5thWorkshopontheMolecularAspectsofSeedDormancy
andGerminationMay31—June3,2016
SimonFraserUniversity(VancouverCampus)–SFUHarbourCentre
SegalCentre(Rooms1400-1430)
515W.Hastings
Vancouver,BCCanada
SCIENTIFICCOMMITTEE
HiroNonogakiOregon,USA
ChristopheBailly,UPMCParis,France
GeorgeBassel,UniversityofBirmingham,Birmingham,UK
BillFinch---Savage,UniversityofWarwick,Warwick,UK
HenkHilhorst,WageningenUniversity,TheNetherlands
EijiNambara,UniversityofToronto,Toronto,Ontario,Canada
StevePenfield,JohnInnesCentre,Norwich,Norfolk,UK
WimSoppe,MaxPlanckInstitute,Köln,Germany
AllisonR.Kermode,SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,BC,Canada
ORGANIZINGCOMMITTEE
AllisonR.Kermode,SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,BC,Canada
ChristopherI.Keeling,SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,BC,Canada
Program
May31,2016
18:00—20:00RegistrationandOpeningMixer(SFUHarbourCentre,rooms1400-1420)
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June1,2016
Welcome
9:00—9:30AllisonKermode(SFU,Canada)andFrançoiseCorbineau,ISSSPresident(Université
PierreetMarieCurie,France)
HonoringCareers
Chair:AllisonKermode
09:30—10:05(T1)OpeningTalk1:J.DerekBewley,“Theevolutionofarevolution”
10:05—10:40(T2)OpeningTalk2:MaartenKoornneef,“Fortyyearsofseedgenetics”
10:40—11:00CoffeeBreak
I.DormancytoGerminationTransition
Session1:RoleofInternalSignalsinSeedDormancyandGermination:
Hormones,andCellSignaling
Chair:BillFinch-Savage
11:00—11:35(T3)InvitedSpeaker:MitsunoriSeo,“Lossofseedlongevityduringimbibitionin
Arabidopsisaccessions”
11:35—11:50(T4)NaotoKawakami,“SelectionofArabidopsisgerminationmutantsthathave
defectintheregulationofabscisicacidmetabolisminresponsetohightemperature”
11:50—12:05(T5)KhadidiatouSall,“BiochemicalfunctionofDELAYOFGERMINATION1-LIKE4
inhormoneandcellsignaling”
12:05—12:20(T6)MichaelConsidine,“Theroleofoxygensignalingintheseasonaldynamics
ofgrapevinebuddormancy”
12:20—14:00Lunchonyourown,Posters
Session2:RegulatoryFunctionsofCandidateGenes and ProteinsinSeed
DormancyandGermination:HighlightingthefunctionsofDOG1andother
candidates
Chair:EijiNambara
14:00—14:35(T7)InvitedSpeaker: WimSoppe,“ThecontrolofseeddormancybyDOG1and
RDO5”
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14:35—15:10(T8)InvitedSpeaker: BasDekkers,“TheArabidopsisDELAYOFGERMINATION1
geneaffectsmultipleaspectsofArabidopsisseeddevelopment”
15:10—15:25(T9)GuillaumeNée,“GradualoxidationofDOG1duringdrystorageallows
seedstomonitortheirageatthemomentofimbibition”
15:25—15:40(T10)LeónieBentsink,“ThecloningofDELAYOFGERMINATION6,apromoter
ofseedgermination”
15:40—15:55(T11)KentBradford,“DELAYOFGERMINATION1(DOG1)regulatesbothseed
dormancyandfloweringtimethroughmicroRNApathways”
15:55—16:15CoffeeBreak
Session3:RoleofEnvironmentalFactorsinRegulationofSeedDormancyand
Germination
Chair:ChristopheBailly
16:15—16:50(T12)InvitedSpeaker:StevePenfield,“EnvironmentalregulatorsofArabidopsis
seeddormancy”
16:50—17:05(T13)KaiGraeber,“Aethionemaarabicumasamodelsystemforstudying
developmentalcontrolandplasticityoffruitandseeddimorphism”
17:05—17:20(T14)EliseSerin,“Geneticcontrolofenvironmentalmaternaleffectsonseed
qualityinArabidopsis”
17:20—18:30Posters&LightRefreshments(Posterpresentersshouldbepresentattheir
posters)
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June2,2016
Session4:MolecularandEpigeneticRegulationofSeedDormancyand
Germination
Chair:WimSoppe
09:00—09:35(T15)Invitedspeaker:YongxiuLiu,“Twohistonedeacetylasebindingproteins
SNL1andSNL2areinvolvedintheregulationofArabidopsisseedgerminationthrough
differentpathways”
09:35—10:10(T16)Invitedspeaker:SzymonSwiezewski,“ProteinorRNA,Whoisthemaster
ofseeddormancy?”
10:10—10:30CoffeeBreak
10:30—10:45(T17)ChristopheBailly,“SelectiverecruitmentofmessengermRNAsby
polysomesregulatesArabidopsisseeddormancy”
10:45—11:00(T18)YangLiu,“Regulatorycross-talkbetweenmicroRNAsandhormone
signalingcascadescontrolsseeddormancyvariationduringseedsetofArabidopsisthaliana”
Session5:ClimateChangeandtheRegulationofSeedDormancyand
Germination
Chair:StevePenfield
11:00—11:15(T19)InvitedSpeaker:JeffWalck,“Climatechangeandtheregulationofseed
dormancyandgermination”
11:15—11:50(T20)AgatheNoblet,“ChillingtemperatureremodelsphospholipidomeofZea
maysseedsduringimbibition”
11:50—14:00Lunchonyourown,Posters
Session6:DefiningNetworksintheRegulationofSeedDormancyand
Germination
Chair:StevePenfield
14:00—14:35(T21)InvitedSpeaker:AndersonT.Silva,“Definingnetworksintheregulationof
seedgermination”
Session7:SeedCoverings
Chair:ChristopheBailly
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14:35—15:10(T22)InvitedSpeaker:GeorgeHaughn,“Arabidopsisseedcoatmucilageinvolved
ingermination/dispersalisauniquesecondarycellwallspecializedforextrusionand
attachment”
15:10—15:25(T23)TinaSteinbrecher,“Withorwithoutfungi,thatisthequestion!Dofungi
releasemechanicaldormancyconferredbytheseedcoveringsinLepidiumdidymum?”
15:25—15:40(T24)LiszaDuermeyer,“ThebZIPtranscriptionfactorVIP1isaregulatorofseed
imbibitioninArabidopsisseedgermination”
15:40—16:00CoffeeBreak
17:00—18:00ISSSGeneralAssembly
19:30—22:30ConferenceDinner(Rooms1200-1300,SegalBuilding,500GranvilleStreet,
Vancouver)
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June3,2016
II.SeedQuality,SeedlingVigor,andLongevity
Session8:MolecularaspectsofSeedLongevityandSeedlingVigor
Chair:HiroNonogaki
09:00—9:35(T25)InvitedSpeaker:JuliaBuitink,“Decipheringtheregulatorynetworksof
maturationdryingandacquisitionofseedlongevity”
09:35—9:50(T26)NatanaelViñegradelaTorre,“Identificationofseedqualitymarkersby
activityprofilingofproteases”
09:50—10:05(T27)KarenTanino,“Novelseedtreatmenthaslongtermimpactonagriculture
cropgrowthanddevelopment”
10:05—10:20(T28)JunLiu,“Identificationofseedembryoproteinsassociatedwithseed
storabilityinriceduringnaturalagingbygel-basedandgel-freeproteomicanalysis”
10:20—10:40CoffeeBreak
III.EducationandOutreach
Session9:YouthandPublicEducationInitiatives
Chair:AllisonKermode
10:40—12:15General interest– Youthconservationprogram: A.Kermode & Invited
speakerNormHann
12:15—13:00ClosingRemarks&Farewell
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