Hours are in CEST (Central European Summer Time) time zone (UTC+2).
Day 1 – Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Venue: Aula UAM, Wieniawskiego 1
11th PSEPB Conference opening
15:45–16:00 |
Opening |
16:00–17:00 |
Opening lecture – Jiri Friml (Institute of Science and Technology (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria) – “Knowns and unknowns in auxin signalling” |
17:00–18:00 |
PSEPB awards: Award for the best experimental article; award for the best review article in English, award for a series of articles |
18:00–18:40 |
Michał Bogdziewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Trees reproduction in overheated world” |
18:40–21:00 |
Welcome reception |
Day 2 – day 4
Venue: Collegium Biologicum, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6
Day 2 – Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Session 1: Genome biology
Chairs: Artur Jarmołowski , Piotr Ziółkowski
9:00–11:00 |
Session 1
Invited Speakers:
- Blake Meyers (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, USA) – “Phased, secondary siRNAs in plant reproduction and other pathways”
- Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) – “Cycles of satellite and transposon evolution in Arabidopsis centromeres”
- Pablo Manavella (Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina) – “Epigenetic regulation of the chromatin topology during plant adaptation”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Marcin Grzybowski (Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland) – “A common resequencing-based genetic marker dataset for global maize diversity”
- Dawid Kubiak (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) – “Role of epitranscriptomic regulation in the functioning of stress granules (SGs) in crop plants subjected to abiotic stress”
- Sebastian Sacharowski (Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry PAS, Warsaw, Poland) – “Promoter-pervasive transcription causes RNA polymerase II pausing to boost DOG1 expression in response to salt”
- Szymon Kubala (Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry PAS, Warsaw, Poland) – “Chromatin remodeling, alternative RNA processing and epitranscriptomic in Arabidopsis”
- Alicja Macko-Podgórni (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Kraków, Poland) – “How important are MITE elements in regulation of the carrot circadian clock”
- Jakub Dolata (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Pseudouridine guides germline small RNA transport and epigenetic inheritance”
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
Session 2: Plant–microbe interaction
Chairs: Magda Krzymowska, Aleksandra Obrępalska-Stęplowska
11:30–13:30 |
Session 2
Invited Speakers:
- Jane Parker (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany) – “Plant TIR-NLR receptor immunity activation and execution”
- Daniel Hofius (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden) – “Autophagy in immunity and disease during plant virus infection”
- Sebastian Schornack (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) – “Modulation of plant cells and tissues by fungal pathogens and symbionts”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- William Truman (Institute of Plant Genetics, PAS, Poznań, Poland) – “Comparing clubroot disease resistance transcriptional responses across the Brassicaceae”
- Joanna Gajewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Phytophthora infestans HDAC3 challenge during in planta nitrosative stress”
- Olga Šamajová (Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic) – “Barley root resistance against Fusarium graminearum in MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3 knockout lines”
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13:30–14:30 |
Lunch |
Session 3: Plant secondary metabolites
Chairs: Paweł Bednarek, Aleksandra Królicka
14:30–16:30 |
Session 3
Invited Speakers:
- Jonathan Gershenzon (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany) – “Plant specialized metabolism: Not so special to some insect herbivores”
- Laetitia Martin (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK) – “Discovery of the biosynthetic pathway of QS-21 for engineering sustainable bio-production”
- Randolph Arroo (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) – “Developing Artemisia annua L. for the production of artemisinin to treat multi-drug resistant malaria”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Anna Ihnatowicz (University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland) – “Gene-to-metabolite network: Variation in accumulation of coumarins in Arabidopsis”
- Oliwia Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “In vitro investigation of the interaction between pathogenesis related (PR) proteins and secondary metabolites from Chelidonium majus latex”
- Agnieszka Sawuła (University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland) – “Metabolism of cyanogenic glycosides in flax (Linum usitatissimum) plant development and response to biotic and abiotic stresses”
- Gali Estopare Araguirang (University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany) – “Spliceosomal complex components are vital for the adjustment of the C:N balance during high-light acclimation”
- Gopal Singh (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PAS, Poznań, Poland) – “Investigating the role of serotonin in plant immunity through interspecies metabolic engineering”
- Wojciech Makowski (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Kraków, Poland) – “Insight into selected consequences of bacterial oncogenes incorporation to the genomic DNA of Dionaea muscipula plants”
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16:30–18:00 |
Poster Session 1: even poster numbers |
18:00–20:00 |
PSEPB General Assembly |
Day 3 – Thursday, September 21, 2023
Session 4: Cell structure and function
Chairs: Przemysław Wojtaszek, Anna Kasprowicz-Maluśki
9:00–11:00 |
Session 4
Invited Speakers:
- Mike Blatt (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK) – “Engineering stomata to shut up”
- Josef Šamaj (Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic) – “Multiscale plant bioimaging using super-resolution and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy”
- Staffan Persson (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark) – “How to build new types of plant cell walls”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Olga Sztatelman (Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry PAS, Warsaw, Poland) – “Plastid Movement Impaired1 binds to the plasma membrane via its phosphlipid-recognizing NT-C2 domain”
- Dorota Borowska-Wykręt (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) – “Outside versus inside face of superficial cell wall of Arabidopsis shoot epidermis”
- Shino Goto Yamada (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) – “Phospholipid marker PtdIns3P controls intracellular membrane dynamics”
- Aleksandra Liszka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) – “Exploration and characterization of novel plant damage-associated molecular patterns”
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
Session 5: Transport and intercellular communication
Chairs: Michał Jasiński, Katarzyna Sokołowska
11:30–13:30 |
Session 5
Invited Speakers:
- Markus Geisler (University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland) – “A new kid on the block: hsp90 provides plasticity to auxin transport and plant development”
- Eilon Shani (Tel Aviv University, Israel) – “Multi-Knock – A multi-targeted genome-scale CRISPR toolbox to overcome functional redundancy reveals hormone transport mechanisms”
- Verena Kriechbaumer (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK) – “On the int-ER-esting structures and functions of the plant ER”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Tomasz Nodzyński (CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic) – “Zooming on PIN structure through a membrane topology lens – Is there something to see still?”
- Wanda Biała-Leonhard (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PAS, Poznań, Poland) – “Molecular determinants behind the selective transport of phenylpropanoids driven by MtABCG46 in Medicago truncatula”
- Kaichiro Endo (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) – “Arabidopsis MEB3 functions as iron vacuolar transporter involved in iron incorporation and translocation”
- Paulina Tomaszewska (University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland) – “Heterologous expression of Marchantia polymorpha Acr3 arsenic transporter in Arabidopsis thaliana”
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13:30–14:30 |
Lunch |
Session 6: Plant development
Chairs: Robert Malinowski, Agnieszka Bagniewska-Zadworna
14:30–16:30 |
Session 6
Invited Speakers:
- Tom Beeckman (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium) – “Root developmental peculiarities: Root branching and root caps through evolution”
- Diane Bassham (Iowa State University, USA) – “Regulation of autophagy by developmental and environmental cues”
- Laura Ragni (Faculty of Science, Tubingen, Germany) – “The making of a root barrier: The periderm”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Dorota Kwiatkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) – “Coordinated yet heterogeneous growth of Arabidopsis leaf surface from tissue to subcellular scale”
- Halina Pietrykowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Unraveling the role of DUSP12-miR8185 module: Implications for Marchantia polymorpha sexual reproduction”
- Daniel Kierzkowski (Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, University of Montréal, Montreal, Canada) – “From the inside out: How the internal growth controls anther morphology”
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16:30–18:00 |
Poster Session 2: odd poster numbers |
Day 4 – Friday, September 22, 2023
Session 7: Mitochondria and chloroplasts in cell metabolism
Chairs: Agnieszka Mostowska, Anna Podgórska
9:00–11:00 |
Session 7
Invited Speakers:
- Monika Murcha (The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) – “Mitochondrial complex I proteostasis”
- Gyozo Garab (Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary) – “Beyond the fluid-mosaic membrane model. Dynamic exchange model of thylakoid membranes”
- Andrea Trotta (Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, Florence, Italy) – “Function and structure of land plant thylakoid membrane: Role of post-translational modification and location of thylakoid proteins”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Łucja Kowalewska (University of Warsaw, Poland) – “Double-gyroid cubic membrane – A new thylakoid arrangement of fully developed chloroplasts”
- Małgorzata Adamiec (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “The Egy3 pseudoprotease is a part of stress-related chloroplast to nucleus signalization system”
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
Session 8: Integrating plant functions via signaling molecules
Chairs: Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek, Ewa Sobieszczuk-Nowicka
11:30–13:30 |
Session 8
Invited Speakers:
- Gary J. Loake (Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK) – “Nitric oxide regulation of plant immunity”
- Sjon Hartman (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany) – “Remember the rain: Unravelling how plants encode flooding stress memory”
- Vasileios Fotopoulos (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus) – “Reactive oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur species in plants under stress: The three musketeers to the rescue”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Barbara Wójcikowska (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) – “The new face of auxin signaling in plants – MONOPTEROS isoform MP11ir role during embryogenic transition”
- Katarzyna Ciacka (SGGW, Warsaw, Poland) – “ROS as fundamental players in dormancy alleviation of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) seeds”
- Urszula Krasuska (SGGW, Warsaw, Poland) – “NO-ROS interactions during digestion inside the trap of Nepenthes ventrata”
- Jagna Chmielowska-Bąk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Changes in RNA 8-hydroxyguanosine (8-OHG) levels in plants response to environmental stresses”
- Yufeng Guan (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Aldehyde dehydrogenase as a metabolic sensor of nitroxyl in Arabidopsis”
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13:30–14:30 |
Lunch |
Session 9: Mechanisms of stress tolerance in plants
Chairs: Agnieszka Kiełbowicz-Matuk, Iwona Morkunas
14:30–16:30 |
Session 9
Invited Speakers:
- Salma Balazadeh (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands) – “Enhancing plant drought tolerance by unleashing intrinsic regulatory networks and the beneficiary action of microbes”
- Christina Kuhn (Humbold University, Berlin, Germany) – “Identification of candidate genes involved in the cross-talk between sugar and brassinosteroid signaling in response to root colonization by AM fungi”
Speakers selected from abstracts:
- Magdalena Krzesłowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań , Poland) – “Cell wall remodeling and vesicular transport intensification in plant defense strategy to toxic elements”
- Marzena Kurowska (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) – “Study of the role of jasmonates in the response to drought stress in barley”
- Małgorzata Tajdel-Zielińska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Regulation of the MAPKKK18 stability by the ubiquitin proteasome system”
- Aleksandra Świda-Barteczka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – “Barley miRNA172b-5p and miRNA172b-3p create a module leading to osmoprotection and accelerated flowering induction during drought”
- Anna Barabasz (University of Warsaw, Poland) – “Spatio-temporal expression profile of genes potentially involved in Zn redistribution under Zn-deficiency conditions in the medium”
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