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Translational Research in Crops

22-23 June 2023, Ghent, Belgium
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Translational Research in Crops

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Developing crops that are more resilient to rapidly changing and harsher environments will be crucial for tomorrow’s food production. Green biotechnology offers solutions to maintain high food productivity while preserving the earth’s valuable ecosystems.

This VIB conference ‘Translational Research in Crops’ aims at reviewing how crops cope with stress, how to improve crops through plant architecture, how to produce healthier crops, and the beneficial interactions of the soil microbiome.

Twenty leaders in plant biotechnology will present their latest insights in the following sessions:

  • Healthier crops
  • Improving crops through plant architecture
  • How do crops cope with biotic stress?
  • How do crops adapt to abiotic stress
  • Beneficial interactions of soil microbiome
  • Centuries of crop breeding


Besides an inspiring scientific program, conference participants will have ample networking opportunities during the poster sessions and networking moments.

Travel grants
We offer 4 travel grants to international PhD students, which will reimburse travel costs up to 400 Euros. The deadline to participate was 30 March 2023. The organizing committee notified the grant winners.

Poster information
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. All accepted poster submissions will have a chance to win the JXB Poster Prize offered by Journal of Experimental Botany!

Register before the EB deadline to have your abstract recorded in the program book.

Host City: Ghent
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Program

Day 1 - Thursday, 22 June, 2023

08:15
09:00
Welcome coffee & Registration
09:00
09:15
Welcome
Session 1: Healthier crops

Chair: Dirk Inzé

09:15
09:45
Fortifying vitamins in tomato using genome editing
09:45
10:15
Unlocking the Polyploid Potential of Wheat Through Genomics
10:15
10:30
Motif Mining with Deep Learning - Accelerating identification, annotation and inference of gene regulatory networks in plants

Fritz Peleke

IPK Gatersleben, DE
Selected from abstracts
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
11:00
11:30
Understanding and altering photoprotection to improve crop productivity
11:30
12:00
Improvement of maize, soybean, and wheat using sunflower transcription factors. The long way from the laboratory to the greenhouse and from the greenhouse to the field
12:00
12:15
Application of RNA-based bioprotectants against viruses for sustainable crop production in a changing climate

Ana Sede

Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP-CNRS), Strasbourg, FR
Selected from abstracts
12:15
13:15
Lunch
13:15
14:15
Poster session 1

Odd numbers

Session 2: Improving crops through plant architecture

Chair: Hilde Nelissen

14:45
15:15
How deep is the conservation of plants' cis-regulatory code?
15:15
15:45
Identifying new tomato fruit growth regulators through induced variability
15:45
16:00
Modulation of tomato growth and development by microProtein-engineering

Ylenia Vittozzi

University of Copenhagen, DK
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
Session 3: How do crops cope with biotic stress?

Chair: Julia Bailey-Serres

16:30
17:00
The strawberry - Botrytis cinerea interaction: from flower to fruit
17:00
17:30
How to trick a plant pathogen?
17:30
18:30
Reception & Meet the speaker session
18:30
22:00
Boat trip + conference dinner

Additional fee

18:30
19:30
Social activity: Guided boat trip through the city center (Conference venue to restaurant)
19:30
22:00
Conference dinner

Day 2 - Friday, 23 June, 2023

08:30
09:15
Coffee
Session 4: How do crops adapt to abiotic stress?

Chair: Lieven De Veylder

09:15
09:45
Regulatory hierarchies that shape plasticity to water extremes
09:45
10:15
Epigenetic & abiotic stress mediated transcriptional regulation in maize
10:15
10:45
Coffee break
10:45
11:15
Resilience to soil stresses from dynamic root barriers
11:15
11:45
Targeting root traits to improve pearl millet tolerance to drought
11:45
12:15
Plant organ growth under drought: from cellular mechanisms to molecular networks
12:15
13:15
Lunch
13:15
14:15
Poster session 2

Even numbers

Session 5: Beneficial interactions of soil microbiome

Chair: Caixia Gao

14:15
14:45
Enhancing phosphate acquisition through arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
14:45
15:15
Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations
15:15
15:30
Wheat lines differing in yield, root architecture and mucilage secretion show associated changes in rhizosheath microbiome composition

Eric Ober

National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), GB
Selected from abstracts
15:30
16:00
Coffee break
Session 6: Centuries of crop breeding

Chair: Cristobal Uauy

16:00
16:30
Gross chromosomal rearrangements and chromosome engineering

Martin Lysak

Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, CZ
16:30
16:45
Single-cell targeted chemical or genetic boosting of genome editing in maize

Ling Meng

KWS Gateway Research Center, US
Selected from abstracts
16:45
17:15
Next Generation CRISPR Technologies and Their Applications in Crop Improvement

Caixia Gao

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CN
17:15
17:45
Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

Dan Voytas

University of Minnesota, US & Co-Founder & CSO, Calyxt, US
17:45
17:55
Closing & poster prize

Hilde Nelissen

Organizing committee

Abstracts

The full list of abstracts will be available on 08-06-2023 until 23-08-2023
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.

Attendees

The full list of attendees will be available on 08-06-2023 until 22-06-2023
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.