Schedule for Workshop on "Plant Responses to Abiotic Stresses and Environmental Signals"
June 13-14, 2019
Lecture Hall, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing
June 13 (Thursday)
14:30-14:40 Opening Ceremony
Welcome address by Workshop Chair (Shuhua Yang)
14:40–18:00 Session I: Plant Response to Nutrient Starvation
14:40-16:10 Part I (Chair: Shuhua Yang)
14:40-15:10 Francisco Rubio (CEBAS-CSIC, Spain)
The interactions between K+ availability and the accumulation of Cs+ and As(V) within the plant
15:10-15:40 Yi Wang (China Agricultural University, China)
STOP1 positively regulates LKS1 transcriptional level in Arabidopsis response to low potassium stress
15:40-16:10 Thierry Desnos (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Under phosphate starvation condition, Fe and Al trigger the transcription factor STOP1 to accumulate in the nucleus of Arabidopsis root cells
16:10-16:30 Coffee and Tea Break
16:30-18:00 Part II (Chair: Francisco Rubio)
16:30-17:00 Kang Chong (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
O-GlcNAc signaling mediates flowering in plants
17:00-17:30 Jian Hua (Cornell University, USA)
Genetic basis for variations of thermosensitive growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
17:30-18:00 Alain Gojon (BPMP Institute, URM CNRS/INRA/ SupAgro/UM, France)
Nitrate signaling mechanisms in Arabidopsis roots
June 14 (Friday)
8:30–11:50 Session II: Plant Response to Abiotic Stresses
8:30-10:00 Part I (Chair: Jaakko Kangasjarvi)
8:30-9:00 Michael Holdsworth (University of Nottingham, UK)
The role of oxygen and nitric oxide sensing in plant responses to the environment
9:00-9:30 Tae-Wuk Kim (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea)
CDG1-Like 1-mediated OST1 activation in ABA and BR-regulated stomatal closure
9:30-10:00 Jing Zhang (China Agricultural University, China)
Root growth adaptation by PYLs ABA receptor–PP2A protein phosphatase complex
10:00-10:20 Coffee and Tea Break
10:20-11:50 Part II (Chair: Feng Qin)
10:20-10:50 Yoshiyuki Murata (Okayama University, Japan)
Diverse stomatal signaling and the signal integration mechanism
10:50-11:20 Hannes Kollist (University of Tartu, Estonia)
CO2 signaling in stomatal guard cells
11:20-11:50 On Sun Lau (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Environmental control of stomatal development
11:50-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–17:20 Session III: Plant Response to the Environment
14:00-15:30 Part I (Chair: Zhizhong Gong)
14:00-14:30 Jaakko Kangasjärvi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Coordination of chloroplastic and mitochondrial retrograde signaling by RCD1
14:30-15:00 Caifu Jiang (China Agricultural University, China)
A HAK family Na+-preferring transporter underlies natural variation of shoot Na+ exclusion and salt tolerance in maize
15:00-15:30 Enamul Huq (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
The role of light-regulated pre-mRNA splicing in photomorphogenesis
15:30-15:50 Coffee and Tea Break
15:50-17:20 Part II (Chair: Yan Guo)
15:50-16:20 Meng Chen (University of California Riverside, USA)
Phytochrome signaling and the control of photomorphogenesis
16:20-16:50 Jigang Li (China Agricultural University, China)
TZP, a key component of far-red light signaling
16:50-17:20 Claus Schwechheimer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Regulation of plant growth by polarly distributed AGC kinases
17:20-17:30 Closing Remark by Yan Guo
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