The 4th International Symposium on Plant
Reproductive Development
Monday 3rd August, 2015
08:30
Opening Ceremony
08:35-09:00
The biphasic role of miR156-targeted SPL9 transcription factor
in flower development
Dr. Jiawei Wang (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and
Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science)
09:00-09:25
09:25-09:50
Ubiquitination in the control of photoperiodic flowering in rice
Dr. Changyin Wu (College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong
Agricultural University)
Roles of sucrose metabolism and sugar signaling in reproductive
development
Dr. Yong-Ling Ruan (Schoolof Environmental and Life Sciences,
University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle)
09:50-10:15
How retrograde signaling controls flowering time
Dr. Katayoon Dehesh (Plant biology/ UC Davis)
10:15-10:30
Tea break
10:30-10:55
10:55-11:20
11:20-11:45
Regulation of flowering by an RNA splicing component
Dr. Zhiyong Wang (Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution
for Science)
Control of perianth development in Arabidopsis thaliana by
localised growth repression
Dr. David Smyth (School of Biological Sciences, Monash University)
The OsSPL16-GW7 module regulates grain shape in rice
Dr. Xiangdong Fu (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,
Chinese Academy of Science)
11:45
Lunch
14:00-14:25
Floral organ identity specification in flowers with spiral
phyllotaxis: insights gained from studying Nigella damascena
(Ranunculaceae)
Dr. Hongzhi Kong (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science)
14:25-14:50
Arabidopsis SnRK1 complex mediating the pollen–stigma
interaction during pollination
Dr. Xiansheng Zhang (College of Life Sciences, Shandong
Agricultural University)
14:50-15:15
15:15-15:40
15:40-15:55
15:55-16:20
16:20-16:45
16:45-17:10
From the understanding of male fertility to hybrid rice
production
Dr. Dabing Zhang (School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
The transcription factors involved in pollen tube growth and
reception
Dr. De Ye (College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural
University)
Tea break
The origin and dynamic evolution of cytoplasmic male sterility
genes in the Oryza species
Dr. Yaoguang Liu (College of life science, South China Agricultural
University)
Regulation of meiotic chromosome condensation by MMD1 via
altering cell-type dependent histone demethylase specificity
Dr. Yingxiang Wang (School of of Life Sciences, Fudan University)
The genetic pathway for pollen wall formation
Dr. Zhongnan Yang (College of Life and Environment Sciences,
Shanghai Normal University)
Callus formation and de novo organogenesis: Totipotency and
17:10-17:35
dedifferentiation?
Dr. Lin Xu (Department of Biological Science, National University of
Singapore)
17:35-18:00
TBC
Dr. Vincenzo De Luca
18:00
Supper
Tuesday 4th August, 2015
Redundant and non-redundant roles of AGC3 kinases in
08:35-09:00
reproductive plant development
Dr. Remko Offringa (Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University)
9:00-9:25
Protein trafficking and vacuole biogenesis in germinating pollen
tubes
Dr. Liwen Jiang (Department of Biology and Molecular Biotechnology
Program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
9:25-9:50
Active DNA demethylation and epigenetic anti-silencing in
Arabidopsis
Dr.Jiankang Zhu (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese
Academy of Science)
9:50-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:55
10:55-11:20
Tea break
RNA 5-methylcytosine is essential for reproductive plant
development.
Dr. Iain Searle (Molecular Life Sciences, The University of Adelaide)
Dissecting meiotic recombination based on tetrad analysis by
single-microspore sequencing in maize
Dr. Jianbing Yan (College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong
Agricultural University)
Pollen receptor kinase signaling complex regulates pollen tube
growth speed and growth mode
Dr. Weihua Tang (Shanghai Institution for Biological Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Science)
11:20-11:45
Lunch
11:45
Mechanisms of function of proteins involved in abiotic stress
tolerance
Dr. Maria Hrmova (Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics,
The University of Adelaide)
Role of cell-to-cell & long-distance signaling in plant growth &
14:00-14:25
development
Dr. William Lucas (College of Biological Sciences, University of
California)
14:25-14:50
The genomics of cucurbit domestication
Dr. Sanwen Huang (Agricultural Genome Institute at Shenzhen,
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
14:50-15:15
Using the hybrid transcription factor approach to study plant
development
Dr. Chentao Lin (Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental
Biology, University of California)
15:15-15:40
Tea break
15:40-15:55
CLE19 peptides produced in embryos regulate both embryo and
endosperm development in Arabidopsis
Dr. Chunming Liu (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science)
15:55-16:20
Dynamic vacuolar trafficking and acidification mediated by AP1G
are critical for pollen development and female-controlled pollen
tube reception
Dr. Yan Zhang (College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural
University)
16:20-16:45
16:45-17:10
17:10-17:35
17:35-17:50
17:50
Gene module multiplication drives pathway diversification in
plants
Dr. Staffan Persson (Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie
Institution, Stanford)
Dissecting the phy-PIF-Genome Signaling Interface
Dr. Peter Quail (College of Natural Resources, University of
California, Berkeley)
Biochemistry of cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis in plants
Dr. Vincent Bulone (ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls,
University of Adelaide)
Introducion about Nature Plants
Mr. Jun Lyu
Supper
Wednesday 5th August, 2015
9:00-11:00 Summer Course I: Fundamental Aspects of Long-distance Transport &
Communication in Plants (By Dr. William Lucas)
11:00-11:15 Tea break
11:15-12:15 Summer Course II: Ethics in Scientific Research & Publishing (By Dr.
William Lucas)
12:15 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Summer Course III: Auxin biology: challenges, surprises, and
lessons (By Dr. Yunde Zhao)
15:50-16:00 Tea break
18:00 Supper
Tuesday 6th August, 2015
09:00-12:00 Summer Course IV （By Dr. Hugh Dickinson）
10:20-10:30 Tea break
12:00 Lunch
14:00-15:50 Summer Course V: Molecular markers and genetic mapping in crop
plants (By Dr. Diane Mather)
15:50-16:00 Tea break
16:00-18:00 Summer Course VI: Application of molecular markers in plant
breeding (By Dr. Diane Mather)
18:00 Supper
Friday 7th August, 2015
09:00-12:00 Summer Course VI: Transcription factors - origin, diversification and
target recognition (By Dr. David Smyth)
10:20-10:30 Tea break
12:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Summer Course VII:
Molecular games: transport proteins and
transcription factors and how they operate (By Dr. Maria Hrmova)
15:50-16:00 Tea break
18:00 Supper