| Agenda | ||
|---|---|---|
| Venue: Conference Hall 228, North Building, CHFS | ||
| October 13th, 2024 | ||
| Opening Session (Host: Qiang Xu) – 8:30 – 9:00 | ||
| 8:35 – 8:40 | Introduction of the Guests | |
| 8:40 – 8:45 | Opening Remarks by Professor Jianbing Yan, President of Huazhong Agricultural University | |
| 8:45 – 8:50 | Opening Remarks by Academician Xiuxin Deng, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University | |
| 8:50 – 9:00 | Group Photo of All Participants | |
| Presentations Schedule | ||
| Session 1 – Grafting and Cell-Cell Communication (Host: Munenori Kitagawa) | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (Nagoya University) | Plant adaptation to fluctuating nitrogen environments by long-range mobile peptide signals |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Chuanyou Li (Shandong Agricultural University) | Peptide REF1 is a local wound signal promoting plant regeneration |
| Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30) | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Michitaka Notaguchi (Kyoto University) | Nicotiana benthamiana, a model plant for grafting biology |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Marco Catoni (University of Birmingham) | The detection of mobile RNAs in solanaceous crops, and the study of underlying biological effects |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Yong-Ling Ruan (Australian National University) | Integrating sugar metabolism and transport with development for crop yield and resilience |
| Lunch Break (12:00 – 14:30) | ||
| Session 2: Genome Editing and Genetic Diversity (Host: Fei Zhang) | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Changtian Pan (Zhejiang University) | Boosting plant genome editing by leveraging transcriptional activation |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Huawei Zhang (Peking University) | Creating large-scale genetic diversity via base editing-mediated deep artificial evolution |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Feishi Luan (Northeast Agricultural University) | Genetic mapping of major effective loci for melon flesh thickness |
| Coffee Break (16:00 – 16:20) | ||
| Session 3: Student Presentations (Host: Xiongjie Zheng) | ||
| 16:20 – 16:32 | Hongxing Wang (Huazhong Agricultural University) | Citrus oil gland development |
| 16:32 – 16:44 | Ruimin Yu (Huazhong Agricultural University) | Potato β-aminobutyric acid receptor StIBI1 manipulates the activity of transcript factors StVOZ1 and StVOZ2 to positively regulate disease resistance |
| 16:44 – 16:56 | Qingguo Zeng (Huazhong Agricultural University) | Complete genome assembly provides insights into the centromere architecture of pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) |
| 16:56 – 17:08 | Ziqing Huang (Huazhong Agricultural University) | Undergraduate scientific research training focused on forward genetics and functional verification |
| October 14th, 2024 | ||
| Session 4: Fruit Quality (Hosts: Yunliu Zeng & Chunlong Li) | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Zhangjun Fei (Cornell University) | Pan-genomes of horticultural crops |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Juan Xu (Huazhong Agricultural University) | Features of flavonoid biosynthesis in Citrus |
| Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30) | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Lailiang Cheng (Cornell University) | Molecular control of Apple fruit acidity and its link to sorbitol |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Ross Atkinson (The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited) | Breeding healthier apples: Identification of key genes for dihydrochalcone biosynthesis |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Ziyin Yang (South China Botanical Garden) | Understanding the tea green leafhopper-tea plant interaction to regulate tea quality and yield in summer and autumn |
| Lunch Break (12:00 – 14:30) | ||
| Session 5: Biotic & Abiotic Stress (Host: Zhengming Wang) | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Alfredo Cruz (Advanced Genomics Unit LANGEBIO-CINVESTAV) | Multiomics profiling of Mexican native tomato ecotypes reveals molecular strategies to cope with high temperatures |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Shunyuan Xiao (University of Maryland) | Understanding the molecular basis of non-host resistance in plants |
| Coffee Break (15:30 – 16:00) | ||
| Session 6: Cell Biology and Development (Host: Chunying Kang) | ||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Alexandre Martiniere (French National Centre for Scientific Research) | Membrane nanodomain and Rho GTPase cell signaling |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Zhongchi Liu (University of Maryland) | Investigating the mechanisms underlying morphological diversities in Rosaceae fruits and leaves |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Mohammed Bendahmane (Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon) | Rose genomics and molecular mechanisms underlying key rose traits |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Qiang Xu (Huazhong Agricultural University) | Closing Remarks |
