EPS Theme 4 symposium “Genome Biology”
Registration closed on 1 December.
Date: 13 December 2019, 09:30 – 17:00 (drinks afterwards)
Venue: Room C0213, Forum building 102, Wageningen Campus
Organizers: Maike Stam & Eric Schranz
All EPS members with an interest in Genome Biology are hereby kindly invited to join the EPS Theme 4 Symposium on the 13th of December in Wageningen.
This symposium gives EPS theme 4 members the opportunity to present and discuss their own work, especially the young scientists (PhD candidates & postdocs).
Attendance, coffee/tea, lunch and drinks are free for those who registered. The maximum amount of participants has been reached and the registration is closed.
Program
09:30 Arrival & coffee
10:05 Opening
10:05 Levi Yant – Evolutionary Genomics, University of Nottingham, England
“The whisper of the Wild Brassicaceae: what they teach us about the molecular basis of adaptation to polyploidy via population genomics”
10:50 Peng Wang – Molecular Biology, WUR
“A nuclear-targeted effector of Rhizophagus irregularis supresses host defense gene expression by interfering with H2B ubiquitination”
11:15 Corentin Clot – Plant Breeding, WUR
“The origin and widespread occurrence of Sli based self-compatibility in potato”
11:50 Thalia Luden – Plant Developmental Genetics, LU
“REJUVENATOR: the potential of regulating plant longevity”
12:10 Lunch in Grand Café on ground floor (Forum)
13.10 Chang Liu – Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany
“Three-dimensional chromatin structure shapes plant transcription factor activities”
14:00 Michelle van der Gragt – Plant Physiology, UvA
“The small RNA landscape of tomato trichomes”
14:25 Merijn Kerstens – Molecular Biology, WUR
“Phylogenomic analysis of the APETALA2 transcription factor subfamily across angiosperms”
14:45 Coffee/tea
15:15 Bing Bai – Plant Physiology, WUR
“SeedTransNet-a network for the identification and validation of novel translational regulator in seeds”
15:40 Floris Breman – Biosystematics, WUR
“Cytonuclear incompatibility and speciation in Pelargonium section Ciconium”
16:05 Roven Rommel Fuentes – Bioinformatics, WUR
“Meiotic recombination profiling using pollen gametes”
16:30 Raúl Wijfjes – Bioinformatics, WUR
“Think globally, act locally: identifying the genetics of adaptation using Dutch A. thaliana”
16:55 Closing words
17:00 Drinks
Friday, December 13, 2019
09:30 - 18:00
WUR – Forum building
Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen