APOMIXIS 2025

9-12 September 2025 - Mercure - Montpellier - France

Bandeau - APOMIXIS 2025

Friday 19 September

DAY 4
09:00-10:50

SESSION 7 - Seed development

 
  • 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 - The phenomenon of autonomous endosperm in sexual and apomictic plants
    Joanna ROJEK - Department of Plant Experimental Biology and Biotechnology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
  • S7-O.2 - OsPLDα2-dependent synthetic apomixis enables normal seed setting in hybrid rice via genome editing
    Chao-Lei LIU - China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
  • S7-O.3 - 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

 
  • 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