Institute Symposium 2013
Date: September 11-12, 2013
Location: Studentenhaus (Mensa), Philosophenweg 20, 07743 Jena
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
| 09:00-09:10 | Bill S. Hansson, Managing Director Welcome and opening remarks |
| 09:10-09:40 | Ludwig Kronthaler, General Secretary of the Max Planck Society "The Max Planck Society's position in tomorrow's science system" |
Session 1: Olfaction and Surface Analyses (Chair: Katrin Groh)
| 09:40-10:00 | Veit Grabe, BMBF Research Group Olfactory Coding "The basic glomerulus typology in the olfactory system of Drosophila melanogaster" |
| 10:00-10:20 | Oksana Tuchina, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology "Olfactory pathway and odor processing in terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita" |
| 10:20-10:40 | Sonja Bisch-Knaden, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology |
| 10:40-11:00 | Aleš Svatoš, Mass Spectrometry Research Group "New technologies/methods for surface analysis" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Communication and Chemical Defense (Chair: Emmanuel Gaquerel)
| 11:30-11:50 | Stephan H. von Reuss, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry "Deciphering the language of nematodes – Ascaroside signaling in intra- and interspecies communication" |
| 11:50-12:10 | Sandra Scholz, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry "Calcium sensor CML37 – A player in herbivore induced plant defense" |
| 12:10-12:30 | William Hidalgo, Biosynthesis/NMR Research Group "Phenylphenalenones: The weapons of banana plants against its enemy Mycosphaerella fijiensis" |
| 12:30-12:50 | Daniel Giddings Vassão, Department of Biochemistry "Toxicity and detoxification of plant chemical defenses by insect herbivores" |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-14:20 | Franziska Beran, Research Group Detoxification in Insects |
Session 3: Enzymology and Biochemistry (Chair: Axel Mithöfer)
| 14:20-14:40 | Louwrance Wright, Department of Biochemistry "Regulation of the MEP pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana: Unexpected results and ecological implications" |
| 14:40-15:00 | Tobias Köllner, Department of Biochemistry "The formation and function of nitrogen-containing compounds in poplar defense" |
| 15:00-15:20 | Christelle Robert, Research Group Root-Herbivore Interactions |
| 15:20-15:40 | Sindy Frick, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry "Metal ions control product specificity of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases in Phaedon cochleariae" |
| 15:40-16:10 | Coffee Break |
| 16:10-17:50 | Poster Session 1 (odd numbers) |
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Session 4: Evolution and Genomics (Chair: Tobias Engl)
| 09:00-09:20 | Glen D’Souza, VW Research Group Experimental Ecology & Evolution "Less is more: Selective advantages account for the loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria" |
| 09:20-09:40 | Roy Kirsch, Department of Entomology "200 million years of adaptation: Evolutionary origin and specific activities of plant cell wall degrading enzymes in phytophagous beetles" |
| 09:40-10:00 | Taras Nechitaylo, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis "Genomics and physiology of the beewolf symbiont Streptomyces philanthi" |
| 10:00-10:20 | Shuqing Xu, Department of Molecular Ecology "Learning from Nicotiana attenuata genome: Molecular basis of herbivore induced defenses" |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-12:30 | Poster Session 2 (even numbers) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
Session 5: Fitness and Behavior (Chair: Verena Jeschke)
| 13:30-13:50 | Heiko Vogel, Department of Entomology "Diet mixing in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria" |
| 13:50-14:10 | Stefan Meldau, Department of Molecular Ecology "Too big to fail: How plants regulate their defense economy" |
| 14:10-14:30 | Alexander Haverkamp, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology "A bouquet for a hawkmoth: The influence of flower odor on the foraging behavior of Manduca sexta" |
| 14:30-14:50 | Sang-Gyu Kim, Department of Molecular Ecology "Circadian clock regulates floral rhythms with large fitness consequences" |
| 14:50-15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20-15:40 | Bill S. Hansson Conclusion Laudatio for Ian T. Baldwin – newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) |
| 15:40-16:30 | Ian T. Baldwin, Department of Molecular Ecology "The past and future of Chemical Ecology and our Institute" |
| 16:30-18:30 | Panel discussion with scientists of the Friedrich Schiller University about the role of Chemical Ecology and the MPI-CE in the future research landscape |