Monday 24^th July

12:00–13:30

Lunch and registration

13:30–13:40

Welcome: Dale Sanders and Silke Robatzek (JIC, UK)
Session chair: Silke Robatzek

13:40–14:30

Plenary lecture: Caroline Dean, JIC, UK
Sensing and remembering winter

14:30–14:50

Selected poster talk: Jonathan Cocker
P16: Floral heteromorphy in Primula: new insights for an old model

14:50–15:10

Selected poster talk: Lucas Frungillo
P33: S-nitrosothiol impact on hormonal trade-offs in plant immunity

15:10–15:40

Tea/Coffee Break

15:40–16:10

Tansley Medal 2014 winner: William (Bill) Anderegg, University of Utah, USA
Linking stomata and plant hydraulics to understand plant responses to drought

16:10–16:30

Selected poster talk: Hanna Hõrak
P48: MPK12 and MPK4 regulate HT1 kinase in somatal CO2-signalling

16:30–16:40

Break

16:40–17:30

Plenary lecture: David Beerling, University of Sheffield, UK
We need to talk about climate change. How can we harness global croplands for climate change and good security?

17:30–18:00

Selected poster flash talks

18:00–19:30

Poster session

19:30

Social event

Tuesday 25^th July

08:55–09:00

Announcements
Session chair: Christine Faulkner

09:00–09:50

Plenary lecture: Liam Dolan, University of Oxford, UK
Evolution and development of the plant soil interface

9.50–10:10

Selected poster talk: Scott Hayes
P42: Soil salinity limits plant shade-avoidance

10:10–10:45

Tea/Coffee Break

10:45–12:30

Workshop – How to get published

Co-chairs: John Christie (New Phytologist), Chris Surridge (Nature Plants) and Anne Knowlton (Current Biology)

12:30–13:30

Lunch

13:30–14:20

Session chair: Phil Gilmartin

Plenary lecture: Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University, USA
Modulation of asymmetric division diversity through cytokinin and SPEECHLESS regulatory interactions, or, how to make different differences

14:20–14:50

Tansley Medal 2015 winner: Alexander Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning

14:50–15:20

Tea/Coffee Break

15:20–17:00

Workshop – Publishing ethics

Chris Graf (COPE)

17:00–17:10

Break

17:10–18:00

Plenary lecture: Beverley Glover, University of Cambridge, UK
How do petals influence pollinator behaviour?

18:00–19:30

Poster session

19:30

BBQ and band

Wednesday 26^th July

08:55–09:00

Announcements
Session chair: Marc Knight

09:00–09:50

Plenary lecture: June Medford, Colorado State University, USA
Synthetic biology: using 'phytodetectors'

09:50–10:10

Selected poster talk: Qin He
P43: Phytopthora infestans RXLR effector interacts with S factor NRL1 to promote turnover of SWAP70

10:10–10:30

Selected poster talk: Peter Marhavy
P64: Short distance cell-to-cell communication in response to wound stress in Arabidopsis root

10:30–11:00

Tea/Coffee Break

11:00–11:20

Selected poster talk: Ann Carla Staver
P94: The evolution of flammability among grasses with spatially explicit fire spread

11:20–12:10

Plenary lecture: Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
On becoming (and remaining) a plant scientist in the genomics era

12:10–12:20

Final comments

12:20–13:20

Lunch