PBD symposium
"Plant Stress Responses in a Changing World"
2 November, 2009
Copenhagen Biocenter (BRIC), University of Copenhagen
The Lundbeck Lecture Hall
Ole Maaloes Vej 5, Copenhagen
Program
(as
pdf)
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09.30 - 9.35 |
Welcome and introduction, by Associate
Professor William Willats, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science,
KU
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Session 1: Biotic Stress (Chair: Peter Brodersen) |
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09.35 - 10.20 |
Pectin: much more than a glue,
by Professor Giulia De Lorenzo, University of Rome, Italy
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2,
PDF3 and
PDF4
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10.20 - 11.05 |
Constitutive and induced defenses
against plant viruses, by Associate Professor
Peter Moffett, Department of Biology, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2 and
PDF3
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11.05 - 11.30 |
Coffee
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11.30 - 12.15 |
Molecular determinants of durable disease
resistance against fungal pathogens, by Professor
Beat Keller,
University of Zürich, Switzerland
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2 and
PDF3
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12.15 - 13.00 |
Development of plant varieties with
high-yield and broad-spectrum disease resistance, by
Professor
James Brown, John
Innes Centre, UK
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2 and
PDF3
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13.00 - 13.15 |
Summing up, by Research Associate Peter
Brodersen, University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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13.15 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
Session 2: Abiotic Stress (Chair: Peter Brodersen) |
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14.00 - 14.45 |
Mechanisms of dessication tolerance in
vegetative tissues of angiosperm resurrection plants: an overview from
the molecular to whole plant eco-physiology, by Professor
Jill Farrant, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape
Town, South Africa
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2,
PDF3, and
PDF4
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14.45 - 15.30 |
Drought and salt stress signalling
in Arabidopsis, by Professor
Jian Kan Zhu, Department of Botany and
Plant Sciences, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of
California, USA
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2 and
PDF3
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Coffee |
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16.00 - 16.45 |
Will rising atmospheric CO2protect crops
from abiotic stress ?, by Associate Professor
Lisa Ainsworth,
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, USA
Literature:
PDF1,
PDF2 and
PDF3
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16.45 - 17.00 |
Summing up, by Research Associate Peter
Brodersen, University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France |
Information for Ph.D.
students:
The symposium is also provided as a PhD course
"Trends
in Plant Biotechnology" (2 ETCs) - please contact Professor David Collinge
dbc@life.ku.dk or Solveig Krogh Christiansen
soc@life.ku.dk for further information on
the course part.
Literature
list as PDF.
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