Preliminary ProgramME for the 6th ICDRA 2022
16:00 Registration, Poster hanging
18:00 Opening address
18:30 Plenary talk: Eric Lam, Rutgers U, NJ, USA | Duckweed hibernation: unraveling the molecular basis of the turion induction switch in Spirodela polyrhiza
19:30 Welcome reception
SESSION GENOMICS & EVOLUTION
08:30 Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA | tba.
09:00 Shuqing Xu, Muenster U, Germany | The giant duckweed, a model system for studying plant evolution in a multitrophic community
09:30 tba.
10:30 Coffee break
SESSION DIFFERENTIATION
11:00 K. Sowjanya Sree, Kerala Central U, India | tba.
11:30 Yang Fang, Chengdu CAS, China | Cultivated duckweed: a highly efficient starch producer
12:00 – tba.
13:00 Lunch
SESSION ECOLOGY & STRESS
14:00 Marvin Edelman, WIS Rehovot, Israel | The duckweed microbiome
14:30 Marcel Jansen, Cork U, Ireland | Lemnaceae as a key player in the circular economy; examples of wastewater valorisation in Ireland
15:00 – tba.
16:00 Fruits & cake
16:30 Poster presentation & viewing I
18:30 Public lecture: Klaus-J. Appenroth, FSU Jena, Germany | Eine neue Kulturpflanze mit großem Potenzial für Ernährung, Wasserreinigung und Energie
19:30 Round-table discussion: „Duckweed futures“
22:30 BBQ & beer
SESSION PHYSIOLOGY & METABOLISM I
09:00 Tokitaka Oyama, Kyoto U, Japan | The usage of the day-length information in the development of duckweeds
09:30 – tba.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Yubin Ma, Ocean U, Qingdao, China | Molecular mechanisms of starch accumulation in duckweed
12:00 – tba.
13:00 Lunch
SESSION (tba. for new developments to be selected from abstracts)
tba.
16:00 Fruit & cake
16:30 Poster presentation & viewing II
18:30 Guided tour in Quedlinburg
20:00 Conference dinner (Schlossmühle, Quedlinburg)
SESSION WASTE WATER REMEDIATION, FEED, FOOD, BIOFUEL, TRANSFORMATION
09:00 Britt Schumacher, DBFZ GmbH, Leipzig, Germany | Duckweed – Conservation and conversion into biogas
09:30 – tba.
10:30 Coffee break
SESSION LARGE SCALE CULTIVATION & SOCIAL ASPECTS
11:00 Paul Skillicorn, Skillicorn Technologies, Austin, USA | Duckweed Commercialization: Lessons from the past inform a path for the future
11:30 Tsipi Shoham, GreenOnyx, Tel Aviv, Israel | A novel technological platform for duckweeds mass scale cultivation
12:00 – tba.
13:00 Best Poster Award, General Assembly and Closing remarks
13:30 Lunch/departure