ICAR 2026

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Registration

Auditorium 2 Foyer

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Poster Browsing

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Opening Keynote 1 & 2

Auditorium 2

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Reception

Auditorium 2 Foyer

9:00am - 8:00pm

Poster Browsing

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

9:00am - 10:30am

Plenary 1

Auditorium 2

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

11:00am - 12:30pm

Concurrent 1-4

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Lunch Break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Plenary 2

Auditorium 2

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Concurrent 5-8

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Poster Presentation

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

9:00am - 8:00pm

Poster Browsing

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

9:00am - 10:30am

Plenary 3

Auditorium 2

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

11:00am - 12:30pm

Concurrent 9-12

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Lunch Break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Concurrent 13-16

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Free and easy

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Conference Dinner

Flower Dome - Gardens by the Bay

9:00am - 8:00pm

Poster Browsing

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

9:00am - 10:30am

Plenary 4

Auditorium 2

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

11:00am - 12:30pm

Concurrent 17-20

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Lunch Break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Plenary 5

Auditorium 2

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Concurrent 21-14

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Poster Presentation

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

8:00pm

Poster Removal

Sports Hall 2 (Zone A), Sports Hall 2 (Zone B), Rock Climbing Area (Zone C)

9:00am - 10:30am

Plenary 6

Auditorium 2

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee / tea break

Auditorium 2 Foyer

11:00am - 1:00pm

Keynote 3 & 4
Closing

Auditorium 2

Programme is subject to changes without prior notice

Plenary Sessions Topics

Abiotic Interactions
Biotic Interactions
Plant Development
Signal Transduction
Translational Research
Technology & Tools

Concurrent Sessions Topics

Topics are arranged alphabetically, not by the session schedule

No	Topic	Session Chair
1	Abiotic Stress Biology	Prakash Kumar
2	AI in Plant Science	Marek Mutwil
3	Cellular Reprogramming and Organ Regeneration	Momoko Ikeuchi, Charles Melnyk
4	Epigenetics	Danhua Jiang
5	Evolution and Genomics	Magnus Nordborg
6	From Arabidopsis to Crops	Naweed Isaak Naqvi
7	Light Signalling and Development	Enamul Huq
8	Molecular Condensation in Plant Signalling	Yansong Miao and Guoyong Xu
9	Phytohormone	Claus Schwechheimer
10	Plant Beneficial Microbiome	Jieshun Lin
11	Plant Cell Biology	Yvon Jaillais
12	Plant Lipid Metabolism and Signalling	Wei Ma

No	Topic	Session Chair
13	Plant Mechanobiology	Yuchen Long
14	Plant Nutrition	Yi-Fang Tsay
15	Plant Reproductive Development	Toshiro Ito
16	Plant Technology and Innovation	Tedrick Lew
17	Plant-Pathogen Interactions	Eunyoung Chae
18	Plasmodesmata: Gating Mechanisms and Developmental Control	Leor Williams
19	RNA Biology	Lisha Shen
20	Single-Cell and Spatial Biology	Jiawei Wang
21	Stomatal Development	Andrew Muroyama
22	Synthetic Engineering in Plants	Daisuke Urano
23	Vegetative Development	Adrienne Roeder
24	White Space	TBC

Shortlisted for Oral Presentation

Below is the list of shortlisted abstracts for the ICAR 2026 concurrent sessions. These submissions have been organized into 24 thematic categories to ensure a balanced and diverse program. Please note that there are two categories of shortlisted oral presentations: Speaker (20 minutes) and Short Talk (15 minutes), with both durations inclusive of time for Q&A. For abstracts with multiple topic selections, assignments have been balanced across categories to ensure a comprehensive and well-distributed schedule.

No	Name	Affiliation	Speaker Category/ Talk duration	Concurrent Session Topic
1	Alessandra Boccaccini	Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy	Short Talk (15 mins)	13. Abiotic Stress Biology
2	Andrew Muroyama	UCSD, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	16. Plant Mechanobiology
3	Arthur Korte	University of Wuerzburg, Germany	Short Talk (15 mins)	2. Single-cell and Spatial Biology
4	Cédric Schindfessel	Ghent University, Belgium	Short Talk (15 mins)	23. Plant Lipid Metabolism and Signalling
5	Chengguo Duan	Sun Yat-Sen University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	14. RNA Biology
6	Cheng-yen Chen	TLL, Singapore	Short Talk (15 mins)	22. From Arabidopsis to Crops
7	Chunli Chen	Huazhong Agricultural University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	18. Epigenetics
8	Chynthia Hartono	IPMB-Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Short Talk (15 mins)	24. Stomatal Development
9	Constance Le Gloanec	NUS, Singapore	Short Talk (15 mins)	17. Vegetative Development
10	Elhanan Tzipilevich	Tel Hai Academic College, Israel	Short Talk (15 mins)	3. Plant Beneficial Microbiome
11	Erich Glawischnig	TU Munich, Germany	Short Talk (15 mins)	3. Plant Beneficial Microbiome
12	Federico G. Mirkin	John Innes Centre, Argentina	Short Talk (15 mins)	4. Synthetic Engineering in Plants
13	Feng Zhang	University of Minnesota, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	10. Plant Technology and Innovation
14	Fernando Rabanal	Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany	Short Talk (15 mins)	20. Evolution and Genomics
15	Hatem Rouached,	Michigan State University, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	11. Plant Nutrition
16	Hui-Hsien Chang	National Taiwan University, Taiwan	Short Talk (15 mins)	6. Molecular Condensation in Plant Signalling
17	James Walker	Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	2. Single-cell and Spatial Biology
18	Ji-Young Lee	Seoul National University, Korea	Short Talk (15 mins)	19. Plasmodesmata: Gating Mechanisms and Developmental Control
19	Junlin Chen	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden	Short Talk (15 mins)	18. Epigenetics
20	Justin Lee	Leibniz Inst of Plant Biochemistry, Germanyy	Short Talk (15 mins)	6. Molecular Condensation in Plant Signalling
21	Kathleen Greenham	University of Minnesota, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	20. Evolution and Genomics
22	Laura Bacete	Umeå University, Sweden	Short Talk (15 mins)	16. Plant Mechanobiology
23	Li Yang	University of Georgia, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	12. Cellular Reprogramming and Organ Regeneration
24	Li-Qing Chen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	23. Plant Lipid Metabolism and Signalling
25	Lynette Brownfield	University of Otago, New Zealand	Speaker (20 mins)	22. From Arabidopsis to Crops
26	Masaki Ito	Kanazawa University, Japan	Short Talk (15 mins)	24. Stomatal Development
27	Natsumi Maruta	University of Queensland, Australia	Short Talk (15 mins)	9. Plant-pathogen Interactions
28	Nir Sade	Tel Aviv University, Israel	Short Talk (15 mins)	5. Phytohormone
29	Pengbo Liang	China Agricultural University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	11. Plant Nutrition
30	Pengfei Fan	Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg, Germany	Short Talk (15 mins)	12. Cellular Reprogramming and Organ Regeneration
31	Qiyu Liang	NTU, Singapore	Short Talk (15 mins)	7. AI in Plant Science
32	Rodrigo Reis	University of Bern, Switzerland	Speaker (20 mins)	13. Abiotic Stress Biology
33	Ronghui Pan	Zhejiang University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	7. AI in Plant Science
34	Sanghwa Lee	Yonsei University, Korea	Short Talk (15 mins)	8. Light Signalling and Development
35	Shiyong Song	Zhejiang University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	13. Abiotic Stress Biology
36	Sílvia Coimbra	University of Porto, Portugal	Short Talk (15 mins)	21. Plant Reproductive Development
37	Taishi Umezawa	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technolog, Japan	Speaker (20 mins)	13. Abiotic Stress Biology
38	Tan Anh Nhi Nguyen	The University of Tokyo, Japan	Speaker (20 mins)	3. Plant Beneficial Microbiome
39	Tao-Ho Chang	National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan	Short Talk (15 mins)	10. Plant Technology and Innovation
40	Thorsten Hamann	Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway	Speaker (20 mins)	13. Abiotic Stress Biology
41	Tien-Shin Yu	Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Taiwan	Short Talk (15 mins)	19. Plasmodesmata: Gating Mechanisms and Developmental Control
42	Tomokazu Kawashima	University of Kentucky, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	21. Plant Reproductive Development
43	Wei-Lin Wan	NUS, Singapore	Short Talk (15 mins)	9. Plant-pathogen Interactions
44	Xi Huang	Xiamen University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	8. Light Signalling and Development
45	Yue Rui	Stanford University, USA	Short Talk (15 mins)	1. Plant Cell Biology
46	Yuki Doll	Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan	Short Talk (15 mins)	17. Vegetative Development
47	Yuree Lee	Seoul National University, Korea	Short Talk (15 mins)	1. Plant Cell Biology
48	Zhu Yang	Zhejiang University, China	Short Talk (15 mins)	22. From Arabidopsis to Crops
49	Zimin Zhou	NUS, Singapore	Short Talk (15 mins)	5. Phytohormone

Plenary Sessions Topics

Concurrent Sessions Topics

Shortlisted for Oral Presentation

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