Community Mini-Symposia

We received 104 community-submitted proposals from across the globe. A review committee comprised of members of the organizing committee and members of the ICAR 2020 External Advisory Board reviewed all proposals, ensuring each proposal was scored at least twice. A separate competition was held for proposals led by students and postdocs to ensure that early-career scientists were selected to lead at least 25% of the community-led sessions.  
We applaud the scientific excellence and creativity of the plant science community, which was clearly evident in the array of diverse and exciting topics that the committee received! 

Community Organized Mini-Symposia

Mini-Symposia are assigned to these slots in the program. See Detailed Program for Times & Dates

SLOT. Mini-Symposium Title. Session Chair(s)
  • 1.1  When Development Meets Stress- Integration of Plant Growth and Defense. Session Chair: Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA
  • 1.2 Cell Polarity: Driving Morphological and Functional Complexity. Session Chairs: Yan Gong, Stanford University, USA, and João Ramalho, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 
  • 2.1 From Molecules to Organs: Quantitative Imaging in Plant Biology. Session Chairs: Daniel Kierzkowski, University of Montreal, Canada, and Charlotte Kirchhelle, University of Oxford, UK, Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • 2.2 Running a Research Group in the Next Generation. Session Chairs: Jacqueline Monaghan, Queen's University and Heather McFarlane, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 3.1 Leveraging Natural Variation to Understand Immune Functions. Session Chair: Adam Steinbrenner, University of Washington, USA
  • 3.2 The Arabidopsis Algorithm: Mathematical Modeling in Plant Biology. Session Chair: Kari Miller, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
  • 4.1 Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Development. Session Chairs: Adrienne Roeder and Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde, Cornell University, and Jennifer Lachowiec, Montana State University, USA; Arezki Boudaoud, ENS- Lyon, France; and James Locke, Cambridge, UK
  • 4.2 Translational Regulation of Gene Expression. Session Chairs: Catharina Merchante, University of Málaga, Spain; Astrid Gadeyne, VIB-UGent, Belgium and Pamela A. Ribone, Sainsbury, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 4.3 Arabidopsis Transposable Element Biology.  Session Chair: R. Keith Slotkin, Danforth Center, USA
  • 5.1 Exploring Brassicaceae Diversity.Session Chairs:  Kathleen Greenham, University of Minnesota and Patrick Edger, Michigan State University, USA
  • 5.2 How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone and Drought? Session Chairs: Maija Sierla, University of Helsinki, Finland and Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • 6.1 Metabolite-mediated Regulation of Plant Growth and Development. Session Chairs: Hiroshi A. Maeda, UW-Madison; Jazz Dickinson, and Mark Estelle, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • 6.2 Quantitative Development in the Digital World. Session Chairs: Margaret Frank, Cornell University and Sam Leiboff, Oregon State University, USA
  • 7.1 Getting More Power From Your Flower: Multi-functional Flowers Improve Plant Fitness. Session Chair: Diarmuid O'Maoileidigh, University of Liverpool, UK
  • 7.2 Plant Memory: Environmental Information Integration Within and Across Generations. Session Chair: Gabriela Auge, IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
  • 7.3 Advancing Quantitative Proteomics in Plant Science. Session Chair: R. Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta, Canada
  • 8.1 The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Biology. Session Chairs: Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution, USA, Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • 8.2 Molecules on the Move (MOM): Plant-microorganism Communication. Session Chairs: Patricia Baldrich, Danforth Center and Ryan DelPercio, University of Missouri Columbia, USA
  • 9.1 Active Learning and CUREs in Undergraduate Plant Science Education. Session Chairs: Brit Moss, Whitman College and Thelma Madzima, University of Washington- Bothell, USA
  • 9.2 Encoding Calcium Spikes, Waves, and Oscillations in Arabidopsis. Session Chair: Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley, USA 
  • 10.1 Plant Hormones. Session Chair: Anna Stepanova, North Carolina State University, USA
  • 10.2 Nutrient Signaling Nexus in Control of Plant Architecture. Session Chairs: Franziska Fichtner and Milos Tanurdzic, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • 10.3 Implications of the non-coding genome on chromatin signaling during plant gene expression. Session Chairs: Soichi Inagaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Sebastian Marquardt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 11.1 Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis. Session Chairs: Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State University, USA and Simon Barak, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel
  • 11.2 Exploring the Single-cell Landscape of Arabidopsis. Session Chairs: Travis Lee and Joseph Swift of the Salk Institute; Rachel Shahan, Duke University; and Josh Cuperus  of the University of Washington-Seattle, USA
  • 12.1 Taking an Equity Lens: Empowering Women in Computational Biology. Session Chairs: Aleksandra Beric, Danforth Center, and Sarah Turner-Hissong, Bayer, USA
  • 12.2 Sensing the Cell Wall: Mechanical Signals and Downstream Responses. Session Chairs: Lauri Vaahtera,  Norway and Nora Gigli Bisceglia, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • 13.1 Using Evolutionary Novelty to Understand General Principles of Plant Biology. Session Chair: Daniel Kliebenstein, University of California, Davis, USA.
  • 13.2 Impact and Application of Basic Research to Sustainable Agriculture Improvement. Session Chairs: Huachun Larue and Xiaoyu Liu, Bayer Crop Science, USA
  • 14.0 Hot Papers in Plant Science: Session Chairs from NAASC/ICAR 2021 Organizers: Roger Innes (Indiana University) and Anna Stepanova (NCSU) 
  • 14.1 The Cell Cycle in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Responses. Session Chairs: John Larkin, Louisiana State University and Adrienne Roeder, Cornell University, USA
  • 14.2 Circadian Signatures of Fitness. Session Chairs: Xiaodong Xu, Henan University, China and Antony Dodd, John Innes Centre, UK
  • 14.3 RNA Modifications-mechanism and Biology. Session Chairs: Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA and Yiji Xia, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
  • 15.1 Stress Granules in Plants as Novel Mechanism in Stress Signaling. Session Chair:  Monika Chodasiewicz (Kosmacz), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • 15.2 Social Media and Science Communication. Session Chairs: Javier Brumos, North Carolina State University, USA and Eva Hellmann, Sainsbury at Cambridge University, UK
  • 15.3 Arabidopsis Informatics.  Session Chairs: Nicholas Provart, University of Toronto, Eva Huala and Tanya Berardini (TAIR) 
Active Learning and CUREs in Undergraduate Plant Science Education. Brit Moss, Whitman College and Thelma Madzima, University of Washington- Bothell, USA

Advancing Quantitative Proteomics in Plant Science. R. Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta, Canada

Arabidopsis Informatics.  Nicholas Provart, University of Toronto, Eva Huala and Tanya Berardini (TAIR)
 
Arabidopsis Transposable Element Biology.  R. Keith Slotkin, Danforth Center, USA

Cell Polarity: Driving Morphological and Functional Complexity. Yan Gong, Stanford University, USA, and João Ramalho, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 

Circadian Signatures of Fitness. Xiaodong Xu, Henan University, China 

Encoding Calcium Spikes, Waves, and Oscillations in Arabidopsis. Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley, USA

Exploring Brassicaceae Diversity. Kathleen Greenham, University of Minnesota and Patrick Edger, Michigan State University, USA

Exploring the Single-cell Landscape of Arabidopsis. Travis Lee and Joseph Swift of the Salk Institute; Rachel Shahan, Duke University; Josh Cuperus and Christine Queitsch of the University of Washington-Seattle, USA

Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis.  
Sponsored by Agrisera
​Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State University, USA and Simon Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

From Molecules to Organs: Quantitative Imaging in Plant Biology. Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Daniel Kierzkowski, University of Montreal, Canada, and Charlotte Kirchhelle, University of Oxford, UK

Getting More Power From Your Flower: Multi-functional Flowers Improve Plant Fitness. Diarmuid O'Maoileidigh, University of Liverpool, UK

Hot Papers in Plant Science
Sponsored by 7 Journals: The Plant Cell; The Plant Journal; Development; Plants, People, Planet; Frontiers in Plant Science; Plant Direct; New Phytologist
NAASC- Joanna Friesner, Roger Innes (Indiana University) and Anna Stepanova (NCSU) 

How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone and Drought? 
Sponsored by Agrisera
Maija Sierla, University of Helsinki, Finland and Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USA

Impact and Application of Basic Research to Sustainable Agriculture Improvement. 
Sponsored by Bayer Crop Science
Huachun Larue and Xiaoyu Liu, Bayer Crop Science, USA

Implications of the non-coding genome on chromatin signaling during plant gene expression. Soichi Inagaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Sebastian Marquardt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Leveraging Natural Variation to Understand Immune Functions. Adam Steinbrenner, University of Washington, USA

Metabolite-mediated Regulation of Plant Growth and Development.
Sponsored by The Plant Journal
Hiroshi A. Maeda, UW-Madison; Jazz Dickinson and Mark Estelle, UC San Diego, USA

Molecules on the Move (MOM): Plant-microorganism Communication. Patricia Baldrich, Danforth Center and Ryan DelPercio, University of Missouri Columbia, USA

Nutrient Signaling Nexus in Control of Plant Architecture. Franziska Fichtner and Milos Tanurdzic, The University of Queensland, Australia

Plant Hormones. Anna Stepanova, North Carolina State University, USA

Plant Memory: Environmental Information Integration Within and Across Generations. Gabriela Auge, iB3 - University of Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina

Quantitative Development in the Digital World. Margaret Frank, Cornell University and Sam Leiboff, Oregon State University, USA

RNA Modifications-mechanism and Biology. Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA and Yiji Xia, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Running a Research Group in the Next Generation.
Sponsored by Plant Direct 
Not accepting abstracts Jacqueline Monaghan, Queen's University and Heather McFarlane, University of Toronto, Canada

Sensing the Cell Wall: Mechanical Signals and Downstream Responses. Lauri Vaahtera, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway and Nora Gigli Bisceglia, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Social Media and Science Communication. Javier Brumos, North Carolina State University, USA and Eva Hellmann, Sainsbury at Cambridge University, UK

Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Development. Adrienne Roeder and Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde, Cornell University, and Jennifer Lachowiec, Montana State University, USA; Arezki Boudaoud, ENS- Lyon, France; and James Locke, Cambridge, UK

Stress Granules in Plants as Novel Mechanism in Stress Signaling. Monika Chodasiewicz (Kosmacz), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Taking an Equity Lens: Empowering Women in Computational Biology. Not accepting abstracts Aleksandra Beric, Danforth Center, and Sarah Turner-Hissong, Bayer, USA

The Arabidopsis Algorithm: Mathematical Modeling in Plant Biology.  Kari Miller, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

The Cell Cycle in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Responses. John Larkin, Louisiana State University and Adrienne Roeder, Cornell University, USA

The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Biology. Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution, USA, Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Translational Regulation of Gene Expression. Catharina Merchante, University of Málaga, Spain; Astrid Gadeyne, VIB-UGent, Belgium and Pamela A. Ribone, Sainsbury, University of Cambridge, UK

Using Evolutionary Novelty to Understand General Principles of Plant Biology. Daniel Kliebenstein, University of California, Davis, USA.

When Development Meets Stress- Integration of Plant Growth and Defense. Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA
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