Symposium E7 “Plant genomics, genetics, bioinformatics and systems biology”

Symposium “Plant genetics, bioinformatics, and systems biology” is dedicated to modern advances in combined experimental and computational research on the structural and functional organization of genomes and transcriptomes, and to integrating the resulting knowledge into plant systems biology. The central topics of the section include:

• experimental and computational plant genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics;
• transcriptional regulation of plant gene expression;
• molecular and cellular mechanisms of hormonal regulation of gene expression and plant development;
• reconstruction of gene networks in model and crop plants and their functional modules (signal transduction pathways, intermolecular interaction networks, metabolic pathways, transcriptional and microRNA regulatory modules, etc.);
• computational modeling of plant development and morphogenesis, as well as the structure and development of tissues and organs;
• high-throughput automated plant phenotyping: analysis of traits related to plant productivity, and the structure and development of tissues and organs;
• marker-assisted and genomic selection of crop plants; mechanisms of stress tolerance: studying responses to abiotic (drought, salinity) and biotic stresses to create resistant varieties;
• molecular and cellular mechanisms of plant interactions with symbionts and disease pathogens;
• integrative studies combining experimental and information/computational approaches to solving problems in plant genomics, genetics, and systems biology are welcome.