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