Tuesday, June 2

Participants will be arriving in Pullman and Spokane Airport. A shuttle will be provided twice per day from Spokane Airport to Pullman. There is a bus connection from Pullman airport to the campus.

4:00 – 8:00 pm Registration (Centre for Undergraduate Education Atrium)

5:00 - 6:30 pm Opening Reception

6:30 pm Opening Remarks (Andrei Smertenko and Cecilia Rodriguez-Furlan) CUE lecture hall 202

6:40 - 7:20 pm Keynote lecture 1 will be a junior principal investigator with an expertise in AI-based image analysis

7:20 – 8:00 pm Keynote lecture 2 will be an expert in genome editing.

8:30 - 10:00 pm Poster setup in atrium of Plant Biosciences building with food and beverages

Wednesday, June 3

Oral presentations: Participating labs have either a 15- or 25-min time slot. The PI has the option to provide a very brief overview of the research (2-5 min.) and for the remaining time can be divided among one or two speakers. Two to four minutes will be reserved for questions at the end of the presentations.

7:30 - 8:30 am Light breakfast (CUE Atrium)

8:30 - 10:15 am Cell Walls (session chair: TBD) CUE lecture hall 202

10:15 - 10:45 am Coffee break (CUE Atrium)

10:45 - 12:30 pm Cytoskeleton (session chair: TBD) CUE lecture hall 202

12:30 - 2:00 pm lunch (CUE atrium)

2:15 - 3:35 pm Workshop 1: The workshop will provide hands-on training on high volume cell biology data analysis using AI-driven tools. CUE classroom 207

4:00 -6:00 pm, Organelles (session chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

6:00 - 10:00 pm Poster session and social with food and beverages in Plant Bioscience Atrium. Even numbers present.

Thursday June 4

7:30 - 8:30 am Light breakfast (CUE atrium)

8:30- 10:15 am Endomembranes and contact sites (session Chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

10:15 to 10:45 am coffee break (CUE atrium).

10:45-12:30 pm Mechanobiology physical modeling (session chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

12:30 to 2:00 pm Lunch Break (CUE atrium)

2:15 - 3:45 pm Workshop 2: Advanced genome editing. CUE classroom 207

4:00 - 6:00 pm Signaling and polarity (Session chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

6:00 - 10:00 pm Poster session and social with food and beverages in Plant Bioscience Atrium. Odd numbers present.

9:30 pm Poster Figure Image Contest: votes are due.

Friday June 5

7:30 - 8:30 am Light breakfast, CUE atrium

8:30- 10:15 am Cytoskeleton and Development (session Chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

10:15 to 10:45 am coffee break, CUE atrium

10:45-12:30 pm Plant immune responses (session chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

12:30 to 3:00 pm Lunch Break, CUE atrium

3:00 to 3:40 pm NSF funding opportunities for early career scientists – presentation by Clifford Weil.

3:00 to 5:00 pm New technologies for plant cell biology (Session chair: TBD), CUE lecture hall 202

5:00 pm Closing remarks and business meeting: PCD 2027 and 2028 locations and format

6:00 to 10:00 pm Banquet (Compton Union Building), T-shirt winner announcement.

Saturday June 6

7:00 - 9:00 am Light breakfast (CUE atrium)