Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Time Event (+)
08:00 - 09:00 Registration - CRBC building, ground floor  
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome address - CRBC building, Limagne auditorium  
09:15 - 10:30 Epigenetic regulations in complex genomes - Heïdi Serra & Frédéric Pontvianne (+)  
09:15 - 09:45 › Harmony in Diversity: Functional Epigenomic Study of Wheat Polyploidy - Yijing Zhang, Fudan university  
09:45 - 10:00 › How chromatin architecture and transcription respond and adapt to the challenge of polyploidy - Thanvi Srikant, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich  
10:00 - 10:15 › Effects of polyploidization on the wheat methylome-transcriptome complex - Meriem BANOUH, Génétique Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales (GDEC), UMR 1095, Clermont-Ferrand  
10:15 - 10:30 › Genetic-epigenetic interplay in the determination of plant 3D genome organisation - Chloé Dias Lopes, Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Paris-Saclay (IPS2)  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Chromatin dynamics during plant development - Christel Carles & Pauline Jullien (+)  
11:00 - 11:30 › Dosage sensitive maternal siRNAs determine hybridization success in Capsella - Claudia Köhler, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology  
11:30 - 11:45 › Targeted germline epimutagenesis promotes triploid seed viability in Arabidopsis - Matthieu Simon, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB)  
11:45 - 12:00 › Role of linker histone ubiquitination in plant reproduction - Danli Fei, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich  
12:00 - 12:15 › Molecular mechanisms of ULTRAPETALA1 in chromatin switches - Vangeli Geshkovski, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale (LPCV)  
12:15 - 12:30 › Investigating the molecular function of Arabidopsis UBP5 in seed germination - Kiruba Nedounsejian, University of Galway  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:45 Chromatin dynamics during plant development - Christel Carles & Pauline Jullien (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › H2A and H2A.Z monoubiquitination in Arabidopsis - Myriam Calonje, Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (IBVF-CSIC-US)  
14:30 - 14:45 › The Plant Mobile Domain proteins antagonize the Polycomb group protein-mediated gene silencing - Lucas Jarry, Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes (LGDP)  
14:45 - 15:30 Epigenetic responses to environmental cues - Thierry Lagrange & Giorgio Perrella (+)  
14:45 - 15:15 › Unlocking Transgenerational Stress Memories in Plants - Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry  
15:15 - 15:30 › The role of chromatin in the regulation of transcriptional variability in plants - Charlotte Lecuyer, Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Montpellier (IPSiM)  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 17:45 Epigenetic responses to environmental cues - Thierry Lagrange & Giorgio Perrella (+)  
16:00 - 16:30 › Perceiving and Persuading the Chromatin Landscape. - Jake Harris, Department of Plant Sciences (Cambridge, UK)  
16:30 - 16:45 › Deciphering the coding/non-coding transcriptome and epigenome dynamics of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to cold temperatures. - Mélanie Ormancey, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics  
16:45 - 17:00 › RNA N6-adenine methylation dynamics impact Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis resistance in Arabidopsis - Leonardo Furci, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University  
17:00 - 17:15 › From recall to reset: the function of DNA methylation in regulating plant stress memory. - Adam Hannan Parker, University of Sheffield  
17:15 - 17:45 › Targeted genome methylation to decrease susceptibility to pathogens. - Rebecca Bart, Donald Danforth plant Science Center  
17:45 - 18:00 Group Photo of EPIPLANT-SEB 2024 Participants - CRBC building, ground floor terrace  
18:00 - 19:30 Poster  
19:30 - 22:00 Dinner - CRBC building, ground floor terrace  

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:30 Epigenetic regulation of repetitive sequences - Nicolas Bouché & Maike Stam (+)  
09:00 - 09:30 › Genetic and epigenetic structure of the Arabidopsis pancentromere - Ian Henderson, University of Cambridge  
09:30 - 09:45 › Impact of whole genome duplication on the epigenetic control of transposable elements in Arabidopsis thaliana - Mounia El Messaoudi, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS)  
09:45 - 10:00 › Uncovering the origin, structure, and epigenetic status of interstitial telomeric sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana - Fredy Barneche, IBENS, Plant Nuclear Dynamics and Signaling (PNDS)  
10:00 - 10:30 › The Control of Transposable Elements in Plants - R. Keith Slotkin, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the University of Missiouri-Columbia  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:00 Epigenetic regulation of repetitive sequences - Nicolas Bouché & Maike Stam (+)  
11:00 - 11:30 › Centromere-targeted integrations of Tal1 retrotransposon are mediated by CENH3 chromatin in Arabidopsis. - Sayuri Tsukahara, The University of Tokyo  
11:30 - 11:45 › De novo creation of introns by transposable elements and the impact on gene function in the maize pan-genome - Alexandros Bousios, University of Sussex  
11:45 - 12:00 › Novel crosstalk and epigenetic switching between DNA methylation and H3K27me3 revealed at Arabidopsis transposable elements - Angélique Déléris, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)  
12:00 - 12:30 Genome control through DNA methylation - Martin Crespi & Hervé Vaucheret (+)  
12:00 - 12:30 › Natural variation in DNA methylation homeostasis and the emergence of epialleles and an epigenetic clock - Robert J. Schmitz, University of Georgia [USA]  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch - CRBC building, ground floor terrace  
14:00 - 15:15 Genome control through DNA methylation - Martin Crespi & Hervé Vaucheret (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Long-term epigenetic inheritance and phenotypic diversity in natural populations - Daniel Zilberman, ISTA  
14:30 - 14:45 › Sensors for methylated and hemi-methylated CG reveal specific nuclear territories for methylation maintenance in Arabidopsis - Marion Larue, Université de Montpellier  
14:45 - 15:00 › CDCA7: a key contributor to transposon DNA methylation in natural Arabidopsis populations - Pierre Bourguet, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology  
15:00 - 15:15 › CLSY docking to Pol IV requires a novel domain critical for siRNA biogenesis and TE silencing - Luisa Felgines, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP)  
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break  
15:45 - 16:45 Genome control through DNA methylation - Martin Crespi & Hervé Vaucheret (+)  
15:45 - 16:15 › Cross-talks between DNA methylation and chromatin factors in Arabidopsis - Leandro Quadrana, Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Paris-Saclay (IPS2)  
16:15 - 16:30 › How DNA methylation is influenced by photorespiration in Arabidopsis - Martin Groth, Institute of Functional Epigenetics, Helmholtz Munich, 85764 Neuherberg  
16:30 - 16:45 › Defying Mendel's laws: CMT3/KYP maintain paramutation in tomato plants. - Claudia Martinho, Department of Plant Sciences (Cambridge, UK), University of Dundee, School of Life Sciences, Plant Sciences Division, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee  
17:15 - 18:00 Bus - to Saint Saturnin castle  
18:00 - 20:00 Activity (Visit or Archery)  
20:00 - 23:30 Dinner  
23:30 - 23:55 Bus to Clermont - 2 stops: CRBC building & Hotel Holiday Inn  

Friday, July 12, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:15 Chromatin in transcription, replication and repair - Sylvain Bischof & Inna Lermontova (+)  
09:00 - 09:30 › Languages of the Non-coding Genome - Sebastian Marquardt, University of Copenhagen  
09:30 - 09:45 › MaizeCODE reveals bi-directionally expressed enhancers that harbor molecular signatures of maize domestication - Jonathan Cahn, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute  
09:45 - 10:00 › Unveiling the Functional Roles of Bcl-Domain Homolog proteins within Arabidopsis SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeler Complexes - Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 46022, Spain  
10:00 - 10:15 › Identification of novel H2A histone variants across diverse clades of algae - Céline Duc, Unité en Sciences Biologiques et Biotechnologies de Nantes  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 11:45 Chromatin in transcription, replication and repair - Sylvain Bischof & Inna Lermontova (+)  
10:45 - 11:00 › Relationship between RNA silencing and DNA damage/repair - Martin Lacroix, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin  
11:00 - 11:15 › Deposition of the histone variant H3.3 in Arabidopsis thaliana: Unraveling the ATRX-PKL complex - Alberto Linares, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB), University of Zurich  
11:15 - 11:45 › Arabidopsis as a model to understand cancers driven by H3K27M oncohistones - Yannick Jacob, Yale University, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology  
11:45 - 12:00 Conclusion and poster prize announcement - CRBC building, Limagne auditorium  
12:00 - 14:00 CRBC building, ground floor terrace or take-away