Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, October 26, 2007
Auditorium Maximum (ETH main hall / Hauptgebäude), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich – Switzerland
Poster abstract submission deadline is September 25, 2007. Please submit abstracts at
http://botserv1.unizh.ch/public/Poster_Eingabe.php
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08.45 – 08.50 |
Opening by Andreas Erhardt, University of Basel |
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08.50 – 10.30 |
Session I:Pollination ecology (Chair: Florian Schiestl, University of Zurich) Nickolas Waser, Dep. of Biology, University of California, Riverside, USA Pollination looks beyond its syndromes Mary Price, Dep. of Biology, University of California, Riverside, USA Global climate change and the disruption of pollination interactions Douglas Schemske, Dep. of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA Ecological genetics of pollinator-mediated floral evolution Alex Widmer, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, CH Floral traits, pollinators, and reproductive isolation in a plant species pair |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee and Poster Session |
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11.00 – 12.30 |
Session II: Evolution and development of plant reproductive systems (Chair: Christine Müller, University of Zurich) Peter Endress, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, CH Flower development viewed from a diversity perspective William Friedman, Dep. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, USA Origin of the fittest and survival of the fittest: relating female gametophyte development to endosperm genetics Vivian Irish, Dep. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA Petal development: variations on a theme |
| 12.30 – 14.30 | Lunch and Poster Session |
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14.30 – 16.00 |
Session III: Molecular basis of reproductive systems (Chair: Claudia Köhler, ETH Zurich) Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, D Flower development: the Antirrhinum perspective Teh-hui Kao, Dep. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA The role of the S-locus F-box protein in the S-RNase-based self-incompatibility mechanism Kentaro Shimizu, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, CH Reproductive systems of Arabidopsis relatives: genomics integrates molecular genetics and ecology |
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16.00 – 16.15 |
Poster awards and concluding remarks by Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich |
| 16.15 – 17.00 | Apéro and Poster Session |
