Opening
9:00- 9:30 | | Prof. Beat Keller
University of Zurich and Plant Science Center |
SESSION I: Plant signaling and development
9:30 - 11:00 | 
| FERONIA and the regulation of receptor kinase-mediated signaling
Prof. Cyril Zipfel
University of Zurich |
 | Decoding the Compatible Pollen Response Pathway in the Brassicaceae Stigma
Prof. Daphne Goring
University of Toronto |
 | Auxin integrates growth and stomatal response during drought
Prof. Mark Estelle
University of California, San Diego |
Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00 - 11:30
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SESSION II: Plant ecology and evolution
11:30 - 13:00 |  | Using Arabidopsis thaliana to understand climate-driven adaptation
Prof. Detlef Weigel
MPI Tübingen |
 | Hydrogen isotopes in plant organic compounds as indicator for plant metabolic processes?Prof. Ansgar Kahmen
University of Basel |
 | Integrating macro- and micro-evolutionary perspectives on plant diversity: breakthroughs from genomic data at multiple hierarchical levels
Prof. Elena Conti
University of Zurich |
Lunch and Poster Session
13:00 - 14:30
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SESSION III: Innovations for plant improvement
14:30 - 16:00 |  | Improving photosynthesis efficiency in plants, dream or reality?
Prof. Mark Aarts
Wageningen University |
 | Natural and induced plant genomic instability
Prof. Luca Comai
University of California Davis |
 | Genome editing with programmable nucleases in crop plants
Prof. Caixia Gao
CAS and University of Copenhagen |
Keynote - Global perspective on the importance of plant science research
16:00 -16:30 | 
| Dr. Susanne Brink
Editor of Trends in Plant Sciences |
Poster awards and concluding remarks
16:30 - 17:00 | | Prof. Sam Zeeman
ETH Zurich, Head of PSC |
Apéro
17:00 - 18:30 |
