Day 1 (Thursday 21st of March)
\n9:00 Welcome by Johannes Hanson
\n9:05 Plant cell’s borderline in cell fate
\nAndriani Mentzelopoulou, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
\n9:35 The Role of the Plant Endomembrane System in Salt Stress Tolerance
\nDaniel McKay, University of Heidelberg, Germany
\n10:05 Unravelling the role of root cap in shaping the Arabidopsis response towards abiotic stress
\nKrishna Kodappully Das, IISER Tirupati, India
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10:40 Fika (coffee break)
10:55 Physiological, molecular and genetic mechanisms of adaptation to alkaline in Arabidopsis thaliana populations
\nLaura Perez Martin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
\n11:25 The ups and downs of being an outdoor plant-The epigenetic and transcriptomic landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to fluctuating light
\nRobyn Emmerson, University of Birmingham, UK
\n11:55 Comparing genomic prediction methods for (relatively) oligogenic traits: a case study in maize grain carotenoids
\nMary-Francis LaPorte, University of California, Davis, USA
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The afternoon programme is tailored to the invited candidates and not open for everyone.
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Please find more information about the symposium here
Contact: Laura Bacete, Petra Marhava, Stéphane Verger
Photo: Sonali Ranade