Tarragona, 17-19 November 2025
Spain Netherlands Organic Chemistry Symposium – SNOCS
Workshop
Programme
Day 1
Monday, May 8th
08:30 | Registration
09:30 | Welcome from the organizers
Chair: Núria Sánchez-Coll
09:45 | Dominique Bergmann Building resilient leaves and stomata in and for a changing world
10:30 | Britt Koskella Leveraging the above ground (phyllosphere) microbiome for plant health
11:15 | Coffee
Chair: Ignacio Rubio-Somoza
11:45 | Teva Vernoux Auxin in development: where to respond, when to respond and how to respond?
12:30 | Marja Timmermans How to make a flat leaf: Pre-patterns, small RNA morphogens and Turing dynamic
13:15 | Lunch / Posters
Chair: Julia Qüesta
14:30 | Xiaoqi Feng Epigenetic regulation of plant germline development
15:15 | Keith Slotkin Targeted Transposition in Arabidopsis
16:00 | Coffee
Chair: Robertas Ursache
16:30 | Angela Hancock Adaptation to novel environments
17:15 | Hao Yu RNA modification underlies plant development and stress responses
18:00 | Elena MontePhotosignaling for plant adaptation to environmental challenges
Day 2
Tuesday, May 9th
Chair: Nicolas Bologna
09:30 | Xuemei Chen microRNAs as signals in cell-cell communications
10:15 | Stephen P. Long More productive future-proofed crops via manipulation of photosynthesis to address global food security in 2050
11:00 | Coffee
Chair: Igor Florez-Sarasa
11:30 | Cristina Ferrándiz Don’t stop me now: the end of reproduction in annual plants
12:15 | Daniel Van Damme Mechanistic insight into plant endocytosis
13:00 | Rosa Lozano-Durán Chasing geminiviruses to understand plant biology
13:45 | Lunch / Posters
Chair: Jae-Seong Yang
15:00 | Joy Bergelson Field GWAS and experimental evolution experiments reveal genetic tradeoffs in response to temporally and spatially variable selection
15:45 | Olivier Hamant How transcriptional noise and mechanical conflicts contribute to organ shape reproducibility
16:30 | Liam Dolan De novo development of polarity in plant cells
Day 3
Wednesday, May 10th
MORNING SESSION
Joint Session with “Genomics-assisted breeding for boosting crop and livestock improvement”
Joint Session with “Genomics-assisted breeding for boosting crop and livestock improvement”
09:15 | Welcome to the participants of the Genomics-assisted breeding for boosting crop and livestock improvement conference
Chair: Laura Botigué
09:30 | Cristobal Uauy Crop breeding as a DNA-assembly problem
10:15 | Nils Stein The barley pan-genome: large structural genome variation is not rare
11:00 | Coffee
Chair: Iban Eduardo
11:30 | Bruno Contreras-Moreira Upgrading the gene annotation at the population level reveals the diverse pan-gene set of Asian rice
12:15 | Dani Zamir Epistasis time
13:00 | Danelle Seymour Integrating scales to traverse the genotype-phenotype divide in citrus
13:45 | Closing remarks for “At the forefront of plant research 2023”
Meet the
Speakers
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