Thursday, 27th June
International Plant Molecular Biology Conference 2024
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Plenary Session 7
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Auditorium B & C
Chair: Lim Chee Liew
Epigenetic reprogramming in plant germlines
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Xiaoqi Feng
Morning Tea
9:45AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 27th June
Plenary 1 & 2 + Mezzanine Exhibition
5-minute Introductions by Session Chairs
10:15AM - 10:20AM
Thursday, 27th June
Concurrent Session 1: Crop Bioengineering
10:20AM - 11:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Auditorium B & C
Chair: Ashwani Pareek
Deciphering Nature's Code: ensuring grains in salt but no salt in grains
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Ashwani Pareek
Decoding the gene regulatory network of endosperm differentiation in maize
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zeyang ma
RapMap, a rapid and high-throughput method of QTL cloning, reveals the molecular basis of appearance quality in rice.
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Yibo Li
Identifying the cell types where SOS1 transporter contributes to salinity tolerance through sodium exclusion
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Natsuko I Kobayashi
Concurrent Session 2: Energy Organelles
10:20AM - 11:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Monika Murcha
Insights into the regulation of Complex I
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Monika W Murcha
Identification of key components of mitochondria-to-nuclear 'retrograde' signalling in plants
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Olivier Van Aken
A mitochondrial gene
orf288
is a cytoplasmic male sterility-causing gene in
Oryza glaberrima
with the cytoplasm of
O. sativa
‘Taichung 65’
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Kinya Toriyama
Identification and Characterization of the Mitochondrial Branched-Chain Amino Acid Transporter in
Arabidopsis thaliana
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Franziska Kuhnert
Genetic variation in oxidative stress in field crops
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Crystal Sweetman
Concurrent Session 3: Transposable Elements
10:20AM - 11:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Vincent Colot
Molecular determinants of transgenerational epigenetic variation at transposable element sequences in Arabidopsis and its impact in nature
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Vincent Colot
Epigenome regulation of intragenic transposons in plant genomes
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Hidetoshi Saze
Transposon silencing in duckweeds: Small plants with big surprises
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Arturo Mari-Ordonez
Roles of RNA methylation in the control of transposon mobilization
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Jungnam Cho
Beyond Centromere: The Role of Pericentromeric Transposable Elements in Chromosome Evolution
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Manuel Poretti
Concurrent Session 4: Responses to Nutrients
10:20AM - 11:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Rooms 5 & 6
Chair: Tzyy-Jen Chiou
Systemic Regulation of Phosphate Transport in Arabidopsis
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Tzyy-Jen Chiou
Understanding Sorghum Responses to Nitrogen Deficiency Using Combined Translatome and Transcriptome Analyses
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Li-Qing Chen
Transport-coupled ubiquitination for self-regulation of a borate transporter AtBOR1
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Junpei Takano
Phytoene Synthase 2
Regulates Iron Plaque Formation in Rice Roots
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Jeevan Kumar Shrestha
Concurrent Session 5: Morphogenesis
10:20AM - 11:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Rooms 7 & 8
Chair: Adrienne Roeder
Stochasticity and robustness in the morphogenesis of Arabidopsis sepals
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Adrienne H.K. Roeder
Patterning lateral organ development in Arabidopsis
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Marcus G Heisler
Do plant cells behave like balloons? A biomechanical perspective on growth heterogeneity.
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Yuchen Long
Control of plant development by cell-type boundaries
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Yuzhou Wu
Concurrent Session 6: Disease Resistance Mechanisms II
10:20AM - 11:45AM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 9
Chair: Peter Dodds
The Arabidopsis TIR-ome informs the design of artificial TIR (Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor) proteins
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Marc T Nishimura
Uncovering immune recognition mechanisms underlying wheat rust resistance.
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Peter Dodds
Guardians of the Grain – Towards Unveiling the role of Lectin Receptor Kinases in Non-host Resistance against Cereal Rusts
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Urooj Fatima
A barley MLA receptor is targeted by a non-ribosomal peptide effector of the necrotrophic spot blotch fungus for disease susceptibility
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Florian Kümmel
The antagonistic role of an E3 ligase pair in regulating NLR-mediated autoimmunity and fungal pathogen resistance
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Ping He
Lunch
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 27th June
Plenary 1 & 2 + Mezzanine Exhibition
5-minute Introductions by Session Chairs
1:00PM - 1:05PM
Thursday, 27th June
Concurrent Session 1: Plant-Plant Interactions
1:05PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Auditorium B & C
Chair: Ken Shirasu
Signal transduction during parasitic plant haustorium formation
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Ken Shirasu
How parasitic plants avoid self-parasitism
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Satoko Yoshida
Earl nutrition strategies of parasitic
Cuscuta
spp.
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Markus Albert
Inactivation of orobanchol in cowpea as a germination stimulant toward
Striga gesnerioides
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Masato Homma
Concurrent Session 2: Mathematical Modelling in Plant Biology
1:05PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Richard Morris
Predictive modelling of phase-separation: computer-guided engineering of PARCL condensation
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Richard Morris
Mechanistic models for understanding the functional versatility of the plant cortical microtubule array and cell wall
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Eva Deinum
Poroelastic model of long-distance signals in vascular plants
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Vesna Bacheva
Estimating dynamics of somatic mutation accumulation in long-lived tropical trees
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Sou Tomimoto
Concurrent Session 3: Photochemical Reaction: Basics and Beyond
1:05PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Wataru Sakamoto
Thylakostasis and membrane remodeling molecules in photosynthetic organisms
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Wataru Sakamoto
Mechanism of photosynthetic water oxidation studied by time-resolved serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography
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Jian-Ren Shen
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEXT-GENERATION LIGHT DRIVEN BIOTECHNOLOGIES
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Ben Hankamer
Targeting leaf greenness to improve salt tolerance in cereal crops
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Jayakumar Bose
Concurrent Session 4: Nanotechnologies
1:05PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Rooms 5 & 6
Chair: Neena Mitter
Particle based delivery of RNA interference for sustainable crop protection.
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Neena Mitter
Nanotechnology enabled spray induced gene silencing for crop protection
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Hailing Jin
Nano- and Biotechnology Tools for Improved Plant Genetic Engineering
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Gozde S Demirer
Protein-coated layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets for delivery of transgenes and synthetic mRNA into intact plants
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Jiaxi Yong
Concurrent Session 5: Biomolecular Condensates
1:05PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Rooms 7 & 8
Chairs: Yvonne Stahl & Monika Chodasiewicz
Interaction and condensate formation of key transcription factors control root stem cell homeostasis
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Yvonne Stahl
Manipulation of Stress Granule dynamics affects stress tolerance to abiotic stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Monika Chodasiewicz
Dynamic regulation of plant heat stress granule
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Wei Wang
Stabilization of HSA32, an aggregation-prone protein, by disaggregase HSP101 plays a critical role in maintaining acquired thermotolerance in Arabidopsis
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Yee-yung Charng
Concurrent Session 6: Water, Drought and Heat Stress
1:05PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 9
Chair: Sneh Pareek
Decoding the molecular adaptations in extremophiles under combined water, drought and heat stress conditions
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Ashwani Pareek
Developmental responses to increased temperatures during plant gametogenesis
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Kevin Begcy
Highly susceptible cells in plants: molecular mechanisms of heat tolerance in male gametophytes
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Farhad Masoomi-Aladizgeh
Unravelling plants’ adaptations to the desert environment
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Wouter Smet
Identifying genes that are associated with rapid dehydration responses to low humidity
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Hanh M. Vo
Afternoon Tea
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Thursday, 27th June
Plenary 1 & 2 + Mezzanine Exhibition
5-minute Introductions by Session Chairs
3:00PM - 3:05PM
Thursday, 27th June
Concurrent Session 1: Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation
3:05PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Auditorium B & C
Chair: Doris Wagner
(Re)programming cell fate and function in response to endogenous and environmental cues
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Doris Wagner
Unveiling the regulatory role of GRP7 in ABA signal-mediated mRNA translation efficiency regulation
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Jun Xiao
EMBO Young Investigator Programme talk: Repressive Transcription - a common language of the plant non-coding genome
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Sebastian Marquardt
Understanding transcriptional control during seed dormancy release at single-cell resolution
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Lim Chee Liew
Concurrent Session 2: Senescence
3:05PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Hongwei Guo
ORE1/ORS1-FMO1 module regulates senescence-promoted plant immunity
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Hongwei Guo
Peptide signaling in leaf senescence
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Yongfeng Guo
Mechanisms of DNA damage-mediated leaf senescence in
Arabidopsis
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Hye Ryun Woo
Loss of PMR4/GSL5 Callose Synthase Activates an N-Hydroxy Pipecolic Acid-Dependent Pathway
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Zhixiang Chen
Concurrent Session 3: Protein Homeostasis
3:05PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Liwen Jiang
Organelles-mediated Protein Homeostasis in Plants
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Liwen Jiang
Control of cytoplasmic inheritance in plants
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Kin Pan Chung
Interactions and function of Oleosins within Oil bodies
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Amanda J Board
Florigen sequestration in cellular membranes regulate temperature-responsive flowering
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Hendry Susila
Deeply conserved, targeted degradation of ARF transcription factors mediates auxin response
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Dolf Weijers
Concurrent Session 4: Genome Evolution
3:05PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Rooms 5 & 6
Chair: Magnus Nordborg
Towards an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism
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Magnus Nordborg
Genome evolution via gene duplication: A theoretical exploration of the benefits of duplication
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Hideki Innan
Genome Evolution Across Green Plants
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Douglas Soltis
Evolutionary genomics of the
Scalesia
(Asteraceae) plant radiation on the Galápagos Islands
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Michael D Martin
Concurrent Session 5: Vesicles and Trafficking
3:05PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Rooms 7 & 8
Chair: Stéphanie Robert
Understanding cell shape acquisition in plants
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Stéphanie Robert
Regulation of endomembrane trafficking: Role of transcription factors in
Arabidopsis thaliana
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Lorena Norambuena
Recycling of membrane proteins from the vacuolar membrane underpinning neofunctionalization of VAMP7 in plants
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Takashi Ueda
Inositol phosphates trigger intra-molecular conformational changes of Arabidopsis vacuolar phosphate transporter PHT5 in regulating cytosolic phosphate homeostasis
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Chih-Pin Chiang
Concurrent Session 6: Plant Teaching and Outreach
3:05PM - 4:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Meeting Room 9
Chair: Daniel Chamovitz
The Accidental Author: How "What a Plant Knows" revitalized plant education
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Daniel A Chamovitz
Using
Plant Tracer
to explore plant movements.
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Eric D Brenner
Methods for communicating conservation genomics to different stakeholder groups
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Maurizio Rossetto
Framing the Future Harvest: Dynamics and Discourse in Agricultural Biotechnology
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Lucy C Darragh
Teaching Plant Success
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Hanh Vo
Break
4:30PM - 4:45PM
Thursday, 27th June
Plenary 1 & 2 + Mezzanine Exhibition
Plenary Session 8
4:45PM - 5:30PM
Thursday, 27th June
Auditorium B & C
Chair: Monika Doblin
The evolution of the sexes: insights from land plants cousins
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Susana Coelho
Congress Dinner
6:15PM - 10:15PM
Thursday, 27th June
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