2025 International Symposium on Plant Organelles Frontiers and Future Agriculture (First Call)

World-renowned expert in plant small RNA biology, gene regulation, and crop improvement. His work has significantly advanced the understanding of functional genomics in plants.

Professor Ian Small: University of Western Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.  

His research spans plant energy metabolism, organelle genomics, and the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. He has made seminal contributions to elucidating chloroplast and mitochondrial functions.

Professor Yu Zhang: CAS Centre for Excellent in Molecular Plant Sciences, China. 
His groundbreaking work on bacterial and eukaryotic transcription termination, plant nuclear DNA methylation, and chloroplast RNA polymerase has advanced the understanding of gene expression and epigenetic regulation.

His research explores the mechanisms of protein targeting to plant organelles and their roles in development and stress responses, offering insights into fundamental cellular processes.

Professor Katayoon Dehesh: University of California, Riverside, USA. Foreign Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).  

Her work elucidates the molecular mechanisms underlying plant responses to developmental and environmental signals, particularly focusing on inter- and intracellular signaling networks.

Pioneer scientist in chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling and drought stress responses. His research also contributes to the development of nutrient-enhanced and climate-resilient crops.

His research is mainly engaged in the regulatory mechanisms of photosynthesis. He has made significant progresses in the regulation of chloroplast gene expression, assembly of photosynthetic complexes, chloroplast-nucleus signaling, and environmental regulation of photosynthesis.

Prominent scientist in plant organelle biology. His studies have advanced our understanding on vacuole, Golgi apparatus, and EXPO organelle function and biogenesis.

He is a pioneer in genome editing. His team first developed the TALED system for precise A→G base editing in mitochondria, and continue to enhance the safety profile of the genome editors and drive applications in genetic disease therapy and crop breeding.

He is a leading expert in plant mitochondrial function and gene regulation. His researches have significant technological and theoretical advancements in mitochondrial biology and the mechanisms of cytoplasmic male sterility.

His innovative work has revealed the structure-function of Clp proteases and the regulation of chloroplast proteostasis.

His research focuses on the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying seed development, with significant contributions to understanding key regulations such as mitochondrial RNA processing in plants. His work has laid important theoretical advance on seed development and precision breeding. 

Vice President of Shanxi Agricultural University and Director of the Key Laboratory of Coarse Cereal Germplasm Innovation and Molecular Breeding of Shanxi Province. He specializes in plant-microbe interaction, contributing significantly to the understanding of the role of cytoskeleton in plant cell morphogenesis, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and pathogenesis.

His transformative research in organelle function and crop genetic diversity is driving progress in agricultural biotechnology.

Dr. Teva Vernoux: French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), EMBO Fellow.  

His research focuses on plant hormone signaling and cell identity dynamics, particularly the role of auxin in organ patterning and developmental control.

His research focuses on crop photosynthesis improvement, cloned key factors involved in high photosynthetic capacity and nitrogen utilization, providing significant approaches for crop engineering.

Specializes in the role of the cytoskeleton in plant cell growth, with a focus on ROP GTPase-mediated signaling pathways that control cell polarity, morphogenesis, and stomatal movement. Her research elucidates how the cytoskeleton responds to developmental and environmental signals, particularly in auxin transport and stress responses.

Professor Jianming Li: Hong Kong Baptist University, China.

 His research focuses on phyto-steroid hormones and ERAD. He first identified brassinosteroid (BR) as an essential plant hormone. His systematic studies of BR signaling led to multiple original discoveries, laying key theoretical foundations for understanding plant growth, stress response, and disease resistance.

Professor Zhenfeng Liu: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

He studies the structure and function of membrane proteins from different biological systems, including the bacterial mechanosensitive channels involved in osmotic pressure regulation, intramembrane enzymes catalyzing phospholipid biosynthesis and remodeling and membrane protein complexes related to photosynthetic state transition.

Professor Xiaofeng Fang: Tsinghua University, China.

His research focuses on the biogenesis and dynamics of membraneless organelles. Recent researches have revealed the mechanisms by which biomolecular condensates participate in processes such as endosome formation, heat stress, and osmotic stress through phase separation, promoting the development of related fields.

Professor Chanhong Kim: CAS Centre for Excellent in Molecular Plant Sciences, China. 

His focuses on chloroplast retrograde signaling and plant stress responses. He has elucidated key pathways involving in ¹O₂ signaling, and the interaction with plant hormones, providing critical insights for enhancing crop resilience. 

Professor Pengwei Wang: Huazhong Agricultural University, China.  

His work fucus on plant organelle biology, autophagy, fruit quality improvement. His research on organelle interaction and cytoskeletal dynamics has yielded notable advancements.

Professor Michitaka Notaguchi: Kyoto University and Nagoya University, Japan. Expert in inter-organ signaling and grafting technology.  

His discoveries in root-shoot signaling and plasmodesmata regulation support innovations in sustainable agriculture. He is also the founder of a biotech company for commercial grafting applications.

Dr. Monika Chodasiewicz: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.  

Her research explores stress granules and molecular mechanisms enabling desert plants to thrive under extreme conditions, focusing on mapping stress-responsive small molecule-protein complexes.

Researchers

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Students

RMB 1,000

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