Program
Scientific Program for WCPP2024
| 3rd June (Mon) | 18:00-21:00 | Registration, Welcome mixer (at Ichiju-sansai, Nara) |
| 4th June (Tue) | 9:00-9:20 | Welcome remarks by the IPPS president Harro J. Bouwmeester and the WCPP2024 chair Satoko Yoshida |
| 9:20-12:30 | Session I: Host-Plant Resistance (Chaired by Charles Melnyk, Soyon Park) Keynote by Damaris Odeny (Kenya) "Striga hermonthica host-specificity and genetic variation across Kenya and Uganda" | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:00 | Session II: Development and Physiology (Chaired by Ken Shirasu, Thomas Spallek) Keynote by Michael Axtell (USA) "Cuscuta microRNAs that target host messenger RNAs: Biogenesis, expression, movement, and evolution" | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Poster session 1 | |
| 5th June (Wed) | 8:00-8:30 | "Shikayose" Deer Gathering (Nara Park "Tobihino") |
| 9:00-12:30 | Session III: Genomics and Transcriptomics (Chaired by Stephane Muños, Kirsten Krause) Keynote by Xiaoli Chen (China) "Massive and conserved loss of genes in extreme holoparasitic plants" | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:00 | Session IV: Molecules and Biochemistry (Chaired by Salim Al-Babili, Tadao Asami) Keynote by Yukihiro Sugimoto (Japan) "Regulating the germination of root parasitic plants by natural and synthetic strigolactones" | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Poster session 2 | |
| 6th June (Thu) | 9:00-12:30 | Session V: Control and Management (Chaired by Jonne Rodenburg, Evgenia Dor) Keynote by Muhammad Jamil (Saudi Arabia) "Striga Solutions: Progress and updates on suicide germination technology" |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:00 | Excursion (Nara City) | |
| 18:00-21:00 | Gala dinner | |
| 7th June (Fri) | 9:00-11:30 | Session VI: Parasitic Plant-Host-Microbe Interactions (IUFRO joint session) (Chaired by Ai-Rong Li, Luiza Teixeira-Costa) Keynote by Jiangqiang Wu (China) "miR399 and strigolactones mediate systemic phosphorous signaling between dodder-connected host plants and control association of host plants with rhizosphere microbes" |
| 11:30-12:30 | Session VII: Ecology, Evolution and Climate Changes (IUFRO joint session) (Chaired by Susann Wicke, Stefan Wanke) Keynote by Charles Davis (USA) "Untangling the cryptic biology of the world's largest flowers" | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:00 | Session VII: Ecology, Evolution and Climate Changes (IUFRO joint session) (Chaired by Francisco Fonturbel, Susann Wicke, Stefan Wanke) IUFRO Special Keynote by Luiza Teixeira-Costa (Belgium) "Global change effects on parasitic plant ecology, physiology and distribution" | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Closing ceremony, Poster award | |
| 17:30-20:30 | Closing party | |
| 8th June (Sat) | Departure |
