochberg (MPI-TM, Germany)
Evolution of the Rubiscosome

14:30 - 15:00

Nadine Töpfer (University of Cologne, Germany)
Metabolic flux modelling as a useful tool for predicting crop improvement
strategies

15:00 - 15:20

Sylwia Kierszniowska (metaSysX, Germany)
Chasing success. How to quantify 100 000 metabolites?

Coffee break 15:20 - 16:45 Poster session | Odd poster numbers
Session 3 16:45 - 17:15

Jonathan Gershenzon (MPI-CE, Germany)
Cabbage plants and cabbage pests: coopting 100 million years of coevolution for sustainable crop protection today

17:15 - 17:45

Iva Mozgová (Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic)
Seed‐to‐seedling transition: the hardship of greening without Polycomb

17:45 - 18:05

Raphael Trösch (Nature Plants, Germany)
The work life of a plant science editor

     

 

Thursday, September 7, 2023

  Time  
Session 4 10:15 - 10:45

Alexander Förderer (MPI-MP, Germany)
A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels

10:45 - 11:15

Desalegn W. Etalo (WUR, The Netherlands)
The chemical dance between plants and microbes

11:15 - 11:45

Hua Jiang (IPK, Germany)
H3K9 demethylation facilitates Arabidopsis male germline development

11:45 - 12:05

Amrit Nanda (Plant ETP, Belgium)
The EU Green Deal – From aspirational vision to implementation
The challenges and opportunities of the plant sector

Conference group picture 12:05 - 12:20  
Lunch break 12:20 - 13:30  
Session 5 13:30 - 14:00

Achim Walter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
AI for future crops

14:00 - 14:30

Heidi Webber (ZALF, Germany)
Climate risk and the sustainable intensification of cropping systems

14:30 - 15:00

Cezary Smaczniak (Humboldt University, Germany)
Dynamic regulome modulation by transcriptional cofactor LEUNIG_HOMOLOG in Arabidopsis flower development

15:00 - 15:20

Shreya Agrawal (Neoplants, France)
From an obscure lab in India to the forefront of science & innovation

Coffee break 15:20 - 16:45 Poster session | Even poster numbers
Podium discussion  16:45 - 17:30  
Closing remarks 17:30 - 17:40 Poster award
Barbecue 18:00 -