04.09.24 Wednesday
12:00 - 2:50 pm
Registration
2:50 - 4:30 pm
Session 1 – Regulation of meiotic entry and progression
Chairperson: Olivier Da Ines (iGReD – Institute of Genetics, Reproduction & Development Université Clermont Auvergne, France)
2:50 – 3:00 pm – Conference opening
3:00 – 3:30 pm – Keynote Speaker: Arp Schnittger (Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
“Control of entry and progression through meiosis”
3:30 – 3:45 pm – Surendra Saddala (CEITEC Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
“Tandem zinc-finger protein CDM1 acts as post-transcriptional regulator of late meiotic genes”
3:45 – 4:00 pm – Xinjie Yuan (Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
“An E3 ubiquitin ligase-mediated degradation of the nuclear lamina releases the somatic chromatin mobility restriction for meiotic recombination”
4:00 – 4:15 pm – Nadia Fernández-Jiménez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
“When the chromatin collapses: the connection between structural nucleoporins and meiosis”
4:15 – 4:30 pm – Joke De Jaeger-Braet (Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
“Translational control of male meiosis in maize”
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Coffee break
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Flash-talk Session
Chairperson: Maja Szymanska-Lejman (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
5:00 – 6:00 pm – 12 flash talks selected from abstracts
Hasibe Tuncay (Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
Marco Castellani (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
Côme Emmenecker (Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, France)
Selin Gürkan (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Prakash Sivakumar (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Hyderabad, India)
Zhenling Lyu (Plant Breeding Department, University of Bonn, Germany)
Julia Dluzewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Astrid Severyns (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Yennifer Mata Sucre (Institute of Genetics, Reproduction and Development, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Vishakha Bhardwaj (Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Austria)
Franz Boideau (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Ewa Piskorz (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) OT Gatersleben, Germany)
6:00 – 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Poster session with beer and snacks
05.09.24 Thursday
9:30 - 11:00 am
Session 2 – Chromosome pairing, synapsis and segregation
Chairperson: Natasha Yelina (Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge, The United Kingdom)
9:30 – 10:00 am – Keynote Speaker: Mathilde Grelon (Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, France)
“Rapid prophase chromosome movements in Arabidopsis: Characterization and Mechanisms”
10:00 – 10:15 am – David Kopecký (Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
“Non-Mendelian inheritance of parental chromosomes in interspecific plant hybrids”
10:15 – 10:30 am – Chao Feng (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) OT Gatersleben, Germany)
“A novel synaptonemal complex protein regulates meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana”
10:30 – 10:45 am – Martina Balboni (Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
“Live cell imaging of meiosis in maize”
10:45 – 11:00 am – Zhijian Zhang (Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
“The MONOPOLIN complex is an evolutionary conserved clamp that co-orients sister chromatids in meiosis”
11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee break
11:30 - 1:00 pm
Session 3 – Understanding the mechanism of recombination
Chairperson: Kyuha Choi (Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
11:30 – 12:00 pm – keynote speaker: Raphaël Mercier (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
“Maximizing meiotic crossover rates reveals the map of Crossover potential”
12:00 – 12:15 pm – Valentine Petiot (iGReD – Institute of Genetics, Reproduction & Development Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
“Unraveling Arabidopsis thaliana SRS2 function in meiotic crossover formation”
12:15 – 12:30 pm – Hernán López (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
“HEI10 drives crossover maturation via its unstructured C-terminal domain”
12:30 – 12:45 pm – Letizia Cornaro (Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy)
“Apomixis at a high resolution: unravelling diplospory in Asteraceae”
12:45 – 1:00 pm – Joiselle B. Fernandes (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
“Unzipping tomato meiotic chromosomes”
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session 4 – Crossover control in generation of genetic diversity
Chairperson: Charles J. Underwood (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
2:00 – 2:30 pm – Keynote Speaker: Wojtek Pawlowski (Cornell University, The United Stated)
“Dissecting chromatin underpinnings of crossover landscape”
2:30 – 2:45 pm – Kyuha Choi (Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
“Unlocking heterochromatic crossovers in Arabidopsis”
2:45 – 3:00 pm – Nicola Gorringe (University of Cambridge, The United Kingdom)
“Natural variation modifies centromere-proximal meiotic crossover frequency and Mendelian segregation in Arabidopsis thaliana”
3:00 – 3:15 pm – Alexandre Pelé (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
“Plasticity of meiotic crossover variation in response to cold stress within Arabidopsis thaliana diversity relies on allelic variation in SNI1”
3:15 – 3:30 pm – Steven Dreissig (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
“Population-wide single-pollen genotyping sheds light on recombination landscape variation in rye”
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Coffee break
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Session 5 – Meiosis in genome evolution and polyploidy
Chairperson: Heïdi Serra (Institute of Genetics, Reproduction and Development, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Bomblies (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
“The evolution of stable meiosis in polyploid Arabidopsis arenosa”
4:30 – 4:45 pm – Andrew Lloyd (Aberystwyth University, The United Kingdom)
“Homoeologous crossovers are distally biased and underlie genomic instability in first generation neo-allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica”
4:45 – 5:00 pm – Annaliese Mason (Plant Breeding Department, University of Bonn, Germany)
“Meiotic stability in synthetic Brassica allopolyploid hybrids is determined by pre-existing genetic variation in progenitor species”
5:00 – 5:15 pm – Chao Yang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
“The synaptonemal complex stabilizes meiosis in allotetraploid Brassica napus and autotetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana”
5:15 – 5:30 pm – Ruth Epstein (Cornell University, The United States)
“How recombination landscape of maize evolved during domestication”
5:30 – 5:45 pm – Yi-Tzu Kuo (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) OT Gatersleben, Germany)
“How do holocentromeres composed of a few megabase-sized centromere units adapt during meiosis and shape the crossover patterning?”
5:45 – 6:00 pm – Meng Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
“Crossover patterning dynamics under chromosome breaks and fusions in holocentric Rhynchospora”
6:30 pm
Barbeque
06.09.24 Friday
10:00 - 11:15 am
Session 6 – Emerging technologies in plant breeding
Chairperson: Stefan Heckmann (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) OT Gatersleben, Germany)
10:00 – 10:30 am – Keynote Speaker: Holger Puchta (Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology, Germany)
“Applying CRISPR/Cas to plants: From gene editing to chromosome engineering”
10:30 – 10:45 am – Jianyong Chen (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) OT Gatersleben, Germany)
“The mechanism of post-meiotic B chromosome drive deciphered by chromosome-scale assembly and CRISPR-based chromosome ‘cutting’”
10:45 – 11:00 am – Miaowei Geng (Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
“A new MiMe to produce clonal gametes in allotetraploid Brassica napus”
11:00 – 11:15 am – Yazhong Wang (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
“Engineering stress-tolerant polyploid tomato plants through Mitosis instead of Meiosis and de novo allopolyploidy”
11:15 - 11:45 am
Coffee break
11:45 - 1:00 pm
Session 6 – Emerging technologies in plant breeding
Chairperson: Nico De Storme (KU Leuven, Belgium)
11:45 – 12:00 pm – Jana Szecówka (Institute of Experimental Botany, CAS, Czech Republic)
“Understanding mechanisms of chromosome elimination in plant interspecific hybrids”
12:00 – 12:15 pm – Han Palmers (KU Leuven, Belgium)
“Heat-induced meiotic restitution and 2n pollen formation in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) as valuable tool for ploidy breeding”
12:15 – 12:30 pm – Adel Sepsi (HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungary)
“The effect of high temperature on the meiotic chromatin dynamics, recombination and synapsis in modern wheat varieties”
12:30 – 12:45 pm – Mauricio Peñuela (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
“Genome composition measured with k-mers as a strategy for predicting recombination rates in Brassica oleracea crosses”
12:45 – 1:00 pm – Poster Prize and conference closing