EPS Theme 1 symposium “Developmental Biology in Plants”

Date: 5 February 2020, 09:30 – 17:05 (with drinks afterwards)
Venue: lecture room C0222, Forum building (102), Wageningen Campus
Registration: closed
Organizers: Remko Offringa & Dolf Weijers

Dear EPS members,

On Wednesday 5 February 2020 the EPS Theme 1 meeting on “Developmental Biology in Plants” will be held again, this time in Wageningen.

Programme (also available as download)

9.30     COFFEE AND WELCOME

10.00   Invited speaker:  Antia Rodriguez-Villalon (ETH, Zürich) “The role of phosphoinositides in plant vascular development”

10.35   Mengfan Li (Wageningen University & Research) “BABY BOOM regulates TAA1/YUC-dependent and -independent auxin biosynthesis during somatic embryogenesis”

11.00   Xiaoyu Wei (Leiden University) “Touching PINOID: calcium-dependent regulation of auxin transport polarity”

11.25   COFFEE

11.55   Prasad Vaddepalli (Wageningen University & Research) “Molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating cell division orientation”

12.20   Jaap Rutten (Utrecht University) “A self-organized auxin-cytokinin-Plethora network controlling the dynamics of root growth and development”

12.45   LUNCH

13.30   Invited speaker  Jian Xu (Radboud University Nijmegen) “Environmental stress-directed root development”

14.05   Jieyu Liu (Wageningen University & Research) “NIN, the key to nodulation”

14.30   Kaisa Kajala (Utrecht University) “Tomato exodermis differentiation and drought responses”

14.55   TEA/COFFEE

15.25   Ringo van Wijk (University of Amsterdam) “PLC signalling in plant stress & development”

15.50   Peter van Gisbergen (Wageningen University & Research) “In vivo analysis of formin dynamics reveals functional class diversification”

16:15   Shuangjiang Li (University of Amsterdam) “Membrane compartments shaping and coloring plant cells”

16:40   Martijn Fiers (Wageningen University & Research) “Identification of compounds omitting the vernalization requirement for flowering in Arabidopsis”

17.05 END OF MEETING/DRINKS


Registration
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
09:30 - 17:05 (drinks afterwards)
WUR – Forum building
Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen