Agenda

Agenda

All Events Are Taking Place in Eastern Standard Time - Agenda Subject to Change

Day 1: Friday, July 16, 2021

Time Event
08:30 am – 08:45 am Conference Opens - Welcome
  Main Organizer: Michael Scanlon (Cornell University)
08:45 am – 09:25 am Keynote Lecture: R. Scott Poethig (University of Pennsylvania)
 The mechanism and functional consequences of vegetative phase change
 Moderator: Stewart Gillmor (Langebio-CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Mexico)
09:25 am – 09:35 am Live Q&A with the Keynote
09:35 am – 10:05 am Plenary Speaker I
 Julia Santiago (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
 Perception mechanisms of peptides involved in cell wall integrity  and remodeling
 Moderator: Teva Vernoux (ENS de Lyon, France)
10:05 am – 10:15 am Live Q&A Panel Discussion
10:15 am – 10:20 am Break
10:20 am – 10:50 am Plenary Speaker II
 Daniel Kierzkowski (University of Montreal, Canada)
 Quantitative Imaging of Plant Organogenesis
 Moderator: Kim Gallagher (University of  Pennsylvania)
10:50 am – 11:00 am Live Q&A Panel Discussion
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Short Talk Topic Session I:
 Establishing/Elaborating the Body Plan
  Moderator: Alexandra Pete (Harvard University)
11:00 am – 11:15 am Short talk 1
  Gabriella Mosca (Technische Universität München, Germany)
 Organ geometry channels reproductive cell fate in the Arabidopsis ovule primordium
11:15 am – 11:20 am Live Q&A Panel Discussion
11:20 am - 11:35 am Short talk 2
  Rachel Shahan (Duke University)
 A single cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild type and cell identity mutants
11:35 am – 11:40 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
11:40 am – 11:55 am Short talk 3
 Andrea Tovar-Aguilar ((CINVESTAV, Mexico)
 The role of miR408 in cell identity of the Arabidopsis embryo
11:55 am – 12:00 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
12:00 pm – 12:10 pm Break
12:10 pm – 1:10 pm Meet the Experts Groups - Concurrent sessions:
 
 1. Roundtable Starting your laboratory - Josh Strable (North Carolina State University); Alexander Goldschmidt (ARO Volcani, Israel); Chris Whitewoods (Cambridge University, UK)
 
 2. Roundtable Strategies for Securing Funding - Marja Timmermans (University Tubingen, Germany); Dave Jackson (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory); Lars Ostergaard (John Innes Center, UK)
 
 3. Roundtable Broader Outcomes - Margaret Frank (Cornell University); Madelaine Bartlett (University Massachusetts); Paula McSteen (University Missouri)
 
4. Roundtable Balancing Research and Teaching - Marta Laskowski (Oberlin College); Daniel Kierzkowski (University of Montreal, Canada); Aman Husbands (Ohio State University)
 
5. Roundtable Non-Academic Careers - Miin-Feng Wu (Bayer Crop Science); Jacob Moe-Lange (California Cultured, Inc); Robyn Johnston (The Elshire Group)
1:10 pm - 1:20 pm Break
1:20 pm - 2:20 pmShort Talk Topic Session II:
Tissue Patterning
 Moderator: Chloe Pocard (Max Planc Institute, Germany)
1:20 pm – 1:35 pm Short talk 4
  Robert Bellow (John Innes Centre, UK)
 Brassinosteroid delays the epidermal brake on growth
1:35 pm – 1:40 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
1:40 pm – 1:55 pm Short talk 5
 Andrew Muroyama (Stanford University)
Parallel cytoskeletal pathways break symmetry to orient asymmetric divisions during leaf patterning
1:55 pm – 2:00 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Short talk 6
  Alon Israeli (Hebrew University, Israel)
Two-step regulation of organ development by auxin-GA interaction
2:15 pm – 2:20 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
2:20 pm - 3:20 pm Short Talk Topic Session III:
 Intercellular Signaling and Crosstalk
  Moderator: Karina Orozco-Natividad (CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Mexico)
2:20 pm – 2:35 pm Short talk 7
  Marco D'Ario (John Innes Center, UK)
 A molecular mechanism for sensing cell size
2:35 pm – 2:40 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
2:40 pm – 2:55 pm Short talk 8
 Heather Meyer (Carnegie Institution for Science)
 Intrinsically disordered proteins as plant thermo-sensors
2:55 pm – 3:00 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Short talk 9
  Lucie Riglet (Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University, UK)
 Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals
3:15 pm – 3:20 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Short Talk Topic Session IV:
 Indeterminacy and Developmental Plasticity
  Moderator: Ao Liu (Stanford University)
3:30 pm – 3:45 pmShort talk 10
 Denis Janocha (Center for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Germany)
TOR mediated translational repression of cytokinin catabolic enzymes controls shoot stem cells in Arabidopsis
3:45 pm – 3:50 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
3:50 pm – 4:05 pm Short talk 11
  Teng Zhang (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 Growth and Phyllotactic Patterning of Gerbera Flower Heads
4:05 pm – 4:10 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
4:10 pm – 4:25 pm Short talk 12
  Neha Bhatia (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
Organ growth control in plants
4:25 pm – 4:30 pm Live Q&A Panel Discussion
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Wrap-up and Conclusion by the Organizers: Michael Scanlon (Cornell University), Kim Gallagher (University of Pennsylvania) and Teva Vernoux (ENS de Lyon, France)
4:45 pm – 6:30 pmPoster Session (posters will be available online 1-2 days prior; session
time will be devoted to live chat among attendees)