Program
Monday 29 August
| 9.00-10.00 | Arrival and registration |
| 10.00-10.15 | Welcome and opening of the Summer School |
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Signals from Within |
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| 10.15-11.15 | Elwira Smakowska-Luzan
How do plants sense stress? The role of Cysteine-Rich Receptors in extracellular ROS perception (Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Wageningen) |
| 11.15-12.15 | Cristina Ferrandiz
Time to stop: the end of the reproduction in annual plants (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid; Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Valencia) |
| 12.15-13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45-14.45 | Diana Santelia
Function and regulation of starch metabolism in stomatal guard cells (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Zürich) |
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Signals from the Underground |
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| 14.45-15.45 | Derek Lundberg
From underground and from the air, microbes take but also share (The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala) |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16.15-17.15 | Ricardo Giehl
Getting a sense for nutrients: understanding and exploiting nutrient sensing mechanisms in plants (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben) |
Tuesday 30 August
| morning | Signals from Interactors |
| 9.00-10.00 | Suayib Üstün
How plant pathogens manipulate protein degradation pathways (Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Tübingen) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 10.30-11.30 | Rosa Lozano-Duran
The cell snatchers: how geminiviruses co-opt plants (Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Tübingen) |
| 11.30-12.30 | Matthew Moscou
Evolution of the plant immune system (The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich) |
| 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-Late |
Poster Session & Dinner Party in Botanical Gardens |
Wednesday 31 August
| morning | Signals from Out of Space |
| 9.30-10.30 | Jaume Martinez-Garcia
Coping with a shady life: regulation of plant responses to vegetation proximity (Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), Valencia) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11.00-12.00 | Martina Legris
Signals from the sun shape the plant body (University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne) |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch |
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afternoon |
Signals from big data |
| 13.30-14.30 | Basten Snoek
Use of multi-omics in GWAS; A story about Lettuce and Anthocyanin (Utrecht University (UU), Utrecht) |
| 14.30-14.45 | Coffee/Tea break |
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14.45-15:45 |
Elisabeth Bik The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Biomedical Research (Science Integrity Consultant) |
| 15.45-16.15 | Plenary discussion with panel and PhD students |
| 16.15-17.00 | Closing, drinks and farewell |