Monday 28 August 2023 |
9:00-9:45 | Registration and coffee (put the posters up) |
9:45-10:00 | General opening by the local organizing committee and Eucarpia. |
10:00-10:45 | - Opening lecture: Guido van den Ackerveken, Utrecht University (NL) What’s growing in my leafy greens? A story of pathogens, disease and immunity
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10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
Genetic and genomic resources |
11:15-11:45 | - Eric Schranz, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (keynote) Comparative Genomics of Lettuce, its wild relatives and beyond
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11:45-12:15 | - Edouard Severing, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (invited): Chromosome level assembly of wild spinach provides insights into the divergence of homo- and heteromorphic plant sex-chromosomes.
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12:15-12:45 | - Ales Lebeda, Palacký University of Olomouc (CZ): Prickly and opium lettuces in Central Chile and Mendoza district (Argentina)
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch break |
Development |
14:00-14:30 | - Rik op den Camp, Keygene (NL) (keynote): Apomixis: Breakthrough breeding technology transforming agriculture
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14:30-15:00 | - Matthias Berens, Keygene (NL) (invited): Inactivation of a receptor kinase at the S-locus results in self-compatibility in chicory (Cichorium intybus, Asteraceae)
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15:00-15:20 | - Celia Anton Sales, Wageningen University and Research (NL): PHYTOCHROME C mutations decelerated the circadian clock in cultivated lettuce while breeding for delayed bolting time
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| 15:20-15:40 | - Athanasios Koukounaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR): Factors affecting the agronomic performance of an underutilized leafy green: Sonchus oleraceus
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16:00 | Welcome reception, Botanical Gardens, Utrecht University |
Tuesday 29 August 2023 |
Stress resilience |
9:30-10:00 | - Christa Testerink, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (keynote): Salt stress resilience; think global, act local
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| 10:00-10:20 | - Germán Sandoya, University of Florida (US): Heat tolerance in lettuce cultivated in the subtropics, from germplasm identification to molecular mechanisms
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| 10:20-10:40 | - Ivan Paponov, Aarhus University (DK): Decoding Phytochemical Accumulation: Dissecting the Influence of Jasmonic Acid, Light, and Nutrient Variances
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10:40-11:00 | - Alan Pauls, Wageningen University and Research (NL): Predicting the unpredictable: A novel approach to screening for inner leaf tipburn
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11:00-11:40 | Coffee break |
Trends in phenomics, biotech and other technologies |
11:40-12:10 | - Kim Boutilier, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (keynote): New Tools for an Old Problem
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12:10-13:10 | Lunch break |
13:10-13:50 | - Theo van der Lee, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (invited): Phenotyping for biotic and abiotic stress
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| 13:50-14:10 | - Sandra Goritschnig, ECPGR Secretariat c/o Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (IT): Development and application of single primer enrichment technology (SPET) SNP assay for population genomics analysis and candidate gene discovery in lettuce
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14:10-16:00 | Poster session and networking with coffee break |
17:00 | Social event and conference dinner, Utrecht city center |
Wednesday 30 August 2023 |
Resistance to aboveground diseases |
9:30-10:00 | - Katherine Denby, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York (UK), Identification of lettuce transcription factors impacting resistance to Botrytis cinerea through predictive network inference
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| 10:00-10:20 | - Diederik Smilde, Naktuinbouw (NL), IBEB’s monitoring of Bremia lactucae, the perspective of Naktuinbouw
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| 10:20-10:40 | - Myluska Caro, Rijk Zwaan (NL): Identification, mapping and introgression of TSWV and INSV resistance leads to successful launching of resistant lettuce varieties
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10:40-11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10-11:30 | - Bas ter Riet, Enza Zaden (NL): MACPF, a novel Bremia resistance gene in lettuce
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| 11:30-12:00 | - Jim Correll, University of Arkansas (USA): Spinach downy mildew – mitigating a continual conundrum
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| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch break |
Resistance to belowground diseases |
13:00-13:40 | - Olga Scholten, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (keynote): Seed characteristics in relation to damping off tolerance in spinach
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| 13:40-14:10 | - Kelley Richardson, US Department of Agriculture (US): Detecting and characterizing a new variant of lettuce Fusarium wilt in California
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14:10-15:00 | Poster session and networking with coffee break |
Pathogen Biology |
15:00-15:30 | - John Clarkson, University of Warwick (UK) (keynote): Identification, pathogenomics and resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae causing Fusarium wilt in lettuce
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15:30-15:50 | - Melanie Mendel, Utrecht University (NL): Shedding light on effector functions in spinach by employing a bacterial Type III Secretion System
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16:00-17:00 | Visit to UU NPEC or Botanical Gardens |
Thursday 31 August 2023 |
Postharvest Traits & market/consumer trends |
9:30-10:00 | - Leo Marcelis, Wageningen University and Research (NL) (keynote): Vertical farming: Moving from genetic to environmental modification of quality and yield of vegetables?
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| 10:00-10:20 | - Gail Taylor, University of California (US): Indoor farming: changing the paradigm of leafy green breeding for cleaner, safer, more nutritious and sustainable crops
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| 10:20-10:40 | - Aurora Diaz, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (ES): Genetic dissection of commercial and traditional lettuce varieties characterized for vitamin C content
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| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee break |
11:10-12:00 | - Richard Michelmore, University of California – Davis (US) (closing lecture): Present and future genomics of lettuce improvement'
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12:00-12:30 | - Closing discussion and closing of the conference
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12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
Satellite meetings after the conference (not in parallel): |
| 13:30-15:15 | IBEB (International Bremia Evaluation Board) meeting, (Johan Schut) open to public |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:30 | ILGC3 (Richard Michelmore), invites only |
