Plant Systems Biology - From Cells to Communities. 17 December 2004, 8.45 am – 17.30 pm
| 08.45 – 08.50 | Opening by Diana Soldo, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center |
| 08.50 – 09.05 | Introduction by Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich |
| 09.05 – 10.45 |
Session I: Cells: Gene expression networks and their statistical analysis Rodrigo Gutierrez (New York University) Nitrogen networks in plants: Regulation of N and C metabolic pathways in response to external signals and metabolites Matthias Peter (ETH Zurich) Functional networks in yeast Sacha Baginsky (ETH Zurich) Functional Proteomics: Towards a system view of plastid differentiation and functions Anja Wille (ETH Zurich) Sparse graphical Gaussian modeling of the isoprenoid gene network in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 10.45 – 11.10 | Coffee |
| 11.10 – 12.25 |
Session II: Organisms: phenotypic integration and correlated evolution, bioinformatics in systematics Massimo Pigliucci (State University of New York) Lost in phenotypic space: why do living organisms look the way they do? Stephen Goff (Syngenta North Carolina) Hybrid Vigor, how expression profiling can help explain a complex interaction between genes and the environment Elena Conti (University of Zurich) Primula: an ideal model genus for an integrative phylogenetic research program |
| 12.25 – 14.30 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14.30 – 15.45 |
Session III: Communities: interaction networks within and among trophic levels Silke Robatzek (University of Basel) Green Light on the Flagellin-Sensing Receptor FLS2, a major player of Innate Immunity Peter Stoll (University of Basel) Interactions among trees in a lowland Bornean rain forest: evidence of species-specific effects Christine Müller (University of Zurich) Effects of hidden microbes on herbivore-parasitoid food webs |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Poster Awards |
| 16.00 – 16.10 | Concluding remarks by Wilhelm Gruissem (ETH Zurich) |
| 16.10 – 17.30 | Apéro and Poster Session |
Auditorium Maximum, ETH Zurich
Free of charges
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