Maize Meeting 2021

With prof. Roberto Tuberosa

Date: from 15 September 2021 to 17 September 2021
Event location: Regensburg (Germany)
Access Details: Admission subject to enrolment/registration and payment of a fee

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15

12:30 - 13:45	Welcome Lunch (Buffet)
13:50	Beginning of the Meeting, Welcome and Information: Thomas Dresselhaus
14:00 – 14:40	Keynote Lecture: Marja Timmermans (Tübingen): A High-Resolution Gene Expression Atlas Links Dedicated Meristem Genes to Key Architectural Traits
14:40 – 16:00	Session I: Development (Chair: Thomas Dresselhaus) Nicolas M. Doll (Lyon/Gent): Characteristic of the Endosperm Adjacent to the Embryo Scutellum (EAS) of Maize Qi Li (Tübingen): Trans-Acting Small RNAs as a Positional Signal in Specifying the Embryonic Shoot Stem-Cell Niche Annika Kortz (Bonn): Uncovering the Transcriptomic Control of Heterosis Manifestation During Lateral Root Initiation in Maize Moritz K. Nowack (Gent): KIL1 Terminates Maize Kernel Set by Promoting Programmed Cell Death in Senescent Silk Strands
16:00 – 16:40	Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:20	Keynote Lecture: Thomas Widiez (Lyon): Intracellular Trafficking in Pollen and its Importance for Maize Reproduction
17:20 – 18:40	Session II: Reproduction (Chair: Karina van der Linde) Martina Balboni (Hamburg): Towards Live Cell Imaging of Meiosis in Maize Xingli Li (Regensburg): Effects of Heat Stress During Pollen Development Liang-Zi Zhou (Regensburg): The RALF Signaling Pathway Regulates Cell Wall Integrity During Pollen Tube Growth in Maize Nina Chumak (Zürich): A Screen for Parthenogenetic Mutants in Maize
19:00 – 20:00	Dinner (Buffet and Bavarian Beer)
20:00 – 21:00	Poster Session (with Drinks) 20:00-20:30 Poster with Uneven Numbers 20:30-21:00 Poster with Even Numbers

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16

08:30 – 09:10	Keynote and Farewell Lecture: Monika Frey (Freising): The Making of Benzoxazinoids in Maize
09:10 – 10:30	Session III: Biotic Interactions (Chair: Chris-Carolin Schön) Nisha Agrawal (Jena): Sporisorium Reilianum Effector SAD1 Interferes with the Function of the Plant E3 Ubiquitin Ligase that Leads to an Upregulation of Abiotic Stress and Loss of Apical Dominance Lei Wang (Bern): Genome-Wide Association Studies of Green Leaf Volatile-Induced Volatile Emission in the Maize 282 Association Panel Sina Barghahn (Cologne): Identification of Proteases, Substrates and Signals in Plant Regulated Cell Death Mara Sgroi (Cambridge): Invisible to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Positional Cloning and Characterization of the ina Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Mutant in Zea Mays
10:30 – 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:50	Session IV: Physiology (Chair: Viktoriya Avramova) Urte Schlüter (Düsseldorf): Natural Variation of Photosynthetic Parameters in Maize Stella Eggels (Freising): Carbon Isotopic Compositions of Maize: Relationship to Gas Exchange and Potential as a Screening Tool for Water Use Efficiency Sonja Blankenagel (Freising): Improving Water Use Efficiency of Maize through the CRISPR/Cas9 Knock-Out of a Single ABA 8’-Hydroxylase Gene Michaela Matthes (Columbia/Bonn): Genome Wide Association Study Reveals Novel Candidates Involved in Boron Homeostasis in Maize
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch (Buffet)
14:00 – 14:40	Keynote Lecture: Serena Varotto (Padua): Chromatin Signatures and Dynamics during Development and Stress Response in Maize
14:40 – 15:40	Session V: Epigenetics (Chair: Arp Schnittger) Stefan Scholten (Göttingen): Towards the Function of the Embryonic Imprinted Gene Mee1 Arnaud de Ruffray (Göttingen): Hybrid-Specific Epigenetic Programming in Early Maize Embryo Development Victor Sánchez-Camargo (Amsterdam): Establishment of a Transient Expression System to Test Cis-Regulatory Module Activity
15:40 – 16:00	Transfer to the Historic City Center
16:30 – 18:00	Guided City Tours
19:00 – 22:00	Conference Dinner in the City Center (Leerer Beutel)

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17

09:00 – 09:40	Keynote Lecture: Francois Tardieu (Montpellier): Improving Maize Yield for Suboptimal Conditions: Making Use of Alleles for Adaptive Traits
09:40 – 11:00	Session VI: Quantitative Genetics (Chair: Frank Hochholdinger) Randall J. Wisser (Delaware/Montpellier): Germplasm and Genetics: Investigating Parallel Response to Selection for Flowering Time in Maize Italo Correia-Granato (Montpellier): Do Traits from Phenotyping Platforms Facilitate Yield Prediction? Thomas Hartwig (Düsseldorf/Cologne): FIND-CIS: In Vivo Mapping of Diverse, Drought-Responsive, and High-Resolution Cistromes in Maize Roberto Tuberosa (Bologna): Genetic Dissection of a Maize Introgression Library Reveals Positive Effects of Low Root/Shoot Ratio QTL Alleles on Water Use, Biomass and Water-Use Efficiency
11:00 – 11:40	Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:20	Keynote Lecture: Hilde Nelissen (Gent): Maize Leaf Growth in Time and Space
12:20 – 13:00	Session VII: Transformation and Evolution (Chair: Milena Ouzunova) Seijiro Ono (Hamburg): A High-Efficient Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation Method of Maize Kerstin Schulz (Cologne): The Evolutionary History of Maize in Europe
13:00 – 13:10	Final Remarks and Closing: Chris-Carolin Schön
13:15	Lunch and Departure