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Wednesday, September 11^th

 

11:30 – 12:00  Registration

12:15 – 13:00  Lunch

13:00 – 13:15  Opening of the meeting – Welcome by Elwira Smakowska-Luzan

 

Session I: Immunity

Chair: Kyle Bender

13:15 – 13:45 Keynote Speaker: Libo Shan

Nature's Sentinel: Functional Insights and Evolutionary Patterns in Plant Peptide-Receptor Immune Signaling

13:45 – 14:00 Hannah Weber

If you like it, put a ring on it – How HIR2 could organize RLKs in the plasma membrane

14:00 – 14:15 Cyril Zipfel

A peptide-receptor module links cell wall integrity sensing to pattern-triggered immunity

14:15 – 14:30 Henriette Leicher

Endogenous RALF peptide function is required for powdery mildew host colonization

14:30 – 14:45 Frank Menke

Connecting Membrane Receptor Signalling And Effector-Triggered Immunity Via Helper NLR Phosphorylation

14:45 – 15:00 Oliver Johanndrees

Evolutionary insights into the CTNIP-HSL3 Signaling Module Across Angiosperms

15:00 – 15:15 Ralph Hückelhoven

Overlapping and distinct recognition specificity for exogenous and endogenous signalling peptides in MIK2-family receptors from different plant lineages

 

15:15 – 15:30  Flash talks: Even numbers - part 1 (6 talks)

 

15:30 – 15:55  Coffee Break

 

15:55 – 16:00  Pitch presentation by Thermo Fisher Scientific

 

Session II: Reproduction

Chair: Lei Wang

16:00 – 16:30 Keynote speaker: Li-Jia Qu

Peptide/receptor-mediated signaling controls double fertilization in Arabidopsis

16:30 – 16:45 Zachary Nimchuk

Floral innovation in the Asteraceae evolved through modifications in plant stem cell peptide signaling

16:45 – 17:00 Philipp Denninger

Beyond receptors – Regulation of RhoGTPase signaling during pollen germination

17:00 – 17:15 Isaia Vardanega

On the role of stem cell regulators in shaping barley spike architecture

17:15 – 17:30 José Antonio Montano García

RALF/LRX implication in cell wall integrity during tomato fruit formation

17:30 – 17:45 Christian Hardtke

Antagonistic CLE peptide pathways shape root meristem tissue patterning

 

17:45 – 18:00  Flash talks: Even numbers - part 2 (6 talks)

 

18:00 – 18:15  Pitch presentation by Molecular Plant

 

18:45 – 20:00  Dinner

 

20:00 – 22:00  Poster session I (even numbers) with drinks

 

Thursday, September 12^th

 

Session III: Stress signalling and mechanosensing

Chair: Jasper Lamers

08:30 – 09:00 Keynote Speaker: Nora Gigli Bisceglia

Exploring the Role of Cell Walls in Controlling Stress Responses in Plants

09:00 – 09:15 Irene Guzmán-Benito

PBLs as Novel Players in Single-Cell Plant Signaling Specificity

09:15 – 09:30 Luiselotte Rausch

Phytosulfokines as rapid cell wall mediators during root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana

09:30 – 09:45 Feng Yu

Regulated Cleavage and Translocation of FERONIA Control Immunity in Arabidopsis Roots

09:45 – 10:00 Kris Vissenberg

Rapid Alkalinization Factor 22 (RALF22) has a structural and signalling role in Arabidopsis root hair cell wall assembly

10:00 – 10:15 Jasmin Kemppinen

Exploring the role of GHR1 in plant immunity: insights from Arabidopsis mutants with constitutively open stomata

10:15 – 10:30 Rong Li

Poltergeist-Like 2 (PLL2)-dependent activation of the wound response distinguishes systemin from other phytocytokine signaling pathways

 

10:30 – 10:45  Flash talks: Odd numbers - part 1 (6 talks)

 

10:45 – 11:15  Coffee Break

 

Session IV: Complex formation and technical advancement

Chair: Martin Stegmann

11:15 – 11:45 Keynote: Herman Höfte

Pectin-protein interactions in plant cell wall assembly and expansion

11:45 – 12:00 Sergio Martin-Ramirez

Redox-dependent extracellular interaction networks of Cysteine-rich Receptor-Like Kinases

12:00 – 12:15 Chuanyou Li

Peptide REF1 is a local wound signal promoting plant regeneration

12:15 – 12:30 Lin Xi

QSK1 modulates ER-PM contact sites to regulate small molecules transport through PD

12:30 – 12:45 Ann-Kathrin Rößling

Mechanosensing and Signalling: The interplay of FERONIA, pectin, and RALF peptides in plant cell walls

12:45 – 13:00 Matthieu Joosten

Immune signalling by cell surface-localised receptor-like proteins (RLPs) reveals its secrets

 

13:00 – 13:15  Flash talks: Odd numbers - part 2 (6 talks)

 

13:15 – 14:00  Lunch

 

14:00 – 18:00  Trip to Kröller-Müller Museum

 

18:30 – 20:00  Conference Dinner

 

20:00 – 21:30  Poster session (Odd Numbers) with drinks

 

21:30    Party  

Friday, September 13^th

 

Session V: Symbiosis

Chair: Kate Parys

08:30 – 09:00 Keynote Speaker: Simona Radutoiu

Recognition of symbionts and pathogens by LysM receptor kinases

09:00 – 09:15 Yusuke Saijo

Immune peptide receptor and symbiosis regulator drive mutualistic interactions with plant growth promoting bacteria in rice

09:15 – 09:30 Rafael Jorge León Morcillo

RAPID ALKALINIZATION FACTOR 22 regulates root hair growth in response to fungal ethylene emissions

09:30 – 09:45 Emma Guillierme

Balancing nodule number with a CLV1-like receptor: identification of signalling proteins using a proteomics approach

09:45 – 10:00 Sona Pandey

Receptor kinase dependent G-protein phosphorylation and its role in regulating signaling during soybean nodulation

 

10:00 – 10:30  Coffee Break

 

Session VI: Development I

Chair: Svenja Augustin

10:30 – 11:00 Keynote: Charlotte Kirchhelle

Cell wall perception on edge - translating cell geometry into directional growth

11:00 – 11:15 Kaltra Xhelilaj

A plasma membrane pH-stat coordinates cell surface processes and root development

11:15 – 11:30 Ora Hazak

Progression in xylem maturation relies on a non-cell-autonomous peptide-dependent mechanism

11:30 – 11:45 Peter Grones

Plasma membrane alterations during plant immune response

 

11:45 – 12:30  Lunch

 

Session VII: Development II

Chair: Ran Lu

12:30 – 13:00 Keynote: André Kuhn

RAF-like kinases are conserved intracellular integrators of rapid responses

13:00 – 13:15 Max Fishman

RGF peptides and their cognate receptors play a role in Phtheirospermum japonicum haustorium development

13:15 – 13:30 Noel Blanco-Touriñán

The brassinosteroid receptor gene BRI1 safeguards cell-autonomous brassinosteroid signaling across tissues

 

13:30 – 14:00  Poster and talk prizes and closing remarks