Friday 19 September
DAY 4
09:00-10:50
SESSION 7 - Seed development
Chair: Stewart GILLMOR
- Keynote - Benoit LANDREIN - RDP-ENS Lyon, France
Mechanical control of seed morphogenesis
- Gerardo Del TORO-De LEÓN - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
Maternal control of RNA decay safeguards embryo development
- Anja SCHMIDT - Univ. Heidelberg, Germany
RNA helicases in shaping plasticity during sexual and apomictic reproduction through seeds
Selected oral presentations
- S7-O.1 - Genetic determinants of autonomous endosperm formation in Arabidopsis
Camille SALAÜN - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany - S7-O.2 - BRI1-mediated removal of seed coat H3K27me3 marks is a brassinosteroid-independent process
Rishabh PANKAJ - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
10:50-11:10
Coffee break - Posters
11:10-12:15
SESSION 8 - Asexual reproduction in animals
Chair: Olivier LEBLANC
- Keynote - Thomas LENORMAND - CEFE, CNRS, Montpellier, France
Parthenogenesis and the evolution of clonality in animals
- Micaela MÜLLER - CERZOS-Univ. Nac del Sur-CONICET, Argentina
Beyond plants: how reproductive strategies could shape invasiveness and disease spread in freshwater snails
12:15-12:30
Closing
- Prize Awards
- Final remarks & Next Meeting announcement