08:30

Opening Ceremony

08:35-09:00

The biphasic role of miR156-targeted SPL9 transcription factor in flower development

Dr. Jiawei Wang (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science)

09:00-09:25

Ubiquitination in the control of photoperiodic flowering in rice

Dr. Changyin Wu (College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University)

09:25-09:50

Roles of sucrose metabolism and sugar signaling in reproductive development

Dr. Yong-Ling Ruan (Schoolof Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle)

09:50-10:15

How retrograde signaling controls flowering time

Dr. Katayoon Dehesh (Plant biology/ UC Davis)

10:15-10:30

Tea break

10:30-10:55

Regulation of flowering by an RNA splicing component

Dr. Zhiyong Wang (Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science)

10:55-11:20

Control of perianth development in Arabidopsis thaliana  by localised growth repression

Dr. David Smyth (School of Biological Sciences, Monash University)

11:20-11:45

The OsSPL16-GW7 module regulates grain shape in rice

Dr. Xiangdong Fu (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science)

11:45

Lunch

14:00-14:25

Floral organ identity specification in flowers with spiral phyllotaxis: insights gained from studying Nigella damascena (Ranunculaceae)

Dr. Hongzhi Kong (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science)

14:25-14:50

Arabidopsis SnRK1 complex mediating the pollen–stigma interaction during pollination

Dr. Xiansheng Zhang (College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University)

14:50-15:15

From the understanding of male fertility to hybrid rice production

Dr. Dabing Zhang (School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

15:15-15:40

The transcription factors involved in pollen tube growth and reception

Dr. De Ye (College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University)

15:40-15:55

Tea break

15:55-16:20

The origin and dynamic evolution of cytoplasmic male sterility genes in the Oryza species

Dr. Yaoguang Liu (College of life science, South China Agricultural University)

16:20-16:45

Regulation of meiotic chromosome condensation by MMD1 via altering cell-type dependent histone demethylase specificity

Dr. Yingxiang Wang (School of of Life Sciences, Fudan University)

16:45-17:10

The genetic pathway for pollen wall formation

Dr. Zhongnan Yang (College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University)

17:10-17:35

Callus formation and de novo organogenesis: Totipotency and dedifferentiation?

Dr. Lin Xu (Department of Biological Science, National University of Singapore)

17:35-18:00

TBC

Dr. Vincenzo De Luca

18:00

Supper

08:35-09:00

Redundant and non-redundant roles of AGC3 kinases in reproductive plant development

Dr. Remko Offringa (Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University)

9:00-9:25

Protein trafficking and vacuole biogenesis in germinating pollen tubes

Dr. Liwen Jiang (Department of Biology and Molecular Biotechnology Program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

9:25-9:50

Active DNA demethylation and epigenetic anti-silencing in Arabidopsis

Dr.Jiankang Zhu (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Science)

9:50-10:15

Tea break

10:15-10:30

RNA 5-methylcytosine is essential for reproductive plant development.

Dr. Iain Searle (Molecular Life Sciences, The University of Adelaide)

10:30-10:55

Dissecting meiotic recombination based on tetrad analysis by single-microspore sequencing in maize

Dr. Jianbing Yan (College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University)

10:55-11:20

Pollen receptor kinase signaling complex regulates pollen tube growth speed and growth mode

Dr. Weihua Tang (Shanghai Institution for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science)

11:20-11:45

Lunch

11:45

Mechanisms of function of proteins involved in abiotic stress tolerance

Dr. Maria Hrmova (Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, The University of Adelaide)

14:00-14:25

Role of cell-to-cell & long-distance signaling in plant growth & development

Dr. William Lucas (College of Biological Sciences, University of California)

14:25-14:50

The genomics of cucurbit domestication

Dr. Sanwen Huang (Agricultural Genome Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)

14:50-15:15

Using the hybrid transcription factor approach to study plant development

Dr. Chentao Lin (Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California)

15:15-15:40

Tea break

15:40-15:55

CLE19 peptides produced in embryos regulate both embryo and endosperm development in Arabidopsis

Dr. Chunming Liu (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science)

15:55-16:20

Dynamic vacuolar trafficking and acidification mediated by AP1G are critical for pollen development and female-controlled pollen tube reception

Dr. Yan Zhang (College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University)

16:20-16:45

Gene module multiplication drives pathway diversification in plants

Dr. Staffan Persson (Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford)

16:45-17:10

Dissecting the phy-PIF-Genome Signaling Interface

Dr. Peter Quail (College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley)

17:10-17:35

Biochemistry of cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis in plants

Dr. Vincent Bulone (ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, University of Adelaide)

17:35-17:50

Introducion about Nature Plants

Mr. Jun Lyu

17:50

Supper