Program
Monday 26 August 2024
| 9.00-10.00 | Arrival and registration |
| 10.00-10.15 | Welcome and opening of the Summer School |
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Session 1 |
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| 10.15-11.15 | Sebastian Soyk: Adapting flowering responses in tomato by genome editing
(University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland) |
| 11.15-12.15 | Margot Smit: Arrested Development: How do plants control cell fate transition timing in the stomatal lineage?
(Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Tübingen, Germany) |
| 12.15-13.45 | Lunch |
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Session2 |
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| 13.45-14.45 | Kathrin Wippel: Plant microbiomes: host-specific toolboxes for functional plasticity
(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) |
| 14.45-15.45 | Klaus Schläppi: From exudate-microbiome interactions on Maize roots to smart farming
(University of Basel, Switzerland) |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16.15-17.15 | Ainhoa Martinez: Root mutualistic fungi shape plant-insect multitrophic interactions: a systems biology approach to explore the main regulatory mechanisms
(Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca, Spain) |
Tuesday 27 August 2024
| morning | Session 3 |
| 9.00-10.00 | Tatsuya Nobori: Single-cell and spatial dissection of plant-microbe interactions
(The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich, UK) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 10.30-11.30 | Hilde Nelissen: Plant organ growth under drought: from cellular mechanisms to molecular networks
(VIB, Gent, Belgium) |
| 11.30-12.30 | Julia Bailey-Serres: Plasticity in development and mycorrhizal interactions as soils dry
(University of California, Riverside) |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
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afternoon |
Parallel Sessions (PhD student presentations selected from abstracts) |
| 14.00-15.05 | Session 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 (topic will be announced based on submitted abstracts) |
| 15.05-15.30 | Drinks |
| 15.30-16.35 | Session 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 (topic will be announced based on submitted abstracts) |
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16.35-18:30 |
Poster Session |
| 18:30 – late | Dinner Party in Botanical Gardens |
Wednesday 28 August 2024
| morning | Session 4 |
| 9.00-10.00 | Kirsten ten Tusscher: Plant responses to salt and nutrients; A combined experimental and computational approach
(Utrecht University, the Netherlands) |
| 10.00-10.15 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 10.15-11.15 | Francesco Licausi: Low oxygen sensing and adaptations in plants
(University of Oxford, UK) |
| 11.15-11.30 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11.30-12.30 | Salma Balazadeh: Enhancing plant stress tolerance by unleashing intrinsic regulatory networks and the beneficiary action of microbes
(University of Leiden, the Netherlands) |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
| afternoon | |
| 14.00-15.00 | John Christie: Optogenetic manipulation of plant physiology
(University of Glasgow, UK) |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 15.30-16.30 | Keynote: Hidde Boersma: A new narrative for sustainable food production
(Science journalist, essayist and documentary maker) |
| 16.30-17.00 | Closing, drinks and farewell |