Program

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”