Program
and Sessions
We are pleased to present the preliminary program outline for the conference
This is a general framework including the names of keynote speakers, titles of their talks, and a detailed hourly schedule. Information about contributing talk speakers will be added shortly after the abstract submission deadline.
The current outline provides an overview of the planned sessions and events to help you plan your participation. Please check back regularly for the most up-to-date program information.
Program Overview
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
13:30 – 17:30 Registration
15:30 – 15:45 Opening
15:45 – 16:30 Opening Lecture
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Speaker: Paweł Łuków (University of Warsaw)
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Title: "The Moral Value of Basic Research or the Significance of the Unspectaculars"
16:30 – 17:30 PSEPB Award Ceremony
17:30 – 20:00 Welcome Reception
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Session 1: DNA and RNA metabolism, epigenetics and genomics
Session Organizers: Rafał Archacki, Jakub Dolata
08:30 – 09:05 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Rémy Merret (IBMP - CNRS - Université de Strasbourg)
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Title: Interplay between mRNA decay and translation in plants
09:05 – 09:40 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Piotr Ziółkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
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Title: How to make sixty crossovers out of eight: Boosting meiotic recombination in plants
09:40 – 10:30 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics
Session Organizers: Paweł Sowiński, Tomasz Pawłowski
11:00 – 11:35 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: James Schnable (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
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Title: "What We Can See, We Can Change: Linking Plant Form to Gene Function"
11:35 – 12:10 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Robert Nawrot (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
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Title: "Pathogenesis-related proteins from Chelidonium majus L. latex as components of plant defense system"
12:10 – 13:00 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Session 3: Application of Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture
Session Organizers: Ewa Łojkowska, Anna Ihnatowicz
14:30 – 15:05 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Seth J. Davis (University of York)
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Title: "Linking biological clock genes with developmental traits related to yield"
15:05 – 15:40 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Rafał Barański (University of Agriculture in Krakow)
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Title: "What we have learned from carrot genome editing: from basic research to challenges for future application"
15:40 – 16:30 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
16:30 – 18:00 Poster Session 1 + Networking Event
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Session 4: Biology of chloroplasts and plant mitochondria
Session Organizers: Bożena Szal, Beata Myśliwa-Kurdziel
08:30 – 09:05 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Wojciech Nawrocki (French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS)
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Title: "Light harvesting regulation and photodamage interplay in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii"
09:05 – 09:40 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Małgorzata Kwaśniak-Owczarek (University of Wrocław)
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Title: "The secrets of ribosomes and post-transcriptional events in plant mitochondria"
09:40 – 10:30 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 5: Advances in plant structure and development
Session Organizers: Edyta Gola, Alicja Dołzbłasz
11:00 – 11:35 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Thomas Laux (Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany)
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Title: "Making a pattern: lessons from plant embryogenesis"
11:35 – 12:10 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Maciej Adamowski (Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk)
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Title: "The endomembrane system in plant developmental patterning"
12:10 – 13:00 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Session 6: Plants and abiotic stresses
Session Organizers: Arkadiusz Kosmala, Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek
14:30 – 15:05 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Tibor Janda (Department of Plant Physiology and Metabolomics, Agricultural Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungary)
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Title: "Light signal transduction from shoot to root at low temperatures in cereals"
15:05 – 15:40 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Grażyna Dobrowolska (Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
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Title: TBA
15:40 – 16:30 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
16:30 – 18:00 Poster Session 2 + Networking Event
Friday, September 12, 2025
Session 7: Plant biotic interactions
Session Organizers: Aleksandra Obrępalska-Stęplowska, Magdalena Krzymowska
08:00 – 08:35 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Alberto Carbonell (Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Valencia, Spain)
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Title: TBA
08:35 – 09:10 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Michał Jasiński (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences)
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Title: TBA
09:10 – 10:00 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
Session 8: Short- and long-distance communication in plants
Session Organizers: Ewa Kurczyńska, Agnieszka Zienkiewicz
10:15 – 10:50 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (Interdisciplinary Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
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Title: TBA
10:50 – 11:25 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Urszula Krasuska (Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
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Title: TBA
11:25 – 12:15 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
Session 9: Early land plant biology
Session Organizers: Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska, Agnieszka Hanaka
13:00 – 13:35 International Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Liam Dolan (Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria)
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Title: "De novo Development of Plant Meristems"
13:35 – 14:10 National Keynote Speaker
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Speaker: Jakub Sawicki (Department of Botany and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn)
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Title: "Fast-evolving Liverworts: A Genomic Perspective from Apoppelia endiviifolia (Pelliales, Jungermaniopsida)"
14:10 – 15:00 Selected Oral Presentations (5 × 10 minutes)
15:00 – 15:30 Closing Ceremony and Poster Award Ceremony
Scientific Session Details
Chairs: Rafał Archacki, Jakub Dolata
Fundamental genetic processes in plants: transcription, replication, recombination, and repair, as well as chromatin and RNA biology.
Session 1: DNA and RNA metabolism, epigenetics and genomics
Chairs: Paweł Sowiński, Tomasz Pawłowski
Proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics: are they just descriptive studies?
Session 2: Proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics
Session 3: application of plant biotechnology for sustainable agriculture
Chairs: Ewa Łojkowska, Anna Ihnatowicz
Plant resistance for abiotic and biotic stresess. New genomic techniques for plant breeding.
Chairs: Bożena Szal, Beata Myśliwa-Kurdziel
Functioning of energy-producing organelles. Biogenesis and dynamics of chloroplast and mitochondria; their involvement in cellular metabolism and signaling. Bioenergetics of plant cells. Artificial photosynthesis.
Session 4: Biology of chloroplasts and plant mitochondria
Chairs: Edyta Gola, Alicja Dołzbłasz
Insight into the structural framework underlying developmental complexity and integrity of the plant.
Session 5: Advances in plant structure and development
Session 6: Plants and abiotic stresses
Chairs: Arkadiusz Kosmala, Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek
Physiological and molecular responses of plants to abiotic stresses in the face of climate change
Chairs: Aleksandra Obrępalska-Stęplowska, Magdalena Krzymowska
Intracellular and systemic responses of plants to biotic stress
Session 7: Plant biotic interactions
Chairs: Ewa Kurczyńska, Agnieszka Zienkiewicz
Insights into cutting-edge scientific advances in intercellular information exchange in plant including symplasmic communication.
Session 8: Short- and long-distance communication in plants
Session 9: Early land plant biology
Chairs: Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska, Agnieszka Hanaka
Development and metabolism of bryophytes