Wednesday 11^th April

12:00–13:30

Registration and lunch

13:30–13:45

Welcome: Alistair Hetherington & Francis Martin

13:45–14:30

Keynote: Liam Dolan
Evolution and development of the earliest land plant rooting systems

Session 1: Physiology and Development

Chair: Alistair Hetherington

14:30–15:00

S1.1 Andrew Groover
Evolution and development of wood formation in forest trees

15:00–15:30

S1.2 Colin Brownlee
Animal, vegetable and mineral: Understanding the unique physiology of biomineralizing phytoplankton in a changing ocean

15:30–16:00

Break

16:00–16:15

Selected talk 1: Cecilia Brunetti (P7)
A possible role for abscisic acid in restoring water transport in embolized vessels

Selected talk 2: Tracy Stevenson (P39)
Understanding the mechanism of decoding of calcium signatures regulating transcript and protein expression in Arabidopsis thaliana

16:30–17:00

S1.3 Alison Smith
What plants do in the dark

17:00–17:30

S1.4 Keith Lindsey
Control of root growth in Arabidopsis

17:30–18:00

S1.5 Shuhua Yang
Phosphorylation-regulated plant freezing tolerance

19:30

Welcome Dinner, Grands salons de l'Hotel de Ville de Nancy

Thursday 12^th April

Session 2: Interaction

Chair: Maarja Öpik

9:00–9:30

S2.1 André Kessler
Plant-to-plant communication and its role in driving herbivore population dynamics

9:30–10:00

S2.2 Anne Osbourn
Finding drugs in the garden: Mining plant chemical diversity

10:00–10:15

Selected talk 3: Diana Ramirez Garces (P33)
Roles of Malectin-like kinases FERONIA and HERK1 in plant immunity

Selected talk 4: Veronica Basso (P2)
Fungal manipulation of plant jasmonate signaling in Populus- Laccaria bicolor ectomycorrhizal symbiosis

10:30–11:00

Break

11:00–11:30

S2.3 Björn Lindahl
Sequencing the mycobiome of boreal forest soils

11.30–12:00

S2.4 Ralph Panstruga
Durable disease resistance by loss of plant 'susceptibility factors'

12:00–12:30

Tansley Medal winner talk: Stella Cesari
Multiple strategies for pathogen perception by plant immune receptors

12:30–14.00

Lunch

Session 3: Environment

Chair: Richard Norby

14.00–14.30

S3.1 Andrea Polle
Molecular ecophysiology of wood formation under drought

14:30–15:00

S3.2 Belinda Medlyn
Trees at extremes: predicting forest function during drought and heatwaves

15:00–15:15

Selected talk 5: Charlotte Grossoid (P13)
Reductions in tree performance during hotter droughts are minimised by shifts in nitrogen cycling

Selected talk 6: Nadia Maaroufi (P20)
Shifts in ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal communities mediate litter and humus decay in response to chronic nitrogen enrichment

15:30–16:00

Break

16:00–16:30

S3.3 Amy Austin
Plants in the sun: new insights on the role of solar radiation in terrestrial ecosystems

16:30–17:00

S3.4 Owen Atkin
Thermal biology of plant metabolism: insights into global patterns

17:00–18:00

Discussion: ‘How plant sciences can be harnessed to help solve societal issues’

Discussion leaders: Marc-André Selosse & Rich Norby

18:00–19:30

Poster session

Friday 13^th April

Session 4: Evolution

Chair: Simon Hiscock

9:00–9:45

Keynote: Lynda Delph
It's the phenotype...

9:45–10:15

S4.1 Elena Kramer
Exploring the genetic basis of floral novelty in Aquilegia

10:15–10:30

Selected talk 7: Shihao Su (P42)
The origin of corolla neck in Torenia fournieri

Selected talk 8: Babu Ram Paudel (P29)
Interspecies variation in reproductive strategy of co-existing alpine gingers (Roscoea purpurea and R. tumjensis): implications for reproductive isolation and species integrity?

10:45–11:15

Break

11:15–11:45

S4.2 Hongzhi Kong
The making of elaborate petals in Nigella (Ranunculaceae)

11.45–12:30

ARBRE lecture: David Beerling
Can we achieve multiple gigatonne CO₂ capture by farming with crops and rocks?

12:30–12:45

Closing comments: Alistair Hetherington

12:45–13:30

Lunch

13:30–18:00

Excursions in Nancy 

Excursion 1: Nancy and Fine Arts Museum

Depart University 13:30; return University 16:30 

Excursion 2: Art Nouveau tour

Depart University 13:30; return University 17:30 

Excursion 3: Vineyard 

Depart Univesity 13:15; return Nancy train station 17:30

Public lecture (in French): Marc-André Selosse 

Grand Salon de l’Hôtel de Ville, Stanislas Square