Scientific Program
Sunday 3th December 2023
19:00 – 21:00
Opening Cocktail only for invited speakers and organizers.
Opening talk by Marco Bocchi, Italian Consul in Rosario.
Monday 4th December 2023
MORNING SESSION. Coordinators: Luciana Delgado, Carolina Colono.
08:00 – 09:00
Registration at the Conference Venue: Rosario Board Trade Convention Center (Address: Paraguay 755, Rosario).
09:00 – 10:00
Opening Plenary Lecture Prof. Dr. John Carman, Utah State University, USA.
Apomixis: origins, regulation and speciation implications.
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00
Recongnition award: The contribution of Camilo Quarin to apomixis research, in charge of Dr. Fulvio Pupilli.
11:00 – 11:30
Invited speaker: Arp Schnittger, University of Hamburg, Germany.
A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis and maize.
11:30 – 12:00
Invited Speaker: Viviana Echenique, Universidad del Sur, Argentina.
New insights into the control of apomixis in Eragrostis curvula.
12:00 – 13:50
Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION. Coordinators: Maricel Podio, Juan Manuel Vega.
13:50 – 14:10
Oral presentation: Ramsankar Chandrasekar, Institute of Biology III, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany.
WINDHOSE-RAB GTPASE HOMOLOG A1-dependent membrane localization of the auxin transport protein PINFORMED1 promotes female germline entry in Arabidopsis
14:10 – 14:30
Oral presentation: José Carballo, CERZOS-CONICET-UNS, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Unveiling the apomictic allotetraploid genome of Eragrostis curvula.
14:30 – 14:50
Oral presentation: Andrés Bellido, CERZOS-CONICET-UNS, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
A. thaliana could provide new insights into the driving forces underlying the switch from sexual to apomictic development.
14:50 – 15:10
Oral presentation: Xixi Zheng, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Parthenogenesis in Cereals.
15:10 – 15:30
Oral presentation: Marta Mendes, University of Milano, Italy.
AUXIN RESPONSIVE FACTOR 10 insensitive to miR160 regulation induces apospory-like phenotypes in Arabidopsis.
15:30 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00
Flash presentation of the posters + Poster Session (the posters will remain displayed throughout the course of the meeting)
18:00 – 22:00
MAD Social gathering at a bar “Silos Davis” on the Paraná River.
Tuesday 5th December 2023
MORNING SESSION. Coordinators: Lorena Siena, Juan Pablo Selva.
09:00 – 09:30
Invited Speaker: Abed Chaudhury, Krishan Foundation, Australia.
Apomixis and heterotic perenniality in rice
09:30 – 10:00
Invited Speaker Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Towards the engineering of apomixis in maize.
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00
Invited Speaker Stewart Gillmor, Langebio, CINVESTAV, Mexico.
Hybrid effects on zygotic genome activation in Arabidopsis thaliana
11:00 – 11:20
Oral presentation: Luciana Delgado, IICAR-CONICET-UNR, Rosario, Argentina.
3D architecture of the ovule during MMC differentiation in Paspalum rufum.
11:20 – 11:40
Oral presentation: Maricel Podio, IICAR-CONICET-UNR, Argentina.
Resolving the gene content of the genomic region associated with apomixis in Paspalum notatum using a diploid genome assembly.
11:40 – 12:10
Invited Speaker: Tim Sharbel, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Apomixis in Boechera and selection the male and female developmental lines
12:10 – 14:00
Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION. Coordinators: Viviana Echenique, Juan Pablo Ortiz
14:00 – 14:30
Invited Speaker Olivier Leblanc, IRD-Montpellier, France.
Functional characterization of apomixis candidate genes in Arabidopsis.
14:30 – 15:00
Invited Speaker Lucia Colombo, University of Milan, Italy.
Unraveling complex mechanisms in plant reproduction for the crops of the future.
15:00 – 15:30
Invited Speaker: Gabriela Pagnussat, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina.
A mitochondrial electron shuttle essential for female gametophyte and early embryo development in Arabidopsis.
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00
Round Table on public scientific policies and strategies. Participants:
Fernando Peirano, President of the National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation;
Marina Baima, Secretary of Science and Technology of the Province of Santa Fe;
Roberto Rivarola, Vice President of Technology Affairs, CONICET;
Sandra Fernández, Director of CCT CONICET Rosario.
18:00 – 22:00
Social gathering at “El Cairo” restaurant bar.
Wednesday 6th December 2023
MORNING SESSION. Coordinators: Diego Zappacosta, Andrés Bellido
09:00 – 09:30
Invited Speaker Peggy Ozias-Akins, University of Georgia, USA.
Insights on asexual reproduction through seeds from Pennisetum/Cenchrus apomictic species
09:30 – 10:00
Invited speaker: Giovani Gabelli, DAFNAE, Agripolis, University of Padova, Italy.
Dissecting apomeiosis in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.): Genomics applied to unreduced gamete mutants and sexually induced polyploids.
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00
Invited Speaker Silvina Pessino, University of Rosario, Argentina.
Integrative use of comparative omics for harnessing apomixis in plant breeding.
11:00 – 11:30
Invited Speaker: Thomas Dresselhaus, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Understanding gene regulatory networks in the egg apparatus to trigger parthenogenesis.
11:30 – 11:50
Oral presentation: Tatyana Radoeva, KeyGene, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Apomixis: Plant Breeding Technology of the 2020s
11:50 – 12:10
Oral presentation: Petra Šarhanová, Masaryk University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Czech Republic.
A novel method to detect automixis in flowering plants.
12:10 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 17:00
Rosario City Tour / MAD Project coordination meeting
19:00 – 21:00
Gala Dinner at “Mercurio” restaurant, Rosario Board Trade (cards must be buy in advance)
Thursday 7th December 2023
MORNING SESSION. Coordinators: Francisco Espinoza, José Carballo.
09:00 – 09:30
Invited Speaker Fulvio Pupilli, IBBR Perugia, CNR, Italy.
ORIGIN OF RECOGNITION COMPLEX 3 (PsORC3) is the genetic determinant for the development of unbalanced endosperm in the Paspalum simplex agamic complex (Poaceae).
09:30 – 10:00
Invited Speaker Anna Koltunow, The University of Queensland, Australia.
Hy-Gain: harnessing apomixis for self-reproducing sorghum and cowpea hybrids for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00
Invited Speaker Emidio Albertini, University of Perugia, Italy.
Does APOSTART play a role in apospory?
11:00 – 12:00
Discussion session on perspectives. Closing ceremony
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 17:00
Session open to the public (at ECU, National University of Rosario) Mendel’s laws, ADN of humans and plants, Sexual and asexual reproduction, Sexuality and Apomixis in breeding, Women in Science.
19:00 – 22:00
Barbecue (Asado) at “El Viejo Balcón Puerto Norte” restaurant (cards must be buy in advance)