2024 International Conference on Molecular Plant Sciences (ICMPS2024)

2024 International Conference on Molecular Plant Sciences (ICMPS2024)

August 8-12, 2024  Shanghai, China

August 8-12, 2024  Shanghai, China

Program

August 9, Friday (Beijing time)
8:30-8:40 Opening Remarks  
Sheng Luan  University of California, Berkeley, USA
Bin Han  Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS, China
Session I: Genomics and Evolution (Nils Stein and Bin Han)
8:40-9:10 Kenneth M. Olsen  Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Adaptation through feralization: evolutionary genomics of weedy rice
9:10-9:40 Bin Han  Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS, China
Quantitative genomics studies on rice complex traits and heterosis
9:40-10:10 Sureshkumar Balasubramania   Monash University, Australia
A basic framework governing splice site choice in eukaryotes
10:10-10:40 Break and Group Photo
10:40-11:10 Xiaofeng Cao  Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, China
tRNA repair safeguards rice male fertility through ribosome-associated quality control
11:10-11:40 Nils Stein  Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany
Barley and other cereal pangenomics/genebank genomics
11:40-12:10 Jianbing Yan  Huazhong Agricultural University, China
A newly evolved micropeptide controls seed dehydration in plants
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Session II: Abiotic Stress (Chairs: Sheng Luan and Isabel Bäurle)
13:30-14:00 Ralph Bock  Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
How the environment causes genetic changes in plants
14:00-14:30 Isabel Bäurle  Universität Potsdam, Germany
How plants remember a stressful day – a role for chromatin-based mechanisms
14:30-15:00 Sheng Luan  University of California, Berkeley, USA
Calcium encoding mechanisms in plants
15:00-15:30 Harro Bouwmeester   University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elucidating the communication between plants and the microbiome. More resilient crops for a sustainable agriculture
15:30-16:00 Break
Session III: Biotic Interactions (Chairs: Libo Shan and Harro Bouwmeester)
16:00-16:30 Xinnian Dong  Duke University, USA
Understanding systemic acquired resistance in plants for enhanced crop protection
16:30-17:00 Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar University of California, Davis, USA
Inter-organellar communication during plant immune signaling
17:00-17:30 Libo Shan  University of Michigan, USA
A balanced view: receptor kinase signaling in plant immunity and autoimmunity
17:30-18:00 Ertao Wang  Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS, China
Plant-microbe symbiosis and application
18:00-20:00 Dinner & Poster session (Odd number, poster presenters stand by from 19:00 to 20:00)


August 10, Saturday (Beijing time)
Session IV: Hormones and Development (Chairs: Yonghong Wang and Ildoo Hwang)
8:30-9:00 Ji Hoon Ahn  Korea University, South Korea
SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE degradation complex in temperature-responsive flowering
9:00-9:30 Lijia Qu  Peking University, China
RALF peptide/CrRLK1L receptor-mediated signaling controls fertilization success in Arabidopsis
9:30-10:00 Zhongnan Yang  Shanghai Normal University, China
Molecular and cellular mechanism of P/TGMS lines for crop hybrid breeding
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Ildoo Hwang Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Cytokinin-mediated acquisition of phloem differentiation
11:00-11:30 Zhenbiao Yang  Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, CAS, China
Extracellular auxin: Perception and coordination with intracellular auxin
11:30-12:00 Yonghong Wang  Shandong Agricultural University, China
Coordination of cytokinin and nitrogen by a new cytokinin transporter enhances rice grain yields
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Session V: Rising Stars in Plant Sciences (Chairs: Xiufang Xin, Weibing Yang, and Alexander Jones)
13:30-13:55 Yang Bai   Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, China
Interactions between root microbiome and crops
13:55-14:20 Rosa Lozano-Duran  University of Tubingen, Germany
The cell snatchers: Unravelling plant manipulation by geminiviruses
14:20-14:45 Yangnan Gu  University of California Berkeley, USA
Towards Understanding the Function of Plant Nuclear Membrane
14:45-15:10 Alexander Jones  University of Cambridge, UK
Single cell hormone dynamics for plant information processing
15:10-15:35 Pierre-Marc Delaux Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Plant-microbe interactions at multiple evolutionary scales (Online)
15:35-16:05 Break
16:05-16:30 Edwige Moyroud  University of Cambridge, UK
Building beauty: Development & Evolution of petal patterns in Hibiscus flowers
16:30-16:55 Luning Liu  University of Liverpool, UK
From understanding the photosynthetic mechanisms towards enhancing plant growth
16:55-17:20 Xiufang Xin  Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS, China
Understanding plant-water relations during pathogen infection
17:20-17:45 Shangwei Zhong  Peking University, China
Sensing light and temperature: insights into phytochrome B
18:00-20:00 Dinner & Poster session (Even number, poster presenters stand by from 19:00 to 20:00)


August 11, Sunday (Beijing time)
Session VI: Photosynthesis and Metabolism (Chairs: Xiaoya Chen and Lixin Zhang)
8:30-9:00 Dario Leister  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Update on cyclic electron flow in photosynthesis: Actors, mechanisms, interdependencies
9:00-9:30 Lixin Zhang   Henan University, China
Structural and functional dynamics of photosynthetic protein complexes under changing conditions
9:30-10:00 Reuben Peters  Iowa State University, USA
From Ångstroms to agriculture with diterpenoid natural products
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Ian T. Baldwin  Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
The raison d’etre of specialized metabolism of TCM plants
11:00-11:30 Xiaoya Chen   Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS, China
Diterpenoids in Lamiaceae plants: Spatial distribution and biosynthesis
11:30-12:00 Jie Luo   Yazhouwan National Laboratory, China
Exploring the diversity of plant metabolism: From single genes to gene clusters
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Session VII: Crop Biology (Chairs: Xiangdong Fu and Haiyang Wang)
13:30-14:00 Jiayang Li  Yazhouwan National Laboratory, China
TBD
14:00-14:30 Haiyang Wang  South China Agricultural University, China
Molecular breeding of "Next-Generation" hybrid maize
14:30-15:00 Abdel Bendahmane  INRAE, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
TBD (Online)
15:00-15:30 Luigi Cattivelli  CREA Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Italy
Leveraging durum wheat diversity for genetic improvement (Online)
15:30-16:00 Xiangdong Fu  Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, China
Targeted modulation of growth-metabolic coordination for a sustainable Green Revolution
16:00-16:10 Concluding Remarks
Bin Han
After 16:10 Departure
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