Chemical Ecology Symposium 2018
Date: April 5-6, 2018
Venue:
Lecture Hall, Abbezentrum Beutenberg, Hans-Knöll-Straße 1, 07745 Jena
Thursday, April 5, 2018
09:00-09:15 | Prof. David Heckel, Managing Director, MPI for Chemical Ecology Welcome | |
09:15-10:00 | Helge Bode, Merck-Stiftungsprofessur Molecular Biotechnology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany Identification and functional analysis of natural products: Tools and examples from entomopathogenic bacteria | |
10.00-10:45 | Christine Beemelmanns, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Hans Knöll Institute), Jena, Germany Identification of Chemical Mediators within Symbiotic Systems - Case study: Fungus-growing Termites | |
10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
11:15-12:00 | Pierre Stallforth, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Hans Knöll Institute), Jena, Germany The Role of Natural Products in Microbial Predator-Prey Interactions | |
12:00-12:45 | Sarah E. O‘Connor, Department of Biological Chemistry, The John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Chemistry and Biology of Plant Metabolism | |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch at the Abbezentrum Casino | |
14:00-14:45 | Rebecca A. Butcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Structure, biosynthesis, and mechanism of chemical signals controlling the life cycle of nematodes | |
Friday, April 6, 2018
08:45-09:30 | Asaph Aharoni, Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Being the First to Engage: Polymers, Steroidal-metabolites and Pigments as Plant Barriers |
09:30-10:15 | Christina Warinner, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany Microbial and Molecular Ecology of Humans |
10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break |
10:45-11:30 | Martin Kaltenpoth, Department for Evolutionary Ecology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Symbioses as Sources of Evolutionary Innovation in Insects |
| 11:30-12:15 | Christina Grozinger, Department of Entomology, Penn State University, USA Bee chemical ecology: from genes to landscapes |