ICAR 2014

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Date/Session Time/Location Keynote Lectures Presenter
Monday July 28, 6-7:30 pm, Chan Centre Understanding plant-microbe interactions: Plant immune system function and the rhizosphere microbiome Jeff Dangl, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Monday July 28, 6-7:30 pm, Chan Centre Understanding small RNAs – from Arabidopsis to crops and humans Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside, USA
Friday Aug. 1, 11 am-12:30 pm, Chan Centre Arabidopsis and Plant Hormones: The evolution of the revolution Peter McCourt, University of Toronto, Canada
Friday Aug. 1, 11 am-12:30 pm, Chan Centre From phenotypes to pathways: global exploration of cellular networks using yeast functional genomics Brenda Andrews. University of Toronto, Canada
Date/Session Time/Location Plenary Sessions Presenter
Tuesday July 29, 8:30-10 am, Chan Centre Epigenetics, Chromatin Session  
Session Chair: Blake Meyers, University of Delaware, USA  
Epigenetic Inheritance of silent locus identity Craig Pikaard, Indiana University, USA
Polycomb-mediated regulation of floral stem cells Toshiro Ito, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
Mapping and dynamics of regulatory DNA and transcription factor networks in A. thaliana Christine Queitsch, University of Washington, USA
Tuesday July 29, 10:30 am-12 pm, Chan Centre Plant Defense, Immunity, Host-Microbe Session Presenter
Session Chair: Xin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada
Bacterial pathogenesis as a probe of Arabidopsis biology Sheng Yang He, Michigan State University, USA
Fungal Small RNAs Suppress Plant Immunity by Hijacking Host RNAi Machinery Hailing Jin, UC Riverside, USA
Plant defense: A balancing act through the immune signal salicylic acid Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA
Wednesday July 30, 8:30-10 am, Chan Centre Hormone Signaling Session Presenter
Session Chair: Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA  
Agrichemical Control of Drought Tolerance using Engineered ABA Receptors Sean Cutler, UC Riverside, USA
Regulatory Networks Controlling Hormone-Mediated Growth  Joe Ecker, Salk Institute, USA
Auxin Perception and Response in Arabidopsis and Moss Mark Estelle, UC San Diego, USA
Wednesday July 30, 10:30 am-12 pm Chan Centre Translational Biology Session Presenter
Session Chair: Santokh Singh, University of British Columbia, Canada  
Using Insights from Basic Research and Arabidopsis to Develop Improved Wheat Varieties Peggy Lemaux, UC Berkeley, USA
Spinning straw into gold – translating fundamental lignin research into application Claire Halpin, University of Dundee, UK
Phased, secondary siRNAs in plants Blake Meyers, University of Delaware, USA
Thursday July 31, 8:30 am-10 am, Chan Centre Development Session Presenter
Session Chair: Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, USA  
Stomatal Patterning: Communication, Fate, and Decision making  Keiko Torii, University of Washington, USA
Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in meristems Rudiger Simon, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Overlap between developmental patterning pathways and abiotic stress response pathways Kathy Barton, Carnegie Instutution, USA
Friday Aug. 1, 9 am-10:30 am, Chan Centre Synthetic Biology Session Presenter
Session Chair: Keiko Torii, University of Washington, USA  
Molecular mechanism and physiological function of cytoplasmic streaming Motoki Tominaga, RIKEN, Japan
Plant Synthetic biology June Medford, Colorado State University, USA
Synthetic biology in photosynthetic organisms: Redirecting reducing power Poul Erik Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Date/Session Time/Location Concurrent Sessions
Abstract # (if selected from abstracts; Note: all will be renumbered at ICAR) *Please note that these are original abstract numbers assigned upon submission to the online database.
Abstracts will be assigned a new number in the program in order to group them by session theme (old # will be listed as well)
Tuesday July 29, 1:30 pm-3 pm, Chan Centre Biotic Responses/ Plant Defense Presenter
Session Chair: Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury, UK  
Session Overview Speaker Xin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada
Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury, UK
Type III Effectors and the Plant Immune Response Darrell Desveaux, University of Toronto, Canada
40 Patterns and Receptors in Plant Innate Immunity  Thorsten Nuernberger, ZMBP, University of Tuebingen, Germany
209 Using plant pathogen effectors as evolved probes to understand the plant immune system Marc Nishimura, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
193 Two redundant protein kinases act downstream of PAMP receptors to regulate activation of MAP kinases and SA synthesis in Arabidopsis Yuelin Zhang, University of British Columbia, Canada
135 Acetylation of alternative N-terminal methionines oppositely controls the stability of a plant immune receptor Fang Xu, University of British Columbia, Canada
208 2 min Oral Poster: Salicylic acid mediated defence is fine-tuned through the interplay of calmodulin-binding proteins and calmodulin-like proteins in Arabidopsis William Truman, University of Minnesota, USA
214 2 min Oral Poster: Decreased abundance of type III-inducing signals in Arabidopsis mkp1 enhances resistance to Pseudomonas syringae Jeffrey Anderson, University of Missouri, USA
Tuesday July 29, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A101 Buchanan Light and Plant Growth Presenter
Session Chair: Markus Schmid, Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany  
Session Overview Speaker Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University, USA
Integration of flowering time signals in Arabidopsis thaliana Markus Schmid, Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany
Entrainment of Arabidopsis circadian oscillators by sugars  Alex Webb, Cambridge University, UK
25 FRS12 and 7 are transcriptional repressors involved in the regulation of circadian growth in Arabidopsis thaliana Andres Ritter, VIB / Ghent University, Belgium
56 Ribosome Abundance and Protein Turnover are Negatively Linked to Biomass Accumulation in Arabidopsis in a Stable Diurnal Growth Regime Hirofumi Ishihara, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
168 MMF1 regulates the photoperiodic control of hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana Dmitri Nusinow, Danforth Plant Science Center, USA
258 A MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) Mechanism Attenuates Light Signaling in Arabidopsis Weimin Ni, UC Berkeley, USA
177 2 min Oral Poster: Interactions between the photoperiodic flowering pathway and the thermosensory pathway in Arabidopsis Virginia Fernandez, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
81 2 min Oral Poster: Low Energy Stress Response in Arabidopsis thaliana: the SnRK1-bZIP Transcription Factor connection Lorenzo Pedrotti, University of Wuerzburg,  Germany
Tuesday July 29, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A201 Buchanan Modeling, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Presenter
Session Chair: Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Terri Long, NCSU, USA
Xylem Cell Development and Differentiation in Plant Roots Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, USA
Omics responses to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis Sarah Assmann, Pennsylvania State University, USA
122 Modeling stem cell networks to identify key regulators of plant growth Ross Sozzani, NCSU, USA
264 A proteomic strategy for global analysis of protein complex composition and localization in Arabidopsis leaves Uma Aryal, Purdue University, USA
225 NetExCorr: A Pipeline to Rank Gene Prevalence in Tissue-Specific Responses to Stresses within Arabidopsis in-vitro Meta-Network Christophe Liseron-Monfils, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
136 Knowledge-based bioinformatic analyses of microarrays predict that epigenetic regulator AS1-AS2 controls cell division through ETTIN in leaf adaxial-abaxial patterning Hiro Takahashi, Chiba University, Japan
268 2 min Oral Poster: An organ boundary-enriched gene regulatory network uncovers regulatory hierarchies underlying axillary meristem initiation Caihuan Tian, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
429 2 min Oral Poster: Gramene: A Resource for Comparative Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University, USA
Tuesday July 29, 3:30 pm-5 pm, Chan Centre Cell Biology Presenter
Session Chair: Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Wolf Frommer, Carnegie Institution, USA
Smarty Plants: Using Mechanosensitive Ion Channels to Sense and Respond to Mechanical Force Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Microtubule-mediated control of auxin polar transport and brassinoteroid signalling Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia, Canada
20 The role of a mitochondrial membrane-bound ubiquitin protease in mitochondrial dynamics in Arabidopsis Jianping Hu, Michigan State University, USA
41 Tubulin phosphorylation by NIMA-related kinases is involved in cell growth and division Hiroyasu Motose, Okayama University, Japan
48 Proteomic analysis reveals a framework in endomembrane compartments associated with immunity William Heard, The Sainsbury Lab, UK
190 Domain-specific lignification of Arabidopsis protoxylem is mediated by laccase-catalyzed deposition Mathias Schuetz, University of British Columbia, Canada
91 2 min Oral Poster: IMPAIRED TRAFFIC TO TONOPLAST5 (ITT5) encodes a novel protein of unknown function involved in vacuole bulb formation Marcela Rojas-Pierce, North Carolina State University, USA
26 2 min Oral Poster: A novel PVC-localized protein FREE1 is essential for vacuolar protein transport and vacuole biogenesis in Arabidopsis Caiji Gao, Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
Tuesday July 29, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A101 Buchanan Plant Hormones Presenter
Session Chair: Caren Chang, University of Maryland, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Sean Cutler, UC Riverside, USA
Regulation of the central regulator EIN2 in ethylene hormone signaling in Arabidopsis Caren Chang, University of Maryland, USA
Friends on surface, foes underground – the complicated relationship between brassinosteroid and auxin Zhi-Yong Wang, Carnegie Instutution, USA
99 A meso-scale ABA interactome reveals a dynamic signaling landscape in Arabidopsis Shelley Lumba, University of Toronto, Canada
127 Recapitulation of the auxin response pathway in yeast Edith Pierre-Jerome, University of Washington, USA
199 SAUR proteins inhibit PP2C.D family phosphatases to control plant cell expansion Bill Gray, University of Minnesota, USA
57 Identification and characterization of the polarly-localized TRANSPORTER OF IBA1 Lucia Strader, Washington University in St Louis, USA
155 2 min Oral Poster: Can abscisic acid bind to and directly regulate ion channels? Amanda Ooi, KAUST, Saudi Arabia 
219 2 min Oral Poster: To Grow or not to Grow: Hormonal Regulation of Fitness Trade-offs in Arabidopsis Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA
Tuesday July 29, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A201 Buchanan Epigenetics/ Chromatin Presenter
Session Chair: Julie Law, Salk Institute, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Craig Pikaard, Purdue University, USA
Polymerase IV occupancy at RNA-directed DNA methylation sites requires SHH1 Julie Law, Salk Institute, USA
Epigenetic control of meiotic crossover hotspots in Arabidopsis Ian Henderson, Cambridge University, UK
212 Histone Modifications and Histone Code in Brassinosteroid Regulated Gene Expression Yanhai Yin, Iowa State University, USA
84 Epi-genomic analyses of stem cells in Arabidopsis thaliana Yu Fu,  Heinrich Heine University, Germany
377 A chromatin switch underlies flower primordium initiation downstream of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 5/MONOPTEROS Miin-Feng Wu, University of Pennsylvania , USA
106 NTR1 is involved in splicing check-points formation and RNA Pol II pausing at alternative splicing sites in Arabidopsis Jakub Dolata, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
181 2 min Oral Poster: Natural Variation in Arabidopsis ATFH5 Expression Indicates an Adaptive Role for Polycomb Regulation of the Seed  Endosperm Jonathan Fitz Gerald, Rhodes College, USA
253 2 min Oral Poster:  Redox regulation of histone deacetylases Alexander Mengel, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Germany
Thursday July 31, 10:30 am-12 pm, Chan Centre Development I (reproduction) Presenter
Session Chair: Kathy Barton, Carnegie Institution, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Kathy Barton, Carnegie Institution, USA
Gibberellin acts positively then negatively to control onset of flower formation in Arabidopsis Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Gamete activation during double fertilization Stefanie Sprunck, University of Regensberg, Germany
31 Maternal temperature history activates Flowering Locus T in fruits to control progeny dormancy according to time of year Steven Penfield, University of Exeter/ John Innes Centre, UK
87 Regulation of Arabidopsis flower development by AIL/PLT transcription factors Beth Krizek, University of South Carolina, USA
180 Non-equivalent contributions of maternal and paternal genomes to early plant embryogenesis Stewart Gillmor, Langebio-CINVESTAV, Mexico
230 Egg cell number and cell type differentiation are dependent on cytokinin in the Arabidopsis female gametophyte Xiaoya Song, UC Davis, USA
159 2 min Oral Poster:  Different mechanisms underlie the regulation of floral transition by a pair of highly related but non-redundant Ubiquitin E3 ligase genes Nabil Elrouby, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
462 2 min Oral Poster: The developmental consequences of metabolic inhibition of  polyamine biosynthesis Maye Saechao, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Thursday July 31, 10:30 am-12 pm, A101 Buchanan Novel Tools and Techniques Presenter
Session Chair: Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia, Canada  
Session Overview Speaker: Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia, Canada  
Quantitative tools to understand the mechanics of morphogenesis Olivier Hamant, ENS Lyon, France
Annals of Botany Lecture: Dissecting Quantitative Regulation of Root Growth Using Large-Scale Phenotyping and Systems Genetics Wolfgang Busch, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria
23 Unraveling cell proliferation control in plants through functional interactomics: from cells to tissues. Jelle Van Leene, VIB/ University of Ghent, Belgium
95 Gamma-ray imaging system for studying heavy metal transport in plants Kaisa Kajala, UC Davis, USA
120 Inverting E3 Ligase Function in the Circadian Clock Using a Decoy Strategy Joshua Gendron, Yale University, USA
220 Advances in crossover localization and QTL mapping using high-throughput sequencing Beth Rowan, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
192 2 min Oral Poster: Mn-euvering manganese Amanda Socha, Dartmouth College, USA 
166 2 min Oral Poster: Protein-ligand Interaction Exploration Based On Proteome-wide Tertiary Structure Prediction and Further in vitro Validation Michael Dong, University of Toronto, Canada
Thursday July 31, 10:30 am-12 pm, A102 Buchanan Biotechnology/ Food Security/ Bioenergy Presenter
Session Chair: Carl Douglas, University of British Columbia, Canada  
Session Overview Speaker Claire Halpin, University of Dundee, UK
Arabidopsis as a model to identify genes to overcome biomass recalcitrance for biofuels Wout Boerjan, University of Ghent, Belgium
Meristem activity, Inflorescence form and yield of rice Kyozuka Junko, Tokyo University, Japan
239 Directed Minichromosome Engineering via Haploid Induction. Ek Han Tan, Ravi Maruthachalam and Luca Comai.  Ek Han Tan, UC Davis, USA
183 Analysis of Leaf Proteome to Determine Possible Cross-Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Soybean Cultivars. Ramesh Katam, Raja Reddy Kambham, Shardendu K Singh and Nitya S Murty.  Ramesh Katam, Florida A&M University, USA
97 Global Marketing Software Connecting Local Foods Socially. Rajnish Khanna, Robert Muller, Lynn Monica, John Allen, Pamela Ronald, Harold McGee, Winslow Briggs and Wolf B Frommer.  Rajnish Khanna, Global Food Scholar, USA
131 A rapid method for translating molecular tools for crop species Mily Ron, UC Davis, USA
165 4 min Oral Poster: A novel density-based screen for mutants with altered seed oil. Gillian Dean, Lin Shi, Martine Devic, Thomas Roscoe, Hui Chen Wu, Mark Smith, George Haughn and Ljerka Kunst.  Gillian Dean, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Thursday July 31, 1:30 pm-3 pm, Chan Centre Environmental Responses Presenter
Session Chair: Jose Dinneny, Stanford University, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Katherine Denby, University of Warwick, UK
Gene Regulatory Networks Mediating Arabidopsis Responses to Environmental Stress Katherine Denby, University of Warwick, UK
Understanding the transcriptional regulation of the salt-stress response one cis-element at a time Jose Dinneny, Stanford University, USA
65 GI (GIGANTEA), a missing link between flowering and stress adaptation Dae-Jin Yun, Gyeongsang National University, Korea
80 Characterization of the oxygen sensing mechanism in plants Monika Kosmacz, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
110 Regulatory network models of drought responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Ulrike Bechtold, University of Essex, UK
151 Genetic Engineering of Abiotic Stress Resposne and Plant Growth in Arabidopsis Yuriko Osakabe, RIKEN CSRS, Japan
34 2 min Oral Poster: Arabidopsis HPS10/ALS3 interacts with AtSTAR1 in tonoplasts to serve as a signaling hub for responses to P deficiency and Al toxicity Dong Liu, Tsinghua University, China
267 2 min Oral Poster: Asymmetric Unproductive Alternative Splicing Mediates Responses of the Central Circadian Oscillator to Environmental Stresses and Pathogen Infection Sergei Filichkin, Oregon State University, USA
Thursday July 31, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A101 Buchanan Metabolism/Biochemistry Presenter
Session Chair: Juergen Ehlting, University of Victoria, Canada  
Session Overview Speaker Juergen Ehlting, University of Victoria, Canada
Transcriptional feedback mechanisms that impact lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis Clint Chapple, Purdue University, USA
The topsy-turvy world of metabolic regulation Dan Kliebenstein, UC Davis, USA
83 Stress-responsive aldehyde dehydrogenase 3H1: Identification of amino acid residues critical for cofactor specificity and thiol regulation Naim Stiti, Bonn University, Germany
14 The metabolic target of pyrophosphate, a mysterious player in plant metabolism, identified Ali Ferjani, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
236 Unsaturation of Very-Long-Chain Ceramides Protects Plant from Hypoxia in Arabidopsis Shi Xiao, Sun Yat-sen University, China
145  An intermediate cleavage peptidase modifies enzyme N-termini, alters protein stability and influences serine metabolism in Arabidopsis mitochondria Shaobai Huang, The University of Western Australia, Australia
71 2 min Oral Poster: The Arabidopsis Mediator subunit MED16 regulates iron homeostasis by associating with EIN3/EIL1 through subunit MED25 Yan Yang, Peking University, China
242 2 min Oral Poster: A selective inhibitor of jasmonate signaling targets the adenylate-forming enzyme JAR1 in Arabidopsis thaliana Erich Kombrink, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
Thursday July 31, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A201 Buchanan Emerging Topics Presenter
Session Chair: Rainer Waadt, UC San Diego, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Rainer Waadt, UC San Diego, USA
Targeted manipulation of gene activity in plants via CRISPR/Cas toolkit Jianfeng Li, Harvard Medical School, USA
Genetically-encoded reporters for the visualization of abscisic acid distribution and concentration changes in Arabidopsis Rainer Waadt, UC San Diego, USA
32 Roles of AtExo70E2 in exocyst recruitment, EXPO biogenesis and function, and plant growth and development Yu Ding, Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
132 Keeping it similar: Interaction of HSP90 and miRNAs in the buffering of phenotypic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana Tzitziki Lemus Vergara, University of Washington, USA
157 Is trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P) a general signal gating developmental transitions? Vanessa Wahl, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
224 The Role of mRNA Alternative Polyadenylation in Root Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis Q. Quinn Li, Xiamen University, China; and Miami University USA
58 4 min Oral Poster: Effects of aspirin and its metabolite on Arabidopsis thaliana Catherine Chan, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA
Thursday July 31, 3:30 pm-5 pm, Chan Centre Development II (vegetative) Presenter
Session Chair: Kim Gallagher, University of Pennsylvania, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Dominique Bergmann, Stanford, USA
Symplastic regulation of root patterning Kim Gallagher, University of Pennsylvania, USA
What factors determine the positioning of meristematic zones in leaves? Hirokazu Tsukaya, University of Tokyo, Japan
16 The execution of developmental programs in all epidermal cell types are restrained by PPi overaccumulation Shizuka Gunji, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
93 Irreversible fate commitment upon exit from stem-cell-like divisions in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage requires a FAMA and RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED module. Juliana L Matos, Stanford University, USA
172 Threshold dependent transcriptional discrimination and stem cell homeostasis. G. Venugopala Reddy, UC Riverside, USA
182 NIN-Like Protein 7 (NLP7) Modulates Border-Like Cell Adhesion to Protect the Columella Root Cap in Arabidopsis Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Purdue University, USA
254 2 min Oral Poster: Natural variation of an A-type ARR quantitatively tunes cytokinin dependent cell size determination in the root Radka Slovak, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria 
54 2 min Oral Poster: Transcriptional regulation of organ growth under limiting conditions Bart Rymen, RIKEN CSRS, Japan
Thursday July 31, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A101 Buchanan Signal Transduction, Signal Integration Presenter
Session Chair: Sorina Popescu, Boyce Thompson Institute, USA  
Session Overview Speaker Mark Estelle, UC San Diego, USA
Early signaling in plant stress response Sorina Popescu, Boyce Thompson Institute, USA
Molecular mechanisms underlying the dynamics of the plant steroid receptor activation Yvon Jaillais, ENS-Lyon, France
162 Regulation of low oxygen signaling in plants Francesco Licausi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
114 A receptor-like protein links cell wall surveillance with brassinosteroid signaling Sebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg, Germany
15 Phosphorylation of a bZIP transcription factor triggers metabolic reprogramming in acclimation to low energy stress Markus Teige, University of Vienna, Austria
300 The role of Integrin-Linked Kinase 1 in perception and control of ionic signals during biotic and abiotic stress Elizabeth Brauer, Cornell University, USA
49 2 min Oral Poster: Molecular basis for AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein interaction and the control of auxin response repression David Korasick, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
200 2 min Oral Poster: Inhibition of Developmental and Stress-Induced Leaf Senescence by Cytokinin Response Factor 6 Paul Zwack, Auburn University, USA
Thursday July 31, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A201 Buchanan Natural Variation, Ecology, Evolution Presenter
Session Chair: Keith Adams, University of British Columbia, Canada  
Session Overview Speaker:  Keith Adams, University of British Columbia, Canada
Signatures of polygenic adaptation in the Arabidopsis genus Juliette Le Meaux, University of Muenster, Germany
Predicting evolutionary dynamics of seasonal adaptation to novel climates in Arabidopsis thaliana Johanna Schmitt, UC Davis, USA
147 Natural variation of a gene network regulating trichome patterning Benjamin Jaegle, University of Cologne, Germany
160 Global genetic heterogeneity for flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana Arthur Korte, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria
28 Genetic basis of natural variation in heat-stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana: A genome wide association study Johanna Molenaar, Wageningen University, Netherlands
241 The origin of the plant hormone ethylene predates the colonization of land Bram Van de Poel, University of Maryland, USA
115 2 min Oral Poster: An evolutionary perspective on plant epidermal patterning Divykriti Chopra, Biocenter, Cologne University, Germany
139 2 min Oral Poster: Recovering a triplet expansion in the wild: Repeat expansion and phenotypic variation in Irish populations of Arabidopsis thaliana Amanda Tabib, Monash University, Australia