
Monday May 29 2017 | |
17:00 | Registration and poster setup |
19:00 | Welcome reception |
Tuesday May 30 2017 All lectures will be given in the lecture hall “Studion” |
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Chair: Karin Ljung and Stéphanie Robert | |
9:00 | Opening of the conference, general information |
9:10 | Opening lecture: Malcolm Bennett, New angles on root growth and development. |
Session I: Hormones and organisation of root system architecture | |
Chair: Karin Ljung | |
9:40 | Plenary lecture: Eva BenkovaAuxin and cytokinin regulation of the root system architecture – antagonism or synergy? |
10:10 | Selected speaker: Abdellah Lakehal , Complex hormone crosstalk controls adventitious root formation |
10:30 | Coffee break |
Chair: Stéphanie Robert | |
11:00 | Keynote lecture: Alexis Maizel, Auxin dependent cell remodelling during lateral root morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. |
11:30 | Selected speaker: Grégory Vert, Brassinosteroid signaling-dependent root growth responses to prolonged elevated ambient temperature in Arabidopsis |
11.50 | Selected speaker: Sara Raggi, Using chemical biology to dissect the auxin signaling pathway |
12:10 | Keynote lecture: Bert De Rybel, Genetic and hormonal control of vascular cell proliferation. |
12:40 | Lunch |
Session II: Cell division and cell fate acquisition | |
Chair: Ioanna Antoniadi | |
14:00 | Plenary lecture: Carmen Díaz-Sala Maturation-related decline of adventitious formation in conifers |
14:30 | Keynote Lecture: Idan Efroni , Root regeneration and the birth of new roots |
15:00 | Selected speaker: Anna Wunderling, Periderm development in the Arabidopsis root: a tale of growth and death |
15:20 | Coffee break |
Chair: Sara Raggi | |
15:40 | Keynote lecture: Lin Xu De novo root organogenesis in Arabidopsis: From wounding to cell fate transition. |
16:10 | Selected speaker: Colleen Drapek, Gene regulatory network for Arabidopsis Root Endodermis Differentiation |
16:30 | Selected speaker: Joop Vermeer, Cell volume regulation during lateral root formation in Arabidopsis |
16:50 | Selected speaker: Urs Fischer, Cell divisions in columella initials trigger root cap abscission at a local auxin response minimum |
17:10 | Concluding remarks - announcements |
17:20 | Poster session I, 17:20-19:00, “Tonsalen” |
Wednesday May 31 2017All lectures will be given in the lecture hall “Studion” | |
Session III: Metabolism and secondary metabolites. Their role in the control of root development | |
Chair: Amanda Rasmussen | |
9:00 | Plenary lecture: Uwe Druege, Interaction of plant hormones and metabolism on adventitious rooting of cuttings in a complex environment - what did we learn from Petunia? |
9:30 | Selected speaker: Gloria Muday, Flavonols alter reactive oxygen species levels to control root development. |
9:50 | Selected speaker: Ioanna Antoniadi, Cell-surface receptors enable perception of extracellular cytokinins |
10:10 | Selected speaker: Sabrina Chin, Flavonoids as jack-of-all-trades in plant defence and feeding site organogenesis during root knot nematode infection |
10:30 | Coffee break |
Chair: Abdellah Lakehal | |
11:00 | Keynote lecture: Amanda Rasmussen, A-maizing root physiology and advantageous adventitious roots. |
11:30 | Selected speaker: Nils Hennion, Carbon flux to the roots: Focus on sucrose transporters |
11:50 | Selected speaker: Yohanna Miotto, Identification of genes associated with light-activated root growth in Arabidopsis |
12:10 | Selected speaker: Sascha Waidmann, Internal and External Signals Controlling Radial Expansion of Root Systems |
12:30 | Lunch |
Session IV: Root development in response to abiotic constraints | |
Chair: Sascha Waidmann | |
14:00 | Plenary lecture: Gabriella Stefania Scippa, Root under bending stress: mechanical forces and asymmetric responses. |
14:30 | Keynote lecture: Stefan Kepinski, Gravity and the shaping of plant form: root growth angle control. |
15:00 | Selected speaker: Juliette Roué, Implication of the root cap of Arabidopsis thaliana in the sensing of mechanical impedance |
15:20 | Selected speaker: Zongcheng Lin Programmed Cell Death controls the organ size of the Arabidopsis root cap |
15:40 | Coffee break |
Chair: Grégory Vert | |
16:00 | Keynote lecture: Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot, Contribution of cell proliferation and cell elongation to the response of root growth to environment. |
16:30 | Selected speaker: Benjamin Péret, lasso mutants link root gravitropic response and salt stress. |
16:50 | Selected speaker: Anjil Kuma Srivastava, SUMO Protease promote the root growth in Crop Plants under abiotic stress |
17:10 | Concluding remarks - announcements |
17:20 | Poster session II, 17:20-19:00, “Tonsalen” |
Thursday June 1 2017All lectures will be given in the lecture hall “Studion” | |
Session V: Nutrient and water uptake and transport | |
Chair: Sandra Jämtgård | |
9:00 | Plenary lecture: Annie Desrochers, Evidence of water and carbohydrate transfers through root connections in balsam poplar trees. |
9:30 | Selected speaker: Dong Liu, An Arabidopsis ABC transporter mediates phosphate deficiency-induced remodeling of root architecture by modulating iron homeostasis in roots |
9:50 | Selected speaker: Riccardo Giehl, Natural variation of RSA responsiveness to nitrogen and phosphorus deficiencies in Arabidopsis |
10:10 | Selected speaker: Kaisa Kajala, Tomato root gene expression atlas – a view into development from multiple regulatory levels, cell types, environments and species |
10:30 | Coffee break |
Chair: Judith Felten | |
11:00 | Keynote lecture: Torgny Näsholm The root perspective of soils; microdialysis mimics mass flow and diffusion |
11:30 | Selected speaker: Arthur Poitout, Nitrate Long-Distance Signaling: Deciphering Shoot Regulatory Network Controlling Root Response to Spatial Nitrate Heterogeneity |
11:50 | Selected speaker: Sandra Jämtgård, This is not a root – How a semipermeable membrane can be used to get insight into the chemical composition of the soil root interface. |
12:10 | Selected speaker: Tonni Andersen, The endodermal passage cell: just another brick in the wall? |
12:30 | Lunch |
Session VI: Roots and biotic interactions | |
Chair: Urs Fischer | |
13:30 | Plenary lecture: Jan Stenlid Tree root infecting fungi: pathogens, mutualists, endophytes, or saprotrophs? |
14:00 | Selected speaker: Judith Felten, Cell wall remodeling in Populus roots during ectomycorrhiza formation with L. bicolor |
14:20 | Selected speaker: Javier Cabrera, Role of small RNAs during the development of nematode feeding cell in Arabidopsis roots |
14:40 | Coffee break |
15:00 | Selected speaker: Aurélia Emonet, FLS2 expression impacts cell-specific spatiotemporal compartmentation of PAMP-Triggered Immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana |
15:20 | Selected speaker: Jessica Finch, Deciphering immunity-induced changes in root growth and development |
15:40 | Closing of the conference, concluding remarks, announcement of the next conference |
19:00 | Conference dinner in “Studion” |