Savannah, Georgia USA
August 5-9, 2023
The Plant Cell Atlas is involved in the Plant Biology 2023 conference in multiple ways this year. Come find us at Plant Science Saturday or at Booth #200 in the expo hall to chat, learn about, and find out how to become involved in the Plant Cell Atlas initiative. Or check out the PCA Art and Science Exhibit that will be on display at the convention center and learn about historical Black plant scientists and applications of plant biotechnology. You can also hear about the amazing current research being done by scientists from the Plant Cell Atlas community or hear about research that we find particularly relevant for the development of a Plant Cell Atlas at talks and posters.
Plant Science Saturday
PCA Art and Science Exhibit
Plant Cell Atlas Booth #200
Talks and Posters
Plant Science Saturday
Date: Saturday, August 5, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Where: Forsyth Farmers Market, 13 East Park Avenue, Savannah, GA
At the start of the conference come find us at the Plant Science Saturday community event. This is a free event that is open to the public. We will be showing highlights of the Plant Cell Atlas Art and Science Exhibit at each of the Plant Science Saturday activity tables. Come find us and learn about some incredible Black plant scientists and their impact on our society while talking with plant scientists and doing fun hands-on activities!
PCA Art and Science Exhibit
Date: August 5-9, 2023
Time: August 5th at 3:00 PM – August 8th at 6:30 PM
Location: Savannah Convention Center
View the Plant Cell Atlas Art and Science Exhibit in person during the conference! We will have 8 banners up featuring the lives and accomplishments of 4 historical Black Plant Scientists – Dr. Marie Clark Taylor, Edmond Albius, George Washington Carver, and Dr. Percy Lavon Julian and 4 on different applications of plant biotechnology – phytoremediation, vaccine development, African Ethnobotany, and plant structure engineering. This exhibit was designed to increase interest in plant science in undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups and to raise awareness on the importance of plant science to our society. These pieces were developed with the input from faculty of 3 Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Bowie State University, Howard University, and Morgan State University – and were shown at these universities in fall 2021 and spring 2022. Come find us at Booth #200 in the expo hall to learn more about the exhibit or if you are interested in hosting the exhibit at your institution.
Plant Cell Atlas Booth #200
Date: August 5-8, 2023
Time: August 5th 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
August 6th 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
August 7th 11:00 AM – 6:30 PM
August 8th 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Location: Exhibit Hall A, Booth #200
Talks and Posters
August 5, 2023
Presidential Symposium Symposium
Plants and People
Chair – Gustavo MacIntosh (Iowa State University)
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT | Matthew Raiford (Gilliard Farms, USA) Talk Title: A Discussion with CheFarmer Matthew Raiford: The Plants are Talking, Are We Listening |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT | Matteo Dell’acqua (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy) Talk Title: Tailoring breeding to local needs: genomics meets farmers’ traditional knowledge to accelerate wheat improvement for Ethiopian small farms |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM EDT | Barbara Schaal (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Talk Title: Plants and people: an evolutionary perspective |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT | Terri Long (North Carolina State University, USA) Talk Title: From the stars to your table – plants as complex conduits for iron nutrition |
August 6, 2023
Concurrent Symposium 5
Towards ML-augmented plant metabolic modeling
Chair – Kathleen Beilsmith (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
| 1:33 PM – 1:53 PM EDT | Kathleen Beilsmith (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Talk Title: Towards ML-augmented plant metabolic modeling |
| 1:53 PM – 2:13 PM EDT | Gaurav Moghe (Cornell University, USA) Talk Title: Machine learning for assessing plant metabolomes: Caveats and successes |
| 2:15 PM – 2:35 PM EDT | Taryn Dunivant Talk Title: Evolutionary systems biology reveals potential mechanisms of rice defense against root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne) |
| 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM EDT | Crysten Blaby-Haas (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Talk Title: Genomes as windows to the complex functional landscape in plants |
| 2:55 PM – 3:15 PM EDT | Feiran Li (Chalmers University of Technology, China) Talk Title: Understanding cell metabolism: genome scale modeling meets machine learning (pre-recorded) |
Concurrent Symposium 8
Plant root exudation and microbial interactions in the rhizosphere
Chair – Amir H. Ahkami (EMSL-PNNL, USA)
3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
| 3:48 PM – 4:08 PM EDT | Melissa Cregger (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) Talk Title: Variation in Plant Metabolite Concentration Influences Belowground Microbial Communities and Soil Organic Matter Cycling |
| 4:08 PM – 4:28 PM EDT | Shiqi Zhang (East Stroudsburg University, USA) Talk Title: A genetically encoded biosensor reveals spatiotemporal variation in cellular phosphate content in Brachypodium distachyon mycorrhizal roots |
| 4:28 PM – 4:30 PM EDT | Shaneka Lawson (USDA Forest Service / Purdue University, USA) Talk Title: Dead Zones Comparison of soil characteristics at Indiana planting sites to help explain poor tree growth |
| 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM EDT | Yang Liu (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA) Talk Title: Small, effector-like secreted proteins of Populus trichocarpa play different roles in mutualistic symbiosis |
| 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM EDT | Alex Williams (University of Sheffield, UK) Talk Title: The lasting impact of drought and warming on plant-microbe communication in grasses via root-exudation |
| 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM EDT | Rozalynne Samira (Texas Tech University, USA) Talk Title: Identifying metabolic and transcriptomic variation in sorghum growing under phosphate deficiency |
Concurrent Symposium 10
New tools and insights into plant cell biology
Chair – Marcela Rojas-Pierce (North Carolina State University, USA)
3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
| 3:48 PM – 4:08 PM EDT | Marcela Rojas-Pierce (North Carolina State University, USA) Talk Title: Towards an inducible degron system for control of protein function in plants |
| 4:08 PM – 4:28 PM EDT | Xiaohui Li (Purdue University, USA) Talk Title: Investigating the molecular mode of action for Endosidin2 (ES2) in Arabidopsis |
| 4:28 PM – 4:30 PM EDT | Borja Barbero Barcenilla (Texas A&M University, USA) Talk Title: Arabidopsis telomerase takes off: uncoupling telomerase activity from telomere maintenance in space |
| 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM EDT | Gabrielle C. Buck (Rice University, USA) Talk Title: Identifying and characterizing a missing peroxin–PEX8–in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM EDT | Gabriela Madrid (University of Florida, USA) Talk Title: Exploring the Role of Trehalose-6-Phosphate in Maize Carbohydrate Metabolism at the Single-Cell Level |
| 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM EDT | Albert Cairo (CEITEC, Czech Republic) Talk Title: SMG7 is a master regulator of P-bodies modulating their function and dynamics |
August 7, 2023
Concurrent Symposium 19
Cellular quality control: management and degradation of organelles and their proteins
Chair – DurreShahwar Muhammad (Rice University, USA)
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM PM
| 3:38 PM – 3:58 PM EDT | DurreShahwar Muhammad (Rice University, USA) Talk Title: Multi-omics investigation of peroxisomal quality control |
August 8, 2023
Plenary 4
Intercellular Communication in Plants: The Long and Short of It
Chair – Sessen D. Iohannes (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
Chair – Matias F. Gleason (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
| 9:03 AM – 9:30 AM EDT | Friedrich Kragler (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany) Talk Title: Lost in translation? The long-distance travel of messenger RNAs |
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT | Margaret H. Frank (Cornell University, USA) Talk Title: Deciphering signals from the noise in the mRNA mobileome using comparative Solanaceae genomics |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM EDT | Tessa Burch-Smith (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA) Talk Title: An uncommon view: 3D imaging of plasmodesmata formation |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT | Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (University of Leeds, UK) Talk Title: Callose deposition at plasmodesmata and the regulation of plant root development |
Concurrent Symposium 21
Computational biology and phenomics
Chair – Kanjana Laosuntisuk (North Carolina State University, USA)
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
| 1:03 PM – 1:23 PM EDT | Kanjana Laosuntisuk (North Carolina State University, USA) Talk Title: Controlling for total RNA abundance affects the identification of differentially expressed genes revealing bias toward morning-expressed responses |
| 1:23 PM – 1:43 PM EDT | Emma L J Canaday (Ohio University, USA) Talk Title: Changes in Moon, Mars, and Micro Gravity: A Meta-Analysis of Transcriptome Shifts in Responses to Gravity and Spaceflight |
| 1:43 PM – 1:45 PM EDT | Veronica E. Ramirez (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Talk Title: The Proteomes that Feed the World |
| 1:45 PM – 2:05 PM EDT | Cedar Warman (University of Arizona, USA) Talk Title: High-throughput phenotyping uncovers differential pollen tube growth patterns during heat stress in a diverse panel of tomato accessions |
| 2:05 PM – 2:25 PM EDT | Janeen Braynen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA) Talk Title: Regulatory Networks Governing Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Maize and Sorghum |
| 2:25 PM – 2:45 PM EDT | Michelle S. Cho (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Talk Title: ZmIRA1, a new mediator between Root System Architecture (RSA) and nitrogen metabolism identified by phenomics |
Concurrent Symposium 22
Plant Resilience and Climate Change
Chair – Seung Y. Rhee (Michigan State University, USA)
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
| 1:03 PM – 1:23 PM EDT | Seung Y. Rhee (Michigan State University, USA) Talk Title: Understanding Mechanisms of Thermoadaptation of Desert Extremophiles |
| 1:23 PM – 1:43 PM EDT | Hatem Rouached (Michigan State University, USA) Talk Title: Plant growth stimulation by elevated CO2 depends on phosphorus homeostasis in chloroplasts |
| 1:43 PM – 1:45 PM EDT | Karnelia Paul (University of California San Diego, USA) Talk Title: Stomatal CO2 sensor in stomata consists of two interacting protein kinases, Raf-like HT1 and MAP kinase MPK12 followed by CBC1 Kinase |
| 1:45 PM – 2:05 PM EDT | Moi Exposito-Alonso (Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Carnegie Institution for Science, USA) Talk Title: Rapid evolution across climates in globally-distributed experiments of an annual herb |
| 2:05 PM – 2:25 PM EDT | Sheng-Yang He (Duke University, USA) Talk Title: Climate impact on plant-pathogen interactions |
| 2:25 PM – 2:45 PM EDT | Rebecca Bart (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA) Talk Title: Bridging the lab-field gap in microbiome research |
Concurrent Symposium 24
Transcriptional regulation: from genes to networks
Chair – Kranthi Varala (Purdue University, USA)
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
| 1:45 PM – 2:05 PM EDT | Henry W. Schmidt (University of Florida, USA) Talk Title: Single-cell genomics of Populus lignified stems reveals distinct cell population and developmental tracing of cambial derivatives |
Concurrent Symposium 25
Biochemistry: from proteins to metabolic networks
Chair – María Maldonado (UC Davis, USA)
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
| 1:23 PM – 1:43 PM EDT | Charles L. Hawkins (Michigan State University, USA) Talk Title: Plant Metabolic Network: A Unified Resource for Plant Metabolism |
| 2:05 PM – 2:25 PM EDT | Ava Kloss-Schmidt (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA) Talk Title: Determination of a Subcellular Metabolic Network Map for Sorghum bicolor |
Concurrent Symposium 28
Biochemistry: Emerging facets of symbiotic nitrogen fixation
Chair – Sanhita Chakraborty (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
| 3:38 PM – 3:58 PM EDT | Wendell J. Pereira (University of Florida, USA) Talk Title: Single-cell lineage dynamics of nodule development in Medicago truncatula |
Posters
Kevin L. Cox, Jr (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
Poster Title: A comprehensive toolkit to perform Expansion Microscopy in plant protoplast systems
Terri A. Long (North Carolina State University, USA)
Poster Title: The root cause: molecular mechanisms of cell specific iron deficiency response
Margaret H. Frank (Cornell University, USA)
Poster Title: Deciphering signals from the noise in the mRNA mobileome using comparative Solanaceae genomics