Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Program

Program


From Plants to Brains and Beyond!

OPENING REMARKS
8:45 a.m. Joanne Chory
SESSION I: HORMONES AND STRESS BIOLOGY (Natanella Illouz-Eliaz, Session Chair)
9:10 a.m. Hongwei Guo RNA Decay and Gene Silencing in Plants
9:27 a.m. Mattia Pelizzola Dynamics of Transcriptional Regulation
9:44 a.m. Travis Lee A Single-Nucleus Roadmap of Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis
10:01 a.m. Mark Zander Living the Dream! Epigenomes, Encinitas and ein6een!
10:18 a.m. Natanella Illouz-Eliaz Bouncing Back: How Plants Recover from Drought
10:35 a.m. Coffee break
SESSION II: BRAIN EPIGENOMES (Ryan Lister, Session Chair)
11:00 a.m. Hanqing Liu Single-Cell DNA Methylome and 3D Multi-omic Atlas of the Adult Mouse Brain
11:17 a.m. Wenliang Wang Decoding the Allele-Specific Epigenome Using Short Reads
11:34 a.m. Wei Tian Epigenomics of Brains, and Beyond
11:51 a.m. Ryan Lister I Think, Therefore I Methylate
12:08 p.m. Lunch break
SESSION III: PLANT EPIGENOMES (Brian Gregory, Session Chair)
1:10 p.m. Bob Schmitz Epialleles, Epimutations and an Evolutionary Epigenetic Clock
1:27 p.m. Carol Huang Unlocking New Biological Insights with Comprehensive Regulatory Element Mapping
1:44 p.m. Liang Song Voices From Both Sides: A Molecular Dialogue Between Transcriptional Activators and Repressors in Seed-to-Seedling Transition
2:01 p.m. Hong Qiao Ethylene and Beyond
2:18 p.m. Taiji Kawakatsu Diversity and Dynamics of Plant Epigenomes
2:35 p.m. Ronan O’Malley MultiDAP, the Pancistrome and the Epigenome: Half the Fun is Making Up New Words
2:52 p.m. Brian Gregory Exploring the Functionality of RNA Modifications in Plant Transcriptomes
3:09 p.m. Coffee break
SESSION IV: RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGIES (Anna Stepanova, Session Chair)
3:35 p.m. Jose Alonso Genetic Tools for Plant Research: Celebrating a Trailblazer Mentor
3:52 p.m. Tatsuya Nobori Single-Cell and Spatial Dissection of Plant-Microbe Interactions
4:09 p.m. Joseph Swift Exaptation of Ancestral Cell Identity Networks Enables C4 Photosynthesis
4:26 p.m. Mat Lewsey Seedling Biology from San Diego to Space
4:43 p.m. Anna Stepanova Tracking Plant Hormones
CLOSING REMARKS
5:00 p.m. Bing Ren
5:15 p.m. Reception