SPS 2017 Meeting

22 October 2017

INRA - Versailles

The 2017 SPS Meeting took place on October 23-24, 2017, in the amphitheater of the INRA Center of Versailles, in front of the SPS International Scientific Advisory Board.

Programme

Monday October 23

9:00AM - Loïc Lepiniec & Marie-Jeanne Sellier - General advancement of the SPS project

10:00AM - Heribert Hirt - Flagship project 1: Integrative analysis of stress responses

10:30AM - Michael Hodges & Bertrand Gakière - Flagship project 2: Metabolic interactions and fluxes for improved plant-biomass quantity & quality

11:00AM - Martin Crespi & Hervé Vaucheret - Flagship project 3: Epigenetics and RNA-mediated regulation

11:30AM - Patrick Laufs & Philippe Andrey - Flagship project 4: Modelling developmental mechanisms

12:00PM - Christian Meyer - Presentation of the SPS Platforms

12:15PM - Lunch (offered by SPS) and Poster session: projects selected through SPS open calls

3:00PM - Sébastien Thomine - SPS2020 Project DYNANO: Dynamic in vivo imaging of cellular parameters in plants combining fluorescent nanosensors and microfluidic platforms

3:15PM - Eric Jenczewski - SPS2020 Project MERCI: Reaping the benefits of improved meiotic recombination for crop improvement

3:30PM - Herman Höfte - SPS2020 Project MISEDIT: Miscanthus gene editing for seed propagated triploids

3:45PM - Pierre Hilson - SPS2020 Project MultiCrisp: Multiplied CRISPR/Cas9 targets

4:00PM - Adnane Boualem - SPS2020 Project PISTILL: Perfume plants innovation and sustainability by Tilling

4:15 - General discussion (only Executive Committee and SAB members)

5:30 - Scientific Advisory Board Meeting (only SAB members)
 

Tuesday October 24

9:00AM - Welcome coffee

9:20AM - Loïc Lepiniec - Introduction

9:30AM - Detlef Weigel - Genetics and epigenetics of adaptation to the environment

10:15AM - Karin Schumacher - Vacuoles - pumping up the plant volume

11:00AM - Coffee break

11:30AM - Ove Nilsson - FT paralogs control the annual growth cycle and latitudinal adaptation in Aspen trees

12:15PM - Anja Krieger-Liszkay - Regulation of Photosynthetic Electron Transport: the role of the plastid terminal oxidase PTOX

1:00PM - Lunch (offered by SPS)

2:30PM - Graham Noctor - Climate change, CO2 levels, and defense: the metabolic and redox angles

3:15PM - Mathilde Grelon - Meiotic recombination is initiated by a protein complex related to DNA topoisomerases

4:00PM - Michel Zivy - Contribution of quantitative proteomics to the analysis of plant genetics and physiology

4:45PM - End of the meeting

Venue

Amphithéâtre Rebischung - Bâtiment 10
Centre INRA de Versailles
Route de St-Cyr (RD 10)
78026 Versailles Cedex France

Contact: marie-jeanne.sellier@inrae.fr