Invited Speakers

Introduction :  Olivier Hamant, Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes : “The 1972 Meadows report: A wake-up call for plant science”

Plant Imaging : Martine Pastuglia, IJPN, Versailles, France "Spatiotemporal control of cell division in plants"

Genome structure & expression : Fredy Barneche, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris "Endings in the middle: uncovering the structure, epigenetic status and evolution of interstitial telomeric repeats in Arabidopsis thaliana"

 Agricultural systems in the agroecological transition : Marie Laure Fauconnier, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Belgique "Botanicals: A Path to Greener Pest Control?"

Intra- and inter-cellular communications in plants : Farhah Assaad, Technische Universität München, Germany "Decision making processes in the Arabidopsis seedling: a story of good governance"

Plant and pathogen interactions : Christine Faulkner, John Innes Centre, UK "Cellular lockdowns: plasmodesmal regulation of trade-offs between growth "

Plant and beneficial microorganism interactions, microbiome : Sofie Goormachtig, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology “Catching rhizobia to introduce high protein containing soybean for a sustainable agriculture in Europe”

Plant development and nutrition: Bruno Guillotin, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, USA "Checkpoints in cellular programming during root regeneration"

Environmental stresses : Petra Marhava, Umea Plant Science Centre, Sweden "How plants deal with heat and cold: Molecular mechanisms of auxin transport in response to temperature stress"

Genomics, genetics and breeding : Alain Charcosset, INRAE, le Moulon, France "Plant genetic resources: value for research, breeding and society"

Plant and algae metabolism : Samuel Zeeman, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland "New Insight into Starch Biosynthesis: How Plants Control Starch Granule Initiation and its Crystallization"