08:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Remarks
Dr. Chien-Jen Chen, President of Academia Sinica

Dr. Erh-Min Lai, Director of IPMB
Group photo 

09:10 - 09:15 Opening
Dr. Chih-Hang Wu, Symposium Organizer

Session I- Cell and Developmental Biology

Moderator: Ooi-Kock Teh

09:15 - 09:45
Mapping the FAMA–WSB regulatory landscape: From omics to downstream effectors
Makoto Shirakawa / Assistant Research Fellow,
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology , Academia Sinica

09:45 - 10:15
A PSY/PSYR regulatory network enables cis-regulatory editing to modulate root growth
Jin Ching-Yi Liao  / Postdoc, University of California, Davis

10:15 - 10:40 Refreshment

10:40 - 11:10
Engineering of a plant ribosylated nucleotide immune second messenger
Steven Le Hung Cheng  / Postdoctoral Fellow,
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ)

11:10 - 11:40
PIF3–PIF4: A transcriptional module regulating thermosensory growth in Arabidopsis
Sreya Das  /  Postdoctoral Fellow, 

Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology
11:40 - 12:10 Facility tour I  
group I: Proteomics and Genomics

group II: Cell biology facility (including flow)

12:10 - 13:40 Lunch

Session II- Plant and Environmental Microbiology

Moderator: Chih-Hang Wu

13:40 - 14:10

Plant-microbiome homeostasis, from immunity to hormonal balance and beyond
Ka-Wai Ma  /  Assistant Research Fellow,
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology , Academia Sinica

14:10 - 14:40
Rhizobia transform legume nodules with native mini-T-DNAs
Shan-Chi Hsieh  /  Postdoctoral,
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology , Academia Sinica

14:40 - 15:05 Refreshment

15:05 - 15:35
Deciphering fungal endophytic lifestyle: Host and fungal specialized metabolites determine interaction ranging from beneficial to detrimental
Ren Ujimatsu  /  Postdoc researcher,
The University of Tokyo

15:35 - 16:05
Extending recognition capacity of the plant immune receptors
Maheen Alam  /  Post doctoral researcher,
The Sainsbury Laboratory

16:05 - 16:45 3 minutes Flash Talks 

Moderator: Ting-Ying Wu

16:45 - 18:00 Round-table Mingling
(to be arranged)

18:30 -  Dinner

Session III- Chromosome, Genome and Systems Biology  / Moderator: Chin-Min Ho

09:15 - 09:45
Decoding the principles of cell polarity in bacteria, fungi, and plants
Jian-geng Chiou / Assistant Research Fellow,
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology , Academia Sinica

09:45 - 10:15

Cellular-resolution root development under hormonal perturbations and environmental stress
Che-Wei Hsu / Postdoctoral Fellow,
California Institute of Technology

10:15 - 10:40 Refreshment

10:40 - 11:10
One pathogen, many hosts: Reciprocal host-pathogen transcriptional responses
Ritu Singh / Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 

University of California, Davis

11:10 - 11:40
The evolution of multicellularity through horizontal gene transfer and gene expansion in Xanthophyceae (Heterokontophyta)
Seok-Wan Choi /  Ph.D student,
Sungkyunkwan University
11:40 - 12:10 Facility tour II
 group I: Cell biology facility (including flow)

 group II: Proteomics and Genomics

12:10 - 13:40 Lunch

Session IV- Plant-Environment Interactions

Moderator: Shih-Long Tu

13:40 - 14:10

Surviving on land: Conservation and innovation in plant stress responses
Ting-Ying Wu / Assistant Research Fellow,
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology , Academia Sinica

14:10 - 14:40
Decrypting the spatial and cell-specific acclimation responses driving stress-resilient C4 photosynthesis
Suyan Yee / Postdoctoral Fellow, 
The Australian National University

14:40 - 15:05 Refreshment

15:05 - 15:35
Phosphorylation of eIF2α by SPA1 kinase integrates light and heat stress signals to enhance thermotolerance in plants
Hui-Hsien Chang / Post-doctoral Research,
National Taiwan University

15:35 - 16:05
Desiccation drives transcriptome evolution in angiosperms
Asif Ahmed Sami / PhD candidate, 

Wageningen University and Research

16:20 - 18:35 Individual Meetings
(to be arranged)

19:00 -  Dinner