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Schedule

March 18th, 2025

Time
Title
Speaker
08:00-10:15
Doors opening
 
10:15-11:00
Plant Ecological Genetics: From Lab to Nature and Back
Juliette de Meaux
11:00-11:45
When do genotype by environment interactions matter for evolution?
David L. Des Marais
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
14:55-15:40
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Shamil Sunyaev
15:40-16:20
Coffee Break
 
16:20-17:05
Japanese Knotweed Invasion Genomics: What We Know and Future Directions
Christina Richards
17:05-17:50
The curious world of seaweeds and their viruses
Susana Coelho
18:30
Speakers’ Dinner
 

 

March 19th, 2025

Time
Title
Speaker
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
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
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, malanced polymorphisms and adaptive novelty in swallowtail butterflies
Krushnamegh Kunte
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
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
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
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
15:05-15:50
Genotypic and phenotypic consequences of allopolyploidization in Capsella
Martin Lascoux
15:50-16:00
Closing remarks
Stanislav Kopriva