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Save the 8th of December 2023 and look forward to exiting talks given by leading scientists addressing the contribution of plant science research to key challenges of today.
Location: University of Zurich, Aula and Lichthof, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
Registration: register here until November 6th 2023
moderated by Manuela Dahinden Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
13:30-13:40Michael Schaepman Rektor University of Zurich
Vision for plant sciences
13:40-13:50Bernhard Schmid Founding member of the PSC andBruno Studer President of the PSC, ETH Zurich
The Plant Science Center – impact generation in research, education and outreach (success stories)
moderated byNina Buchmann ETH Zurich
13:50-14:20Prof. Dr. Frank EwertDirector of the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
moderated bySabine Rumpf University of Basel
14:20-15:50 TBA
Priorities for research in ecology and environmental science
moderated byCyril Zipfel University of Zurich
15:50-16:20Jürg GertschUniversity of Bern
Aspects of molecular pharmacology related to natural products
| Jürg Gertsch studied cultural anthropology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and Neurosciences and Biochemistry at Sussex University (UK) and the Biozentrum Basel. He received his Dr.sc.nat. in pharmacognosy and natural product chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Since 2019 he is a professor (Ordinarius) for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biochemistry at the medical faculty of the University of Bern. He has done extensive fieldwork among the Yanomami Amerindians in Venezuela and carried out ethnopharmacological expeditions in Mexico, Bolivia, and Sarawak. Jürg Gertsch’s transdisciplinary research focuses on molecular pharmacology of the endocannabinoid system, cannabinoids, and drug discovery. As an expert in molecular pharmacology and translational research he was in the management board and a PI of the NCCR TransCure (2012-2022) and Marie Curie ITN MedPlant. He is a co-founder of Synendos Therapeutics, a startup that brings a novel cannabimimetic drug developed in his lab to the clinics. He is author and co-author of more than 170 scholarly articles and is a co-inventor on several licensed patents. |
16:20 Coffee Break
moderated byCélia Baroux University of Zurich
16:50-17:20Sir David Baulcombe University of Cambridge
The most important achievements of basic plant sciences
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David Baulcombe is a British plant scientist and geneticist. He is Regius Professor of Botany (emeritus post 2019) at the University of Cambridge. David Baulcombe has made an outstanding contribution to plant virology, gene silencing and disease resistance. He discovered a specific signalling system and an antiviral defence system in plants. Baulcombe also helped unravel the importance of small interfering RNA in epigenetics and in defence against viruses. This led to the development of new technologies that promise to revolutionise gene discovery in plant biology. In June 2009, Baulcombe was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II. In praise of research in fundamental plant biology Sir David Baulcombe will reflect in his talk on how plant scientists have contributed to the concepts of (cell) biology. He will sketch a brief history of discoveries in plant sciences that still impact us today, and will finish up with some key challenges ahead. |
Panel discussion with all speakers and three young plant scientists: How do new innovations come about - key research questions for the future
17:20-17:50 TBA
17:50-18:00 Final remarks
18:00-20:00 Apéro for all particaipants and Artistic poster Exhibition “Moments of Discovery” in the Lichthof, University of Zurich
19:00-22:00 Dinner (invitations only), Uniturm, University of Zurich
Manuela Dahinden Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Bruno Studer ETH Zurich
Célia Baroux University of Zurich
Caroline Weckerle University of Zurich
Sabine Rumpf University of Basel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich
Romy Kohlmann Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
