Welcome to the 3rd INUPRAG symposium on February 21-23, 2023, at Hotel Mimer in Umeå! Our focus will be on Integrative Plant Biology.
Sustainable production of biomass and high-quality food as well as raw materials are one of today’s major challenges of agriculture and forestry. To achieve this goal while maintaining natural resources and biodiversity, plant developmental and physiological processes from the cellular up to ecosystem levels need to be better understood. This symposium will gather a multidisciplinary group of plant scientists from three main European research institutes (UPSC, INRAE and CRAG) for exchanging ideas and developing new collaborations.
Around 40 speakers from the INUPRAG cooperation will present their most recent work and future projects. Our goal is to promote extensive discussions and exchange of ideas in a relaxed and informal atmosphere to facilitate networking and new collaborations.
Join us in Umeå and enjoy the amazing Northern Swedish winter!
The Symposium will be held at Elite Hotel Mimer in downtown Umeå.
Please note that we will charge every participant who is not an invited speaker a minor fee of about 800SEK as contribution to cover the costs for the meeting (the amount might be less depending on the final budget of the symposium which is not finalized yet).
The registration is closed.
Abstract book for download:
INUPRAG 2023 abstract book.pdf
Confirmed speakers
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)
- Nicolas Bologna: RNA biology
- Ivan Reyna Llorens: Synthetic biology and photosynthesis
- Maria Lois: Protein regulation in development and stress
- Elena Monte: Environmental control of plant and algae growth
- Soraya Pelaz: Floral induction and development
- Salomé Prat: Light and temperature control of plant development
- Sebastián Ramos-Onsins: Statistical and population genomics
- José Luis Riechmann: Gene regulatory networks in plant development
- Ignacio Rubio Somoza: Molecular reprogramming and evolution
- Robertas Ursache: Plant Cell Wall Remodeling and Adaptation
- Jae-Seong Yang: Computational and synthetic biology
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE):
Division of Plant Biology and Breeding (BAP)
- Fernando Andres-Lalaguna: Fruit tree architecture and functions /cold perception and flowering time in apple tree
- Yann Boursiac: Water, signaling and hydraulic architecture
- Marie-Cécile Caillaud: Lipid signalling in plant cell division and organogenesis
- Christian Dubos: Mineral nutrition and oxidative stress
- Kalina Haas: Polymeric ultrastructure of the cell wall polysaccharides
- Rozenn Le Hir: Carbon, allocation, transport and signaling
- Céline Masclaux-Daubresse: Senescence, autophagy, nutritient recycling and nitrogen use efficiency
- Antoine Martin: Nitrate signaling and regulation by the environment
Division of Ecology and Biodiversity (ECODIV):
- Clémence Bonnot: Ecogenomics of interactions
- Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot (page only in French): Ecophysiology-drought stress adaptation - root growth
- Oliver Brendel (page only in French): Intra-specific diversity in response to the environment and forest ecophysiology
- Valérie Legué: Root development in trees / Gravity sensing
- Stéphane Maury (page only in French): Epigenetic control of vegetative plasticity of poplar in response to drought
- Leopoldo Sanchez-Rodriguez (page only in French): Quantitative genetics, breeding, modelling
- Claire Veneault-Fourrey: Phytohormones and ectomycorrhiza formation
Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)
- Laura Bacete: Cell wall integrity
- Rosario García-Gil: Forest tree genetics and breeding
- Sandra Jämtgård: Plant nitrogen availability
- Peter Kindgren: Coding versus non-coding transcription in plants
- Alizée Malnoë: Molecular mechanisms of plant photoprotection
- Petra Marhava: Plant acclimation to heat and cold stress
- Peter Marhavý: Short distance communication in response to wound stress
- Nathaniel Street: A systems genetics approach to understanding natural variation
- Kelly Swarts: Tree-ring genomics
- Stéphane Verger: Mechanics and dynamics of cell-cell adhesion in plants
Programme
Day 1 - Tuesday, 21st of February 2023
9.00: Registration at Hotel Mimer
9.30: Welcome and introduction
Catherine Bellini (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAe and Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University)
9.40: Presentation of UPSC
Ove Nilsson (Director of Umeå Plant Science Centre, Professor at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Session 1: Plant cell wall properties and dynamics
Chairperson: Maria Kidwai (Postdoc in Catherine Bellini's group)
9.50: 4DWalls: understanding dynamism of plant cell wall
Laura Bacete (UPSC, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden)
10.10: Coffee break
10.40: New model of plant growth and cell wall synthesis brought to light by optical nanoscop
Kalina Haas (IJPB, INRAe, Versailles, France)
11.00: Mechanics and dynamics of cell-cell adhesion in plants
Stéphane Verger (UPSC, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden)
11.20: The suberinteresting rol of GELP proteins
Robertas Ursache (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
11.40: Horizon Europe – discussion (chaired by CRAG)
12.10: Lunch
Session 2: Epigenetic regulation – transcription regulation
Chairpersons: Mishaneh Asgari & Shiv Kumar (Postdocs in Peter Kindgren’s group)
13.30: Concerted action of miRNA targets enables defense reprogramming upon pathogen-induced RNA silencing suppression
Ignacio Rubio-Somoza (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
13.50: The role of antisense transcription in plants
Peter Kindgren (UPSC, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)
14.10: Argonaute shuttling processes in plants
Nicolas Bologna (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
14.30: Epigenetics, plasticity, and adaptation in forest trees
Stéphane Maury (LBLGC, INRAe, Orléans University, Orléans, France)
14.50: Unexpected NGATHA genes in gymnosperms
Soraya Pelaz (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
15.10: Coffee break
15.30: Poster session
Session 3: Population Genetics
Chairperson: Maximiliano Estravis Barcala (Postdoc in Harry Wu’s group)
16.10: Landscape Breeding: Catching up with climate cline
Rosario García-Gil (UPSC, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)
16.30: Demography and Genetic Diversity analysis of Almond germplasm
Sebastián Ramos-Onsins (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
16.50: Between and within species diversity of water use efficiencey for Quercus petra and Quercus robur: at the crossroad of ecology, ecophysiology and genetics
Olivier Brendel (UMR Silva, INRAe, Nancy, France)
17.10: Isolating adaptive variation from natural forest trees
Kelly Swarts (UPSC, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)
Dinner self-organised
Day 2 - Wednesday, 22nd of February 2023
Session 4: Omics approaches to decipher plant development and adaptation
Chairperson: Eduardo Rodriguez Soldado (PhD student in Nathaniel Street’s group)
9.00: A systems genetics approach to identifying genes in the biosynthesis pathway of salicinoid phenolic glycosides in Populus tremula
Nathaniel Street (UPSC, UmU, Umeå, Sweden)
9.20: Phenotypic prediction using multiomics in black poplar
Leopoldo Sanchez-Rodriguez (INRAe, Orléans, France)
9.40: Using multi-omics to study of bud dormancy in apple tree
Fernando Andrés (UMR AGAP, INRAe, Montpellier, France)
10.00: Coffee break
10.30: Characterisation of the Arabidopsis peptidome and its role in flower development
José Luis Reichmann (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
10.50: Recruitment of pre-existing translational networks during the evolution of C4 photosynthesis
Ivan Reyna Llorens (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
Session 5: Plant nutrition
Chairperson: Barbora Parizkova (Postdoc in Karin Ljung’s group)
11.10: Dissecting the components of root water transport
Yann Boursiac (IPSIM, INRAe, Montpellier, France)
11.30: Deciphering the link between sugar transport and vascular system development: a SWEET story
Rozenn Le Hir (IJPB, INRAe, Versailles, France)
11.50: Iron nutrition in plants: towards a new paradigme
Christian Dubos (IPSIM, INRAe, Montpellier, France)
12:10: Group photo
12.30: Lunch
Free afternoon with time for networking discussions and to visit UPSC
Day 3 - Thursday, 23rd of February 2023
Session 6: Development and Signaling
Chairperson: Manvi Sharma (Postdoc in Petra Marhava’s group)
9.00: Convergence of light and chloroplast signalling in the regulation of plant development: A new player in town
Elena Monte (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
9.20: Autophagy and chloroplast degradation
Céline Masclaux-Daubresse (IJPB, INRAe, Versailles, France)
9.40: SUMO modulates senescence through the control of the ethylene signaling pathway in Arabidodpis
Maria Lois (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
10.00: The phosphoinositide signature guides the final step of plant cytokinesis
Marie-Cécile Caillaud (RDP, INRAe, Lyon, France)
10.20: Coffee break
10.50: Potato SP6A tuber induction correlates with enhanced cambial activity
Salomé Prat (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
Session 7: Response to mechanical stress
Chairperson: Shahzad Anjam (Postdoc in Peter Marhavý’s group)
11.10: Root growth against mechanical obstacle: the early growth response of a maize root facing an axial resistance agrees with the Lockhart model
Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot (UMR IAM, INRAe, Université de Loraine, Nancy, France)
11.30: How wounded plants coordinate their healing and immune responses
Peter Marhavý (UPSC, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)
11.50: The primary eATP receptor P2K1 mediates responses to the impedance of the growth medium in Arabidopsis roots.
Valérie Legué (UMR PIAF, INRAe, Université Clermont Auvergne, France)
12.10: Lunch
13.30: Future of INUPRAG – How to enhance and stimulate networking (round table discussion)
Session 8: Adaptation to abiotic stress
Chairperson: Nabila El Arbi (PhD student in Markus Schmid’s group)
14.00: Phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation underlying the response to the elevation of CO2 in A. thaliana
Antoine Martin (UMR IPSIM, INRAe, Montpellier, France)
14.20: Using the power of genetic screens to investigate plant photoprotection
Alizée Malnoë (UPSC, UmU, Umeå, Sweden)
14.40: Development of Chlamydomonas as a bioengineering platform
Jae-Song Yang (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain)
15.00: Coffee break
15.20: Poster session
Session 9: Beneficial interactions
Chairperson: Justine Colou (Postdoc in Torgny Näsholm’s group)
16.20: Do SSPs regulate ectomycorhizal symbiosis in response to biotic and abiotic nutrient signal in trees?
Clémence Bonnot (UMR IAM, INRAe, Université de Loraine, Nancy, France)
16.40: Root exudate simulation using microdialysis
Sandra Jämtgård (Department of Forest Ecology and Management, UPSC, SLU, Umeå, Sweden)
17.00: From the study of fungal symbiotic effectors towards a central role of root terpenes for tree-microbes relationships
Claire Veneault-Fourrey (UMR IAM, INRAe, Université de Loraine, Nancy, France)
17.20: Conclusion and announcement of the poster prize winner
18:00 Conference dinner
Practical information
Coming to Umeå:
- Travel to Umeå
- Accomodation in Umeå (Please note: We will provide accomodation for invited speakers at Hotel Mimer.)
- Things to do in Umeå
Getting around in Umeå:
- Travelling in Umeå (you can find different local taxi companies at the bottom of this page)
- Local busses in Umeå (You can only pay with credit card in the bus, no cash is accepted)
- Airport bus
Weather in Umeå:
Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis:
Contact
Scientific committee:
- Catherine Bellini, Professor, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University and Senior Scientist INRAE
- Olivier Keech, Associate Professor, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
- Rozenn Le-Hir, INRAE Research Scientist, Division of Plant Biology and Breeding (BAP)
- Maria Lois, Director of Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC Scientist
- Claire Veneauld-Fourrey, INRAE Research Director, Division of Ecology and Biodiversity (ECODIV)
Local organisers:
- Catherine Bellini, Professor, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University and Senior Scientist INRAE
- Olivier Keech, Associate Professor, UPSC, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University
- Anne Honsel, UPSC Communications Officer, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Maria Nordström-Israelsson, UPSC Research Coordinator, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
For practical questions, please contact:
Anne Honsel
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