16 September 2026 /Wednesday/
08:00 – 09:30 | Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 10:00 | Conference Opening Ceremony
10:00 – 10:40 | PL-01 | Philippe Gallusci – Epigenetic Memories in Crops: Studies from Tomato and Grape.
10:40 – 11:05 | OP-01 | Ane Kortabarria Pérez – Live Slow and Die Old: Developmental Changes and Leaf Physiology in the Resurrection Angiosperm Ramonda myconi.
11:05 – 11:30 | OP-02 | Jurga Jankauskienė – Mitigation of Herbicide-Induced Stress in Common Wheat by a Microbial Biostimulant: Physiological and Biochemical Evidence.
11:30 – 12:10 | PL-02 | Tibor Janda – The Role of Light During Cold Acclimation Processes in Plants.
12:10 – 12:35 | OP-03 | Gergana Mihailova – Relationship Between Drought Tolerance and Fungal Pathogen Resistance in Crop and Resurrection Plants.
12:35 – 13:00 | OP-04 | Gabriella Szalai – How Eruca Plants Respond to Moderate UV-B Radiation?
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40 | PL-03 | Katya Georgieva – Haberlea rhodopensis – Resurrection as a Survival Strategy.
14:40 – 15:05 | OP-05 | Tsvetina Nikolova – Boosting Wheat Tolerance: How Priming with Spermine Regulates the Antioxidant System During Biotic Stress Caused by Fusarium culmorum.
15:05 – 15:30 | OP-06 | Vasilissa Manova – Effects of Plant Growth Regulators in Two Wheat Species: From Abiotic Stress Responses to Field Performance.
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:40 | PL-04 | Faheem Shehzad Baloch – Exploiting Fertile Crescent Diversity Through Precision Genomics for Climate-Resilient Agriculture.
16:40 – 17:05 | OP-07 | Tautvydas Žalnierius – Heracleum sosnowskyi Control Approaches Based on Gibberellin Metabolism Modulation.
17:05 – 17:30 | OP-08 | Alexander G. Ivanov – Restricted Capacity for State Transitions in the Antarctic Ecotype of Colobanthus quitensis Implies Differential Strategies to Cold Acclimation of Antarctic and Andes Ecotypes.
17:30 – 19:00 | Poster Session
19:30 – 23:00 | Welcome Cocktail
17 September 2026 /Thursday/
08:30 – 09:00 | PhD Students Workshop
09:00 – 09:40 | PL-05 | Valya Vassileva – From Model Plants to Legumes – Epigenetic Regulation of Stress Responses and Adaptation.
09:40 – 10:05 | OP-09 | Bekim Gashi – Networking and Opportunities for Sustainable Crop Epitranscriptomics.
10:05 – 10:30 | OP-10 | Volodymyr Strashnyuk – Thermal Adaptation and Seasonal Variation in Endoreduplication and Polyteny in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae).
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40 | PL-06 | Ádám Solti – The Contribution of the Nitric Oxide Signaling and the Autophagy Processes to Remove Iron from the Chloroplasts During Developmental Senescence.
11:40 – 12:05 | OP-11 | Irina I. Vaseva – Integration of Ethylene Signaling in Drought Stress Responses.
12:05 – 12:30 | OP-12 | Georgi Antov – Anticancer Potential of Levisticum officinale in In Vitro Cell Culture Model Systems.
12:30 – 13:00 | Round Table Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40 | PL-07 | Massimiliano Corso – Remodeling Seed Specialized Metabolism for Stress Adaptation and Plant-Microbe Interactions.
14:40 – 15:05 | OP-13 | Liudmyla Kozeko – Cellular Response in Rapeseed to Exogenous Amino Acids Under Drought.
15:05 – 15:30 | OP-14 | Michel Francis – Nitric Oxide-Associated Regulation of Plastidial Iron Homeostasis.
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:25 | OP-15 | Shazie Yusein-Myashkova – Insights into Mode of Action of Novel Naphthalimide Derivatives as Selective Anticancer Agents.
16:25 – 16:50 | OP-16 | Amit Roy – Integrated Metabolomic and Dual-Seq Analysis of Norway Spruce–Fungal Pathogen Interactions.
16:50 – 17:30 | PL-08 | Ramona Duminicioiu – Agroecology and food systems in Romania: small-scale farmers’ perspectives on the current crisis.
17:30 – 19:00 | Poster Session
19:30 – 23:00 | Social Dinner
18 September 2026 /Friday/
08:30 – 09:10 | PL-09 | Edina Türkösi – From Wild Gene Pools to Resilient Crops: Thinopyrum as a Source of Drought Tolerance in Wheat.
09:10 – 09:35 | OP-17 | Georgi Bonchev – Revealing the Hidden Genetic Diversity in Natural Plant Germplasm Collections Through DNA Barcodes – Case Studies in Breeding Research and Conservation of Endemic and Threatened Species.
09:35 – 10:00 | OP-18 | Jana Kvíderová – Biophysical Markers in Large-Scale Algal Cultivation.
10:00 – 10:30 | Round Table Discussion
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40 | PL-10 | Yalçın Kaya – Herbicide Resistance in Crops: Evaluating Integrated Weed Management.
11:40 – 12:05 | OP-19 | Margarita Popova – Differential Drought Responses of Bulgarian Sweet, Super-Sweet and Forage Maize Hybrids Under Field Conditions.
12:05 – 12:30 | OP-20 | Amrita Chakraborty – Friends or Foes? Insect–Microbe Interactions in Fruit Agroecosystems.
12:30 – 13:10 | General Discussion and Future Perspectives
13:10 – 13:20 | Closing Ceremony
13:20 – 14:20 | Lunch Break
14:30 – 19:00 | Excursion
