Tuesday 3rd April
11.30am	Optional tours of the Botanic Gardens and Herbarium
12.00am	Registration opens
14.00pm	SESSION 1
14.10pm	Pulling it all together: the benefits of integrating Ireland's plant data Úna FitzPatrick, Serena Dool
14.30pm	National Vegetation Database: a key building block for the future Lynda Weekes, Úna FitzPatrick
14.50pm	The significance of field boundaries for agricultural biodiversity Caroline A. Sullivan, Mike J. Gormally, John A. Finn and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
15.10pm	The zonation of woody species in turloughs in relation to flooding Sarah A. O'Loughlin-Irwin, Nick E. Scott, and Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington
15.30pm	The vegetation and ecology of mineral-rich flushes in the mountains of Mayo and Kerry Eamonn J. L. O'Sullivan, Rory L. Hodd, and Micheline J. Sheehy Skeffington
15.50pm	Tea Break
16.10pm	SESSION 2
16.15pm	Impacts of wild herbivore grazing on diversity, structural composition, and regeneration in ancient oak woodlands Miles Newman, Fraser J.G. Mitchell and Daniel L.Kelly
16.35pm	Conservation of selected Red Listed & legally protected bryophyte species in Ireland Christina Campbell, Noeleen Smyth and Daniel L. Kelly
16.55pm	Conservation Biology of the Threatened Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciosum Willd.) in Ireland Emer Ní Dhúill, Noeleen Smyth and Stephen Waldren
17.15pm	Understanding the invasion biology of Gunnera tinctoria using molecular and modelling approaches Mark Fennell, Tommy Gallagher and Bruce Osborne
17.35pm	Poster session
18.00pm	Evening Reception till 19.00pm
Wednesday 4th April
9.30am	SESSION 3
9.30am	Native hemiparasites - What's on the menu? Immunocytochemical investigations of cell wall biochemistry at haustorial interfaces and implications for host quality Anna Pielach and Zoë A Popper
9.50am	Collenchyma: a mechanical tissue with dynamic cell walls Olivier Leroux and Zoë A Popper
10.10am	Generation of novel microalgal lines producing high levels of nutraceuticals Simrat Kaur and Charles Spillane
10.30am	Sensitivity of Hebe cultivars to irradiation in vitro to generate variants Angelo Gallone, Alan Hunter and Gerry C. Douglas
11.00am	Tea/Coffee Break
11.30am	SESSION 4
11.30am	Variation in Wood Formation Genes within Willow (Salix) - an application of Populus genomic resources Aude Perdereau, Gerry C. Douglas, Trevor R. Hodkinson and Colin T. Kelleher
11.50am	Genetic variation in Miscanthus x giganteus (Poaceae) a bioenergy and fibre crop Trevor R. Hodkinson, Mariateresa de Cesare, Ruby Prickett, M. B. Jones and Susanne Barth
12.10pm	Identification of novel genetic lines of Camelina sativa with fatty acid profiles tailored for biofuel production Peter Ryder, Anish Kumar P. K., Manash Chatterjee, Peter C. McKeown and Charles Spillane
12.30pm	Lunch
14.00pm	PLENARY TALK and SESSION 5
14.00pm	Adaptation to local photoperiod in European aspen - A genomics perspective Professor Pär Ingvarsson
15.00pm	Fossil evidence for the oldest known epipyllous moss Richard S. Barclay, Jennifer C. McElwain, Jeffrey G. Duckett, Maarten H. van Es, Anika S. Mostaert, Silvia Pressel, and Bradley B. Sageman
15.20pm	Interpreting changes in leaf physiognomy across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary - implications for the effect of atmospheric composition on leaf size and shape Karen L. Bacon and Jennifer C McElwain
15.40pm	The phylogeography and colonisation history of Arenaria ciliata in Ireland Conor Meade, Emma Howard-Williams, Xiaodong Dang, Pablo Vargas, Kevin Walker and Colin T. Kelleher
16.00pm	Tea Break
16.30pm	SESSION 6
16.30pm	Modelling the daily soil respiration of an Irish cropland incorporating aboveground biomass as a variable Anne-K. Prescher and Bruce A. Osborne
16.50pm	Impacts of climatic extremes on net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange in a Sitka spruce forest Matthew Saunders, B. Tobin, M. Gioria, G. Benanti, E. Cacciotti, and B. A. Osborne
17.10pm	Sequestering carbon in the spring barley fallow period: Implications for the release of nitrous oxide Dru D. W. Marsh and Bruce A.Osborne
16.30pm	Transcriptional co-Activation by Components of the Ubiquitin System in Arabidopsis Katarzyna Hanczaryk, Frank Wellmer, and Emmanuelle Graciet
16.50pm	Environmental stress tolerance of tobacco chloroplast transformants with enhanced reactive oxygen species scavenging capacity Olga M. Grant, Donal P. Brennan, and Philip J. Dix
17.10pm	Dehydration-stress Induced Oscillations in LEA Protein Gene Expression Involves Abscisic Acid in the Moss, Physcomitrella patens Suhas Shinde, Nurul Islam, and Carl Ng
17.30pm	Poster Session
19.00pm	Conference Dinner and evening entertainment
Thursday 5th April
9.30am	SESSION 7
9.00am	Effect of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) cultivar on the leaf, pseudostem, true stem and dead proportions of the sward over a grazing season Marion Beecher, E. Lewis, T. Boland, M. McEvoy, M. O'Donovan and D. Hennessy
9.20am	Using Chloroplast Microsatellites to Describe Relationships between Lolium Varieties Margaret D. Wallace, Jim Provan and Trevor J. Gilliland
9.40am	Comparative analyses of four mitochondrial genomes to understand the molecular basis of CMS in pigeonpea (Cajanus spp.) Reetu Tuteja, Rachit K. Saxena, Trushar Shah, Jaime Davila, Yong-Li Xiao, Andrew J. Alverson, Christopher D. Town, Sally A. Mackenzie, Charles Spillane and Rajeev K. Varshney
10.00am	Coffee
11.35am	SESSION 8
10.40am	Investigating the role of sphingolipids in regulating programmed cell death in plants) Cara T. Daly, Islam Nurul, Bruce Osborne, Carl Ng, and Paul F. McCabe
11.00am	Identification of parent-of-origin dependent and independent genome dosage effects in Arabidopsis thaliana polyploids) Antoine Fort, Peter C. McKeown, Mark T.A. Donoghue, Zielinski ML and Charles Spillane
11.20am	Characterisation of a novel mutant sf7 affecting fasciation and vascular development in Arabidopsis thaliana) Sandesh Rao, Channa Keshavaiah, Wei Li, Mark Donoghue and Charles Spillane
11.40am	Identification and evaluation of RPS2 gene homologs and sources of resistance to Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in Irish Brassica oleracea species) Mohamed El-Esawi, Paula Bourke, Kieran Germaine, and Renee Malone
12.00pm	Close of conference
12.10pm	Lunch
14.00pm	Workshop
14.00pm	Post-conference optional tours