PROGRAM

Tuesday, 1 June

  • 9:00-12:00 Registration
  • 9:00-14:00 PhD STUDENTS’ DAY
  • Lunch (PhD day attendees only)
  • 15:30-16:30 Registration
  • 16:30-17:45 Welcome + Opening lecture (Ana Caño, CRAG)
  • 17:45-18:15 Break
  • 18:15-19:30 Session I – Agrobiotechnology
  • 19:30 or 20:00? Welcome drink

Wednesday, 2 June

  • 9:00-9:45 Plenary lecture (45 min) – Cristina Maguas (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 9:45-11:15 Session IIa – Ecophysiology and Climate Change // Session IIb – Genomics and Epigenetics (90 min)
  • 11:15-12:15 Coffee + posters? / 11:15-12:00 Coffee + posters
  • 12:15-14:00 Session IIa – Ecophysiology and Climate Change // Session IIb – Genomics and Epigenetics (continued)
  • 14:00-15:30 Lunch + coffee
  • 15:30-17:00 Session IIIa – Development / Session IIIb – Biotic Stress
  • 17:00-17:30 Coffee
  • 17:30-18:30 Session IIIa – Development / Session IIIb – Biotic Stress (continued)
  • 20:00-22:00 Alhambra night visit

Thursday, 3 June

  • 9:00-9:45 Plenary lecture
  • 9:45-11:15 Session IV – Abiotic Stress (90 min)
  • 11:15-12:00 Coffee + posters
  • 12:00-14:00 Session IV – Abiotic Stress (cont.) / Session IVb – Systems Biology & AI (120 min)
  • 14:00-15:30 Lunch + coffee
  • 15:30-17:00 Session V – Water Relations and Mineral Nutrition (90 min)
  • 17:00-17:30 Coffee
  • 17:30-19:00 Session VI – Photosynthesis and Primary Metabolism? / Molecular Signalling (90 min)
  • 20:30- Walk and gala dinner at La Chumbera

Friday, 4 June

  • 9:00-10:45 Session VII ?? – Beneficial Plant-Microorganism Interactions (105 min)
  • 10:45-11:30 Coffee
  • 11:30-12:30 Announcement and closing lecture – Sabater Prize
  • 12:30-13:00 Closing ceremony

(Organise each session into 20-min talks (15+5) and short talks (5 min))

PROPOSED TOPICS FOR SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

  1. Agrobiotechnology and Plant Breeding
    • Iraida Amaya (IHSM) — MJP
    • Manuel Martínez Concepción, IBMCP (JALR) — confirmed
  2. Development (Morphogenesis and Regulation)
    • José Pérez (U. Elche) (MJP) / Blázquez Rodríguez
    • Paula Duque (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – IGC, Portugal)
    • Maria Manuela Ribeiro Costa
    • Catharina Merchante (IHSM)
  3. Ecophysiology and Climate Change (including phenotyping)
    • Nazareth Torres (UPNA) (Ricardo) — confirmed
    • Virginia Hernández-Santana (IRNAS) (Miguel) — CONFIRMED
  4. Abiotic Stress
    • Iker Aranjuelo (IDAB) (Ricardo) — confirmed
    • Mónica Calvo (USAL) (Ricardo) — CONFIRMED
  5. Immunity and Biotic Stress
  6. Beneficial Plant-Organism Interactions
      • Víctor Flors (UJI) — MJ, confirmed
      • Sofía Pereira (UCP, Universidade Católica Portuguesa) (Ricardo) — confirmed
  7. Systems Biology and AI
      • Antoni García-Molina (CRAG) — mjp, confirmed
      • Luis Valledor (U. Oviedo) — confirmed
  8. Water Relations and Mineral Nutrition
      • Manuel Nieves-Cordones (CEBAS) (Miguel) — confirmed
      • Olfa Zarrouk (Santarém Polytechnic University, Portugal) (Ricardo) — confirmed
  9. Genomics and Epigenomics
      • Jesús Pascual Vázquez (U. Oviedo) (Ainhoa) — confirmed
      • Pavel Kerchev (EEZ) (María José) — confirmed
  10. Molecular Signalling
      • Andrea Chini (CNB) — Ricardo, confirmed
      • Luis Oñate (CBGP) — confirmed
  11. Photosynthesis and Primary Metabolism
      • Jeroni Galmés, Univ. Mallorca (Ricardo) — confirmed
      • Alicia Pou (La Rioja) (Ricardo) — confirmed