Invited Speakers

Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science e-mail: lbs33@cornell.edu

Cornell University, Cornell AgriTech phone: 315.787.2490

630 West North Street, Geneva, NY 14456 Twitter: @CornellWillow

Education and Training:

1987 Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1992 Doctor of Philosophy, Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

1992 – 1996 N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellow, Vegetable Crops, University of California-Davis

Short Bio

Dr. Larry Smart is a Professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University and is Associate Director of Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, NY. Larry is a plant geneticist and breeder whose lab uses genomic tools to accelerate the breeding shrub willow bioenergy crops and to understand hybrid vigor and pest and disease resistance. More recently, he has been leading Cornell’s hemp research and extension team and has initiated a long-term breeding and genomics program to develop new hemp cultivars for New York State. He received his B.S. in Biology at Cornell University, Ph.D. in Genetics at Michigan State University, and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC-Davis

Publications (63) can be viewed under ORCiD 0000-0002-7812-7736

Research and Professional Experience:

Feb 2018 – present Associate Director, Cornell AgriTech

April 2016 – present Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics

July 2009 – March 2016 Associate Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics

Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science

Cornell University, NYS Ag Experiment Station, Geneva, NY

Joint appt: Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Ithaca, NY

Sept. 1996 – June 2009 Assistant, Associate Professor

Department of Environmental and Forest Biology

SUNY College Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY

Oct. 1992 – Aug. 1996 N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellow & Postdoctoral Scientist

Department of Vegetable Crops, Univ. of California-Davis

Sept. 1987 – Oct. 1992 Graduate Research Assistant

Genetics Program & DOE-Plant Research Laboratory

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Jan. 1987 – Aug. 1987 Research Technician

Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Synergistic Activities:

Undergraduate Research Program:

Mentor, Cornell AgriTech Summer Research Scholars Program, Geneva, NY (16 interns)

Professional Service:

Subject Editor, Global Change Biology-Bioenergy (2013-present); Geneva Program Leader - Horticulture (July 2016 – June 2019)

Teaching Experience:

PLBRG 4030 Genetic Improvement of Crop Plants (2010-2017, enrollment = 25/year)

Plant Patents: with co-inventors, L.P. Abrahamson, R.F. Kopp, and T.A. Volk:

Eight US patents: Fast-growing willow shrub named ‘Millbrook’, ‘Oneida’, ‘Fish Creek’, ‘Canastota’, ‘Owasco’, ‘Tully Champion’, ‘Otisco’, ‘Preble’ - also European Community Plant Variety Right and Canadian Plant Breeders Rights.

Laboratory of Woody and Crop Plants Phone: +33 (0)2 38 41 70 22

UPRES EA 1207 University Orléans (France) Fax: +33 (0)2 38 49 49 11

ARCHE USC1328 INRA stephane.maury@univ-orleans.fr

rue de Chartres, BP6759,COST, 45067 Orléans Cedex 2 France

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lblgc/stephane-maury

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stéphane Maury graduated with a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants from IBMP, University of Strasbourg. He was recruited in 2000 at the University of Orleans as assistant professor at the Laboratory of Biology of Woody and Crops Plants University Orléans and INRA where he initiated and developed a research program in epigenetics and plant breeding in partnership with the seed private sector for 10 years on sugar beet. He then developed a new epigenetic axis on the tree model and is currently Professor of University, head of a research team (ARCHE) and deputy director of his laboratory. He directs work and supervises PhD thesis or post-docs on the theme of epigenetics and phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of trees to climate change. His research combines ecophysiology and epigenomics at the level of the individual or populations in collaboration with various laboratories in France or abroad. He is particularly interested in the role of DNA methylation in connection with the expression of genes or the activity of transposable elements in the poplar developmental response to drought and coordinates the national ANR project EPITREE 2018-2021 (https://www6.inra.fr/epitree-project_eng/).

PUBLICATIONS

My research activities are to better understand the relationship between developmental plasticity and thus the response of plants in response to changes in their environment and epigenetic control through DNA methylation. This objective is broken down into two parts: the improvement of fundamental knowledge and the development of epigenetic biomarkers in an applied framework of agronomic improvement.

Lafon-Placette C, Le Gac AL, Chauveau D, Segura V, Delaunay A, Lesage-Descauses MC, Hummel I, Cohen D, Jesson B, Le Thiec D, Bogeat-Triboulot MB, Brignolas F, Maury S (2018) Changes in the epigenome and transcriptome of the poplar shoot apical meristem in response to water availability affect preferentially hormone pathways. Journal of Experimental Botany doi: 10.1093/jxb/erx409

Le Gac A-L, Lafon-Placette C, Chauveau D, Segura V, Delaunay A, Fichot R, Marron N, Le Jan I, Berthelot A, Bodineau G, Bastien J-C, Brignolas F, Maury S (2018) Winter-dormant shoot apical meristem in poplar trees shows environmental epigenetic memory. Journal of Experimental Botany 69, 4821-4837 doi:10.1093/jxb/ery271

Sow MD, Segura V, Chamaillard S, Jorge V, Delaunay A, Lafon-Placette C, Fichot R, Faivre-Rampant P, Villar M, Brignolas F, Maury S (2018) Narrow-sense heritability and PST estimates of DNA methylation in three Populus nigra L. populations under contrasting water availability. Tree Genetics & Genomes 14:78 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-018-1293-6

Sow, M. D. Allona I, Ambroise C, Conde D, Fichot R, Gribkova S, Jorge V, Le-Provost G, Pâques L, Plomion C, Salse J, Sanchez-Rodriguez L, Segura V, Tost J, Maury S (2018) Epigenetics in forest trees: state of the art and potential implications for breeding and management in a context of climate change. Advances in Botanical Research 88, 387-453

Marin P, Genitoni J, Barloy D, Maury S, Gibert P, Ghalambor C, Vieira C (2019) Biological Invasion: The Influence of the Hidden Side of the Epi/Genome. Functional Ecology in press

Maury S, Sow MD, Le Gac A-L, Genitoni J, Lafon-Placette C, Mozgová I (2019) Phytohormone and chromatin Crosstalk: The Missing Link For Developmental Plasticity? Frontiers in Plant Science in press

Le Gac A-L, Lafon-Placette C, Maury S (2019) Developmental, genetic and environmental variations of global DNA methylation in the first leaves emerging from the shoot apical meristem in poplar trees. Plant Signaling and Behavior in press