SPS 2024 Meeting

The afternoon of June 3 will be devoted to a progress report on the SPS project (reserved for the SPS community, our International Scientific Advisory Board and representatives of our institutions and the ANR).

June 4 will be a day of conferences open to all.

Provisional program

Monday June 3

1:30 PM    General overview of the SPS-GSR EUR project progress (Loïc Lepiniec)
2:30 PM    Bioinformatics – Bioanalysis (Nicolas Bouché & Etienne Delannoy)
2:50 PM    Specialized metabolites (Grégory Mouille & Adnane Boualem)
3:10 PM    Beneficials (Benoit Alunni)
3:30 PM    Break    
4:00 PM    Round-table about teaching and training in the EUR project (Alia Dellagi & Marianne Delarue)
4:30 PM    Innovation and Partnership (Sylvie Dinant & Adnane Boualem)
5:00 PM    General discussion
6:00 PM    Scientific Advisory Board Meeting (only for SAB members)

Tuesday June 4

09:00 AM    Welcome coffee    
09:20 AM    Introduction (Loïc Lepiniec)
09:30 AM    Uncovering stress tolerance mechanisms of the oilseed crop camelina - Claudia Jonak (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
10:15 AM     Control of plant response to the environment by cell communication - George Bassel (University of Warwick, UK)
11:00 AM     Coffee break    
11:30 AM     The study of wild and domestic forms provides a dual perspective on the evolution of divergence with gene flow - Maud Tenaillon (UMR Quantitative Genetics and Evolution - GQE-Le Moulon)
12:15 PM     Lunch (offered by SPS)    
01:45 PM    Unveiling the functional mechanism of Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase: an algal photoenzyme with great promise for green fuel production - Pavel Müller (Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell - I2BC)
02:30 PM    The colorful genetic makeup of Whiteflies sheds light on plant-insect interactions - Florian Maumus (Unité de Recherche en Génomique-Info - URGI)
03:15 PM     How plants deal with replication-induced DNA damage: signaling mechanisms and physiological relevance - Cécile Raynaud (Institut of Plante Sciences Paris-Saclay - IPS2)
04:00 PM    Coffee break    
04:30 PM     Into outer space: fungal secretion of extracellular vesicles and their role in plant infection - Richard O'Connell (UMR BIOlogie et GEstion des Risques en agriculture - BIOGER)
05:15 PM     Spatio-temporal regulation of plant cell division - David Bouchez (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin - IJPB)
06:00 PM    End of the meeting

Registration

Registration to this event is free but mandatory.
Registration deadline postponed to May 20, 2024 (midnight)

Access

Campus Agro Paris-Saclay, 22 place de l’Agronomie, 91120 Palaiseau
https://www.agroparistech.fr/en/visiting-our-school

> We strongly advise participants to come by public transport.

> However, some parking spaces may be available for participants.
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- Please note that the number of parking spaces available for events is limited. Depending on the number of spaces requested, Campus Agro management may refuse access.

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> Please allow enough time to complete all these formalities before the start of the Meeting.