Program (PDF for download)
 
9:30   
Welcome address, Prof. Stephan Pollmann, Prof. Ralf Oelmüller
 
Chair: Prof. Ralf Oelmüller

9:45   
Prof. Rodrigo A. Gutierrez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)  
Phylogenomics and systems biology approaches reveal conserved adaptative processes in Atacama desert plants
 
10:15   
Prof. Stephan Pollmann (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Madrid)
Towards a role for indolic compounds in controlling seed maturation
 
10:45   
Prof. Wilhelm Boland (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Germany)
Nature´s tricks to enhance terpenoid diversity for defense
 
11:15    
Dr. Javier Paz-Ares (Centro Nacional de Biotechnología, Madrid)
Control of plant responses to phosphate starvation
 
12:00   
Lunch (available in local cafeteria)
 
 
Chair: Prof. Stefan Pollmann

14:00   
Prof. Heribert Hirt (KAUST, Saudi-Arabia)
Plant stress tolerance by endophytic Enterobacter SA187 is mediated by a bacterial metabolite-activated plant ethylene signaling
 
14:30    
Dr. Yusuke Saijo  (Nara Institute of Science  and Technology, Japan)
Integration of microbial and environmental cues in plant immunity
 
15:00   
Prof. Hitoshi Sakakibara (Nagoya University, Japan)
Quantitative and qualitative tuning of cytokinin actions for plant growth optimization
 
Coffee break
 
 
Chair: Dr. Axel Mithöfer

16:00   
Prof. Ian T. Baldwin (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Germany)
A native tobacco uses it's microbiome to manage resistance against a native fungal disease
 
16:30   
Dr. Marilia Almeida-Trapp (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Germany)
"Crop-omics": can we still learn something from wild crop plants?
 
17:00   
Prof. Kai-Wun Yeh (Taiwan National University, Taiwan)
VOCs play the signal function to induce defense response against herbivore attacks in Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) plant community.
 
 
 
Impressum: Ralf Oelmüller, b7oera@uni-jena.de