APOMIXIS 2025

9-12 September 2025 - Mercure - Montpellier - France

Bandeau - APOMIXIS 2025

Tuesday 16 September

DAY 1
From 10:00

Conference registration


14:00-14:10

Welcome

  • Olivier LEBLANC - IDR, France

14:10-15:30

Opening Plenary Lectures

Chair: Daphné AUTRAN

14:10-14:50
  • Keynote - Amanda GRUSZ - Univ. of Minnesota Duluth, USA
    Evaluating a drought-driven hypothesis for the origin of obligate apomixis
14:50-15:30
  • Keynote - Venkatesan SUNDARESAN - UC Davis, USA
    Genomics of embryo initiation and application to synthetic apomixis in rice

15:30-16:00

Coffee break - Posters


16:00-17:50

SESSION 1 - Evolution of apomixis

Chair: Juan Pablo ORTIZ

 
  • Keynote - Elvira HÖRANDL - Univ. Göttingen, Germany
    The origin of apomixis in natural plant populations
 
  • Petra ŠARHANOVÁ - Masaryk University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Plant Biosystematics Group, Czech Republic
    Clonal or sexual? The evolutionary dance of blackberries
 
  • Koen JF VERHOEVEN - Neederlands Institute of Ecology, Neederlands
    Rapid adaptation to local environments in diverse apomictic dandelion populations

Selected oral presentations

  • S1-O.1 - Unraveling the Evolutionary History of the Apomictic Dryopteris affinis Complex (Dryopteridaceae) Using Target Enrichment Sequencing
    Evelin KROL - Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • S1-O.2 - Comparative Genomics Narrows the Genetic Basis of Apomixis in Apple (Malus, Rosaceae)
    Charity GOECKERITZ - HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, United States
  • S1-O.3 - Comparative Genomics of the Apospory-Specific Genomic Region: Insights from Cenchrus and Related Grasses
    Joann CONNER - Horticulture & IPBGG, University of Georgia - Tifton, Tifton, Georgia, United States