Please note the below programme is provisional and subject to change.
General
17:30 – 18:00 BST, 2 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Enrico Coen - John Innes Centre
18:00 – 19:00 BST, 2 April 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Enrico Coen - John Innes Centre
Keynote LectureGeneral
09:00 – 09:20 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 20 mins
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General
09:20 – 09:34 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 14 mins
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Session
09:34 – 09:35 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Dolf Weijers - Wageningen University
09:35 – 10:20 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Dolf Weijers - Wageningen University
Invited SpeakerAnja Geitmann - McGill University
10:20 – 10:45 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Anja Geitmann - McGill University
Submitted TalkGeneral
10:45 – 11:15 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Hernan López - Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
11:15 – 11:40 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Hernan López - Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Submitted TalkDavid Collings - Australian National University
11:40 – 12:05 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
David Collings - Australian National University
Submitted TalkEd Rea - Carl Zeiss Ltd
12:05 – 12:10 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Ed Rea - Carl Zeiss Ltd
Techno Bite
Steve Murray - Hitachi High-Tech Europe
12:10 – 12:15 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Steve Murray - Hitachi High-Tech Europe
Techno Bite
Karen McGeachy - Laser 2000 (UK) Ltd
12:15 – 12:20 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Karen McGeachy - Laser 2000 (UK) Ltd
Techno Bite
Pedro Machado - Oxford Instruments
12:20 – 12:25 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Pedro Machado - Oxford Instruments
Techno Bite
General
12:30 – 14:00 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
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Laila Moubayidin - John Innes Centre
14:00 – 14:45 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Laila Moubayidin - John Innes Centre
Invited SpeakerChiara Perico - University of Oxford
14:45 – 15:10 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Chiara Perico - University of Oxford
Submitted TalkSession
15:10 – 15:11 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Larry Griffing - Texas A&M University
15:11 – 15:35 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 24 mins
Larry Griffing - Texas A&M University
Submitted TalkGeneral
15:35 – 16:05 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Thomas Ott - University of Freiburg
16:05 – 16:50 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Thomas Ott - University of Freiburg
Invited SpeakerMaryam Zekri - University of Vienna
16:50 – 16:55 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Maryam Zekri - University of Vienna
Flash TalkRobert Bellow - John Innes Centre
16:55 – 17:00 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Robert Bellow - John Innes Centre
Flash TalkCsaba Máthé - University of Debrecen
17:00 – 17:05 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Csaba Máthé - University of Debrecen
Flash TalkAna Romina Fox - Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology
17:05 – 17:10 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Ana Romina Fox - Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology
Flash TalkAnshan Hsiao - John Innes Centre
17:10 – 17:15 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Anshan Hsiao - John Innes Centre
Flash TalkJen McGaley - University of Cambridge
17:15 – 17:20 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Jen McGaley - University of Cambridge
Flash TalkGeneral
17:20 – 18:00 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 40 mins
General
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18:00 – 18:30 BST, 3 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Click 'More info' to see the full poster list for this session
Robotic alterations of phyllotaxis - Robert Bellow, John Innes Centre, UK
Cell division patterns during cork development in two Quercus spp - Davide Botticelli, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
ROPGEF8 and ROPGEF9 are required for pollen germination in Arabidopsis thaliana - Alida Bouatta, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Making a Fresh Starch: Biochemical regulation of starch granule initiation - Jiawen Chen, John Innes Centre, UK
Investigating Kranz Anatomy and C4 Photosynthesis in Stems of the Australian Grass Neurachne muelleri - David Collings, Australian National University, Australia
Analysing the Nuclear Envelope – Endoplasmic Reticulum Interface - Nadine Field, Oxford Brookes University, UK
PIP aquaporin interactions at the reticulum endoplasmic-plasma membrane interphase - Ana Romina Fox, Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Belgium
Plant Protein Disorder Regulates Cytoskeleton and Cell Wall Remodeling for Stress Adaption - Anshan Hsiao, John Innes Centre, UK
How can Imaging Help us Make Better Crop Protection Products? - Mark Johnston, Syngenta
How severe growth conditions altered leaf architecture of two native tree species Acer platanoides L. and Tilia cordata Miller (Linden)? - Magdalena Krzeslowska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
AGC1 kinases are important for pollen dormancy via inhibition of ROPGEFs in Arabidopsis thaliana - Andrea Lepper, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Biosensors of jasmonic acid signalling pathway reveal spatiotemporal patterns of potato plants' response to mechanical and herbivore wounding - Valentina Levak, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia
Colocalization microscopy analysis pitfalls: the importance of pixel selection for the calculation of the Pearson’s correlation coefficient - Sergio Lopez, John Innes Centre, UK
Shedding new light on plant biology – high-resolution long-term imaging in Prague - Kateřina Malínská - Czech Academy of the Sciences, Czech Republic
New insights into the roles of PP2A subunits FASS and C3/C4 in the regulation of mitosis and oxidative stress responses in Arabidopsis - Csaba Máthé, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nutrient exchange during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - Jen McGaley, University of Cambridge, UK
Investigation of stems containing different types of fibres by using bright-field, polarized and conventional fluorescence microscopy - Márta M-Hamvas, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Vascular organization of the barley rachis - Twan Rutten, Leinbiz Instute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany
How Anatomy of Epidermal Cells Is Correlated to Transient Responses of Stomata - Maryam Zekri, University of Vienna, Austria
Session
09:19 – 09:20 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
Session
Charlotte Pain - Oxford Brookes University
09:20 – 09:45 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Charlotte Pain - Oxford Brookes University
Submitted TalkPatrick Duckney - Durham University
09:45 – 10:10 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Patrick Duckney - Durham University
Submitted TalkEmma Raven - John Innes Centre
10:10 – 10:35 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Emma Raven - John Innes Centre
Submitted TalkGeneral
10:35 – 11:05 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Session
11:05 – 11:06 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Marisa Otegui - University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:06 – 11:50 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 44 mins
Marisa Otegui - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited SpeakerLara Esch - John Innes Centre
11:50 – 12:15 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Lara Esch - John Innes Centre
Submitted TalkOptional Tour of Bioimaging facility or Library (13:00-13:30)
12:15 – 13:45 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Optional Tour of Bioimaging facility or Library (13:00-13:30)
Ellie Fletcher - University of Bristol
13:45 – 14:10 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Ellie Fletcher - University of Bristol
Submitted TalkEinat Sadot - Volcani Institute
14:10 – 14:35 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Einat Sadot - Volcani Institute
Submitted TalkJoe McKenna - University of Warwick
14:35 – 15:00 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Joe McKenna - University of Warwick
Submitted TalkGeneral
15:00 – 15:30 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Sara Maynard - Texas A&M University
15:30 – 15:55 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Sara Maynard - Texas A&M University
Submitted TalkGeneral
15:55 – 16:15 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 20 mins
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Rosy Manser and Jon Shewring - Carl ZEISS Microscopy
16:15 – 16:45 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Rosy Manser and Jon Shewring - Carl ZEISS Microscopy
Gert Van Isterdael, VIB Flow Core, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
16:45 – 17:15 BST, 4 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Gert Van Isterdael, VIB Flow Core, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
Session
09:19 – 09:20 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Keith Duncan - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
09:20 – 10:05 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Keith Duncan - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Invited SpeakerGreg McMahon, NPL
10:05 – 10:30 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Greg McMahon, NPL
Submitted TalkGeneral
10:30 – 11:00 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Alastair McGinness - Oxford Brookes University
11:00 – 11:25 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Alastair McGinness - Oxford Brookes University
Submitted TalkGeorge Janes - University of Nottingham
11:25 – 11:50 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
George Janes - University of Nottingham
Submitted TalkChris Morgan - John Innes Centre
11:50 – 12:15 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Chris Morgan - John Innes Centre
Submitted TalkGeneral
12:20 – 12:30 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 10 mins
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Optional Tour of Bioimaging facility or Library (13:15 - 13:45)
12:30 – 14:00 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Optional Tour of Bioimaging facility or Library (13:15 - 13:45)
Session
14:00 – 14:01 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Nick Talbot - The Sainsbury Laboratory
14:01 – 14:45 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 44 mins
Nick Talbot - The Sainsbury Laboratory
Invited SpeakerEmma Turley - John Innes Centre
14:45 – 15:10 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Emma Turley - John Innes Centre
Submitted TalkTon Timmers - Max Planck Institute
15:10 – 15:35 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Ton Timmers - Max Planck Institute
Submitted TalkGeneral
15:35 – 16:05 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Tetiana Kalachova - The Czech Academy of Sciences
16:05 – 16:30 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Tetiana Kalachova - The Czech Academy of Sciences
Submitted TalkSession
16:30 – 16:31 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Caroline Ivesic - University of Vienna
16:31 – 16:55 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 24 mins
Caroline Ivesic - University of Vienna
Submitted TalkChristine Faulkner - John Innes Centre
16:55 – 17:20 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Christine Faulkner - John Innes Centre
Submitted TalkChris Hawes Poster Prize Award & Imaging Contest Winner
17:20 – 17:35 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 15 mins
Chris Hawes Poster Prize Award & Imaging Contest Winner
General
18:00 – 18:05 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 5 mins
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18:30 – 21:30 BST, 5 April 2023 ‐ 3 hours
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Sponsored by Carl Zeiss Ltd
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09:19 – 09:20 BST, 6 April 2023 ‐ 1 mins
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Mark Fricker - University of Oxford
09:20 – 10:05 BST, 6 April 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Mark Fricker - University of Oxford
Invited SpeakerAdrienn Kelemen - University of Debrecen
10:05 – 10:30 BST, 6 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Adrienn Kelemen - University of Debrecen
Invited TalkGeneral
10:30 – 11:00 BST, 6 April 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Ingeborg Lang - University of Vienna
11:00 – 11:25 BST, 6 April 2023 ‐ 25 mins
Ingeborg Lang - University of Vienna
Submitted TalkGeneral
11:25 – 12:00 BST, 6 April 2023 ‐ 35 mins
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John Innes Centre
Talk title: Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants
Professor Enrico Coen was born in Liverpool in 1957 and obtained a PhD in molecular genetics at Cambridge University in 1982. After a postdoc at Cambridge, he moved to the John Innes Centre, Norwich in 1984 where he began using Antirrhinum as a model system to study plant development and evolution. Based on the results of an extensive mutational screen, he proposed that the ground plan of a flower depends on the combinatorial action of homeotic genes acting along the radial and dorsoventral axes of the flower. More recently, he has been using a combination of imaging and computational modelling to bridge the gaps between gene action, cell biology and development. In addition to publishing in scientific journals, Enrico Coen has also tried to communicate some key principles in his area to a broad audience through articles in popular journals and in his books The Art of Genes and Cells to Civilizations, where he explores connections between science and art. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Wageningen University & Research Laboratory of Biochemistry
Talk title: Cell polarity - the nexus of shape, mechanics and morphogenesis?
Dolf Weijers is professor and chair of Biochemistry at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). He obtained his PhD at Leiden University and spent 4 years as post-doc in Tübingen before starting his research group in Wageningen in 2006. His team studies the mechanisms underlying multicellular development in plants, often using the early embryo as a model. Recent focus is on establishment of cell polarity and asymmetric cell division.
John Innes Centre
Talk title: Molecular and cellular mechanisms presiding over plant organ symmetry establishment
Dr. Laila Moubayidin is a Royal Society University Research Fellow leading her independent group at the John Innes Centre, in Norwich.
In 2007 she graduated in Biology at the University of Rome “Sapienza” (Italy) studying the role of the CSN-committed protein degradation processes during plant embryogenesis.
In 2011, she received her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Rome “Sapienza” (Italy), which was funded by a university fellowship. During her PhD, Dr. Moubayidin investigated the regulatory networks controlling the shift from meristematic to differentiating cells, which controls the balance between cell division and cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root meristem.
In 2013, Dr. Moubayidin joined the John Innes Centre as a post-doc to study the molecular and genetic mechanisms establishing radial symmetry during the development of the female reproductive organ of Arabidopsis, the gynoecium.
In 2018 Dr. Moubayidin was awarded a prestigious Fellowship from the Royal Society which allowed her to set up an independent research group at the John Innes Centre, since January 2019. Currently, her group is investigating the biological rules presiding over the regulation of symmetric shapes during plant organ development, using Arabidopsis roots, leaves and flower organs as developmental tools.
University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology
Talk title: Visualizing and understanding rhizobia infections
Thomas studied biology at the Universities of Göttingen (Germany) and Manchester (UK). He did his doctoral thesis in the group of Michael Udvardi at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm (Germany) from 2001-2005 before he obtained a postdoctoral Marie-Curie Fellowship of the European Union to conduct a two-years project (2006-2007) at the Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Micro-organismes (LIPM), INRA-CNRS in Toulouse (France) in the lab of Pascal Gamas and Andreas Niebel. In 2008, he moved as a junior group leader to the University of Munich (LMU) into the department of Martin Parniske. After being awarded an Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in October 2009, he started his independent lab in the same place. Thomas then followed the appointments as a professor at the LMU in 2015 and moved in October 2016 to the University of Freiburg where he currently holds the chair in Plant Cell Biology and focusses his research on the intracellular infection of legumes roots by bacteria.
Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk title: Understanding the Evolution of Endosomal Sorting Mechanisms in Plants
Marisa Otegui obtained her PhD degree in University of La Plata Argentina. She did her postdoctoral training in University of Colorado-Boulder working on electron tomography imaging and plant cytokinesis. She joined University of Wisconsin Madison as an Assistant Professor of Botany in 2004. Her laboratory focuses on the mechanisms that regulate membrane and protein trafficking and degradation in plants and how they control plant development. She has combined multiple approaches to understand the degradation of cellular components through the endosomal pathway and autophagy (self-cellular eating). The Otegui lab uses both fluorescence–based imaging and transmission electron microscopy and electron tomography of high-pressure frozen cells for three-dimensional cellular analysis. She is currently working on endosomal membrane remodeling in Arabidopsis in the context of plant development and autophagy in maize to understand nutrient recycling. Besides microscopy imaging, her laboratory uses genetic, omics, molecular, and biochemical tools to manipulate gene expression and understand gene function. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in plant molecular and cell biology, organizes conference and workshops on cell imaging, and participate in the editorial board of scientific journals.
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Talk title: Using lab-based X-ray microscopy for multiscale 3D imaging in plant biology
Keith Duncan is a research scientist in Dr. Chris Topp's lab at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), and is Director of their X-ray imaging facility. Prior to the Danforth Centre, Keith joined Dr. Rick Howard's lab in 1990 at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware (USA), using light, laser, electron, and X-ray imaging technologies to study all aspects of agricultural cell biology. When that facility was closed in 2016 as a result of a corporate merger, Keith moved to St. Louis to join Chris Topp's lab and manage the newly opened X-ray imaging facility, one of the first in North America dedicated exclusively to studying plant biology. Keith has been using X-ray computed tomography (XCT) to study plant biology both above and below the soil line using conventional XCT as well as X-ray microscopy (XRM). In particular, Keith's research in the Topp lab is focused on using X-ray tomography to study root system architecture and root-microbe interactions. Keith is also involved in multiple collaborative research projects using XRM to study the morphology and cell biology of numerous plant structures.
The Sainsbury Laboratory
Talk title: Investigating the Cell Biology of Rice Infection by the Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
Professor Nick Talbot is Executive Director of The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich. His research is focused on the biology of plant diseases and he utilises a range of cell biology, genetics and genomics approaches in his work. Nick is interested in understanding how fungi are able to invade plants using specialised infection structures called appressoria, how plant tissue is invaded, and how fungi suppress plant immunity. His main contributions have been in understanding plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Rice blast disease destroys up to a third of the annual global rice harvest – enough rice to feed 60 million people. It is therefore an important economic and humanitarian problem.
Nick received his PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of East Anglia. After postdoctoral research at Purdue University in the USA, he moved to the University of Exeter as a Lecturer, later becoming Professor of Molecular Genetics, Head of the School of Biosciences, and Deputy Vice Chancellor. He joined The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich as Executive Director in 2018. He has authored more than 170 publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a member of EMBO, a member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of The Royal Society. He is one of the four current Gatsby Plant Science Advisors.
University of Oxford
Talk title: Reliability, repeatability, reproducibility and responsibility
Mark Fricker started as a plant physiologist with Colin Willmer in Stirling on dissecting signal transduction pathways in stomatal physiology, and then quantitative imaging of Ca2+ in Edinburgh with Tony Trewavas and Nick Read. He continued with in vivo imaging of Ca2+, pH and redox dynamics in plant and then fungal systems after the move to Oxford sometime last century, which evolved into the current interest in signalling and transport in networked systems, and an IgNobel prize in 2010. Experimental investigations cover a range of scales including confocal ratio imaging on a micron scale, radiolabel scintillation imaging at an intermediate scale, and network analysis and mathematical modelling to predict behaviour across all scales. As part of this work, he has been developing image analysis methods to quantify network architecture, dynamics and internal flows at different organisational scales, including sub-cellular ER networks, and macroscopic networks, such as fungi, slime molds, and leaf veins. The resultant fully-weighted network graphs then provide the input to predictive biophysical models to probe the mechanisms leading to the emergence of self-organised, adaptive behaviour.