Program

Program

Thursday 26.09.2019:

11:00               Registration opens
 

13:00 – 13:40 Welcome & Keynote

13:00               Welcome note

13:10               Pat Heslop-Harrison (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)                 
                        Keynote honoring Prof. Thomas Schmidt
 

13:40 – 16:35 Session 1: Integration of cytogenetics with *omics technologies

13:40               Amanda Souza Câmara (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        Polymer simulations to understand the structure and dynamics of mitotic
                          barley chromosomes

14:00               Hana Šimková (Institute of Experimental Botany of the AS CR,
                        Czech Republic)
                        A focused view of large cereal genomes: Single-chromosome optical
                          mapping

14:20 – 15:20  Coffee and Posters (1 h)

15:20               Phuong NT Hoang (University of Dalat, Vietnam) or Ingo Schubert
                        (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        Cytogenomic elucidation of Spirodela genomes

15:40               Yi-Tzu Kuo (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        The first complete pachytene FISH map of Phalaenopsis orchid and its
                          application in the evolutionary study of chalcone synthase (CHS)
                          gene family

16:00               Vildana Suljevic (University of Vienna, Austria)
                        Evolution of tandem repeats in chili pepper genomes
                          (Capsicum, Solanaceae)

16:20               André Marques (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research,
                        Germany)
                        The repeat landscape of white lupin genome

16:40               End of talks
 

Evening program

17:40               Meeting to take the tram to the starting point of the Walking Tour (Tram 7)
                         (Of course, we will also provide you with directions in the abstract book)

18:45               Meeting for the Dresden Walking Tour at the Synagogue
                         (Hasenberg 1, 01067 Dresden) (Walking Tour starts at 19:00)

20:00               Dinner at Dresden’s traditional restaurant Sophienkeller
                         (Taschenberg 3, 01067 Dresden)
 

Friday 27.09.2019:

09:00 – 10:00 Session 2: Meiosis, gamete formation, and polyploidy

09:00               Anna Nowicka (Institute of Experimental Botany of the AS CR, 
                        Czech Republic)
                        Endoreduplication is dynamic process affecting nuclear morphology in
                          developing barley seeds

09:20               Aleš Kovařík (Czech Academy of Science, Institute of Biophysics,
                        Czech Republic)
                        Insights into the genome structure of pentaploid dogroses
                         (Rosa sect. Caninae) harbouring a unique asymmetrical meiotic system

09:40               Tony Heitkam (TU Dresden, Germany)
                        Adding color to a century-old enigma: Multi-color chromosome
                          identification unravels the autotriploid nature of saffron (Crocus sativus)

10:00               Coffee and Posters (1 h)
 

11:00 – 12:00  Session 3: Special chromosome types

11:00               Andreas Houben (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        Biology and structure of holocentric chromosomes

11:20               Mariana Baez (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        Characterization of the repetitive DNA fraction of two holocentric species
                          of the “Cyperid” group

11:40               Jörg Fuchs (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        Flow cytometry facilitates the estimation of the B chromosome
                          transmission rate in Aegilops speltoides based on isolated pollen nuclei

12:00 – 12:15  Group picture

12:15 – 13:30  Lunch
 

13:30 – 14:50 Session 4: Genome stability and nucleus architecture

13:30               Dominika Idziak-Helmcke (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
                        3-D nucleus architecture in mono-, di-, and tetrasomic oat-maize
                          addition lines

13:50               Kateřina Perničková (Institute of Experimental Botany of the AS CR, 
                        Czech Republic)
                        Alien chromosomes instability in wheat is associated with their improper
                          positioning in the nucleus

14:10               David Kopecký (Institute of Experimental Botany of the AS CR,
                        Czech Republic)
                        Genome stability in plant hybrids with different meiotic modi operandi

14:30               Mahmoud Said (Institute of Experimental Botany of the AS CR,
                        Czech Republic)
                        Genome homology and chromosome structure in goat grasses revealed
                          by single-gene fluorescence in situ hybridization

14:50               Coffee and Posters (1 h)

15:50 – 17:00 Session 5: New tools, perspectives, and applications

15:50              Takayoshi Ishii (Tottori University, Japan)
                        RNA-guided endonuclease - in situ labelling (REGN-ISL) - a fast
                         CRISPR/Cas9 based cytogenetic tool for crop chromosome biology

16:10               Ivona Kubalova (IPK Gatersleben, Germany)
                        Expansion microscopy of plant nuclei

16:30               Eva Hribova (Institute of Experimental Botany of the AS CR,
                        Czech Republic)
                        Analysis of chromosome rearrangements in banana (Musa) using
                         oligopainting FISH

16:50               Closing Remarks

17:00               End