All times in Mexico City time (take care of the daylight saving time in your country)
Day 1
Monday 8 Nov
INAUGURATION PLANT DEVELOPMENT
Moderators: Dan Chitwood & Mario Arteaga
9:00 – 9:15
Inauguration
9:15 – 10:00
Keynote
Rob Martienssen
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
Germline reprogramming and epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis
10:10 – 10:40
Marisa Otegui
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Endosomes in plant development
10:40 – 11:10
Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
(University of Leeds, UK)
PDWallMech: dissecting cell wall properties and cell-to-cell signaling via plasmodesmata
11:10 – 11:40
Stewart Gillmor
(Langebio-CINVESTAV, México)
Zygotic genome activation in Arabidopsis
11:40 – 12:00
BREAK
12:00 – 12:30
María Jazmín Abraham Juárez
(IPICYT, México)
Novel protein interactions reveal a crosstalk between development and immunity in maize
12:30 – 13:00
José López Bucio
(UMSNH, México)
Cell death and regeneration within the root meristem
13:00 – 13:30
Nayelli Marsch Martinez
(Unidad Irapuato-CINVESTAV, México)
Dual cytokinin regulation by transcription factors that control development
13:30 – 14:15
Keynote
Roberto Solano
(CNB- CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Evolution of Jasmonates in land plants and their role in thermotolerance
14:15 – 14:45
LUNCH
14:45 – 15:15
Flash talk Session 1
15:15 – 15:45
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
(University of Calgary, Canada)
Phyllotaxis: beyond the standard theory
15:45 – 17:00
Flash talk Session 2
Day 2
Tuesday 9 Nov
ABIOTIC STRESS AND PLANT METABOLISM
Moderators: Felipe Cruz García & Alejandra Covarrubias
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote
Julia Baliey-Serres,
(University of California, Riverside, USA)
At the root of cellular responses to water extremes
9:45 – 10:15
José Dinneny
(Stanford U, USA)
Discovering innovations in stress reponse through comparative genomics
10:15 – 10:45
Beronda Montgomery
(Michigan State University, USA)
Lessons About and From Plants: Plant Color Vision and Developmental Acclimation
10:45 – 11:15
Jorge Nieto
(IB-UNAM, México)
Analysis of mesocotyl length variation in maize by combined QTL, transcriptomic, and Genome-Wide Association Studies
11:15 – 11:45
BREAK
11:45 – 12:15
Caspar Chater
(Kew Gardens, UK/IBt-UNAM, México)
Epidermal Patterning FActor signalling and legume nodulation
12:15 – 12:45
Patricia León
(IBt-UNAM, México)
Plastid retrograde signals and their impact in plant development
12:45 – 13:15
Marina Gavilanes
(FQ-UNAM, México)
Functional diversity on the plasma membrane sphingolipidome
13:15 – 13:45
Rodrigo Gutiérrez
(U Católica de Chile, Chile)
Plant life at the extreme in the Atacama Desert
13:45 – 14:15
LUNCH
14:15 – 14:45
Flash talk Session 3
14:45 – 15:30
Keynote
Xuemei Chen
(University of California, Riverside, USA)
RNA NAD+ capping
15:30 – 17:00
Flash talk Session 4
Day 3
Wednesday 10 Nov
PLANT-MICROORGANISM AND BIOTIC INTERACTIONS
Moderators: Dan Chitwood & Stefan De Folter
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote
Hailing Jin
(University of California, Riverside, USA)
Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
9:45 – 10:15
Oswaldo Valdés López
(FES Iztacala-UNAM, México)
Modulation of the root nodule symbiosis by plant-host Pi status
10:15 – 10:45
Laila Partida Martinez
(Unidad Irapuato-CINVESTAV, México)
Deciphering the secrets of the plant microbiome in drylands
10:45 – 11:15
Georgina Hernández
(CCG-UNAM, México)
Deciphering novel common bean regulators for the rhizobium N2-fixing symbiosis
11:15 – 11:45
BREAK
11:45 – 12:15
Mario Serrano
(CCG-UNAM, México)
Differential defense response induced by changes in the plant cuticle
12.15 – 12:45
Saskia Hogenhout
(JIC, UK)
How bacterial phytoplasma pathogens change plant architecture and plant defense to insect vectors
12:45 – 13:15
Alfredo Herrera-Estrella
(Langebio-CINVESTAV, México)
The Trichoderma-Plant Dialogue
13:15 – 13:45
Neelima Sinha
(University of California, Davis, USA)
Interactions between the parasitic Cuscuta campestris and its host tomato
13:45 – 14:15
LUNCH
14:15 – 14:45
Flash talk Session 5
14:45 – 15:30
Keynote
Sophien Kamoun
(Sainsbury Lab, UK)
How to trick a plant pathogen
15:30 – 17:00
Flash talk Session 6
17:00 – 19:00
Business Meeting
Day 4
Thursday 11 Nov
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION AND TECHNICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
Moderators: Alejandra Covarrubias & Felipe Cruz García
9:00 – 9:45
Keynote
Michael Purugganan
(New York University, USA)
Natural selection on plant gene expression
9:45 – 10:15
Tatiana Arias
(Tecnológico de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia)
Towards a solid orchid phylogeny: providing a solid timeframe for biogeography and macroevolution studies
10:15 – 10:45
Oscar Pérez-Escobar
(Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK)
Delving into the evolution of the date palm through aDNA and molecular clocks
10:45 – 11:15
Susana Magallón
(IB-UNAM, México)
Thirty clues to angiosperm exceptional diversification
11:15 – 11:45
BREAK
11:45 – 12:15
Natalia Pabón Mora
(U de Antioquia, Colombia)
Genetic mechanisms controlling flower and fruit diversity in non-model neotropical angiosperms
12.15 – 12:45
Yiliang Ding
(JIC, UK)
RNA structure, a hidden regulator in vivo
12:45 – 13:15
Luis Herrera-Estrella
(Langebio-CINVESTAV, México)
Genome accessibility dynamics in response to phosphate limitation is controlled by the PHR1 family of transcription factors in Arabidopsis
13:15 – 13:45
Jim Haseloff
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Open tools for engineering biology
13:45 – 14:15
LUNCH
14:15 – 14:45
Flash talk Session 7
14:45 – 15:30
Keynote
Paul Gepts
(University of California, Davis, USA)
Molecular and environmental aspects of domesticated Middle American common bean
15:30 – 16:00
Awards ceremony and closing remarks
