Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, November 13, 2009
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Submission deadline is: October 18, 2009.
If you will not hand in a poster, but plan to attend, please indicate your participation at: here »
Venue: University of Basel, Kollegiengebäude (main auditorium), Petersplatz 1, Basel, Switzerland
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Symposium has been moved to lecture hall 102 in the same building
Contact: sylvia.martinez (at) unibas.ch
Conference participation is free of charge.
Organizing Committee: Thomas Boller (University of Basel), Jan Jansa (ETH Zurich), Sylvia Martinez (PSC, University of Basel), Bruce McDonald (ETH Zurich), Kentaro Shimizu (University of Zurich), Laure Weisskopf (University of Zurich)
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08.45 – 08.50 |
Opening by Thomas Boller, University of Basel |
| 08.50 – 11.30 | Session I, chair: Thomas Boller, University of Basel |
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Martin Parniske, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany Signal transduction in plant root symbiosis |
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Tatiana Giraud, Université Paris-Sud XI, France Mechanisms of speciation by host specialization in the anther smut fungi |
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Adrian Leuchtmann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Epichloë endophytes - an intriguing association between fungi, grasses and Botanophila flies |
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Francis Martin, INRA-Nancy, France The Laccaria and Tuber genomes reveal unique signatures of mycorrhizal symbiosis evolution |
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Jean-Pierre Métraux, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland Botrytis cinerea and Arabidopsis thaliana: more refinements than expected |
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| 11.30 – 13.30 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 13.30 – 16.10 |
Session II, chair: Bruce McDonald, ETH Zurich
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Michael F. Allen, USA, University of California Riverside, USA Understanding mycorrhizae as a dynamic system: observations from sensor and imaging technologies in the field |
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Christoph Keel, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland Molecular analysis of plant protection by root-colonizing Pseudomonas bacteria |
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Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Microbial life of leaf surfaces |
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Coffee and Poster Session |
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Joy Bergelson, University of Chicago, USA Disentangling the coevolution of a plant pathogen system Delphine Chinchilla, University of Basel, Switzerland Flagellin perception: a paradigm for innate immunity in plants |
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16.10 – 16.25 |
Poster Awards and Concluding Remarks by Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich, chair PSC |
| 16.25 – 17.15 | Apéro and Poster Session |
