Please note the below programme is provisional and subject to change. 

Sunday 2 April
17:30 – 18:00
Welcome and Badge Collection

General

18:00 – 19:00
Keynote Lecture: Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

Enrico Coen - John Innes Centre

19:00 – 20:30
Drinks Reception and Buffet Dinner

General

Monday 3 April
09:00 – 09:20
Badge Collection for Monday arrivals

General

09:20 – 09:34
Introduction and Welcome

General

09:34 – 09:35
Session 1: Morphogenesis & Morphodynamics

Session

09:35 – 10:20
Cell polarity - the nexus of shape, mechanics and morphogenesis?

Dolf Weijers - Wageningen University

10:20 – 10:45
Microscopy-based sleuthing of multi-scale functional plant architecture

Anja Geitmann - McGill University

10:45 – 11:15
Coffee, Tea, Exhibition and Posters

General

11:15 – 11:40
The functions of B-type CYCLINs in Arabidopsis meiosis dissected using a semi-forward CRISPR-Cas9 screen

Hernan López - Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

11:40 – 12:05
Phi Thickenings Form a Three-Dimensional Scaffold That May Mechanically Stiffen Roots

David Collings - Australian National University

12:05 – 12:10
New imaging frontiers in plants using the Elyra 7 with SIM2

Ed Rea - Carl Zeiss Ltd

12:10 – 12:15
Benchtop to Floor Standing, a STEM for all users

Steve Murray - Hitachi High-Tech Europe

12:15 – 12:20
Fast and Deep 3D Confocal Imaging

Karen McGeachy - Laser 2000 (UK) Ltd

12:20 – 12:25
Biological sample analysis is abloom with EDS elemental maps

Pedro Machado - Oxford Instruments

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch, Exhibition and Posters

General

14:00 – 14:45
Molecular and cellular mechanisms presiding over plant organ symmetry establishment

Laila Moubayidin - John Innes Centre

14:45 – 15:10
Unravelling the mechanisms of leaf venation patterning in maize

Chiara Perico - University of Oxford

15:10 – 15:11
Session 2: Plant Membranes

Session

15:11 – 15:35
Cell type and developmental differences in the sterol trafficking pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana

Larry Griffing - Texas A&M University

15:35 – 16:05
Coffee, Tea, Exhibition and Posters

General

16:05 – 16:50
Visualizing and understanding rhizobia infections

Thomas Ott - University of Freiburg

16:50 – 16:55
How Anatomy of Epidermal Cells Is Correlated to Transient Responses of Stomata (Session 1)

Maryam Zekri - University of Vienna

16:55 – 17:00
Robotic alterations of phyllotaxis (Session 1)

Robert Bellow - John Innes Centre

17:00 – 17:05
New insights into the roles of PP2A subunits FASS and C3/C4 in the regulation of mitosis and oxidative stress responses in Arabidopsis (Session 1)

Csaba Máthé - University of Debrecen

17:05 – 17:10
PIP aquaporin interactions at the reticulum endoplasmic-plasma membrane interphase (Session 2/3)

Ana Romina Fox - Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology

17:10 – 17:15
Plant Protein Disorder Regulates Cytoskeleton and Cell Wall Remodelling for Stress Adaption (Session 3)

Anshan Hsiao - John Innes Centre

17:15 – 17:20
Spatiotemporal dynamics of nutrient exchange during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (Session 5/3)

Jen McGaley - University of Cambridge

17:20 – 18:00
Discussion

General

18:00 – 18:30
Poster Session with Drinks Reception

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18:30 – 20:00
Posters, Exhibition and Buffet supper

General

Tuesday 4 April
09:19 – 09:20
Session 2: Plant Membranes (continued)

Session

09:20 – 09:45
Similar but different: Lunapark proteins 1 and 2 build structurally dissimilar cisternae

Charlotte Pain - Oxford Brookes University

09:45 – 10:10
Arabidopsis TRB1 is a novel component of ER-mitochondrial contact sites and mitophagy receptor

Patrick Duckney - Durham University

10:10 – 10:35
Changes in plasmodesmal stress responses across development

Emma Raven - John Innes Centre

10:35 – 11:05
Coffee, Tea, Exhibition and Posters

General

11:05 – 11:06
Session 3: Organelle Dynamics and Interactions

Session

11:06 – 11:50
Understanding the Evolution of Endosomal Sorting Mechanisms in Plants

Marisa Otegui - University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:50 – 12:15
Starch synthesis in Brachypodium distachyon endosperm occurs in highly dynamic and interconnected amyloplasts

Lara Esch - John Innes Centre

12:15 – 13:45
Lunch, Exhibition and Posters

Optional Tour of Bioimaging facility or Library (13:00-13:30)

13:45 – 14:10
The myosin FLLD domain is required for receptor-mediated recruitment to Golgi

Ellie Fletcher - University of Bristol

14:10 – 14:35
Dissecting the contribution of phosphorylation sites in the tail of myosin XI to its function in organelle movement and cell division

Einat Sadot - Volcani Institute

14:35 – 15:00
Its all just a phase: Phase separation driving organelle biogenesis

Joe McKenna - University of Warwick

15:00 – 15:30
Coffee, Tea, Exhibition and Posters

General

15:30 – 15:55
405nm Photostimulation of the Endoplasmic Reticulum-Chloroplast Contact Site in Arabidopsis Hypocotyls Causes Rapid Cytoskeletal Depolymerization and Elevated Cytoplasmic Calcium

Sara Maynard - Texas A&M University

15:55 – 16:15
Discussion

General

16:15 – 16:45
Frontiers in Plant Science Imaging

Rosy Manser and Jon Shewring - Carl ZEISS Microscopy

16:45 – 17:15
A new view on plant flow cytometry with the BD CellView™ Image technology.

Gert Van Isterdael, VIB Flow Core, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

Wednesday 5 April
09:19 – 09:20
Session 4: Emerging techniques

Session

09:20 – 10:05
Using lab-based X-ray microscopy for multiscale 3D imaging in plant biology

Keith Duncan - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

10:05 – 10:30
Nitrogen fixation in maize plants formed from interactions with nitrogen fixing Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus bacteria

Greg McMahon, NPL

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee, Tea, Exhibition and Posters

General

11:00 – 11:25
Using self-cleaving peptide marker constructs to determine the localisation of human glycosylation enzymes in plant Golgi body cisternae

Alastair McGinness - Oxford Brookes University

11:25 – 11:50
Patterning in 3D: imaging three-dimensional anatomy and epidermal cell fate in Arabidopsis roots

George Janes - University of Nottingham

11:50 – 12:15
Dissecting the mechanism of meiotic crossover patterning using super-resolution microscopy

Chris Morgan - John Innes Centre

12:20 – 12:30
Group Photograph

General

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch, Exhibition and Posters

Optional Tour of Bioimaging facility or Library (13:15 - 13:45)

14:00 – 14:01
Session 5: Plant-Microbe Interactions

Session

14:01 – 14:45
Investigating the Cell Biology of Rice Infection by the Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot - The Sainsbury Laboratory

14:45 – 15:10
Targeting of an Arabidopsis plasmodesmal HMA protein by the fungal pathogen, Colletotrichum higginsianum

Emma Turley - John Innes Centre

15:10 – 15:35
Deep-tissue live-imaging with multi-photon microscopy

Ton Timmers - Max Planck Institute

15:35 – 16:05
Coffee, Tea, Exhibition and Posters

General

16:05 – 16:30
Pulling the strings: disruption of actin cytoskeleton as a local trigger of plant immunity

Tetiana Kalachova - The Czech Academy of Sciences

16:30 – 16:31
Session 6: Quantitative Microscopy and image analysis

Session

16:31 – 16:55
Microscopic quantification of protein uptake in carnivorous plants

Caroline Ivesic - University of Vienna

16:55 – 17:20
Quantitative imaging reveals that calcium waves are mediated by diffusion and bulk flow of amino acids

Christine Faulkner - John Innes Centre

17:20 – 17:35
Discussion

Chris Hawes Poster Prize Award & Imaging Contest Winner

18:00 – 18:05
Coaches Depart for The Assembly House, Norwich

General

18:30 – 21:30
Meeting Dinner at The Assembly House, Norwich

General

21:30 – 22:00
Coaches Depart for Broadview Lodge Hotel and John Innes Centre

General

Thursday 6 April
09:19 – 09:20
Session 6: Quantitative Microscopy and image analysis (continued)

Session

09:20 – 10:05
Reliability, repeatability, reproducibility and responsibility

Mark Fricker - University of Oxford

10:05 – 10:30
3D analysis of the histone H3 fluorescent signals: Application to the study of histone reversible phosphorylation during cell division in Arabidopsis root meristems

Adrienn Kelemen - University of Debrecen

10:30 – 11:00
Tea, Coffee and Posters

General

11:00 – 11:25
Toxicity of metal combinations and their localization by micro-XRF in mosses

Ingeborg Lang - University of Vienna

11:25 – 12:00
Discussion

General

12:00 – 12:45
Lunch

General

12:50 – 13:00
Meeting Ends

General