Full Schedule

7:00 AM - 8:30 AM EDT

Women in Plant Biology Breakfast

Location: Room 210

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

(PL3) Gibbs Symposium: Auxin Signaling

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary Chair: – UC San Diego

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

(PL3-1) The mechanism of rapid auxin response in Arabidopsis

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary:

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

(PL3-2) The role of the plant cuticle during apical hook development

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – Swedish Univesrity of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Plant Science Center

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

(PL3-3) Understanding transcription in plants

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – Salk Institute for Biological Studies

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM EDT

(PL3) Coffee Break

Location: Canada Hall 1

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM EDT

(PL3-4) Novel auxin functions revealed by rapid, phosphorylation-dependent responses

Location: Canada Hall 1

Plenary: – Wageningen University

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM EDT

(PL3-5) 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Location: Canada Hall 1

Facilitator: – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sponsored By

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

(PL3-6) 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) Explore Plant Science Careers and Grow Your Network

Location: Room 210

Facilitator: – American Society of PLant Biologists

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

Post-Plenary Lunch at the Mall

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM EDT

(W) Advances in Plant Regeneration and Transformation Technologies

Location: Room 214

Facilitator: – University of South Carolina

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

(W) Hidden Veggies: Strategies for integrating plant biology into courses and outreach programs

Location: Meeting Room 206/208

Facilitator: – University of Lynchburg

Facilitator: – Simon Fraser University

Co-Facilitator: – Pennsylvania State University

Co-Facilitator: – UC Merced

Co-Facilitator: – Manchester University

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM EDT

(#W) Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC): An NSERC Overview and How to Apply to Discovery Grants

Location: Room 213/215

Facilitator:

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS11) Centennial Celebration of Plant Physiology: Chair Welcome

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Chair: – University of California San Diego

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS11-1) Reciprocal Perception/Responses: Decoding the Co-Transcriptional Landscape of a Generalist Pathogen and its Diverse Eudicot Hosts

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – University of California, Davis

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS11-2) All roads lead to dome: cellular and developmental basis of shoot regeneration

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker:

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS11-3) Split-TurboID identifies components of body-axes polarity for plant upright growth

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – Texas A&M University

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS11-4) GENOME EDITING REVEALS ISOFORM-SPECIFIC ROLES OF TOMATO PHOSPHOLIPASE C GENES IN PLANT IMMUNITY

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS11-5) Internal sugar allocation in response to a shade signal is regulated by auxin

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – University of Lausanne

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS12) Translational Control in Plants: From Ribosome Dynamics to Stress Resilience: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Chair: – University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN, USA

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS12-1) Hidden Proteins in Plain Sight: Mechanisms and Functions of Bicistronic Translation in Green Algae

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of California Berkeley

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS12-2) Translational control in circadian and stress-response networks

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN, USA

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS12-3) From natural variation to seed nutrition: Identifying tRNA(Ile) lysidine synthetase as a regulator of protein-bound methionine

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – Michigan State University

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS12-4) A tRNA synthetase activates TOR in plants

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – university of Wisconsin Madison

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS12-5) Searching for messages carried by messenger RNAs

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – Duke university

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS14) Development: Reproductive Systems: Organization, Signaling, and Function: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 214

Symposium Chair: – University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS14-1) Control of grain dimensions via ALLENE OXIDE CYCLASE

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of Dundee and The James Hutton Institute

Cell Biology: Plastids and Organelles

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS14-2) Polarity factors drive floral nectary development and evolution in Mimulus

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of California, Berkeley

Development: Reproduction

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS14-3) Live image and growth dynamics quantification of Arabidopsis thaliana's ovule development

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Université de Montréal

Development: Reproduction

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS14-4) A Cellular-Resolution Spatial Multi-omics Atlas of Gossypium barbadense Ovules Reveals Multidimensional Networks Driving Fiber Fate Commitment

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Hong Kong Baptist University

Development: Reproduction

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS14-5) Cuticle reformation safeguards surface mechanics after floral organ abscission

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Seoul National University

Cell Biology: Cell Walls

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS3) Abiotic Stress: When the Environment gets Spicey: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Chair: – Shandong University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS3-1) Golgi-deployed palmitoylation drives emergency ER repair prerequisite for plant salt stress adaption

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Shandong University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS3-2) Role of cell wall in Zn-tropism

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – University of Warsaw

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS3-3) Copper uptake in grasses is supported by regulated root-surface Cu(II) reduction

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Cornell University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS3-4) γ-aminobutyrate (GABA) accumulation enhances growth and phosphate starvation responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Queen's University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS3-5) Born to Endure: How Halophyte Roots Change to Thrive in High Salinity

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Louisiana State University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS5) Phenomics, Whole Plant, Computational: Cross-scale Phenomics of Plant Function in Changing Environments: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Chair: – Lund University

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS5-1) Contrasting global proteomic responses to extremely elevated CO2 levels in modern conifers, magnoliids and angiosperms

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Lund University

Whole-Plant: Environmental and Ecophysiological

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

(CS5-2) Seagrasses in the world’s hottest sea: Insights from a long-term seagrass monitoring project in Abu Dhabi's coastline

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – The Yas SeaWorld Research & Rescue Center

Whole-Plant: Environmental and Ecophysiological

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS5-3) Elevated CO2 Fails to Mitigate Severe drought Stress Impacts on a Potted C Plant Growing in a Desert Greenhouse

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – UAEU

Whole-Plant: Environmental and Ecophysiological

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS5-4) Inhibition of protease involved in protein catabolism linked to heat-induced leaf senescence in perennial grass species

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Rutgers University

Whole-Plant: Environmental and Ecophysiological

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

(CS5-5) Photosynthetic acclimation to a decade of warming and elevated CO₂ in Boreal Forest Ecosystem

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Linnaeus University

Biochemistry: Photosynthesis and BioEnergy

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

Networking Break

Location: Exhibit Hall

Sponsored By

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

Plantae Meetup - invite only

Location: ASPB Booth

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS17) Calcium Transporters: Gatekeeps of Environmental Responses in Plants: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Chair: – Cornell University

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS17-1) Rewiring nuclear calcium signalling in root endosymbioses

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – John Innes Centre

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS17-2) Ligand-Dependent Activation of AtGLR3.3 Mediates Systemic Calcium Signaling in Response to Abiotic Stress

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Milan

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS17-3) Transcriptional Repression of CNGC2: A Critical Node in Plant Defense Signaling

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Toronto

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS17-4) Coding and decoding of calcium signals in plant growth and defense

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of California, Berkeley

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS17-5) Re-programming calcium homeostasis under temperature stress and lipid elicitor-induced calcium signaling in plants

Location: Room 205/207

Symposium Speaker: – University of Nevada, Reno

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS18) Order from disorder: The role of intrinsically disordered proteins in plant development: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 214

Symposium Chair: – University of Oxford

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS18-1) Two intrinsically disordered proteins regulate the transition to three-dimensional growth in Physcomitrium patens

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – University of Oxford

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS18-2) Arabidopsis thaliana RHAMNOSE 1 condensate formation drives UDP-rhamnose synthesis

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Plant Resilience Institute - Michigan State University

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS18-3) Prion-like proteins as molecular memory elements

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Syracuse University

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS18-4) A PolyQ Repeat in PIF7 acts as a tunable thermosensor in Arabidopsis

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Leibniz Association

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS18-5) Intrinsically disordered proteins in plant root development

Location: Room 214

Symposium Speaker: – Goethe University

Development: Vegetative

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS19) Genome Editing, Synthetic Biology and Molecular Breeding: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Chair: – Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS19-1) Plant Biomanufacturing: Tissue-Specific and Flux-Redirected Metabolic Engineering of Forskolin in Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Genes & Genomes: Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Molecular Breeding

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS19-2) De novo design of herbicide-binding protein

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Brandeis University

Genes & Genomes: Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Molecular Breeding

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS19-3) Harnessing Synthetic Biology and Robotics to Engineer High-Yield and Resilient Crops

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Cornell University

Genes & Genomes: Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Molecular Breeding

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS19-4) Channelizing carotenoid pathway towards accumulation of beta-carotene in rice through genome editing

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India

Genes & Genomes: Genome Editing

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS19-5) From proof of principle to functional toolkit: Harnessing mPing for targeted DNA integration

Location: Room 206/208

Symposium Speaker: – University of Missouri

Genes & Genomes: Genome Editing

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS20) Biotic: Plant Defense at Host Interfaces: Integrating Environmental Microbe Interactions: Chair Welcome

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Chair: – University of Cambridge, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU)

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS20-1) Mutualist-pathogen co-colonisation modulates phosphoinositide signatures at host intracellular interfaces

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – University of Cambridge, Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU)

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Beneficial

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS20-2) Effector-triggered stomatal immunity prevents leaf invasion by bacterial pathogens

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – University of Toronto

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Immunity

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS20-3) The Hidden Engineer: Symbiotic Endophytic Fungi Rewire Flax Stress Pathways Under Cadmium

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Mendel University in Brno

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Beneficial

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS20-4) Natural variation reveals differences in plant leaf epidermal responses to microbiota at elevated temperature.

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – Cornell University

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Beneficial

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS20-5) Development and application of novel paperclip RNA fungicides to protect crop plants against fungal pathogens

Location: Room 213/215

Symposium Speaker: – The University of Manitoba

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Pathogenesis

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

(CS26) Imaging 3D Structure from Plant Macromolecular Assemblies to Cells: Chair Welcome

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Chair: – Penn State University

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS26-1) Structural Flexibility of Physcomitrium patens Cellulose Synthase 5 Homotrimeric Assembly as Revealed by CryoEM

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – Penn State University

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS26-2) Plant Surface resolution using micro-computed tomography (mCT) in Marchantia polymorpha and the Mpferonia mutant.

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – University of Toronto

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS26-3) Evolution and functional diversification of plant IST1-like proteins.

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS26-4) Nectary structure and development

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker: – Indiana University

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS26-5) Cryogenic 3D electron microscopy captures whole plant cell native ultrastructure

Location: Canada Hall 1

Symposium Speaker:

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EDT

Speed Networking

Location: Canada Hall 1

Sponsored By

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Evening Poster Presentations and Reception

Location: Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM EDT

LGBTQ+ Networking Reception

Location: ALORA Ottawa & ALORA Rooftop