VERY PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Latest updated: 2024-04-08

DAY 1
Monday August 26th
19:00-22:00 Registration and welcome cocktail

 

DAY 2
Tuesday August 27th
Session 1: TOR/SnRK1 complex composition and signalling 1
Chairs: Benoît Menand and an early career scientist 
09:00 Opening remarks by organizers
09:15 Keynote lecture – TBA
10:00 Selected speaker
10:25 Selected speaker
10:50 Selected speaker
11:05 Coffee break
Session 2: TOR/SnRK1 complex composition and signalling 2
Chairs: Benoît Menand and an early career scientist 
11:40 Yan Xiong (Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China)
12:05 Benoît Menand (CNRS-CEA-Aix Marseille University, France)
12:30 Selected speaker
12:45 Selected speaker
13:00 Lunch
Session 3: Upstream regulation of energy signaling: nutrients, light, hormones 1
Chairs: TBA
14:30 Ashverya Laxmi (Nat. Inst of Plant Genome Research, India)
14:55 Federica Brandizzi (Michigan State University, USA)
15:20 Selected speaker
15:35 Selected speaker
15:50 Coffee break
Session 4: Upstream regulation of energy signaling: nutrients, light, hormones 2
Chairs: TBA
16:20 Filip Rolland (KU Leuven, Belgium)
16:45 Elena Baena-Gonzalez (University of Oxford, UK)
17:10 Selected speaker
17:25 Selected speaker
18:00 Poster Session (I) with refreshments
20:00 Dinner

 

DAY 3
Wednesday August 28th
Session 5: Energy management and metabolism 1
Chairs: Anne Krapp and and an early career scientist 
09:00 Anne Krapp (INRAE, IJPB, Versailles, France)
09:25 Wolfgang Busch (Salk institute, La Jolla, USA)
09:50 Slot for one more late invitation
10:15 Selected speaker
10:30 Selected speaker
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Excursions elective
  1. Visit to the AgriSera plant
  2. Vistit Umeå Plant Science centre
  3. Visit to arboretum (tree exhibit)
  4. Guided city walk of Umeå
13:00 Lunch
Session 6: Energy management and metabolism 2
Chairs: Anne Krapp and an early career scientist 
14:30 Christian Meyer (INRAE, IJPB, Versailles, France)
14:55 Jen Sheen, remote attendance (Harvard University, Boston, USA)
15:20 Slot for one more late invitation
15:45 Selected speaker
16:00 Selected speaker
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Meet the speakers (round table discussion on scientific trajectory/hottest topics)
18:00 Poster session (II) with refreshments
20:00 Dinner

 

DAY 4
Thursday August 29th
Session 7: Regulation of growth and development 1
Chairs: Vanessa Wahl and an early career scientist 
09:00 Jelle Van Leene (University of Gent, VIB, Gent, Belgium)
09:25 Maria Esther Perez-Perez (Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Spain)
09:50 Mikhail Schepetilnikov (Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes, Strasbourg, France)
10:15 Selected speaker
10:30 Selected speaker
10:45 Coffee break
Session 8: Regulation of growth and development 2
Chairs: Vanessa Wahl and an early career scientist 
11:30 Vanessa Wahl (The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK)
11:55 Hatem Rouached (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA)
12:20 Selected speaker
12:35 Selected speaker
12:50 Selected speaker
13:05 Lunch
Session 9: Regulation of stress responses 1
Chairs: Johannes Hanson and an early career scientist 
14:30 Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz (The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK)
14:55 Salome Prat (CRAG Barcelona, Spain)
15:20 Selected speaker
15:35 Selected speaker
15:50 Coffee break
Session 10: Regulation of stress responses 2
Chairs: Johannes Hanson and an early career scientist 
16:20 Johannes Hanson (Umeå Pant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden)
16:45 Diane Bassham (Iowa State University, USA)
17:10 Selected speaker
17:25 Selected speaker
17:40 Selected speaker
18:30 Prizes (best selected talk/best poster) and concluding remarks
19:30 Dinner
21:30- Farewell party

 

DAY 5
Friday August 30th
Session 11: Cooperation event
09:00 Registration and welcome cocktail
10:45 Free time slot for individual meetings
11:30 Coffee break
13:05 Free time slot for individual meetings
14:30 Departure