{"id":12767,"date":"2025-03-29T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/?page_id=12767"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:40:14","slug":"funbio-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/funbio-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tPlant physiology and biochemistry\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Physiological and biochemical mechanisms underlying plant function under normal and stress conditions<\/h6>\n\t<\/div>
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\n\t\t\tGenetics and epigenetics\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Genetic and epigenetic regulation shaping adaptation, inheritance and evolution of organisms<\/h6>\n\t<\/div>
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\n\t\t\tCell and molecular biology\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Cellular structures and molecular networks involved in the regulation of growth, development and stress responses<\/h6>\n\t<\/div>
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\n\t\t\tBiotechnologies for Sustainable Development\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Biotechnological tools and innovations supporting environmental protection and human health<\/h6>\n\t<\/div>
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\n\t\t\tBiodiversity and Genetic Resources\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity to maintain ecosystem balance<\/h6>\n\t<\/div>
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\n\t\t\tAgrobiology and Food Science\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Biological principles of agricultural systems and their links to food quality and safety<\/h6>\n\t<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”20px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_aligment=”center”][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Conference Programme” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-sitemap” i_color=”sky” i_size=”sm” color=”sky” el_width=”90″ add_icon=”true”]
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\n\t\t\tDetailed Timetable\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t<\/div>[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787647198335{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

16 September 2026 \/Wednesday\/<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

08:00 – 09:30 | Registration and Welcome Coffee<\/strong><\/h4>\n

09:30 – 10:00 |\u00a0Conference Opening Ceremony<\/strong><\/h4>\n

10:00 – 10:40 |\u00a0PL-01 <\/strong>| Philippe Gallusci<\/strong> – Epigenetic Memories in Crops: Studies from Tomato and Grape.<\/h4>\n

10:40 – 11:05 |\u00a0OP-01 <\/strong>|\u00a0Ane Kortabarria P\u00e9rez<\/strong> –\u00a0Live Slow and Die Old: Developmental Changes and Leaf Physiology in the Resurrection Angiosperm Ramonda myconi<\/em>.<\/h4>\n

11:05 – 11:30 |\u00a0OP-02 <\/strong>|\u00a0Jurga Jankauskien\u0117<\/strong> – Mitigation of Herbicide-Induced Stress in Common Wheat by a Microbial Biostimulant: Physiological and Biochemical Evidence.<\/h4>\n

11:30 – 12:10 |\u00a0PL-02 <\/strong>| Tibor Janda<\/strong> – The Role of Light During Cold Acclimation Processes in Plants.<\/h4>\n

12:10 – 12:35 | OP-03 <\/strong>|\u00a0Gergana Mihailova<\/strong> – Relationship Between Drought Tolerance and Fungal Pathogen Resistance in Crop and Resurrection Plants.<\/h4>\n

12:35 – 13:00 |\u00a0OP-04 <\/strong>|\u00a0Gabriella Szalai<\/strong> – How Eruca<\/em> Plants Respond to Moderate UV-B Radiation?<\/h4>\n

13:00 – 14:00 |\u00a0Lunch Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

14:00 – 14:40 |\u00a0PL-03 <\/strong>|\u00a0Katya Georgieva<\/strong> – Haberlea rhodopensis<\/em> \u2013 Resurrection as a Survival Strategy.<\/h4>\n

14:40 – 15:05 | OP-05<\/strong> | Tsvetina Nikolova<\/strong> – Boosting Wheat Tolerance: How Priming with Spermine Regulates the Antioxidant System During Biotic Stress Caused by Fusarium culmorum<\/em>.<\/h4>\n

15:05 – 15:30 |\u00a0OP-06 <\/strong>|\u00a0Vasilissa Manova<\/strong> – Effects of Plant Growth Regulators in Two Wheat Species: From Abiotic Stress Responses to Field Performance.<\/h4>\n

15:30 – 16:00 |\u00a0Coffee Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

16:00 – 16:40 |\u00a0PL-04 <\/strong>| Faheem Shehzad Baloch<\/strong> – Exploiting Fertile Crescent Diversity Through Precision Genomics for Climate-Resilient Agriculture.<\/h4>\n

16:40 – 17:05 |\u00a0OP-07 <\/strong>|\u00a0Tautvydas \u017dalnierius<\/strong> – Heracleum sosnowskyi<\/em> Control Approaches Based on Gibberellin Metabolism Modulation.<\/h4>\n

17:05 – 17:30 |\u00a0OP-08 <\/strong>|\u00a0Alexander G. Ivanov<\/strong> – Restricted Capacity for State Transitions in the Antarctic Ecotype of\u00a0Colobanthus quitensis <\/em>Implies Differential Strategies to Cold Acclimation of Antarctic and Andes Ecotypes.<\/h4>\n

17:30 – 19:00 |\u00a0Poster Session<\/strong><\/h4>\n

19:30 – 23:00 |\u00a0Welcome Cocktail<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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17 September 2026 \/Thursday\/<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

08:30 – 09:00 |\u00a0PhD Students Workshop<\/strong><\/h4>\n

09:00 – 09:40 |\u00a0PL-05 <\/strong>|\u00a0Valya Vassileva<\/strong> – From Model Plants to Legumes – Epigenetic Regulation of Stress Responses and Adaptation.<\/h4>\n

09:40 – 10:05 |\u00a0OP-09<\/strong> |\u00a0Bekim Gashi<\/strong> – Networking and Opportunities for Sustainable Crop Epitranscriptomics.<\/h4>\n

10:05 – 10:30 |\u00a0OP-10 <\/strong>|\u00a0Volodymyr Strashnyuk<\/strong> – Thermal Adaptation and Seasonal Variation in Endoreduplication and Polyteny in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster<\/em> (Diptera: Drosophilidae).<\/h4>\n

10:30 – 11:00 |\u00a0Coffee Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

11:00 – 11:40 |\u00a0PL-06 <\/strong>|\u00a0\u00c1d\u00e1m Solti<\/strong> – The Contribution of the Nitric Oxide Signaling and the Autophagy Processes to Remove Iron from the Chloroplasts During Developmental Senescence.<\/h4>\n

11:40 – 12:05 |\u00a0OP-11 <\/strong>|\u00a0Irina I. Vaseva<\/strong> – Integration of Ethylene Signaling in Drought Stress Responses.<\/h4>\n

12:05 – 12:30 |\u00a0OP-12 <\/strong>|\u00a0Georgi Antov<\/strong> – Anticancer Potential of Levisticum officinale<\/em> in In Vitro<\/em> Cell Culture Model Systems.<\/h4>\n

12:30 – 13:00 | Round Table Discussion<\/strong><\/h4>\n

13:00 – 14:00 |\u00a0Lunch Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

14:00 – 14:40 |\u00a0PL-07 <\/strong>| Massimiliano Corso<\/strong> – Remodeling Seed Specialized Metabolism for Stress Adaptation and Plant-Microbe Interactions.<\/h4>\n

14:40 – 15:05 |\u00a0OP-13 <\/strong>|\u00a0Liudmyla Kozeko<\/strong> – Cellular Response in Rapeseed to Exogenous Amino Acids Under Drought.<\/h4>\n

15:05 – 15:30 |\u00a0OP-14 <\/strong>|\u00a0Michel Francis<\/strong> – Nitric Oxide-Associated Regulation of Plastidial Iron Homeostasis.<\/h4>\n

15:30 – 16:00 |\u00a0Coffee Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

16:00 – 16:25 | OP-15 <\/strong>|\u00a0Shazie Yusein-Myashkova<\/strong> – Insights into Mode of Action of Novel Naphthalimide Derivatives as Selective Anticancer Agents.<\/h4>\n

16:25 – 16:50 | OP-16 <\/strong>|\u00a0Amit Roy<\/strong> – Integrated Metabolomic and Dual-Seq Analysis of Norway Spruce\u2013Fungal Pathogen Interactions.<\/h4>\n

16:50 – 17:30\u00a0| PL-08 <\/strong>| Ramona Duminicioiu<\/strong> – Agroecology and food systems in Romania: small-scale farmers\u2019 perspectives on the current crisis.<\/h4>\n

17:30 – 19:00 |\u00a0Poster Session<\/strong><\/h4>\n

19:30 – 23:00 |\u00a0Social Dinner<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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18 September 2026 \/Friday\/<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

08:30 – 09:10 |\u00a0PL-09 <\/strong>|\u00a0Edina T\u00fcrk\u00f6si<\/strong> – From Wild Gene Pools to Resilient Crops: Thinopyrum<\/em> as a Source of Drought Tolerance in Wheat.<\/h4>\n

09:10 – 09:35 |\u00a0OP-17 <\/strong>|\u00a0Georgi Bonchev<\/strong> – Revealing the Hidden Genetic Diversity in Natural Plant Germplasm Collections Through DNA Barcodes \u2013 Case Studies in Breeding Research and Conservation of Endemic and Threatened Species.<\/h4>\n

09:35 – 10:00 |\u00a0OP-18 <\/strong>|\u00a0Jana Kv\u00edderov\u00e1<\/strong> – Biophysical Markers in Large-Scale Algal Cultivation.<\/h4>\n

10:00 – 10:30 | Round Table Discussion<\/strong><\/h4>\n

10:30 – 11:00 |\u00a0Coffee Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

11:00 – 11:40 |\u00a0PL-10 <\/strong>|\u00a0Yal\u00e7\u0131n Kaya<\/strong> – Herbicide Resistance in Crops: Evaluating Integrated Weed Management.<\/h4>\n

11:40 – 12:05 |\u00a0OP-19 <\/strong>|\u00a0Margarita Popova<\/strong> – Differential Drought Responses of Bulgarian Sweet, Super-Sweet and Forage Maize Hybrids Under Field Conditions.<\/h4>\n

12:05 – 12:30 |\u00a0OP-20 <\/strong>|\u00a0Amrita Chakraborty<\/strong> – Friends or Foes? Insect\u2013Microbe Interactions in Fruit Agroecosystems.<\/h4>\n

12:30 – 13:10 |\u00a0General Discussion and Future Perspectives<\/strong><\/h4>\n

13:10 – 13:20 |\u00a0Closing Ceremony<\/strong><\/h4>\n

13:20 – 14:20 |\u00a0Lunch Break<\/strong><\/h4>\n

14:30 – 19:00 |\u00a0Excursion<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\u00c1d\u00e1m<\/span> Solti<\/strong> –\u00a0E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Hungary<\/h4>\n

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Edina T\u00fcrk\u00f6si<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungary<\/h4>\n

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Faheem Shehzad Baloch<\/strong> –\u00a0Mersin University, Turkey<\/h4>\n

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Ramona Duminicioiu<\/strong> – Eco Ruralis Association, Romania<\/h4>\n

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Katya Georgieva<\/strong> –\u00a0Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, BAS, Bulgaria<\/h4>\n

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Massimiliano Corso<\/strong> –\u00a0INRAE-IJPB, France<\/h4>\n

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Philippe Gallusci<\/strong> –\u00a0University of Bordeaux, France<\/h4>\n

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Tibor Janda<\/strong> –\u00a0HUN-REN CAR, Agricultural Institute, Hungary<\/h4>\n

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Valya Vassileva <\/strong>– Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, BAS, Bulgaria<\/h4>\n

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Yal\u00e7\u0131n Kaya <\/strong>– Trakya University, Turkey<\/h4>\n

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[vc_row content_aligment=”center”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_aligment=”center”][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Conference Programme” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-sitemap” i_color=”sky” i_size=”sm” color=”sky” el_width=”90″ add_icon=”true”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787647198335{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”] 16 September 2026 \/Wednesday\/ 08:00 – 09:30 | Registration and Welcome Coffee 09:30 – 10:00 |\u00a0Conference Opening Ceremony 10:00 – 10:40 |\u00a0PL-01 | Philippe Gallusci – Epigenetic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":344,"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15180,"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12767\/revisions\/15180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funbio.bio21.bas.bg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}