Plant Response to Environment across Scales
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Venue: ETH Zurich, Auditorium Maximum HG F30, Rämistr 101, Zurich
This conference presented advances in plant science research on genomics, phenomics, and enviromics.
Outline
The world’s ecosystems are subject to rapid changes due to human activities. This poses many challenges, such as global warming and biodiversity loss. For a better understanding of human environmental impact, geological and biological changes need to be described and quantified. Recent developments in genomics, phenomics and enviromics have allowed scientists to extract a wealth of new information. The symposium will highlight new strategies of assessing plant response to stress from gene to field and across ecosystem level.
Program
| Session | Speaker | Presentation title |
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| 09:30 | Bruno Studer ETH Zurich, PSC chair |
Welcome |
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Session 1: Response at genome scale (chair: Sylvain Bischof, UZH) |
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| 09:30 | Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zurich, PSC |
Temperature and meiosis - climate adaptation and its possible ties to recombination rate variation |
| 10:00 | Anne Roulin, University of Zurich, PSC |
Transposable element evolution: What can we learn from population genomics? |
| 10:30 | Ben Oyserman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
Linking host genotype and the rhizosphere microbiome |
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11:00 |
Break and poster session
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Session 2: Response at cellular or plant scale (chair: Achim Walther, ETHZ) |
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| 11:30 | Hendrik Poorter, Jülich Plant Phenotyping Center, Germany |
Meta-phenomics: A "periodic table" of plant responses to their a-biotic environment |
| 12:00 | Nicole van Dam, German Centre Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany |
Beyond the usual suspects? Ecometabolomics analyses of plant-environment interactions |
| 12:30 | Jaakko Kangasjärvi, University of Helsinki Finland |
Plant acclimation and responses to stresses – a cellular perspective |
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13:00 |
Lunch and poster session
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| Session 3: Response at ecosystem scale (chair: Anna-Liisa Laine, UZH) | ||
| 15:00 | Yvonne Willi, University of Basel, PSC |
Constraints to climate adaptation |
| 15:30 | Tamir Klein, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel |
Tree eco-physiology through molecular eyes |
| 16:00 | Francesco Miglietta, Institute of Bioeconomy, CNR, Firenze, Italy |
Biosphere-atmosphere feedback and implications for the remote sensing of vegetation |
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Flash Talks by selected PhD students and postdocs (chair: Alexander Damm, UZH) |
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| 16:30 | Christopher Kesten, ETH Zurich |
Pathogen-induced pH changes regulate the growth-defense balance in plants |
| 16:40 | Lukas Wille, ETH Zurich |
Host genotype x soil interaction in the composition of pathogenic and beneficial fungi of pea lines screened for root rot resistance |
| 16:50 | Marinela Dukić, ETH Zurich |
Reverse ecology of meiosis – What can genes under selection tell us about meiotic adaptations in Arabidopsis arenosa diploids? |
| 17:00 | Stefan Milosavljevic, University of Zurich |
ARPEGgIO: Automated Reproducible Polyploid EpiGenetIc wOrfklow |
| 17:15 | Poster awards | |
Scientific Program Committee
Coordination
Sylvia Martinez, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC), Univ Basel and Romy Kohlmann, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC)
