• Nam-Hai Chua (Keynote) - LLPS and mobile lncRNA regulate leaf senescence.
  
• Erstelle Pasion - Unraveling the genetics underlying micronutrient signatures of diversity panel present in brown rice through genome-ionome linkages
• Sahar Magen - Raffinose as a novel inducer of autophagy in plants
• Tamene Tolessa - Myrtaceae tree species encodes for a potential novel class of resistance genes
• Qiao Wen Tan - Cross-stress gene expression atlas of Marchantia polymorpha reveals the hierarchy and regulatory principles of abiotic stress responses
• Maxime Josse - Detecting cellular auxin dynamics in living plants – microbial auxin sensors domains break the ice (this talk will not be recorded or available on demand)

This session will be chaired by Carl Ng 

• To Thi Mai Huong (Keynote) - Exploring the hidden half - a surprising role of a plasmodesmal protein controlling the root development in rice under abiotic stress
• Han-Qing Wang - Rice roots avoid asymmetric heavy metal and salinity stress via a RBOH-ROS-auxin signaling cascade

This session will be chaired by Keith Lindsey and Jana Sperschneider

This session will allow delegates to connect with the invited mentors and ask them about a variety of topics, including: starting your own lab, developing research networks, applying for fellowships, and writing grant applications.  

Delegates should refer to their name badge for their breakout group assignment.   

This session will not be recorded or available on Zoom. 

• Eilon Shani (Keynote) - Multi-Knock – a multi-targeted genome-scale CRISPR toolbox to overcome functional redundancy in plants
• Rabiatul Adawiah Zainal Abidin - Gene co-expression network analysis identifies molecular regulators for improving stress tolerance traits in rice and papaya
• Timothy Stephens - Exploring the origin and evolution of primary plastids using Paulinella as a model system
• Adil Khan - CRISPRi-based circuits for genetic computation in plants
• Pedro Garcia - Cracking the vascular origin of potato tuber formation through a single cell RNA-Seq approach

Chaired by Daisuke Urano & Lisha Shen

Coaches will be provided from NUS to the Botanic Gardens.  

Delegates are asked to be ready to depart on coaches no later than 15:50 

Followed by dinner in Downtown Singapore. Delegates should refer to the email with joining instructions and in-person announcements for more details.  

• Yuchen Long (keynote) - Do plant cells behave like bubbles?
• Vesa Havurinne - Photoinhibition atlas of photosynthetic sea slugs
• Noemi Svolacchia - Unveiling the role of cell wall mechanical properties in regulating cell division and differentiation
• Kirsty McCready - Where did the seed evolve from? An investigation of SPOROCYTLESS homologs in the fern Ceratopteris richardii

This session will be chaired by Karthikbabu Kannivadi Ramakanth

We regret to inform delegates that Naomi Nakayama is unable to attend, we are delighted that Yuchen Long has agreed to give a talk.  

Drawing on the recently published New Phytologist Viewpoint, One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective, delegates will work together to explore some of these key questions, and then present their ideas later in the day. 

The session will be introduced by Alistair Hetherington and Ari Sadanandom.

Delegates should refer to their name badges for their breakout group. 

(This session will not be available on Zoom)  

Refreshments will be available from 11.15 in the Foyer during this breakout session, however, please note that food and drinks (apart from water) are not allowed in the breakout rooms.  

• Sridevi Sureshkumar (Keynote) - The molecular mechanisms of trinucleotide expansions- a role for SUMO proteases
• Jihyun Kim - Phytophthora capsici RXLR effector Pc12 causes cell death without host defense by inhibiting vesicle trafficking through small GTPase Rab protein
• Melissa Uribe Acosta - Role of structural and chemical plant defense components on root-microbiome assembly
• Hernan Dario Capador Barreto - The effect of fungal pathogens on conspecific negative density dependence in a tropical tree

Chaired by Maarja Öpik

Ari Sadanandom (Keynote) - Deciphering the SUMO code for adaptive responses in plants.

Chaired by Martin McAinsh and Rachelle Rui Qi Lee

This panel session will allow delegates to put questions to journal editors. Delegates are encouraged to ask questions, either in person or via Slido.  Slido allows you to post questions anonymously, as well as up-vote other questions.  Online delegates are encouraged to ask questions via Slido.

Full details on how to ask questions via Slido will be available to registered delegates.

Chaired by Sarah Lennon, Executive Editor, New Phytologist Foundation and Helen Pinfield-Wells, Managing Editor, New Phytologist 

Jia-Wei Wang (Keynote) - Rejuvenation, reproduction, and regeneration: resetting the plant juvenility clock

Delegates will discuss some of the ethical issues that may arise in publishing. Cases will be discussed as a group to allow delegates to explore a variety of ethical issues that may impact journals, editors, authors and reviewers. 

Delegates should refer to their name badges for their room for the Publishing Ethics workshop. 

This session will not be available on Zoom or recorded.

Following on from earlier breakout sessions, a presenter from each group will share their conclusions. 

The session will be chaired by Ari Sadanandom and Christine Phillips

This session will be broadcast live on Zoom, but will not be recorded. 

View the Poster Presenters 

From 19:30 to 20:15 odd-numbered poster presenters are asked to present

From 20:15 to 21:00 even-numbered poster presenters are asked to present

• Lourens Poorter (Keynote) - Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests
• Julia Joswig - Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation
• Ming Yang Lee - Synergies and trade-offs in P acquisition strategies underlying tropical dipterocarp forests in Southeast Asia
• Emily Warschefsky - Tree crop diversity, conservation, and domestication
• Su-Ee Lau - When banana meets drought: How does drought influence the transcriptome of Musa acuminata cv. Berangan and specifically MaMYB-86-like gene
• Komal Goel - Daytime and night-time heating triggers asymmetric effects on CO2 assimilation and evolution pathways in Chenopodium quinoa (this talk will not be recorded or available on demand)

This session will be chaired by Junying Lim and Felicia Leong Wei Shan

• Alison Kim Shan Wee (Keynote) - Southeast Asian Mangroves in a Changing World: Insights from Phylogeography, Gene Expression and eDNA Metabarcoding
• Iain Hope - Environmental adaption of rubisco in global marine systems

This session will be chaired by Tim Brodribb 

This panel discussion will focus on where a plant science career can take you, as well as a general discussion and reflections on research culture and career progression.

Chaired by Sarah Lennon, Executive Editor, New Phytologist Foundation and Helen Pinfield-Wells, Managing Editor, New Phytologist 

Poster prize winners will be announced during the closing session 

All posters to be removed by 14.00, any posters remaining after this time may be disposed of.