Program

13.00h-14.20h

Registration

14.20h-14.30h

Welcome

14.30-15.30h

Caroline Dean

Co-transcriptional and memory mechanisms registering winter

15.30-15.45h
Talk 01

Guillaume Moissiard

The Plant Mobile Domain proteins antagonize the Polycomb group protein-mediated gene silencing

15.45-16.00h
Talk 02

Iva Mozgová

Distinct phases of PRC2 activity underlie metabolic and developmental reprogramming during seedling establishment

16.00-16.15h
Talk 03

Simon Amiard

Distinct clades of TELOMERE REPEAT BINDING transcriptional regulators interplay to regulate plant development

16.15-16.30h
Talk 04

Sara Simonini

Control of cell cycle progression in the Arabidopsis central cell by Polycomb group proteins

16.30-16.45h
Talk 05

Daniel Gibbs

Epigenetic control of development and stress responses through functionally distinct substrates of the plant N-degron pathway of proteolysis

16.45-17.15h

Coffee break

17.15-17.30h
Talk 06

Valentin Hure

Novel crosstalk and epigenetic switching between DNA methylation and H3K27me3 revealed at Arabidopsis transposable elements

17.30-17.45h
Talk 07

Sara Farrona

UBP5 regulates chromatin dynamics and plant development

17.45-18.00h
Talk 08

Fernando Baile Nuñez

Role of PRC1 modifications over H2A and H2A.Z in gene expression regulation in Arabidopsis

18.00-18.15h
Talk 09

Ahamed Khan

The ancestral PWO proteins appear with the emergence of vascular plants and associate with TRBs and PRC2 throughout plant evolution

18.15-18.30h
Talk 10

Cristel C Carles

Chromatin switches for specific developmental transitions and their mechanisms

18.30-20.30h

Poster session I + Welcome drink

9.00-10.00h

Paul Fransz

Topology of heterochromatin domains in Arabidopsis nuclei

10.00-10.15h
Talk 11

Celia Baroux

Light-induced radial distribution of transcription factories

10.15-10.30h
Talk 12

Christophe Tatout

Evolutionary conserved protein motifs drive interactions between the plant nucleoskeleton and nuclear pores

10.30-10.45h
Talk 13

Hans-Wilhelm Nuetzmann

Co-regulation of neighboring genes in spatially separated chromatin domains

10.45-11.00h
Talk 14

Jorge Hernandez-García

Differential nuclear condensation underlies distinct transcriptional regulation in Marchantia auxin response

11.00-11.30h

Coffee break

11.30-11.45h
Talk 15

Julia Engelhorn

Pan-cistrome analysis of genetic and epigenetic variation influencing transcription factor binding sites in maize

11.45-12.00h
Talk 16

Sebastian Marquardt

Chromatin signals associated with transcription elongation act as a reversible gene repression mechanism during plant development.

12.00-12.15h
Talk 17

Eduardo Mateo-Bonmati

A CPF-like phosphatase module links transcription termination to chromatin silencing

12.15-12.30h
Talk 18

Benjamin JM Tremblay

Control of germination by chromatin accessibility and non-coding transcription

12.30-12.45h
Talk 19

Zdravko J Lorkovic

Identification of plants functional counterpart of the metazoan Mediator of DNA Damage Checkpoint 1

12.45-13.00h
Talk 20

Martina Nešpor Dadejová

Role of Arabidopsis H3 histone chaperones ASF1 and HIRA in telomere maintenance and genome stability

13.00-13.05h
Short talk 01

Henna Kapoor

The function of RNA polymerase II transcript elongation factors is critical under stress conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana

13.05-13.10h
Short talk 02

Manikandan Kalidass

The anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C) regulates the level and proper localization of kinetochore null2 (KNL2) in Arabidopsis thaliana

13.10-13.15h
Short talk 03

Ondřej Helia

Impacts of CRISPR/Cas-mediated Chromosome Rearrangements on Arabidopsis thaliana Genome

13.15-13.20h
Short talk 04

Wenye Wu

PHERES1 and HDG proteins act antagonistically to regulate imprinted genes and endosperm cellularization in Arabidopsis

13.20-14.30h

Lunch

14.30-14.45h
Talk 21

Marion Larue

Sensors for methylated and hemi-methylated CG reveal specific nuclear territories for methylation maintenance in Arabidopsis

14.45-15.00h
Talk 22

Maike Stam

Silencing release at b1 gene in RNA-directed DNA methylation mutants is associated with reduced H3K9me2 and H3K27me2 rather than DNA methylation

15.00-15.15h
Talk 23

Yang-Seok Lee

Role of Argonaute proteins in DNA methylation balance in maize female reproductive organs

15.15-15.30h
Talk 24

Frank Johannes

Accelerated growth increases the somatic epimutation rate in trees

15.30-15.45h
Talk 25

Minerva S Trejo-Arellano

Leveraging the evolutionary information in genomic and epigenomic databases to reconstruct DNA methylation systems

15.45-16.00h
Talk 26

Basile Leduque

Simultaneous profiling of chromatin accessibility and DNA methylation in complete plant genomes using long-read sequencing

16.00-18.00h

Poster session II + Coffee break

18.00-18.15h
Talk 27

Todd Blevins

CLSY docking to Pol IV requires a conserved domain critical for small RNA biogenesis and transposon silencing

18.15-18.20h
Short talk 05

Suze Blom

DNA methylation quickly responds to changes in ambient temperature in Arabidopsis thaliana

18.20-18.25h
Short talk 06

José Luis Rodríguez Lorenzo

Whole genome identification of oxidized methylcytosines in Silene latifolia, a plant with sex chromosomes

18.25-18.30h
Short talk 07

Miguel Ángel Vega-Palas

ChIP-seq and WGBS studies reveal the bimodal chromatin organization of Arabidopsis thaliana telomeric regions

18.30-18.45h
Talk 28

Joan Candela-Ferre

Functional characterization of BCL-domain homologs proteins BDH1 and BDH2 of SWI/SNF complexes of Arabidopsis thaliana

18.45-19.00h
Talk 29

Miguel Montez

Cold-driven nucleosome dynamics underlying epigenetic silencing of Arabidopsis FLC

19.00-19.15h
Talk 30

Maria Guillem-Bernal

The Arabidopsis EAF6 subunit present in the NuA4 Histone AcetylTransferase complex participates in the control of the floral transition

19.15-19.30h
Talk 31

Charlotte Lecuyer

The role of chromatin in the regulation of transcriptional variability in plants

19.30-22.00h

Dinner

9.00-9.15h
Talk 32

Ales Pecinka

Asymmetric triploid block defines inter-ploidy hybridization barrier in barley

9.15-9.30h
Talk 33

Miguel Wente

araChromID: unraveling the plant epiproteome

9.30-9.45h
Talk 34

Heinrich Bente

Elucidating how the transcription factor PHERES1 establishes genomic imprinting

9.45-9.50h
Short talk 08

Laura Bouza-Morcillo

Roles exerted by NuA4 complex subunit EPL1 in the regulation of the floral transition

9.50-9.55h
Short talk 09

Serena Varotto

From chromatin signatures to protein interactions: the dynamics of cold development in peach buds.

9.55-10.00h
Short talk 10

Sandi Paulisic

Tuning transcriptional responses to shade in Arabidopsis: the role of chromatin accessibility

10.00-10.15h
Talk 35

Giorgio Perrella

Uncovering the function of a novel epigenetic regulator of photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.

10.15-10.30h
Talk 36

Pedro Crevillén

Histone demethylases regulate flowering time in response to ambient temperature

10.30-11.15h

Coffee break

11.15-11.30h
Talk 37

Sjon Hartman

Remember the rain: unravelling how plants encode flooding stress memory

11.30-11.45h
Talk 38

Martin Albacete Rodriguez

New insights in the role of CRL4-CDDD complexes as integrators of chromatin reprogramming and stress responses

11.45-12.00h
Talk 39

Rocío Núñez-Vazquez

From stress to survival: Histone H3 variant H3.14 as a novel player of the abiotic stress response

12.00-12.15h
Talk 40

Poonam Nebhnani

Polycomb-mediated regulation of Arabidopsis response to plant proximity

12.15-12.30h
Talk 41

Cristina Alcaide

Characterizing epigenetic barriers to microspore reprogramming

12.30-12.35h
Short talk 11

Régis Lopes Corrêa

Exploring the role of histone activation marks in plant-virus interactions

12.35-12.40h
Short talk 12

Chiara Longo

PRC2 involvement in plant response to cold stress: phenotypic and transcriptomic analysis in response to chilling and freezing temperatures

12.40-12.45h
Short talk 13

Ailbhe Brazel

Histone demethylases control hypoxia responses in Arabidopsis thaliana, with implications for acute stress response and development

12.45-12.50h
Short talk 14

Christina Arvanitidou

Role of the genome-wide distribution of the epigenetic marks H3K27me3 and H3K4me3 in the microalgae Ostreococcus tauri

12.50-13.00h

Concluding remarks