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ELIXIR CZ Annual conference 2022: Plant Cytogenomics

from 19 September, 2022 to 21 September, 2022

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The seventh ELIXIR CZ Annual conference 2022: Plant Cytogenomics

The conference will be held on 19-21 September 2022 at the Conference Centre of the Academy of Sciences in Chateau Třešť. The three-day conference will focus on plant genomics and chromosome biology. We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker is Dr Ilia J. Leitch.

Registration at the venue will take place on 19 September at 12:30 and the conference will start with a joint lunch. During the three conference days, you can look forward to six lecture sessions (three or four lectures per session) and two evening poster sessions.

In order to encourage collaboration and build trust and respect among researchers, the traditional netball tournament will take place.
Please register your team via email: zmachalkova@ibp.cz.

Refreshments will be provided throughout the conference.

Programme

Monday sept. 19

11:30 — 13:30 Registraton
12:00 — 13:30 Lunch

13:30 — 15:00 SESSION 1: Big data and ELIXIR
13:30 — 14:10 Ilia J. Leitch
Genome size diversity and why it matters – insights from the Plant
DNA C‐values database
14:10 — 14:35 Jiří Vondrášek
ELIXIR CZ meets challenges of data management in Life Sciences
14:35 — 14:50 Petr Novák
ELIXIR CZ supported tools for genome annotations and data sharing

15:00 — 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 — 16:40 SESSION 2: Repetitive DNA
15:30 — 16:00 Tony Heitkam
Repetitive DNA in plants: a guide to genomic change and regulatory innovation
16:00 — 16:20 Nicola Schmidt
Beet ‘em up: Unifying 30 years of repeat research in beets and wild beets
16:20 — 16:40 Zdeněk Kubát
LTR retrotransposons preferentially spread through either the male or female
plant germline
16:40 — 17:00 Pavel Jedlička
Reconstruction of LTR retrotransposons insertions in plant genomes

17:00 — 17:10 Presentaton of sponsors

17:10 — 18:10 Break
18:10 — 19:40 Dinner
19:40 — 22:10 Posters I

Tuesday sept.20

8:00 — 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 — 10:30 SESSION 3: Centromeres

9:00 — 9:30 Andre Marques

How to evolve without centromeres?
9:30 — 9:50 Jiří Macas

Weird but useful: what we can learn from atypical plant centromeres
9:50 — 10:10 Yi‐Tzu Kuo

Plasticity in holocentromere organization: The holocentromere of Chionographis
is comprised of a few megabase‐sized CENH3 positive satellite arrays

10:10 — 10:30 Pavel Neumann

Identiﬁcation of changes in structural and regulatory kinetochore protein genes
in holocentric compared to monocentric Cuscuta species

10:30 — 11:00 Coﬀee break

11:00 — 12:30 SESSION 4: Chromosomes, meiosis and beyond
11:00 — 11:30 Andreas Houben

Analysis and application of natural and artiﬁcially induced chromosome elimination
11:30 — 11:50 Steven Dreissig

Recombination landscape divergence between populations is marked by larger
low‐recombining regions in domesticated rye
11:50 — 12:10 Václav Bačovský

Analysis of synaptonemal complex in plants: dissection of SCs in Silene latifolia
12:10 — 12:30 Jana Szecówka

Both male and female meiosis contribute to non‐Mendelian inheritance of parental
chromosomes in interspeciﬁc plant hybrids (Lolium × Festuca)

12:30 — 14:00 Lunch
14:00 — 15:00 Posters II
15:00 — 20:00 SPORTS and GAMES
15:00 — 16:30 Orienteering
15:45 — 20:00 Football tennis/Footnet
20:00 — 23:00 Dinner + PARTY

Wednesday sept. 21

8:00 — 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 — 10:30 SESSION 5: Structure and organization of plant genome

9:00 — 9:30 Ingo Schubert

DNA double‐strand breaks as drivers of genome and karyotype evolution
9:30 — 9:50 Martin Kovačik

Developing an atlas of gene expression during barley grain development
9:50 — 10:10 Yile Huang

Structure and evolution of the meso‐octoploid genome
of Heliophila variabilis (Brassicaceae)

10:30 — 11:00 Coﬀee break

11:00 — 12:00 SESSION 6: Specialized chromosomes

11:00 — 11:20 Tomáš Janíček

Back to the Future: Sex chromosomes and ﬂower development
11:20 — 11:40 Miroslava Karaﬁátová

Mysterious biology of the B chromosome in wild Sorghum

11:40 — 12:00 Extra Lecture

11:40 — 12:00 Petr Smýkal

Towards the understanding of the seed dormancy as the key domestication
trait in legumes

12:00 — 13:00 Lunch

Registration

Registration is closed on a first-come-first-served basis. The conference is limited to 80 participants.

Presentations and posters

Participants are invited to submit a poster abstract to zmachalkova@ibp.cz before 10th Aug 2022. In addition to special poster sessions, posters will be on display throughout the meeting, allowing ample time for discussion. Selected poster authors will also be invited to give a short oral presentation based on the submitted abstract.

Conference costs and accommodation

No registration fee is required. The accommodation has been booked for participants at the Conference Centre of the Academy of Sciences in Chateau Třešť.