| Presentations Schedule | ||
|---|---|---|
| Venue: Conference Hall 228, North Building, CHFS | ||
| October 22nd, 2025 | ||
| Opening Session (Host: Fei Zhang) – 08:30 – 09:00 | ||
| 08:35 – 08:40 | Introduction of the Guests | |
| 08:40 – 08:50 | Opening Remarks | |
| 08:50 – 09:00 | Group Photo of All Participants | |
| Session 1: Grafting (Host: Zongcheng Lin) | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Charles Melnyk (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) | Towards a molecular understanding of plant grafting |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Michitaka Notaguchi (Kyoto University, Japan) | Grafting drives active mode of cells |
| Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30) | ||
| Session 2: Reproduction and Development (Host: Lijun Chai) | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Qiaohong Duan (Shandong Agricultural University, China) | Function of FERONIA receptor kinase-regulated reactive oxygen species in maintaining species integrity in Brassicaceae |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Peter Etchells (Durham University, UK) | Identification of cambium stem cell factors and their positioning mechanism |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Pengwei Wang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) | ER–PM contact sites contribute to cytoskeleton organization and cell polarity |
| Lunch Break (12:00 – 14:30) | ||
| Session 3: Domestication and Environmental Adaptation (Host: Chunlong Li) | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Guillaume Chomicki (Durham University, UK) | Integrating genomics, systematics and archaeology to unveil the origin and domestication of the watermelon |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Jingbo Zhang (China Agricultural University, China) | The roles of vacuolar anion channels in facilitating environmental stress resilience and nutrient use in crop plants |
| Coffee Break (15:30 – 15:50) | ||
| Session 4: Student Presentations (Host: Munenori Kitagawa) | ||
| 15:50 – 16:05 | Lizhi Song (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) | Seven types of active transposons drive somatic mutation of sweet orange |
| 16:05 – 16:20 | Yawen Huo (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) | Ubiquitination-mediated mitochondrial protein degradation ensures seedling emergence by regulating ER–mitochondrial interaction and mitophagy |
| 16:20 – 16:35 | Shariq Mahmood Alam (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) | Molecular elucidation for higher malate accumulation mediated by CsALMT9-like in Citrus cv. ‘Haruka’ |
| 16:35 – 16:50 | Yiming Lu (Huazhong Agricultural University, China) | Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) facilitates QTL identification of fruit traits |
| October 23rd, 2025 | ||
| Session 5: Cell Biology and Development (Host: Pengwei Wang) | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Daniël Van Damme (Ghent University, Belgium) | Clathrin-coated vesicles are targeted for selective autophagy during osmotic stress |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Facundo Romani (University of Cambridge, UK) | Regulation of oil body cells in liverworts: insights into the evolution of secretory structures in early land plants |
| Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30) | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Moritz Nowack (Ghent University, Belgium) | Cell death – The final frontier in plant development |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Shuang Wu (Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China) | More than hairs: engineering trichomes for crop improvement |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Jim Rowe (University of Sheffield, UK) | Understanding leaf humidity and ABA responses at the cellular level |
| Lunch Break (12:00 – 14:30) | ||
| Session 6: Biotechnology (Host: Fan Zhang) | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Timothy Kelliher (North Carolina State University, USA) | CRISPR-enabled breeding technologies to maximize crop potential |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Hilary Rogers (Cardiff University, UK) | Omic and epigenetic changes in plant organ senescence post-harvest |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Jian Lv (Syngenta Beijing Innovation Center, China) | Progress and prospect of double haploid technology in crops |
| Coffee Break (16:00 – 16:20) | ||
| Session 7: Plant Metabolism (Host: Chunli Chen) | ||
| 16:20 – 16:50 | Kexuan Tang (Yazhouwan National Laboratory, China) | Synthetic biotechnology breeding of medicinal plant |
| 16:50 – 17:20 | Li Wang (Agricultural Genomics Institute, CAAS, China) | Biosynthetic pathways of bioactive compounds and evolutionary history of Apiaceous medicinal plants |
| 17:20 – 17:50 | Zheyong Xue (China National Rice Research Institute, China) | Dissection of metabolic pathway and biosynthesis of polyphyllins |
| Closing Remarks | ||
