The Czech Plant Nucleus Workshop 2025

Date:
May 26 - 27, 2025
Place:
Charles University, Prague

To connect students and scientists working on plant nucleus and chromosome biology.

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Program

The program is preliminary and may change, especially the times of individual lectures.​

 

 

Day I

Monday 26 May 2025

10:00 Registration
11:30 Opening of the conference
  Session I
11:40 Key-note talk: Marta Adelina Mendes
The Epigenetic Role of DRM1 and DRM2 in Drought Stress Tolerance During Reproductive Development in Arabidopsis thaliana
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Distribution and processing of DNA lesions in the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana histone chaperone mutant plants
13:50 The role of cold-sensing mechanisms in regulation of dormancy cycling
14:00 Deciphering the role of telomere-repeat binding (TRB) proteins during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana
14:20 Unraveling the Role of Pseudouridine in Plant Telomere Maintenance and Fertility
14:40 GOLEM: A Tool for Visualizing the Distribution of Gene Regulatory Elements in Plant Promoters
14:50 Structural dissection of translation initiation factor eIF3E in the gametophyte
15:10 Genetics and Biochemistry of Sticky Trichomes
15:30 Flash-talks
15:45 Poster Session
16:30 WORKSHOP 1: Ask the scientist!
How to propagate science to the general public 
18:30 Restaurant reservation
   

Day II

Tuesday 27 May 2025

8:30 Tea and coffee time
  Session II
9:00 Key-note talk: Stefan Heckmann
Meiosis in plants – Mixing it up
9:50 New reference sequence and transcriptomic atlas of the maize B chromosome
10:10 Effects of heat stress on the gene regulation and heterochromatin functions in barley
10:20 Tea and coffee time
10:40 Understanding triploid block and genomic imprinting in barley
11:00 A Cajal body assembly factor regulates the cell fate decision between division and differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana
11:20 Stability of plant cell line genomes 
11:30 Decoding the Binding Language of Plant Myb-like domains
11:40 Lunch
  Session III
12:30 Key-note talk: Attila Molnar
Gene Editing in the Model Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
13:20 Deciphering the Cas9-induced double-strand DNA break repair landscape in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
13:30 Challenges of CRISPR-Cas9 Induced Gene Editing in Tetraploid Potato
13:50 5’ Nucleotide Microhomology-Mediated DNA Repair After CRISPR/Cas Cleavage
14:00 Tea and coffee time
14:20 Mining „golden“ alleles of DNA repair genes through forward genetics
14:30 Functional Difference of Arabidopsis PCNA1 and PCNA2 in DNA Replication and Repair
14:40 ARP2/3 and DSB repair in plants
14:50 The role of PCNA clamp (un)loading complexes in DNA damage response in Arabidopsis
15:00 Evolution of Polycomb repression in the green lineage
15:10 Novel pathway regulating 3' end processing of mRNA in plants
15:30 Voting for the best talk and poster
15:45 WORKSHOP 2 for students: Clément Lafon Placette
Stress management and mental health in academia
17:50 Closing remarks, awards
18:00 Conference dinner