Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Dealing with a Changing Environment
Discussion Leader: Michael Nuccio (Inari Agriculture, Inc., USA)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:15 pm
Julia Bailey-Serres (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"High-Resolution of Developmental Plasticity to Too Much or Too Little Water in Rice"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
Jonathan Lynch (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"Root Phenes for Improved Water Capture"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
Frank Dohleman (The Climate Corporation, USA)
"Stress Tolerance in Agricultural Systems: Past, Present and Future Improvements to Crops and Their Management"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Root Responses to Abiotic Stress
Discussion Leader: Jose Dinneny (Stanford University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
Robert Sharp (University of Missouri, USA)
"Physiological Controls of Maize Nodal Root Growth Under Drought: A (Re)Heightened Priority"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Stanley Miklavcic (University of South Australia, Australia)
"Biophysical Modeling of Salt Stress Responses of Plant Roots"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
Robert Hill (University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Phytoglobin Involvement in Determining Cellular Responses to Abiotic Stress"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:50 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:15 am
Christopher Topp (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
"Integrated Imaging and Computational Approaches to Whole-Plant Phenotyping of Crop Plant-Environment Interactions"
11:15 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Emily May Armstrong (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
"Epigenetic Regulation of Root Cell-Type Specific Stress Responses"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Megan Shelden (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
"Genetic Analysis of Root Traits Associated with Salt Tolerance in a Barley Mapping Population"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:15 pm
Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"The Roots of Stress: Systemic Signaling in Root Responses"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Jill Farrant (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Shoot Responses to Abiotic Stress
Discussion Leader: Julie Gray (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm
Helmut Kirchhoff (Washington State University, USA)
"Response of the Photosynthetic Machinery on Drought Stress in Homoiochlorophyllous Resurrection Plants"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
John Ferguson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Phenomics of Stomata and Water Use Efficiency in C4 Species"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm
Michael Blatt (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
"A Mechanistic Reassessment of Stomatal Conductance Responses to Temperature, Drought and VPD"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Abiotic Stress Signalling
Discussion Leader: Julian Schroeder (University of California, San Diego, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:40 am
Jeffrey Harper (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
"Calcium Signaling in Response to Abiotic Stress"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Ronald Pierik (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
"Soil Salinity Inhibits Plant Shade Avoidance"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Sanna Ehonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
"The Involvement of Systemic Signalling in Stomatal Regulation"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Teun Munnik (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Phospholipid Signaling in Salt and Water Stress in Plants"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Claudia Jonak (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
"A Novel Protein Kinase Signals Environmental Stress in Chloroplasts"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Po-Kai Hsu (Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Does Elevated CO2 Rapidly Trigger Abscisic Acid Signaling for CO2 Mediated Stomatal Closure"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Erwin Grill (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
"Harnessing ABA Signaling for Improved Plant Performance"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Metabolic Consequences of Abiotic Stress
Discussion Leader: Diana Santelia (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm
Thomas Niehaus (University of Florida, USA)
"Thinking Outside the Pathway Box: Metabolite Damage and How Stress Makes It Worse"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Joshua Blakeslee (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Phosphatidic Acid and Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulate Halotropic Bending and Hormone Metabolism During Rice Salt Stress Responses"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm
Ruth Welti (Kansas State University, USA)
"Roles for Lipids in Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Genome Level Responses to the Environment
Discussion Leader: Henk Hilhorst (Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
Olivia Wilkins (McGill University, Canada)
"Modeling Gene Regulatory Networks: The Dynamic Interface Between Environmental Perception and Response"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Alejandra Covarrubias (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
"The Canonical RNA-Directed DNA Methylation Pathway Controls Seed Germination Under Salinity"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
Maria-Cecília Costa (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
"Exploration of Chromatin Organization: Influence on Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Resurrection Plants"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:55 am
Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:20 am
Julia Buitink (INRA, France)
"Understanding the Plastic Response of Legume Seeds to Drought Using Natural Genetic Variation"
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:45 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Heng Zhang (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"The Genome Sequence of the Halophytic Crop Chenopodium quinoa "
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Simon Groen (New York University, USA)
"Systems Genetics of Rice Adaptation to Drought Stress"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Maximilian Feldman (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
"Components of Water Use Efficiency Have Unique Genetic Signatures in the Model C4 Grass Setaria "
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Living in Extreme Environments
Discussion Leader: Sagadevan Mundree (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm
Dorothea Bartels (University of Bonn, Germany)
"Identification of Gene Expression Networks Leading to Desiccation Tolerance"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
John Cheeseman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Exploiting Extremophytes for Food Security"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Sandra Schmöckel (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
"Salicornia and Quinoa: Some Notes on Two Salt Tolerant Species"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Robert VanBuren (Michigan State University, USA)
"Convergent Evolution of Desiccation Tolerance Across Land Plants"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Making Use of Natural and Engineered Variation
Discussion Leader: Tuan-Hua Ho (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
Leonie Bentsink (Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands)
"How Does Nature Regulate the Seed Life Span"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Su-May Yu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
"RBG1 Enhances Auxin Sensitivity, Cell Division, Organ Size and Stress Recovery in Rice"
9:50 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
Dirk Inze (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium)
"From Stress Responsive Molecular Networks to Drought Tolerant Maize"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:15 am
Ulrike Bechtold (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
"'Growing Pains': Discovering Genes for Drought Tolerance and Water Use"
11:15 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Malachy Campbell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
"Utilizing Longitudinal Phenotypes Derived from High Throughput Phenotypic to Study and Improve Adaptation to Water Limitation in Rice"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Magdalena Julkowska (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
"MVApp: Multivariate Analysis Pipeline for Streamlining the Indentification of New Plant Traits with Significant Contribution to Stress Tolerance"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Sergey Shabala (University of Tasmania, Australia)
"NADPH Oxidase in Sensing and Adaptation to Hypoxic Saline Conditions"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Selected from Poster Abstracts: Roopadarshini Veerappa (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Ectopic Expression of psNTP9, a Pea Apyrase Gene Confers Drought Tolerance in Arabidopsis and Soybean"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Crop Productivity Under Abiotic Stress
Discussion Leader: Stuart Roy (University of Adelaide, Australia)
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
5:40 pm - 6:05 pm
Felix Fritschi (University of Missouri, USA)
"Physiology and Genetics of Water Use Efficiency in Soybean"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:35 pm
Amelia Henry (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines)
"Update on Linking Drought Physiology Studies with Rice Breeding"
6:35 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Francois Tardeu (LEPSE, INRA, France)
"A Multi-Scale Approach for Improving the Yield of Plants Facing Climate/Drought Uncertainty"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
General Discussion
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Closing Remarks
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure