Annual PBD meeting 2008

The Annual Plant Biotech Denmark Meeting was held January 29-30, 2008 at University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg

 

Programme

 

TUESDAY - January 29, 2008

09.15 – 09.45 Coffee and registration

 

09.45 – 09.50 Welcome, by Preben Bach Holm, member of steering committee, Plant Biotech Denmark

 

Session 1 –  Products and  Productivity

(chair: Anna Haldrup)

 

09.50 – 10.30 Keynote talk
The dependence of yield on photosynthesis: Opportunities for improvement, by Donald R. Ort, professor, University of Illinois, USA

 

10.30 – 10.50 A R2R3 MYB gene subfamily regulates aliphatic glucosinolate accumulation in Arabidopsis, by Ida Elken Sønderby, PhD student, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

10.50 – 11.10 Arabinan have diverse function in the cell wall, by Jesper Harholt, postdoc, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

Session 2 –  Nutrition and  Diseases

(chair: David Collinge)

 

11.10 – 11.50 Keynote talk
Improving nitrogen use efficiency in maize and wheat. How far are we from practical applications? by Bertrand Hirel, professor, INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), France

 

11.50 – 12.10 Crystal structure of a plasma membrane proton pump, by Morten J. Buch, associate professor, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

12.10 – 12.30 The MPK4 Map kinase cascade in plant innate immunity in Arabidopsis, by Maria Cristina Suarez-Rodriguez, postdoc, Department of Molecular Biology, NAT, University of Copenhagen

 

12.30  – 13.15 Lunch

 

Session 3 –  Breeding and Systems Biology

(chair: Ahmed Jahoor)

 

13.15 – 13.55 Keynote talk
Systems-level analysis of plant low-temperature responses, by Matthew Hannah, postdoc, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

 

13.55 – 14.15 Fine mapping of sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) resistance gene Scmv2 in maize, by Christina Rønn Ingvardsen, project scientist, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, DJF, Aarhus University

 

14.15 – 14.35 Proteomics of Lotus japonicus seed development, by Svend Dam, PhD student, Department of Molecular Biology, NAT, Aarhus University

 

14.35 – 15.00 Coffee

 

Session 4 – Technologies

(chair: William Willats)

 

15.00 – 15.20 The model plant Physcomitrella patens – a unique resource for gene discovery and analysis, by Christina Lunde, assistant professor, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

15.20 – 15.40 Bioinformatics driven design of anchor markers bridging model and crop plants, by Birgit K. Hougaard, postdoc, Department of Molecular Biology, NAT, Aarhus University

 

15.40 – 16.00 Photoactivation and other fluorescence techniques for graft compatibility studies, by Helle Juel Martens, associate professor, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

16.00 – 16.20 New technologies for high-throughput DNA sequencing, by Pernille Kræmer Andersen, research assistant, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, DJF, Aarhus University

 

16.20 – 16.40 Metabolic engineering of carbohydrate partitioning and turnover, by Jens Kossmann, professor, Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
 
16.40 – 18.30 Poster session in the Marble Hall – wine and snacks are served

 

18.30 – 22.00 Dinner at Gimle, Dyrlægevej 9, Frederiksberg 

 

WEDNESDAY - January 30, 2008

Session 1 – Opening session

(chair: Jens Stougaard)

 

09.00 – 09.30 Plants for the future, by Torben Bo Toft Christensen, head of office, Project and Innovation Office, Landbrugsrådet

 

09.30 – 10.00 AgroTech – How can we support plant research?, by René Logie Damkjer, director, AgroTech

 

10.00 – 10.30 Expert communication with the public: Modernist ideals vs. post-modernist attitudes, by Lise-Lotte Holmgreen, assistant professor, Department of Language and Culture, Aalborg University

 

10.30 – 10.55 Coffee  

 

Session 2 –  Plants for Health

(chair: Cathie Martin)

 

10.55 – 11.15 Towards regulating isolavonoid biosynthesis, by Fred Rook, associate professor, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

11.15 – 11.35 Rational screening for health promoting bioactive compounds in plants, by Karsten Kristiansen, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark

 

11.35 – 11.55 Do food bioactive compounds have disease reduction potentials?, by Peter Olesen, CSO, Chr. Hansen A/S

 

11.55 – 12.15 Modern NMR techniques for characterisation of plant products and bioactive constituents, by Jerzy W. Jaroszewski, professor, Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

 

12.15 – 12.35 Cyanogenic glucosides in primary and secondary metabolism, by Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, postdoc, Department of Plant Biology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

12.35 – 12.55 Breeding for better oil quality in winter oilseed rape, by Morten H. Poulsen, field station manager, Dow AgroSciences, Field Station Abed

 

12.55 – 13.40 Lunch 

 

Session 3 – Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions

(chair: John Mundy)

 

13.40 – 14.00 Presentation of the CARB Centre, by Jens Stougaard, professor, Department of Molecular Biology, NAT, Aarhus University

 

14.00 – 14.20 Global spread of new wheat rusts, by Mogens Hovmøller, senior scientist, Department of Integrated Pest Management, DJF, Aarhus University

 

14.20 – 14.40 Colonisation of barley roots with DsRed expressing Fusarium avenaceum and GFP expressing Fusarium culmorum-competition and effect on toxin production, by Thomas Johansen, PhD student, Department of Ecology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen 

 

14.40 – 15.00 Breeding for disease resistance at SW Seed, by Annette Olesen, director, Product  Development, SW Seed, Svalöf Weibull AB, Sweden

 

15.00 – 15.25 Coffee

 

15.25 – 15.45 Mychorrhiza – for improving nutrient uptake, by Iver Jakobsen, head of programme, Biosystems Department, RISØ, Technical University of Denmark

 

15.45 – 16.05 The power of genetics in signalling studies, by Hans Thordal-Christensen, senior scientist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, LIFE, University of Copenhagen

 

Final session

(chair: Preben Bach Holm)

 

16.05 – 16.30 Globalization, biofuels and bioeconomics – implications for Danish agriculture, by Henning Otte Hansen, senior advisor, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, LIFE, University of Copenhagen