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Monday, July 6, 2020

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Story Collider Workshop #1, Advanced Purchase Ticked Required, Maximum: 70 tickets sold Kane Hall, Rm 210; Attend 1 at most
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Story Collider Workshop #2, Advanced Purchase Ticked Required, Maximum: 70 tickets sold Kane Hall, Rm 210; Attend 1 at most
2:00 PM - 9:00 PM: REGISTRATION OPEN: MEANY PERFORMANCE HALL

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Official ICAR 2020 Welcome and Opening Keynote Speaker:
Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Inst. for Developmental Biology, Germany, MEANY PERFORMANCE HALL

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Official ICAR 2020 Welcome Reception, MEANY PERFORMANCE HALL

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Plenary Session #1 (Kane Hall, Room 130): Plasticity of Plant Development In Response to the Environment

Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
Kathleen Donohue, Duke Univ., USA
Yuling Jiao, IGDB- CAS, China

10:30 AM- 11:00 AM: KANE HALL: COFFEE BREAK SPONSORED BY THE PLANT CELL JOURNAL- Meet TPC Editors at the Break!

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Plenary Session #2 (Kane Hall, Room 130): New Frontiers in Plant-Biotic Interactions

Ken Shirasu, RIKEN, Japan
Xin-Li, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley, USA

12:30 PM- 1:45 PM: LUNCH PROVIDED (LOCATION TBC)
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: LUNCH SEMINAR (OPTIONAL), TOPIC TBC; LOCATION: HUB 160/LYCEUM ROOM (BRING LUNCH INSIDE SEMINAR)

AFTERNOON EVENTS: MOVE TO HUSKY UNION BUILDING (HUB)

2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #1: Active Learning and CUREs in Undergraduate Plant Science Education. Organized by: Brit Moss, Whitman College and Thelma Madzima, Univ. of Washington-Bothell

Brit Moss, Whitman College
Thelma Madzima, Univ. of Washington Bothell
James Burnette, Univ. of California Riverside
Mentewab Ayalew, Spelman College
Alison Crowe, Univ. of Washington
Michael Wolyniak, Hampden-Sydney College
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2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #2: Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis. Organized by: Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State Univ.

Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State Univ.
Elizabeth Weretilnyk, McMaster Univ., Canada
Ute Kraemer, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany
Simon Barak, Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel
Guannan Wang, Louisiana State Univ.
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2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #3: Metabolite-mediated Regulation of Plant Growth and Development. Organized by: Hiroshi Maeda, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison and Jazz Dickinson, Duke Univ.

Hiroshi Maeda, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Dan Kliebenstein, UC Davis
Aleksandra Skiryz, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology
Jazz Dickinson, Duke Univ.
Marcos de Oliveira, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
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SECOND SET OF AFTERNOON SYMPOSIA

3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium #4: How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone, and Drought? Organized by: Maija Sierla, Univ. of Helsinki and Julian Schroeder, UC San Diego

Julian Schroeder, UC San Diego
Julie Gray, Univ. of Sheffield
Diana Santelia, ETH Zurich
Maija Sierla, Univ. of Helsinki
Yohei Takahashi, UC San Diego
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3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium #5: Molecules on the Move (MOM): Plant-microorganism Communication. Organized by: Patricia Baldrich, Danforth Center and Ryan DelPercio, Danforth Center and Univ. of Missouri

Patricia Baldrich, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Ryan DelPercio, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Univ. of Missouri
Hana Zand Karimi, Univ. of Indiana, Bloomington
Baoye He, UC Riverside
Yingnan Hou, UC Riverside
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3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium #6: Using Evolutionary Novelty to Understand General Principles of Plant Biology. Organized by: Dan Kliebenstein, UC Davis

Dan Kliebenstein, UC Davis
Shawn Abrahms, Univ. of Missouri
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5:00 - 7:00 PM: Exhibits and Posters Open (South Ballroom) with refreshments: browse posters, visit booths, or attend a workshop

5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #1: Quantitative Development in the Digital World. Organized by: Margaret Frank, Cornell Univ., and Sam Leiboff, UC Berkeley

Annis Richardson, Univ. of Edinburgh
Mao Li, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Sam Leiboff, UC Berkeley
Tessa Birch-Smith, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #2: Running a Research Group in the Next Generation. Organized by: Heather McFarlane, Univ. of Toronto and Jacqueline Monaghan, Queen's Univ.

Elizabeth Haswell, Washington Univ. in St Louis
Siobhan Brady, UC Davis
Sonali Roy, Noble Foundation

5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #3: Taking an Equity Lens: Empowering Women in Computational Biology. Organized by: Aleksandra Beric, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Aleksandra Beric, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Amy Marshall-Colón, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kathleen Greenham, Univ. of Minnesota
Molly Megraw, Oregon State Univ.
Sarah Turner-Hissong, Bayer Crop Science

5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #4: The Cell Cycle in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Responses. Organized by: John Larkin, Louisiana State Univ. and Adrienne Roeder, Cornell Univ.

Adrienne Roeder, Cornell Univ.
Jeremy Coate, Reed College
John Larkin, Louisiana State Univ.
Kostas Lampou,, Univ. of Hamburg
Lieven De Veylder, VIB, Ghent
Masaaki Umeda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Official Poster Session #1: Half of posters to be displayed (to be confirmed) Exhibition Hall Open: HUB South Ballroom
Official End: 9:00 PM/ Ballroom Doors Close: 9:30 PM

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM: Weed Stampede, 5K Fun Run/Walk. Advanced Purchase Ticked Required, optional (location near campus to be confirmed)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Plenary Session #3 (Kane Hall, Rm 130): Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Differentiation and Intracellular Signaling

Katie Dehesh, UC Riverside, USA
Roger Deal, Emory Univ, USA
Mary Gehring, MIT-Whitehead, USA

10:30 AM- 11:00 AM: KANE HALL: COFFEE BREAK SPONSORED BY PLANT PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Plenary Session #4 (Kane Hall, Room 130): Intercellular Communication

Tessa Burch-Smith, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Sota Fujii, Univ. of Tokyo and NAIST, Japan
Ji-Young Lee, Seoul National Univ., South Korea

12:30 PM- 1:45 PM: LUNCH PROVIDED (LOCATION TBC)
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: LUNCH SEMINAR (OPTIONAL), TOPIC TBC; LOCATION: HUB 160/LYCEUM ROOM (BRING LUNCH INSIDE SEMINAR)

AFTERNOON EVENTS: MOVE TO HUSKY UNION BUILDING (HUB)
2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #7: Exploring Brassicaceae Diversity. Organized by: Kathleen Greenham, Univ. of Minnesota and Patrick Edger, Michigan State Univ.

Kathleen Greenham, Univ. of Minnesota
Patrick Edger, Michigan State Univ.
Marcus Koch, Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg
Jennifer Wisecaver, Purdue Univ.
Mackenzie Mabry, Univ. of Missouri
Ratan Chopra, Univ. of Minnesota
Andrew Nelson, Boyce Thompson Institute
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2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #8: The role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Biology. Organized by: Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution, Stanford and Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez, UNAM
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Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution, Stanford
Lucia Strader, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Alejandra Covarrubias, Instituto de Biotecnología-UNAM
Dmitri Nusinow, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Pan Zhu, John Innes Centre
Doris Wagner, Univ. of Pennsylvania
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2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #9: When Development Meets Stress- Integration of Plant Growth and Defense. Organized by: Cris Argueso, Colorado State Univ.

Cris Argueso, Colorado State Univ.
Gregg Howe MSU
Jian Hua, Cornell Univ.
Cris Argueso, Colorado State Univ.
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SECOND SET OF AFTERNOON SYMPOSIA
3:45 - 5:15 PM:Minisymposium #10: Encoding Calcium Spikes, Waves, and Oscillations in Arabidopsis. Organized by: Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley

Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley
Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley
Gabriele B. Monshausen, Penn State Univ.
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3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium #11: Sensing the Cell Wall: Mechanical Signals and Downstream Responses. Organized by: Lauri Vaahtera, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology and Nora Gigli-Bisceglia, Wageningen Univ.

Julia Santiago Cuellar, Univ. of Lausanne: Overview/Intro
Nora Gigli-Bisceglia, Wageningen Univ.
Marie-Theres Hauser, Boku Univ. Vienna
Julia Santiago Cuellar, Univ. of Lausanne
Masatsugu Toyota, Saitama Univ.
Christina Franck, Univ. of Zürich
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3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium #12: The Arabidopsis Algorithm: Mathematical Modeling in Plant Biology. Organized by: Kari Miller, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Kari Miller, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Charlie Anderson, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Rajib Saha, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln
Mareike Jezek, Univ. of Glasgow
Fei Du, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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5:00 - 7:00 PM: Exhibits and Posters Open (South Ballroom) with refreshments: browse posters, visit booths, or attend a workshop

5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #5: Arabidopsis Bioinformatics. Organized by: Nick Provart, Univ. of Toronto and Eva Huala and Tanya Berardini, Phoenix Bioinformatics/TAIR

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5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #6: Social Media and Science Communication. Organized by: Eva Hellmann, Sainsbury Lab, Univ. of Cambridge, and Javier Brumos, NCSU

Eva Hellmann, Sainsbury Lab, Univ. of Cambridge
Javier Brumos, NCSU
Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
Elizabeth Haswell, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Mary Williams, The Plant Cell, American Society of Plant Biologists
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5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #7: Stress Granules in Plants as Novel Mechanism in Stress Signaling. Organized by: Monika Chodasiewicz (Kosmacz), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam

Monika Chodasiewicz (Kosmacz), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam
Emilio Gutierrez Beltran, Univ. of Sevilla
JC Jang, Ohio State Univ.
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5:30 - 6:30 PM Workshop #8: Utilizing Arabidopsis in the Classroom: Empowering Students and Your Research Program. Organized by: Siobhan Braybrook, UCLA

Program not supplied
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7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Official Poster Session #2: Half of posters to be displayed (to be confirmed). Exhibition Hall Open: HUB South Ballroom
Official End: 9:00 PM/ Ballroom Doors Close: 9:30 PM

Thursday, July 9, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Plenary Session #5 (Kane Hall, Room 130): Post-transcriptional Mechanisms of Gene Regulation

Steven Spoel, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Hongwei Guo, Southern China Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Greg Vert, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, France

10:30 AM- 11:00 AM: KANE HALL: COFFEE BREAK SPONSORED BY THE PLANT CELL JOURNAL- Meet TPC Editors at the Break!

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Plenary Session #6 (Kane Hall, Room 130): Systems Approaches to Understanding and Engineering Plant Biology

Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford Univ., USA
David Savage, UC Berkeley, USA
Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London, UK

12:30 PM- 1:45 PM: LUNCH PROVIDED (LOCATION TBC)
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: LUNCH SEMINAR (OPTIONAL), TOPIC TBC; LOCATION: HUB 160/LYCEUM ROOM (BRING LUNCH INSIDE SEMINAR)

AFTERNOON EVENTS: MOVE TO HUSKY UNION BUILDING (HUB)
2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #13: Plant Hormones. Organized by: Anna Stepanova, NCSU

Anna Stepanova, NCSU
Elena Zemylanskaya, Novosibirsk
Zhongchi Liu, Univ. of Maryland
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2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #14: RNA Modifications-mechanism and Biology. Organized by: Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside and Yiji Xia, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.

Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside
Yiji Xia, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.
Thierry Lagrange, Laboratoire Genome et Developement des Plantes, France
Hao Yu, National Univ. of Singapore
Guifang Jia, Peking Univ.
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2:00 - 3:30 PM: Minisymposium #15: Technological Innovations to Jumpstart Biological Discovery. Organized by: Christine Queitsch, Univ. Washington, Seattle and Roger Deal, Emory Univ.

Christine Queitsch, Univ. Washington, Seattle
Roger Deal, Emory Univ.
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SECOND SET OF AFTERNOON SYMPOSIA
3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium 16: Leveraging Natural Variation to Understand Immune Functions. Organized by: Adam Steinbrenner, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

Adam Steinbrenner, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Ksenia Krasileva, UC Berkeley
Talia Karasov, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Andrew Gloss, Univ. of Chicago
Eunyoung Chae, Nat. Univ. Singapore
Robyn Roberts, Boyce Thompson Institute
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3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium 17: Plant Memory: Environmental Information Integration Within and Across Generations. Organized by: Gabriela Auge, FIL-IIBBA-CONICET / DFBMC-FCEN-UBA

Gabriela Auge, FIL-IIBBA-CONICET / DFBMC-FCEN-UBA
Christian Lampei, Univ. of Münster
Irjia Ratikainen, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology
Mariano Alvarez, Duke Univ.
Mayumi Iwasaki, Univ. of Geneva
Leandro Quadrana, IBENS-CNRS
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3:45 - 5:15 PM: Minisymposium 18: Translational Regulation of Gene Expression. Organized by: Astrid Gadeyne, Ghent Univ., Catharina Merchante, Univ. of Málaga, and Pamela Ribone, Sainsbury, Univ. of Cambridge

Astrid Gadeyne, Ghent Univ.
Catharina Merchante, Univ. of Málaga
Pamela Ribone, Sainsbury, Univ. of Cambridge
Jose Alonso, NC State Univ.
Polly Hsu, Michigan State Univ.
Mar Castellano, Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics
Guoyong Xu, Wuhan Univ.
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5:00 PM: Exhibits and Posters Open, with refreshments, for informal browsing/discussions: HUB South Ballroom
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Official Poster Session #3 and Exhibition Hall Open

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: ALL STUDENTS INVITED TO PUT THEIR POSTERS BACK UP

All attendees encouraged to browse student posters
All posters and booth materials must be removed by 8:30 PM/ Ballroom Doors Close: 9:00 PM
All Posters and materials not removed by 9:00 PM may be discarded (ballroom will be cleaned out)

7:30 - 10:30 PM Official ICAR 2020 Dinner Party
Off site: The Burke Museum, Ticketed event, Advance ticket purchase recommended

Friday, July 10, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Plenary Session #7 (Kane Hall, Room 130): Translating Research Into Impact

Vi Shukla, Gates Foundation, USA
Pam Ronald, UC Davis, USA
Tim Kelliher, NCSU and Syngenta, USA

10:30 AM- 11:00 AM: KANE HALL: COFFEE BREAK SPONSORED BY THE PLANT CELL JOURNAL- Meet TPC Editors at the Break!

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Minisymposium 19: Arabidopsis Transposable Element Biology. Organized by: Keith Slotkin, Danforth Plant Science Center / Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

Keith Slotkin, Danforth Plant Science Center / Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Leandro Quadrana, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure
Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre, Norwich
Angélique Deleris, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure
David Roquis, Etienne Bucher Laboratory, INRA Centre Angers-Nantes: Pays de la Loire
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Minisymposium 20: From Molecules to Organs: Quantitative Imaging in Plant Biology Organized by: Daniels Kierzkowski, Univ. of Montréal, Charlotte Kirchhelle, Univ. of Oxford, and Marisa Otegui, Univ. WI, Madison

Charlotte Kirchhelle, Univ. of Oxford
Daniels Kierzkowski, Univ. of Montréal
Marisa Otegui, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison
Agata Burian, Univ. of Silesia, Poland
Richard Vierstra, Washington Univ. at St Louis
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Minisymposium 21: Impact and Application of Basic Research to Sustainable Agriculture Improvement. Organized by: Xiaoyu Liu and Huachun Larue, Bayer Crop Science. Generously sponsored by Bayer Crop Science.

Xiaoyu Liu, Bayer
Clayton Larue, Bayer
Edward Cargill, Bayer
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12:30 PM- 1:30 PM: LUNCH PROVIDED (LOCATION TBC)

1:45 - 3:15 PM: Minisymposium 22: Exploring the Single Cell Landscape of Arabidopsis. Organized by: Josh Cuperus, Univ. Washington, Seattle, Travis Lee and Joseph Swift of Salk Inst., and Rachel Shahan, Duke Univ.

Joseph Swift, Salk Inst.
Kenneth Birnbaum, NYU
Siobhan Brady, UC Davis
Michael Dorrity, Univ. Washington, Seattle
Rachel Shahan, Duke Univ.
Travis Lee, Salk Inst.
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1:45 - 3:15 PM: Minisymposium 23: Getting More Power From Your Flower: Multi-functional Flowers Improve Plant Fitness. Organized by: Diarmuid Ó’Maoiléidigh, Univ. of Liverpool

Diarmuid Ó’Maoiléidigh (Univ. of Liverpool, UK)
Yang Dong, John Innes Centre
Diarmuid Ó’Maoiléidigh, Univ. of Liverpool
Kevin Goslin, Trinity College Dublin
Benoît Boachon, LBVpam CNRS-Université Saint-Etienne
Catriona Walker, Univ. of Leeds
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1:45 - 3:15 PM: Minisymposium 24: Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Development. Organized by: Adrienne Roeder & Vijaya Vadde, Cornell Univ., Arezki Boudaoud, ENS- Lyon, Jennifer Lachowiec, Montana State Univ., & James Locke, Sainsbury Lab, Univ. of Cambridge

Adrienne Roeder, Cornell Univ.
Vijaya Vadde, Cornell Univ.
Christian Fleck, ETH Zurich
Jennifer Lachowiec, Montana State Univ.
Lilan Hong, Zhejiang Univ.
Sandra Cortijo, CNRS
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3:30 - 5:00 PM
Announcements and ICAR 2020 Closing Keynote Speaker:
Joanne Chory, Salk Institute, USA
130 Kane Hall

5:00 PM: Official ICAR 2020 Closure; FAREWELL AND DEPARTURE

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Full ICAR 2021 Program (awaiting talks selected from abstracts)Subject to Updates

Full ICAR 2021 Program (awaiting talks selected from abstracts)
Subject to Updates