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