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Wed 18 May 2022
14:00-16:00 Accommodation
15:00-16:00 Registration
16:00-16:10 Opening & Welcome
16:10-17:10 Keynote Lecture by Craig S. Pikaard, RNA-directed DNA methylation and nucleolar dominance: seeking the “how” and “why” of genic and chromosomal silencing
Session 1 Abiotic factors in chromatin remodelling (chair Jiří Fajkus)
17:15-17:30 Célia Baroux, Super resolution imaging identifies light-inducible transcription superclusters towards the nuclear periphery in Arabidopsis
17:30-17:45 Vicente Rubio, Dangerous liaisons: COP1, DET1 and HY5 regulatory loops in controlling chromatin functions and plant development
17:45-18:00 Rocío Núñez Vázquez, Histone H3 variants: new players of the abiotic stress response in Arabidopsis
18:00-18:15 Léa Faivre, H3K4me3-H3K27me3 bivalency poises COR genes for induction
18:15-18:30 Daniel Schubert, Genetic and epigenetic control of heat stress memory in Cyanidioschyzon merolae
18:30-20:00 Accommodation / Průhonice park
20:00-23:00 Dinner & networking
Thu 19 May 2022
07:00-10:00 Breakfast in hotels
Session 2 DNA methylation, histone variants and modifications (chair Christel Carles)
09:00-09:15 Mathieu Ingouff, Insights into the dynamics of core actors of CG methylation maintenance in Arabidopsis
09:15-09:30 Ioanna Kakoulidou, Parental pericentromeric methylation status drives methylome remodeling and heterosis in Arabidopsis hybrids
09:30-09:45 Iris Sammarco, DNA methylation in the wild: stable environmentally-induced epigenetic signature across clones of the wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
09:45-10:00 Kateryna Fal, Manipulating Histone methylation in Arabidopsis with the dCas9 tool: de-repression of the CUC3 boundary gene as a study case
10:00-10:05 Minerva Trejo Arellano, Leveraging the evolutionary information in genomic and epigenomic databases to reconstruct DNA methylation systems
10:05-10:10 Pierre Bourguet, The H2A.W histone variant contributes to transposon silencing
10:10-10:15 Tomáš Kašpar, The function of SPT6L containing putative AGO-hook in the complex of Pol II
10:15-10:20 Vojtěch Čermák, What governs loci sensitivity to DNA methylation?
10:20-10:25 Rodolphe Dombey, Epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in duckweeds
10:25-10:30 Miguel Vega-Palas, A complex network of interactions governs DNA methylation at telomeric regions
10:30-11:00 Coffee break & discussion
Session 3 Chromatin dynamics and plant development (chair Aleš Pečinka)
11:00-11:15 Leor Eshed Williams, PRC2 and TrxG interactions required for the acquisition of new cell identity during regeneration in Arabidopsis
11:15-11:30 Sara Farrona, Novel interactors of the Polycomb Group (PcG) pathway and their role in plant development
11:30-11:45 Simon Amiard, Arabidopsis TRBs: All the same but all different?
11:45-11:50 Franziska Turck, The cis-regulatory code underpinning epigenetic gene regulation
11:50-11:55 Jordi Moreno-Romero, Polycomb activity regulates the response of Arabidopsis to plant proximity
11:55-12:00 Claire Jourdain, The histone-binding protein PDS5C regulates flowering and nuclear morphology in Arabidopsis
12:00-12:05 Naseem Samo, Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 represses storage reserve metabolism during seedling emergence
12:05-12:10 Aline V. Probst, The Histone Chaperone HIRA is a positive regulator of seed germination
12:10-12:25 Martin Trtílek (PSI), High-throughput automated phenotyping as a shortcut to more effective biostimulants: from seeds to crops
12:25-12:30 Tereza Dobisová (Labdeers), Seed-to-plant, plant-to-seed phenotyping
12:30-12:45 Photographing by Oliver Beneš
12:45-14:00 Lunch & networking
14:00-15:45 Poster session & discussion
Session 4 Transcribing through chromatin (chair Valérie Gaudin)
15:45-16:00 Klaus Grasser, Function of elongation factors associated with transcribing RNA polymerase II in Arabidopsis
16:00-16:15 Simon Obermeyer, Comparative analysis of different types of transcription elongation factors in A. thaliana
16:15-16:30 Rafał Archacki, BRAHMA-containing SWI/SNF complex prevailing in Arabidopsis requires BRD subunits for assembly and stability
16:30-16:45 Kateřina Adamusová, Gene repression by the epigenome of transcriptional elongation
16:45-17:00 Eduardo Mateo-Bonmati, Linking non-coding transcriptional termination with chromatin silencing
17:00-17:15 Julia Engelhorn, Pan-cistrome analysis of genetic and epigenetic variation influencing transcription factor binding sites in maize
17:15-17:20 Pavla Navrátilová, Promoter architecture and cis-regulatory landscape in barley
17:20-17:25 Hana Šimková, Intricate regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription in cereals
17:25-17:30 Konstantin Kutashev, Extensions of single molecule RNA fluorescense in situ hybridization method
17:30-18:00 Coffee break & discussion
Session 5 Telomeres and centromeres (chair Inna Lermontova)
18:00-18:05 Jiří Fajkus, Monophyletic origin of plant telomerase RNAs – how far it reaches?
18:05-18:20 Fredy Barneche, Antagonistic role of histone H1 on the H3K27me3 chromatin landscape at genes and telomeric repeats
18:20-18:35 Michal Závodník, New insights into telomere maintenance in plants with unusual telomeric sequences
18:35-18:50 Yi-Tzu Kuo, An independently evolved satellite DNA-based holocentromere is composed of megabase-scale centromere units in lilioid monocots
18:50-19:05 Ulkar Ahmadli, The centromere targeting mechanism of KNL2 and CENP-C proteins
19:05-19:10 Alžběta Kusová, Telomere-associated proteins in lower plants
19:10-19:15 Miloslava Fojtová, Dynamics of A. thaliana telomeres during callus propagation and the toolset for analysis of telomere lengths profiles
19:15-19:20 Agata Kilar, The epigenetic landscape of the plant TR gene
19:20-19:25 Manikandan Kalidass, The protein-protein interaction network of KNL2 in A. thaliana
19:25-19:30 Ramakrishna Yadala, CAF as a new centromere and kinetochore assembly factor in plants
19:30-19:35 Sheng Zuo, Recurrent duplications of kinetochore assembly factor KNL2 and its conserved function in plants
20:00-23:00 Dinner & networking & live music
Fri 20 May 2022
07:00-10:00 Breakfast in hotels
Session 6 Chromatin in plant reproductive development (chair François Roudier)
09:00-09:15 Yanru Li, H1 citrulination – an atypical modification regulating germline fate in Arabidopsis
09:15-09:30 Ruben Gutzat, Two AGO proteins with transposon-derived sRNA cargo mark the germline in Arabidopsis
09:30-09:45 Fen Yang, Defects in meiotic chromosome segregation lead to triploid offspring in Arabidopsis SMC5/6 complex mutants
09:45-10:00 Hua Jiang, H3K9 demethylases are required for male meiosis in Arabidopsis
10:00-10:15 Petra Procházková Schrumpfová, RUVBL proteins are involved in plant gametophyte development
10:15-10:20 Amit Kumar, Histone deacetylases regulate heat stress induced haploid embryogenesis in Brassica napus
10:20-10:25 Amit Kumar Singh, Investigation of chromatin remodelling function during meiosis and plant reproduction
10:25-11:00 Coffee break & discussion
Session 7 Chromatin in mitosis and DNA repair (chair Crisanto Gutierrez)
11:00-11:05 Aleš Pečinka, DNA protein crosslink repair – on the interface between chromatin and genome stability
11:05-11:20 Martina Nešpor Dadejová, Laser microirradiation as a versatile system for probing protein recruitment and protein-protein interactions at DNA lesions in plants
11:20-11:35 Jorge Fung-Uceda, Intricate relationship between H3K27me1 diurnal deposition and DNA damage response
11:35-11:50 Petr Cápal, Flow-sorted mitotic chromosomes as a tool to uncover their 3D architecture
11:50-11:55 Kateřina Kaduchová, Analysis of in vivo chromatin dynamics during mitotic division in barley (Hordeum vulgare)
11:55-12:00 Alžběta Doležalová, Oligo-FISH reveals spatial organization of rice chromosomes in interphase nuclei
12:00-12:15 Concluding remarks & awards
12:15 Departure