Programme | Day 1 | 9 October 2025

08:30 – 09:15	Registration
09:15 – 09:30	Welcome

09:30 – 10:15	Keynote: Silvia Matesanz García		Chair: Vera Hesen
	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, ES
	Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution in Mediterranean gypsum endemics: insights into climate change response

10:15 – 10:45	Coffee Break

Session 1	Vasculature and Metabolomics		Chair: Micaela Milani
10:45 – 11:15	Hannah Schneider
	Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, DE
	Root Cortical Plasticity for Improved Crop Performance
11:15 – 11:30	Ulrike Lehmann	University of Potsdam, DE
	Plasticity of Secondary Cell Walls to Water Limitation in the Vasculature of Arabidopsis
11:30 – 11:45	Liese Schnurbusch	University of Tübingen, DE
	The role of AGO10 in developmental plasticity
11:45 – 12:00	Buddhika Pathirana	University of Potsdam, DE
	Phenotypic plasticity of cambial secondary growth in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to temperature
12:00 – 12:15	Dhanush Srikanth Srikanthan	University of Potsdam, DE
	Phenotypic plasticity of the diurnal pattern of starch metabolism in response to a fluctuating environment in Arabidopsis thaliana

12:15 – 13:15	Lunch

Session 2	Development and Morphogenesis		Chair: Sinah T. Ehlert
13:15 – 13:45	Xin-Min Li
	Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, CN
	Cell cycle-driven growth reprogramming encodes plant age into leaf morphogenesis
13:45 – 14:00	Prabal Das	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, DE
	Plasticity of leaf epidermal cell shape complexity in Arabidopsis thaliana under temperature variation
14:00 – 14:15	Amna Sarmad	University of Helsinki, FN
	Flower size plasticity in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to temperature change
14:15 – 14:30	Pauline Gutsche	Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Großbeeren, DE
	A quest for temperature sensors: what can we learn from Capsella?
14:30 – 14:45	Jan Hoffmann	University of Helsinki, FN
	GET pathway facilitates light-mediated flower size plasticity in Arabidopsis thaliana

14:45 – 15:00	Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:00	Career Session		Chair: Vera Hesen
	Eirini Kaiserli		University of Glasgow, GB
	Sabrina Kleeßen		targenomix GmbH, Potsdam, DE

16:00 – 16:30	Flash Talks

16:30 – 19:00	Poster Session & Open Reception		#1-10

Programme | Day 2 | 10 October

09:00 – 09:15	Coffee & Tea

09:15 – 10:00	Keynote: Brigitte Poppenberger		Chair: Ulrike Lehmann
	Technical University of Munich, DE
	Tipping the Balance: Brassinosteroids, Epigenetics, and the Growth–Survival Dilemma

10:00 – 11:30	Poster Session		#11-20

Session 3	Epigenetics and Reproduction		Chair: Buddhika Pathirana
11:30 – 12:00	Stéphane Maury
	University Orléans INRAE, P2e laboratory, Orléans, FR
	Epigenetic and phenotypic plasticity in poplar trees: forward, reverse epigenetic to populations and predictive models using deep learning
12:00 – 12:15	Sinah Tabea Ehlert	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, DE
	Unravelling the Influence of Temperature on Apomictic Endosperm Development through Phenotypic Plasticity
12:15 – 12:30	Sami Saarenpää	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE
	Spatial transcriptomics reveals developmental patterns in the reproductive and vegetative shoot primordia of Norway spruce
12:30 – 12:45	Sofya Koblova	Humboldt University, Berlin, DE
	Floral phenotypic plasticity in response to light quality and temperature changes
12:45 – 13:00	Ruchi Tiwari	University of Hildesheim, DE
	Phenotypic Plasticity Across Aridity Gradients: Lessons from a Mediterranean Annual Grass

13:00 – 14:00	Lunch

Session 4	Methods and Tools		Chair: Boyana Kozhuharova
14:00 – 14:30	Qin Yu
	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, DE
	PlantSeg 2.0 and GoNuclear: Accessible 3D Segmentation of Cells and Nuclei in Microscopy Data
14:30 – 14:45	Bibiana Horn	Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, DE
	GPxLMM: Gaussian Process-Augmented Linear Mixed Models for Genotype-by-Environment Interaction Analysis
14:45 – 15:00	Michael Van de Voorde	VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, BE
	Single-plant omics: Profiling individual plants in a field to identify processes affecting yield
15:00 – 15:15	Alejandro León-Ramírez	University of Cologne, DE
	Unraveling Genetic and Environmental Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana Using a Multi-Scale Life Cycle Model
15:15 – 15:30	Milad Rahimi-Majd	University of Potsdam, DE
	The effect of trait interactions on the plant global form and function space

15:30 – 15:45	Closing Remarks

Abstract book (PDF, 1 MB)