Monday

09:00 – 09:50  Welcome and Registration

09:50 – 10:00 Welcome Saskia van Wees, Utrecht University

Chair: Rianne Kluck, Utrecht University

10:00 – 10:45  Keynote Speaker: Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds, UK, “Untangling plant cell walls biophysics and the regulation of intercellular communication”

10:45 – 11:10 Invited Speaker: Mark Sterken, Wageningen University and Research, “A matter of scaling: Mapping traits in plant parasitic nematodes”

11:10 – 11:40 Break

Chair: Hans van Veen, University of Groningen

11:40 – 12:05 Invited Speaker: Dmitry Lapin, Utrecht University,
‘’ Control of growth in the presence of salicylic acid”

12:05 – 12:30 Invited Speaker: Emilyn Matsumura, Wageningen University and Research, “Beyond disease: Exploring the versatile potential of plant viruses”

12:30 – 12:55  Invited Speaker: Casper van der Kooi, University of Groningen, “Tuning of flower colouration to pollinator vision via different optical mechanisms”

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Session 1 (A-D)

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:30  Parallel Session 2 (A-D)

16:30 – 16:45  Flash Talks 1 (A-D)

17:00 – 18:00 PI/postdoc/PhD hour

18:15 – 19:30 Dinner

19:30 – 21:15  Poster session

21:30 – 22:30  Pub quiz, Bowling or drinks at the bar

22:30 – 00:30 Drinks and party