Prof P. De Wit Symposium on Systems Biology

Symposium on Systems Biology in Honor of Prof.dr. Pierre de Wit

The Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences organizes this symposium to introduce experimental plant scientists to systems biology. The symposium is dedicated to prof.dr. Pierre de Wit to express EPS' gratitude for his five years of successful directorship.

Final Programme:

|09.15|Arrivals and Coffee
|09.50|Prof.dr. Anne Mie Emons, Wageningen University, Laboratory of Plant Cell Biology
~Welcome
|10.00|Prof.dr. Béla Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) and Wageningen University, Laboratory of Plant Cell Biology
~It's a bird! It's a plant! It's a ... Biological System
|10.30|Prof.dr. Dirk Inzé, University of Gent / Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Department of Plant Systems Biology
~Systems Biology of the plant cell cycle
|11.15|Prof.dr. Béla Novák, Molecular Network Dynamics Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
~Cell cycle modelling
|12.00|Prof.dr. Gerco Angenent, Wageningen-UR, Plant Research International and Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Plant Cell Biology
~Transcription Factor Systems
|12.30|Lunch
|13.30|Dr. Barbara Bakker, Amsterdam Free University, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology
~Metabolic and hierarchical regulation of yeast glycolysis during starvation stress
|14.15|Prof.dr. Reinhart Heinrich, Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of Theoretical Biophysics
~Systems biology of signal transduction pathways
|15.00|Dr. Corné Pieterse, Utrecht University, Department of Phytopathology
~The future of systems biology in plant pathogen interactions
|15.30|Coffee and tea
|16.00|Prof.dr. Martin Kropff, Director Plant Sciences, Wageningen-UR
~History and highlights of modelling in Wageningen
|16.30|Prof.dr. Ton Bisseling, Wageningen University, Laboratory of Molecular Biology; new director of EPS
~Address to Pierre de Wit
|16.40|Stefan Royaert, Vice-president of the EPS PhD Students Council, Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Plant Genetics
~Address to Pierre de Wit
|16.50|Prof.dr. Bert Speelman, Vice-chancellor of Wageningen University
~Address to Pierre de Wit
|17.00|Prof.dr. Pierre de Wit, Wageningen University, Laboratory of Phytopathology
~Address to the audience
|17.10|Reception

Location

Auditorium of Wageningen University
Generaal Foulkesweg 1a
Wageningen
the Netherlands

Fee

No fee

Lunch

There will be a free lunch for those who register for lunch by sending an email to Wim De Leijster at wim.de.leijster@wur.nl.

Chair

Prof.dr. Anne Mie Emons