Advances in plant reproduction – from gametes to seeds

Programme

Saturday 30 June 2018

08:45	Registration
09:30	Welcome Sílvia Coimbra, Meeting Organising Committee
	SESSION 1: OVULE DEVELOPMENT - GERMLINE DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION Chair: Sílvia Coimbra
10:00	Lucia Colombo (University of Milan, Italy) Molecular mechanisms controlling ovule development in Arabidopsis
10:30	Matthew Tucker (University of Adelaide, Australia) Activating the female germline during plant development
11:00	Refreshment break
11:30	Daphné Autran (IRD - University of Montpellier, France) Role of early ovule architecture in female germ cell fate establishment
11:45	Sara C M Pinto (Sexual Plant Reproduction and Development lab, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal) Deciphering the cellular communication during early ovule development
12:00	Malgorzata Gutkowska (Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland) Rab-dependent vesicular traffic is indispensable for maternal control of male and female gametophyte development but not for embryo development of Arabidopsis thaliana
12:15	Sebastien Andreuzza (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Elucidating the genetic and developmental controls of germline formation and differentiation in plants
12:30	Lunch/posters
13:45	Aureliano Bombarely (Virginia Tech, USA) Genetic insights of the modification of the reproduction mechanisms during plant domestication
14:15	Concha Gomez-Mena (CSIC, Spain) Overexpression of the tomato SPOROCYTELESS ortholog alters reproductive development
14:30	Cindy Callens (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) The effects of heat stress on the reproductive organs of European barley varieties
	SESSION 2: POLLEN GERMINATION AND POLLEN TUBE GROWTH - FERTILIZATION AND POLYSPERMY BLOCK Chair: Lucia Colombo
14:45	José Feijó (University of Maryland, USA) Ion homeostasis and reproduction: molecular basis and integrative mechanisms
15:15	Marta A Mendes (University of Milan, Italy) Synergid cell death in Arabidopsis, a role for Cytokinin
15:30	Pecha Kucha Jessy Silva Rosanna Petrella Ricardo B Lopes Mário L Costa
15:40	Refreshment break/posters
16:15	Ana Marta Pereira (Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Lost highway: a pistil & pollen tube love story
16:30	Amal J Johnston (Jacobs University, Germany; University of Heidelberg, Germany) A higher-order transcription factor network governs egg cell differentiation and stress homeostasis in Arabidopsis
16:45	Poster session 1
17:45	End of Day 1

Sunday 1 July 2018

08:30	Registration
	SESSION 2: POLLEN GERMINATION AND POLLEN TUBE GROWTH - FERTILIZATION AND POLYSPERMY BLOCK Chair: Cristina Ferrandiz
09:00	Pilar S Testillano (Biological Research Center CIB-CSIC, Spain) Microspore embryogenesis: unraveling the determinant factors of cell totipotency for crop improvement
09:30	Sílvia Coimbra (Faculdade de Ciências Universidade do Porto, Portugal) AGPs as markers for phragmoplast assembly during Quercus suber microsporogenesis
09:45	Maria Manuela R Costa (BioISI University of Minho, Portugal) Chromatin remodelling during the progamic phase of Quercus suber
	SESSION 3: EMBRYOGENESIS AND ENDOSPERM DEVELOPMENT - SEED AND FRUIT DEVELOPMENT Chair: Simona Masiero
10:00	Cristina Ferrandiz (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas,  CSIC-UPV, Spain) A stylish story of carpel evolution
10:30	Varvara E Tvorogova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) MtWOX9-1 gene in the somatic embryogenesis in Medicago truncatula
10:45	Pecha Kucha Márcio FM Couto Luís F C Póvoas Mara Cucinotta Silvia Manrique
10:55	Refreshment break/Posters
11:30	Meisam Nazari (Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany) Response of soybean and common bean seeds to ultrasound
11:45	Ana Lopes (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Stay stick: how to fit each tile in the SEEDSTICK TF control frame?
12:00	Simon J Hiscock (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Stigma surface components and their role(s) in sexual plant reproduction
12:30	Lunch/posters
	Chair: Pilar Testillano
13:45	Emidio Albertini (Dept. of Agricultural Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy) APOSTART: a candidate gene involved in embryo progression and parthenogenesis
14:15	Martina Juranic (CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Australia) Too many mothers in a gamma-irradiated mutant of apomictic Hieracium praealtum
14:30	Duarte D Figueiredo (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, Sweden) Auxin regulates endosperm cellularisation in Arabidopsis
14:45	Clément Lafon Placette (Department of Botany Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Evolution of hybridization barriers along Arabidopsis lineages: the case of hybrid seed lethality
15:00	Buzi Raviv (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Novel insights into the function of dead organs enclosing embryos of angiosperms
15:15	Refreshment break/posters
15:45	Simona Masiero (University of Milan, Italy) A FRUIT-TALK
16:15	Elina A Potsenkovskaya (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) NF-Y genes in Medicago truncatula somatic embryogenesis
16:30	Closing remarks and discussion
16:45	Poster Session 2 and Farewell Port wine taste
18:00	Close of meeting

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