Parallel Sessions
Tuesday 27 August 2024
Parallel session 1
Parallel Session 1.1: Spatial signal specificity
Room: Buys Ballot Gebouw (BBG) – 201
Chair: Julia Bailey-Serres
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Viktoriia Voloboeva: Unraveling the hypoxic puzzle: Factors sustaining tissue hypoxia in the shoot apical meristem |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Gyöngyi Macias: Drowning rescue: Ethylene-led root tip survival |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Ruben De Francesco: The transition from cell division to cell elongation in the Arabidopsis root |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Rianne Kluck: Are all barriers created equally? |
Parallel Session 1.2: Signals in developmental transitions (1)
Room: Buys Ballot Gebouw (BBG) – 209
Chair: Margot Smit
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Leonardo Jo: Development of an apoplastic root barrier in chickpea |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Willy Contreras Avilés: UV-A regulation of photomorphogenesis and specialized metabolism in medicinal cannabis |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Gabriele Panicucci: Developmental Directions through Oxygen Gradients |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Lamis Abdelhakim (PSI): Image-based phenotyping protocol revealed the dynamic responses under combined abiotic stresses in potato plants |
Parallel Session 1.3: Plant-microbiome signaling (1)
Room: Buys Ballot Gebouw (BBG) – 214
Chair: Ainhoa Martinez
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Jelmer Dijkstra: Extensive intrachromosomal duplications in a virulence-associated fungal accessory chromosome |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Xander Zuijdgeest: Family Feud: Inter-familial regulation between Arabidopsis helper NLR families |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Sophie Vijverberg: Identifying Arabidopsis candidate genes involved in its response to plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Melanie Mendel: Deciphering the role of effectors for the rapid evolution and breaking of host resistance in the obligate biotrophic spinach downy mildew Peronospora effusa |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
Parallel session 2
Parallel Session 2.1: Plant stress signals
Room: Buys Ballot Gebouw (BBG) – 201
Chair: Salma Balazadeh
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Tobias Staacke: THRIVE: Identifying a novel regulator of thermomemory and an uncharted pathway |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Emilia Pini: Tomato Fruit Response to Chronic Heat Stress |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Eline Clerckx: The molecular and cellular effects of heat stress on tomato meristems |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Rim Chaudhury: Unraveling the link between rain stimuli and flooding-induced hypoxia acclimation in plants |
Parallel Session 2.2: Signals in developmental transitions (2)
Room: Buys Ballot Gebouw (BBG) – 209
Chair: Sebastian Soyk
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Niels Peeters: A CRISPR-based transcriptional activation system for tomato |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Pleun Langerwerf: That’s random: exploring mechanisms behind stochastic patterns in plants |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Janne Hageman: Does local hypoxia play a role in early root apical meristem development? |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Lisanne Kottenhagen: Seed colonizing Fusarium oxysorum associated with weeds in banana plantations in the Philippines |
Parallel Session 2.3: Plant-microbiome signaling (2)
Room: Buys Ballot Gebouw (BBG) – 214
Chair: Klaus Schläppi
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Run Qi: Dissecting Soil-borne Legacy: Involvement of SA and light signals in recruitment of beneficial microbes |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Yang Song: Microbiome-based prediction of potato vigor in the field |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Dario Ramirez: A walk on the wild side: exploring the functional potential of Andean soil microbiomes to enhance tolerance of potato to late blight disease |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Surah Hassan Muralidhar: Repair to survive: Tolerance to plant defence compounds involves several membrane repair strategies in the grey mould fungus Botrytis cinerea |