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Monday, July 20, 2026
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Gibbs Symposium: Auxin Signaling

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

(PL3) Gibbs Symposium: Auxin Signaling

Plenary Chair: Mark Estelle, PhD – UC San Diego

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

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

Plenary: Matyas Fendrych

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

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

Plenary: Stephanie Robert

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

(PL3-3) Understanding transcription in plants

Plenary: Lucia Strader

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM EDT

(PL3) Coffee Break

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM EDT

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

Plenary: Dolf Weijers

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM EDT

(PL3-5) 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Facilitator: Mae Antonette G. Mercado, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

(PL3-6) Remarks and transition

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT
Explore Plant Science Careers and Grow Your Network

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

(W) Explore Plant Science Careers and Grow Your Network

Facilitator: Shoshana Kronfeld – American Society of PLant Biologists

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT
Post-Plenary Lunch at the Mall

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

Post-Plenary Lunch at the Mall

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
Advances in Plant Regeneration and Transformation Technologies

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

(W) Advances in Plant Regeneration and Transformation Technologies

Facilitator: Gunvant Patil, Ph.D – Texas Tech University

Co-Facilitator: C Nathan Hancock, PhD – University of South Carolina

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
From Roots to Headlines: (Plant) Science Communication that Inspires

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

(W) From Roots to Headlines: (Plant) Science Communication that Inspires

Facilitator: Isabel Mendoza Poudereux – The Global Plant Council

Facilitator: Mary Williams, PhD (she/her/hers) – ASPB

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
CS11: Centennial Celebration of Plant Physiology

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

(CS11) Centennial Celebration of Plant Physiology: Chair Welcome

Symposium Chair: Yunde Zhao, Ph.D. – 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

Symposium Speaker: Ritu Singh, PhD (she/her/hers) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Momoko Ikeuchi

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Juan Dong, PhD – Texas A&M University

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS11-4) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Ana M. Laxalt – 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

Symposium Speaker: Christian Fankhauser, PhD – University of Lausanne

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
CS12: Translational Control in Plants: From Ribosome Dynamics to Stress Resilience

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Ruthie Angelovici, PhD – university of Missouri

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Marco A. Dueñas (he/him/his) – University of California Berkeley

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Albrecht G. von Arnim, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN, USA

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM EDT

(CS12-3) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Chair: Ha Doung

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM EDT

(CS12-4) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Jacob O. Brunkard, PhD (he/him/his) – university of Wisconsin Madison

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Dong Xinnian, PhD – Duke university

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
CS14: Development: Reproductive Systems: Organization, Signaling, and Function

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Sarah McKim, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM EDT

(CS14-1) Maternal tissue regulation of grain development in barley

Symposium Speaker: Sarah McKim, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Dundee at 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

Symposium Speaker: Hongtao Zhang (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: ELVIS BRANCHINI (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Bingxu Zhang, n/a – Hong Kong Baptist University

Development: Reproduction

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Minsoo Han, n/a – Seoul National University

Cell Biology: Cell Walls

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
CS3: Abiotic Stress: When the Environment gets Spicey

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Jiaqi Sun, PhD (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Jiaqi Sun, PhD (he/him/his) – Shandong University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Magdalena Pypka, MSc (she/her/hers) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Luna Rosa Natoli, n/a – 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

Symposium Speaker: Kirsten H. Benidickson (she/her/hers) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Thu Thi Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Louisiana State University

Abiotic: Salt and Minerals

1:30 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
CS5: Phenomics, Whole Plant, Computational: Cross-scale Phenomics of Plant Function in Changing Environments

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Stephanus Francois du Toit, PhD (they/them/theirs) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Stephanus Francois du Toit, PhD (they/them/theirs) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Hung Manh Nguyen, PhD (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: TAOUFIK KSIKSI, n/a – 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

Symposium Speaker: Bingru Huang – 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

Symposium Speaker: Karolina Pehrson – Linnaeus University

Biochemistry: Photosynthesis and BioEnergy

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
CS17: Calcium Transporters: Gatekeeps of Environmental Responses in Plants

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Jian Hua, PhD – Cornell University

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Myriam Charpentier – 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

Symposium Speaker: Alex Costa, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Milan

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Keiko Yoshioka, PhD – University of Toronto

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Sheng Luan, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

(CS17-5) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Won-Gyu Choi, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Nevada, Reno

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
CS18: Order from disorder: The role of intrinsically disordered proteins in plant development

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Zoe Weeks, PhD – University of Oxford

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM EDT

(CS18-1) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Zoe Weeks, PhD – University of Oxford

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

(CS18-2) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Seung Yon Rhee, PhD – Plant Resilience Institute - Michigan State University

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

(CS18-3) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Jayde J. Johnson, PhD (he/him/his) – Syracuse University

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS18-4) Information Coming Soon

Symposium Speaker: Maolin Peng – Leibniz Association

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Yvonne Stahl, PhD (she/her/hers) – Goethe University

Development: Vegetative

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
CS19: Genome Editing, Synthetic Biology and Molecular Breeding

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Changqing Yang, PhD – 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)

Symposium Speaker: Changqing Yang, PhD – 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

Symposium Speaker: Hyunjun Yang, PhD (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Jia Dong, PhD – 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

Symposium Speaker: Rakshana Palaniswamy, PhD (she/her/hers) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Ryan P. Swanson, n/a – University of Missouri

Genes & Genomes: Genome Editing

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
CS20: Biotic: Plant Defense at Host Interfaces: Integrating Environmental Microbe Interactions

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Sebastian Schornack, PhD (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Sebastian Schornack, PhD (he/him/his) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Tamar V. Av-Shalom, BSc (she/her/hers) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Veronika Berkova, n/a – 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.

Symposium Speaker: Hannah McMillan, PhD (she/her/hers) – 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

Symposium Speaker: Mark Belmonte, PhD – The University of Manitoba

Biotic Interactions: Plant-Microbe Pathogenesis

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM EDT
CS26: Imaging 3D Structure from Plant Macromolecular Assemblies to Cells

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Chair: Lynnicia Massenburg, PhD – Pennsylvania 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

Symposium Speaker: Lynnicia Massenburg, PhD – Pennsylvania 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.

Symposium Speaker: Jordan Ferria, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Toronto

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Ariadna Gonzalez Solis, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT

(CS26-4) Nectary structure and development

Symposium Speaker: Lachezar Nikolov – Indiana University

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

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

Symposium Speaker: Qun Liu

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Evening Poster Reception

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Evening Poster Reception

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Evening Poster Presentations and Reception

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Evening Poster Presentations and Reception

Location: Exhibit Hall