EPS Theme 3 Symposium

The Research School EPS Theme 3 announces a symposium on plant physiology in Wageningen.

The EPS likes to advise that you need to register to get lunch.

Programme

|10.00|Coffee & Welcome
|10.30|Johannes Hanson, UU, Molecular Plant Physiology: A conserved mechanism of sucrose specific sugar signalling in plants.
|11.00|Sangita Talukdar, WU, Genetics: Analysis of zinc responsive metal transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana and Thlaspi caerulescens.
|11.30|Joost Keurentjes, Lidiya Sergeeva, WU Plant Physiology: Natural variation for carbohydrate metabolism and its implications for plant growth.
|12.15|Lunch in room P71
|13.30|Bert de Boer, VU, Developmental Genetics: The function of 14-3-3 proteins in ABA induced growth arrest of barley seed germination.
|14.00|Antony Champion, LU, Plant Physiology: Mechanisms involved in activation of jasmonate-responsive AP2-domain transcription factors from Arabidopsis thaliana.
|14.30|Coffee & tea
|15.00|Folkert Hoekstra, WU, Plant Physiology: Differential longevities in desiccated anhydrobiotic plant systems.
|15.30|Iris Kappers, WU, Entomology: Combined transcript and metabolite analysis reveals genes involved in spidermite induced volatile formation in cucumber plants.

Place

De Nieuwlanden (building 500; room C59), Nieuwe Kanaal 11, Wageningen

Organizers

Prof. Richard Visser and prof. Sjef Smeekens