Plant Reproduction 2020

Conference organizers

David Honys

Pollen Biology, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague, Czech Republic

Contact:
david@ueb.cas.cz
+420-2-25106450

Research focus: Pollen development and function, male-female crosstalk
Model systems: Arabidopsis, tobacco

Thomas Dresselhaus

Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany

Contact:
thomas.dresselhaus@ur.de
+49-941-9433016

Research focus: Germline development, fertilization mechanisms, early embryo development
Model systems: Maize, Arabidopsis, wheat, Amborella

International Advisory Board

Lucia Colombo

Plant Developmental Biology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Contact:
Lucia.colombo@unimi.it

Research focus: Ovule development, Plant reproduction.
Model systems: Arabidopsis

Ueli Grossniklaus

Plant Developmental Genetics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Contact:
grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch
+41-44-634 82 40

Research focus: Apomixis, Germline Development, Pollen Tube Growth, Fertilization, Epigenetic Regulation
Model systems: Arabidopsis, maize, Marchantia, papaya, Boechera

Claudia Köhler

Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, Uppsala, Sweden

Contact:
claudia.kohler@slu.se
+46-18-67 3313

Research focus: epigenetics, genomic imprinting, hybridization barriers, endosperm development
Model systems: Arabidopsis, Capsella

Ravi Palanivelu

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Contact:
rpalaniv@email.arizona.edu
+1-520-626-2229

Research focus: pollen tube interactions with pistils in Arabidopsis reproduction as a model system to understand how plant cells communicate with each other.
Model systems: Arabidopsis, tomato

Li-Jia Qu

School of Life Sciences, Peking University, China

Contact:
qulj@pku.edu.cn
+86-10-62753018

Research focus: Gametophyte development, male-female communication, early embryo development
Model systems: Arabidopsis

Viktor Žárský

Cell Biology, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences and Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Contact:
viktor@natur.cuni.cz
+420-2-21951683

Research focus: plant secretory pathway regulators, cell polarity, pollen tubes, small GTPases and their effectors, exocyst complex, cytoskeleton
Model systems: Arabidopsis, tobacco, moss Physcomitrella patens