Conference Program & Agenda


August 28 - 31, 2026 | Weihai Bliss International Hotel, Weihai, China

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August 28, 2026 (Friday)

Time Report / Activity Speaker / Chair Location
14:30-17:50 Registration / 报到注册 - First-floor Lobby / 一楼大厅

August 29, 2026 (Saturday)

Time Report / Activity Speaker / Chair Location
Opening Ceremony / 开幕式 Chair: Xiansheng Zhang (张宪省) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:00-08:10 Welcome Remarks / 欢迎致辞 Leaders of Weihai City / 威海市领导 Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:10-08:30 Opening Remarks / 开幕致辞 Zhihong Xu / 许智宏 Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences / 中国科学院院士 Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:30-08:40 Group Photo / 集体合影 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Session 1 Chair: Zhaojun Ding (丁兆军) Sponsored by Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:40-09:10 The spatial and genomic pattern of mutations during plant growth and propagation Luca Comai University of California, Davis Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
09:10-09:35 Plant-Based Nutrients and Precision Anti-Aging Jun Sheng / 盛军 Yunnan Agricultural University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
09:35-10:00 From Single Cell to Whole Plant: Multi-Omics Profiling of Protoplast Regeneration Ying Wang / 汪颖 Capital Normal University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
10:00-10:20 Coffee / Tea Break / 茶歇 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Session 2 Chair: Akira Iwase Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
10:20-10:45 The Hidden Barriers to Plant Regeneration - The cell proliferation paradox Pil Joon Seo Seoul National University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
10:45-11:10 Hormonal Crosstalk Modeling in Arabidopsis Root Development Chunli Chen / 陈春丽 Huazhong Agricultural University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:10-11:35 Core Technologies for R&D and Biomanufacturing of In Vitro Plant-Derived Medicinal Materials Mulan Zhu / 朱木兰 CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:35-11:55 Plant stem cell technology: a new path for rare and endangered plant germplasm conservation and biomanufacturing Jinkun Liu / 刘金坤 Director, Shandong Engineering Research Center for Plant Stem Cell Technology; Head, Kedilian Plant Cell Industry Platform Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:55-13:00 Lunch and Posters / 午餐与墙报交流 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
13:00-15:30 Field Visit of Ginseng Stem Cell-Regenerated Adventitious Roots / 人参干细胞再生不定根实地考察 - Off-site / 场外
Session 3 Chair: Ying Wang (汪颖) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
15:30-15:55 Molecular mechanisms of auxin-mediated flower initiation Yunde Zhao University of California San Diego Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
15:55-16:20 The Molecular Mechanism of SUMOylation in Regulating Auxin Signaling Transduction Xiangpei Kong / 孔祥培 Shandong University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
16:20-16:35 DNA Damage-Triggered Reprogramming in Physcomitrium patens (Short Talk) Nan Gu / 顾南 Sichuan University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
16:35-16:50 CKX-mediated asymmetric cytokinin degradation determines root hydrotropism (Short Talk) Jinke Chang / 常金科 Northwest A&F University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
16:50-17:00 Coffee / Tea Break / 茶歇 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Session 4 Chair: Xiangpei Kong (孔祥培) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:00-17:25 WIND1 controls cell fate transition through coordinately integrating histone acetylation and deacetylation-mediated transcriptional reprogramming during somatic embryogenesis Akira Iwase RIKEN, Japan Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:25-17:45 Biosynthetic pathways of bioactive compounds and evolutionary history of Apiaceous medicinal plants Cheng Li / 李诚 Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:45-18:00 An epidermal small RNA signaling cascade specifies the maize embryonic shoot stem cell niche (Short Talk) Qi Li / 黎颀 University of Tuebingen Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
18:00-20:00 Conference Dinner / 会议晚宴 - Weihai Bliss International Hotel / 威海铂丽斯国际大酒店
20:30-21:30 Committee Meeting / 委员会会议 - Weihai Bliss International Hotel / 威海铂丽斯国际大酒店

August 30, 2026 (Sunday)

Time Report / Activity Speaker / Chair Location
Session 5 Chair: Tingting Xiao (肖婷婷) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:00-08:30 Taking control of meristem development Henrik Jönsson University of Cambridge Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:30-08:55 Maize Axillary Bud Development and Identification of Key Regulatory Factors Xiangyu Zhao / 赵翔宇 Shandong Agricultural University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
08:55-09:20 Establishment of a Regeneration and Genetic Transformation System for Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) and Its Application in Salvia miltiorrhiza Yifeng Hou / 侯毅枫 Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
09:20-09:35 WUSCHEL modulates jasmonate signaling to control the balance between growth and defense in the shoot apical meristem (Short Talk) Pengfei Fan Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
09:35-09:50 Cellular dynamics and conserved molecular regulation of periderm regeneration in Populus (Short Talk) Jing Zhang / 张静 Nankai University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
09:50-10:00 Coffee / Tea Break / 茶歇 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Session 6 Chair: Pingping Qian (钱平平) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
10:00-10:25 Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of ERECTA family receptors is essential for proper stomatal development in Arabidopsis Suiwen Hou / 侯岁稳 Lanzhou University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
10:25-10:50 Cell–cell contact licenses regenerative cell division in the Arabidopsis root Peter Marhavý King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
10:50-11:05 Root meristem plasticity in stress adaptation and regeneration (Short Talk) Wenkun Zhou / 周文焜 China Agricultural University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:05-11:20 Co-option of an ancient gene regulatory network integrates cytokinin signaling into nutrient responses during plant terrestrialization (Short Talk) Yating Dong / 董亚婷 Zhejiang Chinese Medical University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:20-11:25 DipTRANS: an improved method for in planta transformation and genome engineering in Nicotiana benthamiana and Solanum lycopersicum (Flash Talk) Hao Cheng / 程皓 Zhengzhou University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:25-11:30 Developing in vitro regeneration and protoplast transient transformation systems in Camellia yuhsienensis (Flash Talk) Silu Hou / 侯思璐 Central South University of Forestry and Technology Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:30-11:35 Mechanisms of somatic embryogenesis in Malus domestica (Flash Talk) Yue Yang / 杨越 Northwest A&F University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:35-11:40 HAM1 interacts with WOX4 and DELLA to orchestrate vascular stem cell regeneration in Populus (Flash Talk) Yufei Zhang Peking University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:40-11:45 Dynamic endogenous G-quadruplex act as active site for chromatin remodeling in plant stem cells (Flash Talk) Shipeng Song / 宋世鹏 Huazhong Agricultural University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:45-11:50 HPF-TEM and 3D reconstruction analysis reveal a vacuole fragmentation program for cellular clearance during xylem tracheary element differentiation (Flash Talk) An Li / 李桉 Peking University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:50-11:55 Light regulates DNA damage-induced stem cell death in arabidopsis (Flash Talk) Tongtong Guo / 郭彤彤 Shanghai Normal University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
11:55-12:00 Screening for New Components in the DOF–CLE Pathway of Phloem Development (Flash Talk) Ning Xu / 徐宁 Lanzhou University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
12:00-12:05 De novo shoot regeneration from lateral root primordia: rapid protocol for establishing shoot meristem identity (Flash Talk) Siyu Miao / 缪思妤 Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
12:05-14:30 Lunch and Posters / 午餐与墙报交流 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Session 7 Chair: Lin Xu (徐麟) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
14:30-14:55 Intelligent design and synthesis technology for crop epigenetics Xiaofeng Gu / 谷晓峰 Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
14:55-15:20 Control of plant stem cell activity by cell wall remodelling Weibing Yang / 杨卫兵 CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
15:20-16:00 Coffee / Tea Break and Posters / 茶歇与墙报交流 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Session 8 Chair: Yinghua Su (苏英华) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
16:00-16:25 Breaking tissue culture barrier in plant transgenesis via manipulating shoot progenitor cells Lin Xu / 徐麟 CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
16:25-16:50 Temporal control of cell fate and stemness during Arabidopsis vascular development Pingping Qian / 钱平平 Lanzhou University Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
16:50-17:20 Molecular regulation of the vascular cambium during normal development and regeneration Ari Pekka Mähönen University of Helsinki Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
Closing Ceremony / 闭幕式 Chair: Chunli Chen (陈春丽) Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:20-17:30 5 Poster Awards / 5项墙报奖 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:30-17:40 3 Young Investigator Presentation Awards / 3项青年学者报告奖 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:40-17:50 PlantTech Award (for Plant Stem Cell Innovation) / 植物干细胞新元奖 - Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
17:50-18:00 Closing Remarks / 闭幕致辞 Pil Joon Seo, Luca Comai Zhonghua Hall Ballroom / 中华厅
18:00-19:00 Dinner / 晚餐 - Weihai Bliss International Hotel / 威海铂丽斯国际大酒店

August 31, 2026 (Monday)

Time Report / Activity Speaker / Chair Location
08:00-16:00 Field Trip / 野外植物考察 - Weihai Park / 山东威海公园
16:00- Departure / 返程 - Weihai Bliss International Hotel / 威海铂丽斯国际大酒店

August 31 Field Trip / 8月31日野外植物考察

08:00-16:00, Weihai Park. No separate registration is required. / 8月31日08:00-16:00,山东威海公园,无需另行报名。