From Place to Space: Tracing the Spatial Dimension of Plant Sciences
Wednesday 7th of December 2022
Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Save the 7th of December 2022 and look forward to exiting talks given by a diverse panel of speakers highlighting the relevance of spatial organization in plant sciences from the perspectives of the cellular space, the plant space, the ecosystem space, and even the outer space!
We are particularly excited about this year’s edition of the Symposium as after two years of online sessions, it will finally bring the whole Plant Science Center community back together on site.
Extended registration and abstract submission deadline: 1st of November 2022!
Program
| Session | Speaker | Presentation title |
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| 09:15 | Bruno Studer ETH Zurich, PSC chair |
Welcome |
| The cell space | Lucia Piro and Trang Dang | Session chair |
| 09:30 |
Sara Simonini |
When it is the right time to divide: parental regulation of cell dvision during reproduction |
| 10:00 |
Markus Geisler |
A twist in the thale: an update on auxin-mediated cell elongation |
| 10:30 | Stefania Giacomello KTH Royal Institute of techology, Stockholm, SE |
The cell space - A journey in spatially resolved transcriptomics: from animal tissues to plants |
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11:00 |
Break |
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| The plant space | Katja Stengele and Charlotte Joller | Session chair |
| 11:30 |
Chrysoula Pantazopoulou |
How can Arabidopsis perceive neighbors in space and time? |
| 12:00 |
Philippe Reymond |
Intra- and interplant responses to insect egg deposition in Arabidopsis |
| 12:30 |
Desalegn Etalo |
The tri-partite interaction between parasitic plants, host and their microbiome |
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13:00 |
Lunch and poster session
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| The ecosystem space | Alexandra Siffert and Iciar Giménez | Session chair |
| 14:30 | Sabine Rumpf University of Basel, CH |
Effects of environmental change on arctic and alpine vegetation |
| 15:00 | Eliana M. Jimenez National University of Colombia, CO |
Spatial and temporal variation of forst net primary productivity components on contrasting soils in northwestern Amazon |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| Alexandra Siffert and Iciar Giménez | Session chair | |
| 16:00 |
Flash Talks by selected PhD students and postdocs: |
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Flash Talk by Stephanie Ruaud, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich |
Pyrenoid formation in hornworts: genomic hints for green algal-like pyrenoid scaffolding mechanisms | |
| Flash Talk by Yuling Yue, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich | Shared transcriptional response in independent lineages of land plants during plant- cyanobacteria symbiosis shed light on its evolutionary origin | |
| Flash Talk by Aphrodite Kantsa, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich | Discriminability of floral colors explains global biogeographical patterns of pollinators | |
| Flash Talk by Oliver Reutimann, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zurich | Developing a sampling design for a genetic diversity monitoring program in Switzerland | |
| The outer space | Alexandra Siffert and Iciar Giménez | Session chair |
| 17:00 | Stefania di Pascale University of Napoli, IT |
Bioregenerative systems to sustain human life for Long-Term Space Missions: the challenges of plant cultivation |
| 17:30 | tba | Poster awards and concluding remarks |
PhD Organising Committee
Trang Dang (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich)
Iciar Giménez (Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich)
Charlotte Joller (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel)
Lucia Piro (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich)
Alexandra Siffert (Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich)
Katja Stengele (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel)
Scientific Program Committee
Manuela Dahinden, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Bruno Studer, ETH Zurich
Célia Baroux, University of Zurich
Maria Santos, University of Zurich
Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich
Symposium Coordination
Yvonne Steinbach, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Romy Kohlmann, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center