Program

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Friday, July 8 – Virtual

9:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Ace It! – Write a good title, give a better talk
9:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Chemico-genetic innovative research: A new era of sustainable agriculture
9:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Enhancing Broad-spectrum Disease Resistance in Crop Plants
9:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Ribo-seq informatics workshop: resources, data analysis and visualization
10:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Physiogical interventions of Abiotic stress responses in crop plants
10:00 AM11:30 AMWorkshop: Biotechnology products to sustainability

Saturday, July 9

8:00 AM10:00 AMWorkshop: Enhancing climate-smart agriculture to build resilient systems
8:00 AM10:00 AMWorkshop: PUI Faculty Development Workshop
9:00 AM11:30 AMWorkshop: Building student confidence and resiliency through the lens of diversity
9:00 AM11:30 AMWorkshop: Careers Within and Beyond Academia
9:00 AM11:30 AMWorkshop: Leveraging automation to transform the pace of predictive plant biology
10:00 AM12:00 PMWorkshop: Introduction of Big Data for Plant Biology
10:00 AM12:00 PMWorkshop: Pathway Analysis for RNAseq Data
10:00 AM12:00 PMWorkshop: The What, Why, and How of multi-scale modeling in plant biology
12:00 PM2:30 PMPlenary: RNA Biology
3:15 PM5:30 PMPlenary: Science Without Borders: Migration, Domestication and Culture
6:00 PM7:30 PMWelcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
6:00 PM7:30 PMPosters Open

Sunday, July 10

7:30 AM8:00 AMMorning Coffee & Networking
8:30 AM11:00 AMPlenary: Interacting and Tangled Plant Immune Pathways
11:30 AM1:00 PMPosters & Exhibit Hall Open
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Applying Quantitative Proteomics in Plants
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Single Cell and Spatial Biology Across the Plant Kingdom
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Insights into Plant Senescence
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plants as Living Landscapes for Microbes
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Dynamics and Interaction of Plant Energy Organelles in the Changing Environment
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Whole-Plant Ecophysiology
2:45 PM3:15 PMPosters & Exhibit Hall Open
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plant Biotechnology-Techniques and Potentials for Yield Improvement
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Cell-Cell Signaling During Pollen-pistil Interactions
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plants For Space
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Exploring plant response to complex biotic and abiotic interactions
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Specialized Metabolism
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Responses to Light
5:00 PM7:00 PMReception & Posters Open

Monday, July 11

7:30 AM8:00 AMMorning Coffee & Networking
10:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Attracting research funding in 3 minutes or less
10:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: How to be a diversity advocate in your lab
10:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: Interviewing and Networking for Undergraduates and Others
10:00 AM11:00 AMWorkshop: MEGA software to create phylogenetic tree for plant diversity
12:00 PM1:30 PMPosters & Exhibit Hall Open
12:00 PM1:30 PMThree-Minute Thesis
3:00 PM3:30 PMPosters & Exhibit Hall Open
3:30 PM5:30 PMPosters & Exhibit Hall Open
5:30 PM7:00 PMReception & Posters Open

Tuesday, July 12

8:30 AM11:00 AMPlenary: Breakthroughs in Innate Immune Receptor Biology
11:30 AM1:00 PMPosters & Exhibit Hall Open
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plant cell pH: An emerging signal and secondary messenger
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Insights into shoot meristem de novo organogenesis
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Applications of Gene Editing and Other Novel Biotechnologies
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plants Versus Insects
1:00 PM2:45 PMConcurrent Symposium: Protein Recruitment and Molecular Trafficking
2:45 PM3:15 PMPoster & Exhibit Hall Open
3:15 PM3:18 PMConcurrent Symposium: Signaling and Early Events in Plant-Microbe Interactions
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Plant Adaptations to Extreme Environments – Sponsored by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Gene Editing Breakthroughs
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Novel Applications of Biochemistry and Metabolism
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Signal Transduction: Mechanisms and Responses
3:15 PM5:00 PMConcurrent Symposium: Cell Biology: Organelles and Plastids
7:30 PM10:30 PMAnnual Party

Wednesday, July 13

7:30 AM8:00 AMMorning Coffee & Networking
8:00 AM9:45 AMConcurrent Symposium: Living Factories for Plant-Based Products
8:00 AM9:45 AMConcurrent Symposium: Circadian Regulation of Environmental Responses
8:00 AM9:45 AMConcurrent Symposium: Plant Responses to Pests, Pathogens, and Symbionts
8:00 AM9:45 AMConcurrent Symposium: Chromatin Modifications and the Regulation of Gene Expression
8:00 AM9:45 AMConcurrent Symposium: Reproductive Development
8:00 AM9:45 AMConcurrent Symposium: Biochemistry and Metabolism
10:30 AM1:00 PMPlenary: Nature-Based Solutions to Tackle Climate Change: A Plant Perspective