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Agenda
All Events Are Taking Place in Eastern Standard Time - Agenda Subject to ChangeFriday, July 16, 2021
| Time | Event |
| 08:30 am – 08:45 am | Conference Opens - Welcome Main Organizer: Michael Scanlon (Cornell University) |
| 08:45 am – 09:25 am | Keynote Lecture: R. Scott Poethig (University of Pennsylvania) The mechanism and functional consequences of vegetative phase change Moderator: Stewart Gillmor (Langebio-CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Mexico) |
| 09:25 am – 09:35 am | Live Q&A with the Keynote |
| 09:35 am – 10:05 am | Plenary Speaker I Julia Santiago (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Perception mechanisms of peptides involved in cell wall integrity and remodeling Moderator: Teva Vernoux (ENS de Lyon, France) |
| 10:05 am – 10:15 am | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 10:15 am – 10:20 am | Break |
| 10:20 am – 10:50 am | Plenary Speaker II Daniel Kierzkowski (University of Montreal, Canada) Quantitative Imaging of Plant Organogenesis Moderator: Kim Gallagher (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 10:50 am – 11:00 am | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Short Talk Topic Session I: Establishing/Elaborating the Body Plan Moderator: Alexandra Pete (Harvard University) |
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Short talk 1 Gabriella Mosca (Technische Universität München, Germany) Organ geometry channels reproductive cell fate in the Arabidopsis ovule primordium |
| 11:15 am – 11:20 am | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Short talk 2 Rachel Shahan (Duke University) A single cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild type and cell identity mutants |
| 11:35 am – 11:40 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 11:40 am – 11:55 am | Short talk 3 Andrea Tovar-Aguilar ((CINVESTAV, Mexico) The role of miR408 in cell identity of the Arabidopsis embryo |
| 11:55 am – 12:00 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 12:00 pm – 12:10 pm | Break |
| 12:10 pm – 1:10 pm | Meet the Experts Groups - Concurrent sessions: 1. Roundtable Starting your laboratory - Josh Strable (North Carolina State University); Alexander Goldschmidt (ARO Volcani, Israel); Chris Whitewoods (Cambridge University, UK) 2. Roundtable Strategies for Securing Funding - Marja Timmermans (University Tubingen, Germany); Dave Jackson (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory); Lars Ostergaard (John Innes Center, UK) 3. Roundtable Broader Outcomes - Margaret Frank (Cornell University); Madelaine Bartlett (University Massachusetts); Paula McSteen (University Missouri) 4. Roundtable Balancing Research and Teaching - Marta Laskowski (Oberlin College); Daniel Kierzkowski (University of Montreal, Canada); Aman Husbands (Ohio State University) 5. Roundtable Non-Academic Careers - Miin-Feng Wu (Bayer Crop Science); Jacob Moe-Lange (California Cultured, Inc); Robyn Johnston (The Elshire Group) |
| 1:10 pm - 1:20 pm | Break |
| 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm | Short Talk Topic Session II: Tissue Patterning Moderator: Chloe Pocard (Max Planc Institute, Germany) |
| 1:20 pm – 1:35 pm | Short talk 4 Robert Bellow (John Innes Centre, UK) Brassinosteroid delays the epidermal brake on growth |
| 1:35 pm – 1:40 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 1:40 pm – 1:55 pm | Short talk 5 Andrew Muroyama (Stanford University) Parallel cytoskeletal pathways break symmetry to orient asymmetric divisions during leaf patterning |
| 1:55 pm – 2:00 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Short talk 6 Alon Israeli (Hebrew University, Israel) Two-step regulation of organ development by auxin-GA interaction |
| 2:15 pm – 2:20 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm | Short Talk Topic Session III: Intercellular Signaling and Crosstalk Moderator: Karina Orozco-Natividad (CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Mexico) |
| 2:20 pm – 2:35 pm | Short talk 7 Marco D'Ario (John Innes Center, UK) A molecular mechanism for sensing cell size |
| 2:35 pm – 2:40 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 2:40 pm – 2:55 pm | Short talk 8 Heather Meyer (Carnegie Institution for Science) Intrinsically disordered proteins as plant thermo-sensors |
| 2:55 pm – 3:00 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Short talk 9 Lucie Riglet (Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University, UK) Understanding how flowering plants build communication devices on their petals |
| 3:15 pm – 3:20 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 3:20 pm – 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Short Talk Topic Session IV: Indeterminacy and Developmental Plasticity Moderator: Ao Liu (Stanford University) |
| 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Short talk 10 Denis Janocha (Center for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Germany) TOR mediated translational repression of cytokinin catabolic enzymes controls shoot stem cells in Arabidopsis |
| 3:45 pm – 3:50 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 3:50 pm – 4:05 pm | Short talk 11 Teng Zhang (University of Helsinki, Finland) Growth and Phyllotactic Patterning of Gerbera Flower Heads |
| 4:05 pm – 4:10 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 4:10 pm – 4:25 pm | Short talk 12 Neha Bhatia (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) Organ growth control in plants |
| 4:25 pm – 4:30 pm | Live Q&A Panel Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Wrap-up and Conclusion by the Organizers: Michael Scanlon (Cornell University), Kim Gallagher (University of Pennsylvania) and Teva Vernoux (ENS de Lyon, France) |
| 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm | Poster Session (posters will be available online 1-2 days prior; session time will be devoted to live chat among attendees) |
