| Saturday |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Lessons Learned from Extremophiles and Non-Model Plants |
| Discussion Leader: Mitchell Morton (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:25 pm | Octavio Salazar Moya (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
"Salt Responses Through the Eyes of a Sodium Accumulator. Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Characterization of the Halophyte Salicornia bigelovii Under Different Salinity Conditions" |
| 3:25 pm - 3:30 pm | Discussion |
| 3:30 pm - 3:40 pm | Donnelly West (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Transcription, Translation and Tight Chromatin: Two Tomatoes Treated Terribly Tell Tales of Trials" |
| 3:40 pm - 3:45 pm | Discussion |
| 3:45 pm - 3:55 pm | Sandra Schmoeckel (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
"Using the Genome of Chenopodium quinoa to Identify Transporters Involved in Salinity Tolerance" |
| 3:55 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Molecular Mechanisms Guiding Salt and Water
Stress Tolerance |
| Discussion Leader: Johannes Scharwies (The University of Adelaide, Australia) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:40 pm | Pedro Barreto (Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
"Overexpression of Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 1 Increases Seed Production Under Drought Stress in Nicotiana tabacum" |
| 5:40 pm - 5:45 pm | Discussion |
| 5:45 pm - 5:55 pm | Margarida Rosa (Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
"Key Players of the Rice SUMOylation Machinery in Drought Response: Exploring Tissue Specificity Towards Enhancement of Fitness Under Stress" |
| 5:55 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 6:10 pm | Estee Tee (Australian National University, Australia)
"The Role of a Chloroplast Signal, PAP, in Regulating Stomatal Closure" |
| 6:10 pm - 6:15 pm | Discussion |
| 6:15 pm - 6:25 pm | Alice Robustelli (University of Milan, Italy)
"Molecular Basis of the ABA Dependent Modulation of CONSTANS Activity in Drought Escape Response" |
| 6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:40 pm | Arianna Nigro (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"STP13, a Sugar Transporter Contributing to Salinity Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana?" |
| 6:40 pm - 6:45 pm | Discussion |
| 6:45 pm - 6:55 pm | Bhaskara Badiger (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
"Phosphatase Signaling and Microtubule Associated Stress Protein (MAPS1) Regulate Microtubule Stability and Plant Growth During Drought" |
| 6:55 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
| 7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Jubin Shah (Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany)
"Abiotic Stress-Response Reprogramming Events Underlie Successful Initiation of Apomixis" |
| 7:10 pm - 7:15 pm | Discussion |
| 7:15 pm - 7:25 pm | Caitlin Byrt (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
"Charging Up Water Transport with Plant Aquaporins Permeable to Ions" |
| 7:25 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Identification of Novel Phenotypic Traits in
Salt and Water Stress |
| Discussion Leader: Marko Bajic (Emory University, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Lidor Shaar-Moshe (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Plant Adaptations to Abiotic Stress Combinations Involved Significant Shifts in Physiological and Transcriptional Dynamics" |
| 9:10 am - 9:15 am | Discussion |
| 9:15 am - 9:25 am | Nadia Al Tamimi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
"Discovery of New Loci Associated with Salinity Tolerance in Rice Using High-Throughput Phenotyping" |
| 9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Dorota Kawa (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Phosphate Dependent Root System Architecture Responses to Salt Stress" |
| 9:40 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 9:55 am | Mariam Awlia (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
"Mapping Genetic Components Underlying Early Salt Stress Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Kaisa Kajala (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Mapping the Tomato Root Responses and Gene Expression in Drought and Flooding" |
| 10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Therese LaRue (Stanford University, USA)
"Understanding the Role of Roots in Soil Salinity Tolerance" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Christa Testerink (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Perspective on Novel Traits in Salt and Water Stress" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Applications of Fundamental Research in Field
Conditions |
| Discussion Leader: Shawkat Ali (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:40 pm | Lovely Mae Lawas (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany)
"Agronomic and Metabolic Characterization of Rice Under Combined Heat and Drought Stress and Post-Stress Recovery" |
| 1:40 pm - 1:45 pm | Discussion |
| 1:45 pm - 1:55 pm | Judith Atieno (University of Adelaide, Australia)
"Use of the Plant Accelerator© to Map Quantitative Trait Loci for Salinity Tolerance in Chickpea" |
| 1:55 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Michael Nuccio (Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, USA)
"Applying Genetic Engineering to Improve Crop Performance: A Career Perspective" |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
