APOMIXIS 2025

9-12 September 2025 - Mercure - Montpellier - France

Bandeau - APOMIXIS 2025

Wednesday 17 September

DAY 2
08:30-10:20

SESSION 2 - (Epi)Genomics of apomixis

Chair: Elvira HÖRANDL

 
  • Keynote - Duarte Dionisio FIGUEIREDO - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
    Molecular mechanisms initiating endosperm development in flowering plants
 
  • Bianca BACCILI ZANOTTO VIGNA - EMBRAPA Southeastern Livestock, Brazil
    Apomixis and associated molecular markers development in tropical forages
 
  • Juan Manuel VEGA - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
    Insights into the structure and gene content of the Apomixis Controlling Locus (ACL) of Paspalum notatum

Selected oral presentations

  • S2-O.1 - Role of DNA methylation in asexual endosperm formation
    Dilsher Singh KULAAR - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
  • S2-O.2 - Exploring the epigenetic landscape of sexual and apomictic Paspalum notatum using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
    Maricel PODIO - DREP, IICAR-UNR, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • S2-O.3 - A Reproductive and Vegetative Atlas Database To Assess Gene Expression In Eragrostis curvula Through Long Read Iso-Seq Transcriptome Sequencing
    Jose CARBALLO - CERZOS-CONICET, BahÍa Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argenitna

10:20-11:00

Coffee break - Posters


11:00-12:50

SESSION 3 - Reproductive developmental plasticity

Chair: Thomas DRESSELHAUS

 
  • Keynote - Matthew TUCKER - Univ. Adelaide, Australia
    Distinct nucellar cell types nurture the female gametophyte in cereal ovules
 
  • Luciana DELGADO - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
    Are apomictic and sexual development related to the plasticity of ovule morphogenesis? A 3D approach in Paspalum rufum
 
  • Stewart GILLMOR - CINVESTAV, Mexico
    CG methylation and H3K27 trimethylation correlate with differential parental genome contributions to plant zygotic transcriptomes

Selected oral presentations

  • S3-O.1 - Early apomixis formation in nature is associated with developmental and reproductive perturbations
    Patrik MRÁZ - Herbarium collections & Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
  • S3-O.2 - Environmental Plasticity of Sexual and Asexual Seed Traits in Brassicaceae
    Sinah Tabea EHLERT - Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

12:50-14:00

Lunch & Coffee - Posters


14:00-15:50

SESSION 4 - Apomeiosis I

Chair: Lucia COLOMBO

 
  • Keynote - Tim SHARBEL - Univ. Saskatchewan, Canada
    The evolution of apomixis in Boechera, a tool for Brassica crops
 
  • Viviana ECHENIQUE - CERZOS-Univ. Nac del Sur, Argentina
    Structural characterization, gene content and gene expression of the region controlling apomeiosis in Eragrostis curvula
 
  • Adrián GONZALO SANCHEZ - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Genetics of meiotic and non-meiotic instability in polyploids

Selected oral presentations

  • S4-O.1 - Assembling haplotype-resolved genomes to explore clonal seed production in apomictic species
    Elias PRIMETIS - Department of Plant and Animal Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • S4-O.2 - Mining candidate genes of apospory in Paspalum simplex
    Davide PERRONE - CNR-IBBR, Perugia, Italy
  • S4-O.3 - Unveil the molecular mechanisms regulating diplospory
    Alex CAVALLERI - Biosciences, University of Milan, Milano, Italy

15:50-19:00

Poster session - Coffee & beverages