May 15 (Mon): Mini-symposium

Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica

Time

Speaker

09:00-09:10

Opening remarks

09:15-10:00

  Greg Copenhaver (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Regulating Meiotic Recombination in Plants

10:00-10:45

  Teh-hui Kao (Penn State University, USA)

S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility: A Complex Mechanism of Self/Non-Self Recognition between Pollen and Pistil

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:00

  Alice Cheung (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

Understanding the multi-tasking FERONIA Receptor Kinase

12:00-12:45

Tom Beeckman  (University of Gent, Belgium)

Cell communication shapes the root system

12:45-14:15

Lunch

14:15-15:00

Michael Q. Zhang (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Developing New Technologies for studying Gene Regulation from 1D to 3D

15:00-15:45

  Hao Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

N6-methyladenosine RNA modification affects plant development

15:45-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-17:00

  Blake Meyers (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)

Secondary siRNAs in plants – their targets and evolution

17:00-17:45

Andrea Barta (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna)

The Fate of Alternative Spliced Transcripts in Plants