Schedule
March 18th, 2025 | |||
Time | Title | Speaker | Chairs |
08:00-10:15 | Doors opening | ||
10:15-11:00 | Plant Ecological Genetics: From Lab to Nature and Back | Juliette de Meaux | Charalampos Mantziaris |
11:00-11:45 | When do genotype by environment interactions matter for evolution? | David L. Des Marais | Timo Hellwig; Emmanuel Tergemina |
11:45-12:30 | Adaptation of Dutch Arabidopsis thaliana to small regional environmental clines | Mark Aarts | |
12:30-14:10 | Free time for lunch | ||
14:10-14:55 | Using ABC approaches to compare the dynamics of reproductive isolation among groups of organisms: comparing the speed of speciation in plants vs animals | Xavier Vekemans | Yannick Schäfer;Nikita Tikhomirov |
14:55-15:40 | Mystery of missing regulation: evolution and function of non-coding variants involved in complex traits | Shamil Sunyaev | |
15:40-16:20 | Coffee Break | ||
16:20-17:05 | Japanese Knotweed invasion genomics: what we know and future directions | Christina Richards | Renan Granado;Yannick Schäfer |
17:05-17:50 | The curious world of seaweeds and their viruses | Susana Coelho | |
18:30 | Speakers’ Dinner | ||
March 19th, 2025 | |||
Time | Title | Speaker | Chairs |
08:00-09:00 | Doors opening | ||
09:00-09:45 | Geographic, ecological, selective and genomic forces shaping defence metabolite evolution across the Brassicales | Dan Kliebenstein | Shifa Ansari;Varsa Shukla |
09:45-10:30 | Let’s spice it up! The chemical and molecular ecology of sulfur-containing defences in Brassicaceae | Nicole van Dam | |
10:30-11:10 | Coffee Break | ||
11:10-11:55 | Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower | Seema Sheth | Luis Chausson Garate;Jisha Suresh Kumar |
11:55-12:40 | Understanding plant resilience against climate change through the lens of a thermophilic plant | Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee | |
12:40-14:20 | Free time for lunch (Group photo) | ||
14:20-15:05 | Evolutionary genetics of mimicry, balanced polymorphisms and adaptive novelty in swallowtail butterflies | Krushnamegh Kunte | Daniel Wasim Djamriani;Jisha Suresh Kumar |
15:05-15:50 | What a pest! Genomic basis of divergence and adaptation in a pest beetle | Deepa Agashe | |
15:50-16:35 | Interactions with microbes and insects drive genetic variability in Arabidopsis chemistry | Jonathan Gershenzon | |
16:35-18:35 | Poster Session | ||
March 20th, 2025 | |||
Time | Title | Speaker | Chairs |
08:00-09:00 | Doors opening | ||
09:00-09:45 | Exploring the genetic and epigenetic regulation of drought response and tolerance in wheat landraces | Andrea Harper | Lea Hördemann;Abdul Saboor Khan |
09:45-10:30 | Resurrecting plants for climate change research | Niek Scheepens | |
10:30-11:10 | Coffee Break | ||
11:00-11:55 | Circadian QTLs Link Seedling Rhythms to Flowering Time in Arabidopsis | Seth J. Davis | Yasin Kaya; Twinkal Lapasiya |
11:55-12:40 | Knowing when to stop: understanding how plants use environmental information to optimise reproductive effort | Tom Bennett | |
12:40-14:20 | Free time for lunch | ||
14:20-15:05 | Survival heterosis of a montane wildflower varies with genetics and environment | Cathy Rushworth | Justine Floret; Nikita Tikhomirov |
15:05-15:50 | Genotypic and phenotypic consequences of allopolyploidization in Capsella | Martin Lascoux | |
15:50-16:00 | Closing remarks | Stanislav Kopriva | |