Annual PBD meeting 2005

The Annual Plant Biotech denmark Meeting was held January 21st, 2005 at KVL, auditorium 3-01, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C

 

Programme

 

09.00 – 09.10 Welcome, Claus H. Andersen, Consortium Manager, PBD

 

09.10 – 09.40 Biotech and a high technology future for Denmark, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Director and Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
 

Plant Products

(chair: Peter Ulvskov)

09.40 – 10.00  An alternative source of of putative cell wall glycosyltransferases, Jack Egelund, PhD student, Cell Wall Biology and Molecular Virology, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, DIAS

10.00 – 10.20 Molecular and functional analysis of the barley agmatine coumaroyltransferase (ACT), a key enzyme in antifungal cinnamic acid amide biosynthesis, Zoltan Divéki, Post Doc, Department of Agricultural Sciences, KVL

10.20 – 10.40 Biosynthesis of glucosinolates and camalexin, Bjarne Gram Hansen, Ph.D. student, Department of Plant Biology, KVL 

 

10.40 – 11.10  Coffee and poster viewing in the Marble Hall

 

Plant Disease

(chair: Hans Thordal-Christensen)

11.10 – 11.30 Virus induced gene silencing in pea, Gabriela Constantin, Ph.D. student, Cell Wall Biology and Molecular Virology, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, DIAS

11.30 – 11.50 Structure-dependent modulation of a pathogen response in plants by synthetic O-antigen polysaccharides, Mari-Anne Newman, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology, KVL

11.50 – 12.10 Gene transcript profiling of individual barley epidermal cells, Peter Hagedorn, PhD student, Department of Biosystems, Risø

12.10 – 13.10  Lunch and poster viewing in the Marble Hall

 

Plant Nutrition

(chair: Jan Schjørring)

13.10 – 13.40  Spontaneous nodule formation : A novel class of nodulating mutants in the model legume Lotus japonicus, Leïla Tirichine, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Århus

13.40 – 14.10 The plant nutriome: High-throughput profiling of inorganic elements in plants, Søren Husted, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Sciences, KVL

 Plant Productivity (chair: Preben Bach Holm)

14.10 – 14.30 A redox regulated plastidic enzyme with novel properties, René Mikkelsen, Ph.D. student, Center for Molecular Plant Physiology (PlaCe), Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, KVL

14.30  - 14.50 Wheat Ferritin: Fortification of wheat endosperm with bioavailable iron, Søren Borg, Senior Scientist, DIAS

14.50 – 15.10 Role of the PSI-G subunit of photosystem I in the regulation of electron transport in the thylakoid membrane, Agnieszka Zygadlo, Ph.D. student, Department of Plant Biology, KVL

 

15.10 – 15.40 Coffee and poster viewing in the Marble Hall

 

Plant Breeding

(chair: Sven Bode Andersen)

15.40 –16.00 Transformation system for Campanula carpatica, Stefan Frello, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Sciences, KVL

16.00 – 16.20 EST development for nutrient utilisation and forage quality of Lolium perenne, Torben Asp, Project Scientist, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, DIAS

16.20 – 16.40 Multi-cross QTL analysis of resistance to yellow rust in hexaploid wheat, Merethe Jessen Christiansen, Sejet Plant Breeding and Department of Agricultural Sciences, KVL

 

Systems Biology

(chair: Klaus Grasser)

16.40 – 17.10 The chromatin remodelling complex FACT associates with actively transcribed regions of the Arabidopsis genome, Klaus Grasser, Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Aalborg University

17.10 – 17.40 Coupling of Barley Seed Proteomics and Malt Quality, 
Christine Finnie, Research Associate Professor, BioCentrum, DTU

 

17.40 - 18.10 Plant Biotech: Culture, communication and branding, Rasmus Rune Nielsen, Partner, 2 + 1

 

18.30 - Dinner at Gimle, KVL