12:00 pm – 8:30 pm Registration Open: Grand Coatroom, 4th Floor 12:00 pm – 7:30 pm Exhibitor Set-up: Grand Ballroom ABCD, 4th Floor 12:00 pm – 8:30 pm Poster Set-Up: Grand Ballroom ABCD, 4th Floor 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Career Workshop and Panel (ticketed event): Park View Room, 4th Floor 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Early Afternoon Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Plenary 1: Hormone Signaling: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Late Afternoon Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Plenary 2: Biotic Interactions: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 6:00 pm – 6:25 pm Break 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Official ICAR 2017 Conference Welcomeby conferenceco-chairs (Rick Vierstra, Washington University, St. Louis and Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania) and Keynote Address 1: Sabeeha Merchant, Dynamics of metal homeostasis in Chlamydomonas; Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Opening Welcome Reception: Grand Ballroom ABCD and Foyer, 4th Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2017
8:00 am – 10:30 pm Posters Open: Grand Ballroom ABCD, 4th Floor 8:00 am – 6:30 pm Registration Open: Grand Coatroom, 4th Floor 9:00 am – 10:30 am Plenary 3- Cell and Developmental Biology: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 10:30 am – 11:00 am Morning Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Plenary 4- Abiotic Interactions: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch with Exhibitors and Posters: Grand Ballroom ABCD and Foyer, 4th Floor 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Concurrent Session 1- Epigenetics and Chromatin (Grand Ballroom E, 4th Floor) and Concurrent Session 2- Plant Defense and Biotic Interactions (Grand Ballroom FGH, 4th Floor)r 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Afternoon Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 3- Cell and Developmental Biology 1 (Grand Ballroom E, 4th Floor) and Concurrent Session 4- Post-translational Regulation (Grand Ballroom FGH, 4th Floor) 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Workshops 1 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Keynote Address 2: Mary Lou Guerinot, Ionome to Genome: Tales of Gene Discovery; Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm Exclusive Poster Session/Exhibit Hall Opening Reception: Grand Ballroom ABCD and Foyer, 4th floor
Wednesday June 21, 2017
7:00 am – 8:00 am Weed Stampede Fun Run/Walk(ticketed event) 8:00 am – 12:30 pm Posters Open: Grand Ballroom, 4th Floor 8:00 am – 11:30 am Registration Open: Grand Coatroom, 4th Floor 9:00 am – 11:00 am Plenary Session 5- Modeling, Gene Regulation, Systems, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 11:00 am – 11:30 amMorning Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Plenary Session 6- Natural Variation, Evolution, and Ecology, Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 12:30 pm – on Free Afternoon (see Special Conference Events Below) 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm Donald Danforth Science Center:
8:00 am – 9:30 pm Posters Open: Grand Ballroom, 4th Floor 8:00 am – 6:30 pm Registration Open: Registration Open: Grand Coatroom, 4th Floor 9:00 am – 10:30 am Plenary Session 7- Epigenetics and Chromatin: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 10:30 am – 11:00 am Morning Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Concurrent Session 5- Cell and Developmental Biology 2: Grand Ballroom E and Concurrent Session 6- Translational Biology: Grand Ballroom FGH 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch with Exhibitors and Posters: Grand Ballroom ABCD and Foyer, 4th Floor 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Concurrent Session 7- Natural Variation, Evolution and Ecology: Grand Ballroom E and Concurrent Session 8- Hormone Signaling: Grand Ballroom FGH, 4th Floor 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Afternoon Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Concurrent Session 9- Structural Biology Grand Ballroom E and Concurrent Session 10- Abiotic Interactions Grand Ballroom FGH 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Workshops 2 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Keynote Address 3: Keiko Torii, Breaking the Silence: Making Decisions in the World of Uncertainty, Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Exclusive Poster Session/Exhibit Hall Session: Grand Ballroom ABCD and Foyer, 4th Floor 9:30 – 10:30 pm Dismantle posters and exhibit booths
Friday June 23, 2017
7:00 am - 3:00 pm Luggage Hold Available: Mills 1, 4th Floor 9:00 am – 10:30amPlenary Session 8- Novel Approaches: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee: Grand Foyer, 4th Floor 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Keynote Address 4: Sheng Yang He, Disease-climate-microbiome triangles in the phyllosphere: Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: Announcement of ICAR 2018; Official Closure of ICAR 2017, Grand Ballroom EFGH, 4th Floor