Epigenetic Mechanisms of Crop Adaptation To Climate Change

11:15 – 11:45 Poster display launch

11:45 - 12:00 Opening and welcome address: Federico Martinelli, Eirini Kaiserli

12:00 - 12:20 Federico Martinelli: “Introduction to EPI-CATCH - EPIgenetic mechanisms of Crop Adaptation To Climate cHange”

Session 1: Chromatin organization regulating plants' response to the environment.
Chairpersons: Valya Vassileva, Eirini Kaiserli

12:20 - 12:50 Maike Stam: “Gene regulation by epigenetics and distant enhancers”

12:50 – 13:10 Martijn Van Zanten: “Histone deacetylase 9 control of Thermomorphogenesis; How plants perform optimally under non-optimal temperature conditions”

13:10 – 13:30 Jordi Moreno-Romero: “Changes in epigenetic marks triggered by perception of vegetation proximity in seedlings”

13:30 – 14:00 Coffee break & Poster view

14:00 – 14:20 Gideon Grafi: “Epigenetic mechanisms in plant adaptation to environmental stresses: A lesson from the desert plant Zygophyllum dumosum”

14:20 - 14:40 Giorgio Perrella: “Histone Deacetylase Complex 1 modulates stress transcriptional responses during seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana”

14:40 – 15:00 Miguel De Lucas: "Light regulation of xylem cell differentiation"

15:00 – 15:20 Edoardo Bertolini: “The regulatory landscape of early maize inflorescence development”

15:20 – 15:30 Flash talks selected from abstracts
 Andreas Peil
 Ariola Bacu
 Elena Caro
 Mathilde Petitpas
 Soyanni Holness
 Vanessa Azevedo
 Velimir Mladenov

Chairpersons: Stephane Maury, Na’ama Segal

12:00 - 12:30 Anna Amtmann: “RdDM as a backup system in hormone signaling”

12:30 - 12:50 Angela Cicatelli: “Epigenetic analysis in potato manured with compost or mineral fertilizers”

12:50 - 13:10 Sylvain Bischoff : “Histone H3.3 incorporation in Arabidopsis”

13:10 -13:30 Marie Mirouze: “Epigenetic control of genome stability in Arabidopsis"

13:30 - 13:50 Javier Gallego-Bartolome: "Targeted manipulation of DNA methylation in plants"

13:50 -14:00 Flash talks selected from abstracts
 Araceli G. Castillo
 Daniela Correia Cordeiro
 Dragana Miladinoviִc
 Julio Garighan
 Matthieu Chabannes
 Mónica Labella-Ortega
 Robert Piecyk
 Veronika Lancikova

14:00 - 14:20 Coffee break & Poster view

14:20 – 14:50 Etienne Bucher: “Plant genome dynamics in a changing climate: Stress adaptation and crop breeding”

14:50 - 15:10 Michal Lieberman-Lazarovich: “Response of the tomato ddm1 mutant to heat stress”

15:10 – 15:30 Matthias Benoit: “Contribution of transposable elements to structural variation and phenotypic adaptation in tomato”

15:30 – 15:50 Marco Catoni: “Pack-Type Transposable Elements and genome plasticity in plants”

15:50 – 16:10 Kevin Begcy: "Molecular responses to heat stress during pollen microgametogenesis"

16:10 – 16:30 Stephane Maury: "DNA methylation and drought stress in poplar”

Chairpersons: Cristina Vettori, Dorita Galea

12:00 - 12:30 Hans Hoenicka “Resistance priming of forest tree species”

12:30 – 12:50 Zaigham Sahzad: “Epimutations mediate phenotypic evolution in natural populations”

12:50 - 13:10 Francesco Guarino: “Epigenetic diversity of natural clonal Arundo donax L. populations”

13:10 - 13:30 Flash talk selected from abstracts
 Andrea Gulyás
 Baptiste Vancostenoble
 Elena Carneros
 Leduc Nathalie
 Lini Sethi
 Rashmi R. Hazarika
 Sofia Alves

13:30 - 14:00 Coffee break & Poster view

14:00 - 14:30 Frank Johannes: “Molecular properties of epimutation hotspots"

14:30 - 14:50 Erna Karalija: “Enhancement of heavy metal tolerance in plants by seed priming”

14:50 - 15:10 Estelle Jaligot: “Making shortcuts: investigating the role of small non-coding RNAs during in vitro tissue culture of the oil palm”

15:10 - 15:40 Conclusions and closing