Program

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🏆 Awards & Voting

Two prizes are awarded to students: the Best Student Oral Award and the Best Student Poster Award. Every talk and poster in the competition is marked with a gold ★ in the programme and book of abstracts. You choose the winners — scan a code (or open the link) to rate the presentations and the posters. You can vote any time during the conference; winners are announced Friday 19 June, 12:10–12:40 (Storhavet 1).

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★ Talks in the competition (9): Leah Gachao (S1) · Anne M. L. Nilsen (S2) · Steven Zwartkruis (S2) · Nelly Braun (S2) · Sara Roosvall (S2) · Sara Morghen (S2) · Pia A. Dittmer (S2) · Vasili Balios (S3) · Colin Sinclair (S3)

★ Posters in the competition (9): P02 Maximilian Fuchs · P03 Michael Dills · P04 Francesco Saffioti · P05 Leo Minini · P09 Thomas Brown · P11 Liv-Irene Berglund · P12 Pepe Bergmann · P13 Kristin K. Gannestad · P14 Dominykas Šalvaitis

Sessions

Wednesday 17 June — Pre-conference workshops. Two parallel hands-on workshops at the Nord University campus (Oscar Sund 1 & 2): an AI-assisted Coding Workshop (09:00–16:00) and a Science Communication Workshop (09:00–14:00).

Session 1 — Signaling, Perception, and Interactions. Plants, macroalgae, and microalgae rely on intricate signalling networks to sense their environment, communicate with other organisms, and regulate growth, stress responses, and symbioses. Talks span hormonal and chemical signalling, quorum sensing, and plant–microbe and algae–microbe interactions relevant to nutrient acquisition, stress resistance, and aquaculture productivity.

Session 2 — Plant & Algal Immunity, Stress Responses, and Environmental Adaptation. Plants and algae constantly face biotic stressors (pathogens, biofouling organisms, microbes) and abiotic challenges (temperature, UV, salinity, eutrophication). This session explores the molecular, physiological, and ecological mechanisms of stress responses — immune signalling, systemic resistance, antifouling strategies, epigenetic priming (stress memory), and climate-driven range shifts.

Session 3 — Biotechnological Innovations and Emerging Tools. Advances in biotechnology and computation are transforming plant and algal research. This session covers CRISPR-based gene editing, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and strain selection, alongside AI-assisted phenotyping, machine learning, remote sensing, and automated stress detection for sustainable agriculture, aquaculture, and bioproduction.

Posters — all four themes. The poster sessions span Signalling & Interactions; Immunity, Stress & Adaptation; Biotechnological Innovations; and Restoration, Biodiversity & Sustainable Ecosystem Management — the latter covering kelp-forest rehabilitation, carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling, and community-driven, citizen-science restoration.

Session Chairs

Session	Chair	Backup
Signaling, Perception, and Interactions in Plants, Macroalgae, and Microalgae	Kirsten Krause	Karsten Fischer
Plant & Algal Immunity, Stress Responses, and Environmental Adaptation	Thorsten Hamann	May Bente Brurberg
Biotechnological Innovations and Emerging Tools	Katja Karppinen	Alexander Jueterbock

#I0		Oscar Sund 1		Oscar Sund 2

9:00	AI-assisted Coding Workshop ,	Science Communication Workshop
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#I0		Storhavet 1		Foyer		Restaurant		OHMA Restaurant

8:00		Registration
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9:00	Roles and recognition of stress-regulated secreted signaling peptides Cyril Zipfel
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:50	Transcriptome analysis of cell wall biomineralization in the large diatom Coscinodiscus Tore Brembu
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11:00	★ Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of eATP signalling during regulated cell death in Arabidopsis thaliana Leah Gachao
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:10	Role of abscisic acid metabolism in regulation of bilberry fruit ripening Katja Karppinen
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15:00	Poster session with snack
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16:00	★ Effects of thermal priming on the Saccharina latissima transcriptomic response to heat stress Anne Nilsen
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:10	Environmental Drivers of Phlorotannin Variability in the macroalga Alaria esculenta (Phaeophyceae). Insights from Wild Populations, Aquaculture and Laboratory Studies Ralf Rautenberger
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:20	★ The evolutionary origin of the Arabidopsis receptor kinase THESEUS1 and its function in plant cell wall integrity maintenance Steven Zwartkruis
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:30	Deciphering the functions of three Phytophthora cactorum RXLR effectors involved in strawberry colonization Anupam Gogoi
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17:00	★ Temperature resilience in different life cycle stages of the kelp Alaria esculenta Pia A. Dittmer
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:45	CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing and functional genomics for development of multiple biotic & abiotic stress tolerance in Solanum lycopersicum L. Banashree Saikia
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:15	Time-series multispectral UAV imaging reveals dynamic N-responses and breeding gains for N-uptake and protein yield in Norwegian spring barley Morten Lillemo
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:25	★ Lithologically diverse Nordic glacial flours as macro- and micronutrient sources for northern plants Colin Sinclair
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12:00	Store norske leksikon (SNL) Kjell-Olav Hovde
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Caption

Signaling, Perception, and Interactions in Plants, Macroalgae, and Microalgae

Plant & Algal Immunity, Stress Responses, and Environmental Adaptation

Biotechnological Innovations and Emerging Tools

Restoration, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Ecosystem Management

Keynote

Registration

Welcome

Break

Excursion

Workshop

Poster

Dinner

Closing

Science Outreach