Invited speakers
Opening Plenary lectures
Amanda GRUSZ - Univ. of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Evaluating a drought-driven hypothesis for the origin of obligate apomixis
Pr. Venkatesan SUNDARESAN - UC Davis, USA
Genomics of embryo initiation and application to synthetic apomixis in rice
SESSION 1: Evolution of apomixis
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
SESSION 2: (Epi)Genomics of apomixis
Duarte Dionisio FIGUEIREDO - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
Molecular mechanisms initiating endosperm development in flowering plants
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
Bianca BACCILI ZANOTTO VIGNA - EMBRAPA Southeastern Livestock, Brazil
Apomixis and associated molecular markers development in tropical forages
SESSION 3: Reproductive developmental plasticity
Matthew TUCKER - Univ. Adeliade, 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
Emmanuel GUIDERDONI - CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institute, Montpellier, France
Imaging of female gametophytes reveals the cause of reduced seed setting in apomictic rice
SESSION 4: Apomeiosis I
Tim SHARBEL - Univ. Saskatchewan, Canada
The evolution of apomixis in Boechera, a tool for Brassica crops
Adrián GONZALO SANCHEZ- ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Genetics of meiotic and non-meiotic instability in polyploids
Viviana ECHENIQUE - CERZOS-Univ. Nac del Sur-CONICET, Argentina
Structural characterization, gene content and gene expression of the region controlling apomeiosis in Eragrostis curvula
SESSION 5: Apomeiosis II
Üeli GROSSNIKLAUS - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology & Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
Towards the Engineering of Synthetic Apomixis in Maize
Lorena SIENA - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
QUI-GON JINN, a member of the YODA family, plays a critical role during female reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana
Marta MENDES - Univ. Milan, Italy
Disruption of miR160-mediated ARF10 silencing triggers aposporous phenotypes in Arabidopsis ovules
SESSION 6: Triggering embryogenesis
Charles J. UNDERWOOD - Radboud University, Netherlands
Eternally hybrid: natural and engineered propagation of hybrid genomes through seeds
Thomas WIDIEZ - RDP-ENS Lyon, France
On the Road to Apomixis in Maize: A Win for Embryogenesis, a Wait for Apomeiosis
Kenny BOGAERT - Max Planck Institute of Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Apomixis in the Sea? Parthenogenesis and Maternal Cues in Seaweeds
FORUM 1
Missing tools for harnessing apomixis in plant breeding?
Silvina PESSINO - IICAR, Univ. Nac Rosario-CONICET, Argentina
Missing tools for harnessing apomixis in plant breeding?
Emmanuel GUIDERDONI - CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institute, Montpellier, France
Emidio ALBERTINI - University of Perugia, Italy
FORUM 2
Apomixis, a plant breeding innovation?
Liana JANK - EMBRAPA, breeder, Brazil
Apomixis, a plant breeding innovation?
Stéphane LEMARIÉ - INRAe, GAEL Grenoble, France
Marc ALBERTSEN - Albertsen Crop Genetics for Humanity, Johnston, USA
Viviana ECHENIQUE - CERZOS-Univ. Nac del Sur-CONICET, Argentina
Üeli GROSSNIKLAUS - University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
SESSION 7: Seed development
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
SESSION 8: Asexual reproduction in animals
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