Meeting programme

Tuesday 29th July

12:00–13:25

Lunch and registration

 

13:25–13:40

Welcome

 

13:40–14:30

Charles Godfray
Plenary lecture

What do we mean when we talk about sustainable intensification?

14:30–14:50

Yogesh Gupta
Selected poster talk

P30: The exocyst complex is required for appressorium-mediated tissue invasion by rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae

14:50–15:10

Aleksandr Gavrin
Selected poster talk

P24: Symbiosome membrane is a crossroad of exo/endocytic pathways in infected cells of legume root nodules

15:10–15:30

Break

 

15:30–15:50

Jing-Ke Weng
Tansley Medal 2013 winner

The evolutionary implication of messiness in biology

15:50–16:10

Emily Breeze
Selected poster talk

P11: Action of the NF-Y transcription factors in plant stress responses

16:10–16:30

Katie Becklin
Selected poster talk

P7: Evolutionary history underlies plant physiological responses to global change since the Last Glacial Maximum

16:30–16:50

Kevin Dorn
Selected poster talk

P19: Genomics and domestication of field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.)

16:50–17:10

Break

17:10–17:30

Marjorie Lundgren
Selected poster talk

P51: An intraspecific gradient from C3 to C4 photosynthesis

17:30–17:50

Yoan Coudert
Selected poster talk

P16: Molecular evidence for an indeterminate meristem precursor in a moss

17:50–18:40

Kirsten Bomblies
Plenary lecture

Meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication

18:40–20:10

Poster session and reception

 

20:10–23:00

Social event

 

 

Wednesday 30th July

08:55–09:00

Announcements

 

09:00–09:50

Philip Benfey
Plenary lecture

A systems approach to improved root traits

09:50–10:10

Li-Qing Chen
Tansley Medal 2013 winner

SWEET proteins are key for phloem loading and seed filling

10:10–10:30

João Raimundo
Selected poster talk

P64: A genetic triangle: how three MYB proteins determine flower asymmetry in Antirrhinum

10:30–10:50

Sarah Jose
Selected poster talk

P36: Waterproof plants: linking leaf wax and stomatal pore development in barley

10:50–11:20

Break

 

11:20–11:40

Philippa Borrill
Selected poster talk

P10: Identifying downstream targets of the wheat transcription factor NAM-B1: ChIP-seq in hexaploid wheat using custom-built reference pseudomolecules

11:40–12:30

Workshop: How to get your work published

Co-Chairs: Professor Alistair Hetherington, Editor-in-Chief, New Phytologist and Dr Christopher Surridge, Chief Editor, Nature Plants

12:30–13:20

Sarah O’Connor
Plenary lecture

Chemistry and biology of plant alkaloid biosynthesis

13:20–13:30

Closing remarks

 

13:30–14:30

Lunch

 

14:30–15:30

(Optional) Tour of John Innes Centre