Full Schedule

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT

Speaker Ready Room Open

Location: Room 212

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM EDT

Registration Open

Location: Rideau Canal Atrium

8:00 AM - 7:00 PM EDT

Quiet Room Open

Location: Room 211

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

(PL2) Plant Adaptation to Extreme Environment

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary Chair: – McGill University

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

(PL2-1) Decoding plant signals in the rhizosphere

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – University of Toronto

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

(PL2-2) Stress unfolded: When Proteins Misfold, Plants Adapt

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – Michigan State University

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

(PL2-3) Ubiquitin System in Stress Response

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – Dalhousie University

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM EDT

(PL2) Coffee Break

Location: Canada Hall 1

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM EDT

(PL2-4) Evolutionary Origins & Mechanisms of Cellular Quality Control

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – Heidelberg University, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM EDT

(PL2-5) Prescriptive breeding: a next-generation paradigm for crop improvement

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary:

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

(PL2-6) Remarks and transition

Location: Canada Hall 1

11:00 AM - 7:00 PM EDT

Exhibit Hall Open

Location: Exhibit Hall

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

(W) Plant Bioinformatics Resources for FAIR Agricultural Data Discovery and Reuse

Location: Room 205/207

Facilitator: – Phoenix Bioinformatics

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

(W) Telling Your Teaching Story: Building Evidence of Excellence at Every Career Stage

Location: Room 214

Facilitator: – Simon Fraser University

Co-Facilitator: – California State University, Sacramento

Co-Facilitator: – Manchester University

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM EDT

(W) Plant Biology and the Mitigation of Climate Change: integrating diverse perspectives for environmental stability and economic stimulus

Location: Room 206/208

Facilitator: – The University of British Columbia

Co-Facilitator: – The University of Saskatchewan

Co-Facilitator: – The University of Manitoba

Co-Facilitator: – Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM EDT

(W) Translating Your Science: Crafting Resume and Cover Letters for Industry and Startups

Location: Room 213/215

Facilitator: – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Nucleotide Transformer v3: A Scalable AI Engine for Precision Agriculture and Genomic Design - Unifying Predictive and Generative AI in the DeepChain Platform

Location: Room 214

Sponsored By

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

Social Media Meetup

Location: ASPB Booth

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS1) Artificial Intelligence Applications in Plant Biology Research and Education: Chair Welcome

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Chair: – New York University

Symposium Chair: – University of Toronto

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS1-1) Uncovering mechanisms of cell-type-specific auxin response via the inferred ARF5 interactome

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – New York University

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS1-2) Cross-species modeling of plant genomes at single nucleotide resolution using a pre-trained DNA language model

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – Cornell University

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS1-3) Hybrid AI for Plant Synthetic Biology: From Data Integration to Explainable Trait Design

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – University of Guelph

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS1-4) Leveraging AI technologies for a single-cell atlas of bioenergy plants

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS1-5) Strategies for Incorporating Generative AI into the Biology Curriculum

Location: Canada Hall 1

Speaker: – Spelman College

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS13) Mechanisms of Intercellular and Long-Distance Communication in Plants: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Chair: – University of Saskatchewan

Symposium Chair: – Purdue University

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS13-1) Long distance RNA transport - a role for liquid-liquid phase separation?

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – John Innes Centre

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS13-2) Directional symplastic movement in differentiated roots

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Geneva

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS13-3) Remodeling and home improvement: how viruses change the structure and distribution of plasmodesmata.

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Missouri - Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS13-4) Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important plant-to-plant signal

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Missouri

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS13-5) From Phloem to Phenotype: Linking Long-distance Signals to Adaptive Plant Growth

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Saskatchewan

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS2) Parasitic Plants - An Increasing Threat to Global Food Security and Livelihoods: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 214

Symposium Chair: – Salk Institute for Biological Studies

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS2-1) Sheep in wolves' clothing: Cryptic host-specificity in parasitic Orobanchaceae

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS2-2) The Plant Spy: Parasitic Cuscuta’s Secrets to Stealing Signals

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of Missouri

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS2-3) It is not exactly the threat, but we are: bringing Rafflesia back from the brink

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – PACE University

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS2-4) Castilleja tenuiflora as a Hemiparasitic Model: Connecting Specialized Metabolism to Livelihoods

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Instituto Politécnico Nacional

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS2-5) Parasitic Plants – A World Challenge: Novel Chemicals for Strigolactone Receptor Inhibition

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Salk Institute for Biological Studies

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS4) Genes/Genomes: Regulatory & Transcriptional Networks: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Chair: – Cambridge University

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS4-4) A 4D spatial transcriptomic atlas reveals developmental programs that underlie Medicago nodule organogenesis

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Chair: – Cambridge University

Genes & Genomes: Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS4-1) Transcription start site proximal DNA sequences primarily explain successful tissue of expression prediction model in developing Arabidopsis plants

Location: Room 206/208

Presenter: – Oregon State University

Genes & Genomes: Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS4-2) Plant terrestrialization and the deep origins of embryophyte stress response networks

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – University of Goettingen

Genes & Genomes: Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS4-3) Transcriptomic Profiling of Environmental Influences on Soybean Seed Protein Content: Insights for Western Canada and Northern Regions

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Genes & Genomes: Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS4-5) Distinct regions necessary for complex formation and transcription regulation identified in Arabidopsis circadian clock proteins

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Washington University in St. Louis

Genes & Genomes: Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS8) Biotic: Plant Immunity Receptors, Signals, and Subcellular Programming: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Chair: – The University of Chicago

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS8-1) Cell type-specific plastid responses to a microbe-associated molecular pattern

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – The University of Chicago

Cell Biology: Plastids and Organelles

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS8-2) Elevated temperature suppresses plant systemic immunity by intercepting the N-hydroxypipecolic acid biosynthetic pathway

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Wilfrid Laurier University

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Immunity

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS8-3) Unravelling the Functional Diversity of NLR Immune Receptors in Land Plants

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – John Innes Centre

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Immunity

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS8-4) Alternative splicing of BET5 regulates vesicle trafficking and symbiosome differentiation in Medicago truncatula

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – KOC UNIVERSITY

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Beneficial

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS8-5) Plant viruses use lipid droplet biogenesis machinery to facilitate infection

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – INRAE, University of Bordeaux

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Pathogenesis

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

ECPS Headshot Booth

Location: Exhibit Hall

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

Networking Break

Location: Exhibit Hall

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS10) Cell Biology: Signaling, Trafficking, & Cell Growth: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 214

Chair: – University of Saskatchewan

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS10-1) Cytoskeletal Control of Cell Division and Expansion Patterns During Arabidopsis Leaf Development

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of Saskatchewan

Cell Biology: General

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS10-2) Reconstructing the Core Program of Cell-Cycle Control in Early Land Plants

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of Cambridge

Cell Biology: General

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS10-3) Characterizing force transfer across Arabidopsis LINC complexes

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – The Ohio State University

Cell Biology: General

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS10-4) Single-nucleus transcriptomics reveals cell type-specific responses to altered calcium homeostasis

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Cornell University

Cell Biology: General

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS10-5) To grow or not to grow: VAMP721 abundance links vesicular trafficking to root growth decisions

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – IFIBYNE - UBA - CONICET

Cell Biology: General

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS15) Abiotic Stress: Hot, Cold, Bright: Chair Welcome