Plants and People 2015: 'Future Plan[t]s'
This year's Plants and People theme is 'Future Plan[t]s', and will take place from the 7th-9th September. We hope that this topic will allow us to focus not only on recent developments in plant science, but also to delve into the aspects involved in the development and growth of the plant scientist themselves, and his or her career- an issue close to the hearts of the organising Phd students!
Below you will find the preliminary programme with the confirmed speakers for the Plants and People conference 2015: Future plan[t]s. Please click here to download a pdf version of the programme
To read more about the invited speakers, please click on their names [Feature Under Progress!]
To find out more about the poster sessions, including guidelines for poster abstracts, please follow the link.
Monday, 7 September
12:30 -- 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 16:00 Regulation
Chair: Tegan Armarego Marriott
Fabio Fornara (IT) (14:00- 14:40)
Heading north! Regulatory networks controlling photoperiodic flowering in rice
Claudia Köhler (SE) (14:40- 15:20)
Epigenetic mechanisms in the endosperm drive plant specication
Iris Finkemeier (DE) (14:40- 15:20)
Exploring the role of lysine acetylation in the regulation of plant metabolism
15:20 -- 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 – 17:40 Plant Evo/Devo
Chair: Mercedes Diez Cocero
Claudio Varotto (IT) (16:20- 17:00)
Genomic signatures of specialized metabolism in plants
Stephen I Wright (CN) (17:00- 17:40)
When history repeats itself: Population genomics of degenerative genome
evolution
17:40 -- 18:00 Break
18:00 – 19:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Jana Dotzek
Thomas Börner (DE)
Genes and career. Or: How to become a prof
From 19:00 Poster Session with light refreshments
Tuesday, 8 September
9:30 – 11:50 Metabolism and Signalling
Chair: Selin Bülbül
Ilka Axmann (DE) (09:30- 10:10)
Cyanobacteria’s specific features: non-standard circadian clocks and plenty of
antisense RNAs
Ute Roessner (AUS) (10:10- 10:50)
Spatially resolved systems biology to identify novel salinity tolerance
mechanisms in barley roots
10:50 -- 11:10 Coffee break
Elizabete Carmo Silva (UK) (11:10- 11:50)
Improving the efficiency of Rubisco and CO2 assimilation
11:50 --13:00 Lunch (not provided)
13:00 – 14:30 Alumni in Companies
Chair: Bjoern Ost Hansen
Dörthe Dräger (NL) (13:00- 13:30)
Rijk Zwaan
Henning Redestig (BE) (13:30- 14:00)
Navigating between industry and academia, model and crop genomes
Martina Schad (DE) (14:00- 14:30)
Successful in Life Sciences: Why Building Your Own Company Should Always
Be an Alternative
14:30 – 15:10 Metabolism and Signalling Cont.
Chair: Frankiska Fichtner
John Bothwell (UK) (14:30- 15:10)
Red, Green, Brown, and Blue: What are the prospects for seaweed
biotechnology?
15:10 -- 16:15 Poster Session with coffee break
16:15 – 17:45 Discussion Session
The future of science and the future of me
Moderated by: Claudia Steinert
17:45 -- 18:00 Group Picture outside
From 18:00 BBQ
Wednesday, 9 September
9:30 – 12:30 Biotechnology and Engineering
Chair: Tommaso Pellizzer
Mansour Karimi (BE) (09:30- 10:10)
Gateway-compatible vectors for plant functional genomics
Nethaji Gallage (DK) (10:10- 10:50)
Pathway discovery of the most popular plant flavour compound vanillin
10:50 -- 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 -- 12:30 Biotechnology and Engineering
Chair: Isabel Orf
Stefan Schillberg (DE) (11:10- 11:50)
Production of valuable compounds using plants and plant cells
Ralf Reski (DE) (11:50- 12:30)
Moss: from basic biology and biotechnology to medical application
12:30 – 13:00 Concluding remarks and Poster Prize
From 13:00 Lunch (not provided)
