Session 1—Flowering network

08:30 

Recent advances in the flowering network in Arabidopsis Dr. Hao Yu (Department of Biological Science, National University of Singapore)

08:55 

LEAFY Target Genes Reveal Floral Regulatory Logic, cis Motifs, and a Link to Biotic Stimulus Response  Dr. Doris Wagner (Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania)

09:20 

Regulation of plant development by the blue light photoreceptor cryptochromes  Dr. Hongquan Yang (School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

09:45 

Tea break 

Session II—Male Gametophyte

10:10 

Regulatory networks in pollen development and dehiscence Dr. Zoe Wilson (Plant and Crop Sciences Division, University of Nottingham)

10:35 

Male Reproductive Development and Floral Organ Specification in Rice Dr. Dabing Zhang (School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

11:00 

NO PRIMEXINE AND PLASMA MEMBRANE UNDULATION (NPU), Is Essential for Primexine Deposition and Plasma Membrane Undulation during Microsporogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Dr. Zhongnan Yang (College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University) 

11:25 

OsAPI5 regulates the tapetum degeneration in rice Dr. Changyin Wu (Huazhong Agricultural University)

11:45 

Understanding early anther development in rice using male-sterile mutants Dr. Ki-Hong Jung (Department of Plant Molecular Systems Biotechnology & Crop Biotech Institute, Kyung Hee University)

12:15 

Lunch 

Session III—Meiosis and Pollen tube growth modulation 

14:00 

Pollen tube guidance: the interplay between pollen tube and the ovule Dr. Weicai Yang (Institute of Genetics & Development, Chinese Academy of Science)

14:25 

The role of Arabidopsis small ribosomal subunit proteasome in gametogenesis and embryogenesis Dr. Lijia Qu (College of Life Science, Peking University)

14:50 

Control of interhomolog recombination in Arabidopsis meiosis Dr. Chris Franklin (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)

15:15 

The biosynthesis of pollen tube wall  Dr. De Ye (College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University)

15:40 

Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Tomato Pollen Germination and Tube Growth Mediated by Pollen Receptor Kinases-Associated Complexes  Dr. Weijie Huang (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science)

16:05 

Tea break 

Session IV—Developmental signaling  

16:20 

GABA mediates pistil-pollen tube communication and modulates pollen tube growth and orientation via activating Ca²⁺- permeable channel  Dr. Mengxiang Sun (College of Life Science, Wuhan University)

16:45 

Characterization of an ethylene inducible, calcium dependent nuclease that is differentially expressed in cucumber flower development Dr. Shunong Bai (College of Life Science, Peking University)

17:10 

Coordinated regulation of Arabidopsis roots growth by auxin and gibberellin Dr. Xiangdong Fu (Institute of Genetics & Development, Chinese Academy of Science)

17:35 

Evening meal at Faculty Club 

Session V –Plant Reproductive Development and Epigenetics

08:30 

Novel systems of phased siRNAs control late pollen development Dr. Grant-Downton Robert (Plant Sciences, University of Oxford) 

08:55 

Flowering time regulation mediated by protein arginine methylation Dr. Xiaofeng Cao (Institute of Genetics & Development, Chinese Academy of Science) 

09:20 

Studies on the rice endosperm development 

Dr. Hongwei Xue (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science) 

09:45 

AtRH59, a DEAH-box RNA helicase, functions on the development of Arabidopsis female gametophyte Dr. Xiansheng Zhang (College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University) 

10:10 

Tea break 

Session VI—Self incompatibility

10:30 

Cellular Control of S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility in Flowering Plants Dr. Yongbiao Xue (Institute of Genetics & Development, Chinese Academy of Science) 

10:55 

Genetic Analysis of the Cross-Incompatible Gene Ga1-S and its Application in Maize Breeding Dr. Huabang Chen (College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University)

11:20 

Recognition of “self”: Papaver Self-Incompatibility uses conversations that commit “self” pollen to die Dr. Noni Franklin-Tong (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)

11:45 

Lunch