Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on July 16, 2021 are subject to late fees
Organizers:
C. Robertson McClung, Dartmouth College
Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University
Dmitri Nusinow, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Ullas Pedmale, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is pleased to virtually host the International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP), which is a biennial meeting bringing together the brightest minds discussing breakthroughs into how light perception shapes plant and microbe form, development, and communication. ISPP meetings began 30 years ago and are organized without the auspices of a specific scientific society. Instead, the organization relies on volunteer and enthusiastic plant photobiology laboratories and rotates among the Americas, Asia and Europe. The past edition of this meeting was held between June 3 and 8 of 2019 in the PRBB research park building in the city of Barcelona (Spain).
Thematically grounded in how photosynthetic organisms perceive different light wavelengths, from the ultraviolet to far-red, this meeting spans from the structural bases of light perception to how competition for sunlight in the field influences predator-prey relationships. The 2021 meeting will bring together researchers from North & South America, Europe, Asia and Australasia to present their latest research. Invited presentations include a new understanding of the role of photoreceptors as thermosensors, how photoperception is linked to plant competition, light and circadian clocks, and new optogenetic tools that use light to manipulate cellular signaling. We will also host speakers from the animal optogenetics community to discuss the adoption of discoveries in plant and microbial photoperception.
The meeting will be held virtually, beginning late morning ET on Thursday, July 22, and ending late afternoon EST on Sunday, July 25, 2021.
Day | Time (ET) | Session # | Session Name |
Thursday |
9:30 am - 9:45 am |
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Introduction |
Thursday |
9:45 am - 10:30 am |
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Plenary Speaker: Rick Vierstra |
Thursday |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm |
1 |
Chloroplast Biology |
Thursday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
Thursday |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
2 |
Red light Signaling I |
Friday |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
3 |
Red light Signaling II |
Friday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
Friday |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
4 |
Circadian Rhythms |
Saturday |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
5 |
Blue and UV light Signaling |
Saturday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
Saturday |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
6 |
Light-Environment Interactions I |
Sunday |
9:30 am- 12:30 pm |
7 |
Light-Environment Interactions II |
Sunday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
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Poster Session* |
Sunday |
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm |
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Plenary Speaker: Chandra Tucker |
Sunday |
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
8 |
Optogenetics |
Virtual Icebreaker |
Thursday, 6:00 pm |
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Discussion Zone |
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30-minutes following each oral session (open Zoom format) |
*Virtual Poster Session will be available for viewing throughout the meeting
On-demand recordings of the daily Zoom sessions will be made available for 24 hours starting the following day, followed by longer-term access to the Leading Strand archive the week after the meeting.
Daily Schedule
City | "Morning" Oral Session | Poster Session | "Afternoon" Oral Session |
Los Angeles |
6:30 am - 9:30 am |
10:00 am - 11:00 am |
11:30 am - 2:30 pm |
New York |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
London |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm |
Berlin |
3:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm |
Tokyo |
10:30 pm - 1:30 am |
2:00 am - 3:00 am |
3:30 am - 6:30 am |
Keynote Speakers:
Chandra Tucker, University of Colorado, Denver
Richard Vierstra, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussion Leaders:
Jorge Casal, Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Giltsu Choi, KAIST, South Korea
John Christie, University of Glasgow, UK
Sourav Datta, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India
Katayoon Dehesh, University of California, Riverside
Xing Wang Deng, Peking University, China
Eva Farre, Michigan State University
Keara Franklin, University of Bristol, UK
Susan Golden, University of California, San Diego
Katie Greenham, University of Minnesota
Karen Halliday, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ute Hoecker, University of Cologne, Germany
Enamul Huq, University of Texas at Austin
Takeshi Izawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Eirini Kaiserli, University of Glasgow, UK
Chentao Lin, University of California, Los Angeles
Hongtao Liu, CAS, China
Paloma Mas, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain
Elena Monte, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain
Dawn Nagel, University of California, Riverside
Ronald Pierik, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Åsa Strand, Umeå University, Sweden
Roman Ulm, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Matias Zurbriggen, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from both junior and senior investigators are warmly invited. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral, flash, and poster presentations.
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend, and we have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. All questions pertaining to registration, fees, abstract submission, financial aid, or any other matters should be directed to Catie Carr.
Social Media:
The designated hashtag for this meeting is #ISPP2021. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.
Late Pricing: (registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on July 16, 2021)
Late Virtual Academic Package: $395
Late Virtual Graduate Student Package: $280
Late Virtual Corporate Package: $535