September 21, 2017
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09:00 - 09:20 | Opening Prof. David Heckel, Prof. Rosenthal, president of the FSU, and Dr. Schröter, mayor of the city, welcome address of Prof. em. Meinwald, Cornell University (video) |
09:20 - 09:40 | Honorary talk of the chair of our scientific advisory board Prof. Julia Kubanek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
09:40 - 10:20 | Historical Overview by Prof. Wilhelm Boland (in German with English slides) Chemische Ökologie in Jena; ein Institut wird erwachsen |
10:20 - 10:30 | Max Planck Jena Choir
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10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 12:30 | Prof. Ian T. Baldwin, Department of Molecular Ecology 20 years of training genome-enabled field biologists Prof. Wilhelm Boland, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry Leaf beetles: from defensive chemistry to evolution Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon, Department of Biochemistry 20 years of biochemical ecology: sharp memories, sweet stories and volatile moments |
12:30 - 13:15 | Snack Buffet |
13:15 - 14:15 | Prof. Bill Hansson, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology Smelling to survive - Insect smell-guided behavior Prof. David Heckel, Department of Entomology Coevolutionary arms race in the insect midgut |
14:15 - 17:00 | Guided tours through "Open Departments“
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18:00 | Speed Informing with alumni working in industry (Sven Adolph, Cristina Daolio, Jan-Willem de Kraker, Lynn Ullmann-Zeunert and Aaron Windsor) and our junior scientists |
September 22, 2017
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09:00-09:10
| Award Ceremony
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09:10 - 09:30 | Meike Burow, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Feedback regulation of metabolism and development by glucosinolate defense compounds
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09:30 - 09:50 | Martin Heil, Laboratorio de Ecología de Plantas, Cinvestav, Irapuato, Mexico Extracellular DNA and other DAMPs as immunity inducers in plants and humans |
09:50 - 10:10 | Alfredo Ibañez, Institute for omic Sciences and Applied Biotechnology (ICOBA), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú Mass spectrometry: from whole plants to small fungi |
10:10 - 10:30 | André Kessler, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Plant-to-plant communication and its role in driving herbivore population dynamics
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10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 - 11:20 | Amy Lawton-Rauh, Genetics and Biochemistry Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA Molecular evolution and population dynamics of adaptation to glyphosate in Amaranthus palmeri: rapid, massive proliferation of a highly conserved gene modulated by population structure
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11:20 - 11:40 | Shenghong Li, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China Unusual specialized metabolites of two Himalayan Lamiaceae plants and their biological functions |
11:40 - 12:00 | Annette Reineke, Arbeitsgruppe Entomologie, Institut für Phytomedizin, Hochschule Geisenheim, Germany Effects of elevated CO2 on interactions between grapevine plants, a fungal pathogen and a herbivorous insect |
12:00 - 12:20 | Kathrin Steck, Centro Champalimaud - Neurociências, Lisboa, Portugal, The gustatory basis of protein homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster
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13:00 - open end | Potluck buffet |
14:00 -16:00 | Games
- Chemical experiments for children (seminar room)
- Painting with plant colors (seminar room)
- Quiz: "Are you ready for a Max Planck?" (cafeteria)
- Odor quiz: "How well can you smell and recognize odors?" (cafeteria)
- "Being a Manduca": Try to collect nectar from a flower (cafeteria)
- A world map of odors (cafeteria)
- Insect memory (communication area)
- Face painting (communication area)
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16:00
| Latin dance with Guillermo
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