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Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, November 4th, 2011
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closed on 10 October 2011.
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Venue: ETH Zürich, Auditorium Maximum, Rämistrasse 101 in Zürich.
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Contact: sylvia.martinez (at) unibas.ch
Conference participation is free of charge.
Organizing Committee: Fred Meins (University of Basel), Bernhard Schmid (University of Zurich), Achim Walter (ETH Zurich), Sylvia Martinez (Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Basel)
Program
08.45 – 08.50
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Opening by Bernhard Schmid, University of Zürich, PSC steering committee member
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08.50 – 10.30
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Session I: Designing new phenotypes
Chair: Fred Meins, University of Basel
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08.50 – 09.15
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Denis Murphy, University of Glamorgan, UK
From gene to plate – the design of new crop
phenotypes in an era of food insecurity and climate change
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09.15 – 09.40
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Graham Bell, McGill University, Canada
The multifarious outcomes of uniform natural
selection
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09.40 – 10.05
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Christian Fankhauser, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
The PIF bHLH transcription factors modulate changes in
plant architecture induced by light quality and temperature
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10.05 – 10.30
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Kentaro Shimizu, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sexual reproduction and phenotypic plasticity of Arabidopsis relatives in changing environments
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10.30 – 11.00
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Coffee break and poster session
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11.00 – 12.30
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Session II New approaches in phenotyping
Chair: Achim Walter, ETH Zurich
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11.00 – 11.30
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Ulrich Schurr, Forschungszentrum
Jülich, Germany
Phenotyping science and technology: overcoming the
bottleneck through integrated approaches
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11.30 – 12.00
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Wilhelm Gruissem, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Integrating leaf growth and circadian regulation – a system approach
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12.00 – 12.30
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Christian Wirth, University of Leipzig, Germany
turning noise into signal – strategies for assembling and analysing phenotypic plant information
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12.30 – 14.30
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Lunch and poster session
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14.30 – 16.00
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Session III Phenotypic Distribution in Communities
Chair: Bernhard Schmid, University of Zürich
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Eric Garnier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France
Traits in communities, traits of communities – towards a phenotypic concept of communities
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Jonathan Levine, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Effect of competition on the phylogenetic and phenotypic structure of communities
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Peter Linder, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Do functional correlations between phenotypes and environment control the spatial distribution of Restionaceae phenotypes in the Cape flora?
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16.00 – 16.15
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Poster awards and concluding remarks by Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich, chair PSC
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16.15 – 17.15
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Apéro and poster session
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