25th Anniversary Symposium

29th September

09:00 - 09:30  Opening remarks, Jonathan Gershenzon

09:30-10:30    Alumnus Talk in German, Georg Pohnert

10:30 – 11:00    Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30    Jonathan Gershenzon, Department of Biochemistry

11:30 - 12:00    Sarah O’Connor, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis

12:00 - 12:30    Bill Hansson, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology

12:30 - 13:00    Martin Kaltenpoth, Department of Insect Symbiosis

13:00 – 14:00    Lunch snack

14:00 - 14:15    Hannah Rowland, Max Planck Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey

14:15 - 14:30    Yuko Ulrich, Lise Meiter Research Group

14:30 - 14:45    Silke Sachse, Olfactory Coding

14:45 - 15:00    Axel Mithöfer, Plant Defense Physiology

15:00 - 15:15    Christian Paetz, Rayko Halitschke, Veit Grabe

15:15 – 15:45    Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:00    Juliette de Meaux, Cologne University

16:00 - 16:15    Radhika Venkatesan, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata

16:15 - 16:30    Astrid Groot, Amsterdam University

19:00 - 21:00    Speed Informing

30th September

09:00 - 09:15     Sandra Irmisch, Leiden University
From Plant Metabolite Biosynthesis to Engineering Production Systems

09:15 - 09:30    Ian Keesey, University of Nebraska

09:30 - 09:45    Nawaporn Onkokesung, Newcastle University

09:45 - 10:00    Jakob Franke, Hannover University
Elucidating the Biosynthesis of Quassinoid Triterpenes in the Invasive Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

10:00 - 10:15    Laura Florez, Copenhagen University

10:15 – 10:45    Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:00    Seung-Joon Ahn, Mississippi State University

11:00 - 11:15    Martin Strube-Bloss, Bielefeld University
Categorization in mushroom body output neurons: Making sense of a multimodal environment

11:15 - 11:30    Samay Pande, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

11:30 - 11:45    Evangelos Tatsis, Centre for Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Shanghai

11:45 - 12:00    Mayuri Napagoda, University of Ruhuna

12:00 – 13:30     Lunch snack

13:30 - 15:30    Guided tours

15:30     Games, Fun and Party with our institute’s band