Program
Monday, January 21 |
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| 14.00-14.15 |
Welcome: George Coupland (Director Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) and Christian Jung (Coordinator PP1530, Director Plant Breeding Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel) |
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Session 1: |
Comparative studies of flowering time genes across species | Chair: Maria Albani |
| 14.15-15.00 |
Keynote Lecture: Timo HytonenDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
Regulation of flowering in Rosaceae -same genes in different context |
| 15:00-15.30 |
Yuan Guo (Plant Breeding Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel): | TILLING suggests pleiotropic effects related to EMS-generated alleles of flowering genes in the allopolyploid Brassica napus |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Maria von Korff (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | Mutations in the circadian clock ortholog HvElf3 faciilitates short-season adaptation in barley. |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 16.30-17.00 |
Claire Perilleux (Université de Liége) | Functional conservation of FLC activity between root chicory (Cichorium intybus var. sativum) and Arabidopsis |
| 17.00-17.30 |
Yiguo Hong (University Warwick) | Florigen signalling in flowering and increased productivity |
| 17.30-18.00 | Hans Hoenicka (vTI, Inst. For Forest Genetics, Grosshansdorf) | Pleiotropic effects of „flowering“ genes in transgenic poplar |
| 18.00-18.30 |
Christina Kühn (Humboldt-University Berlin) | The role of an Indeterminate1-like protein in floral induction and tuberization in potato plants |
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Tuesday, January 22 |
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| SESSION 2 : | Flowering time genes and their role in crop evolution | Chair: Maria von Korff |
| 9.30 - 10.15 |
Keynote lecture Robbie WaughJames Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK |
Adaptation of barley to new environments |
| 10.15-10.45 | Ana Casas (Department of Genetics and Plant
Production, Aula Dei Experimental Station, EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza) |
Barley adaptation. Lessons learned from landraces will help to cope with climate change |
| 10.45-11.15 | Wiebke Sannemann (Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-University Bonn) | Flowering time in a MAGIC population in barley |
| 11.15-12.00 |
Coffee break |
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| 12.00-12.30 | Nina Pfeiffer (Plant Breeding Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel) |
Genetic and phenotypic characterization of bolting failure in Beta vulgaris |
| 12.30-13.00 |
Nadine Dally (Plant Breeding Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel) | New bolting genes from sugar beet (B. vulgaris) which control early bolting independent of BvBTC1 |
| 13.00-14.00 |
Lunch (DiPalma Kantine @MPIPZ) | |
| Session 3: | Pleiotropic Effects of Arabidopsis flowering pathways/genes | Chair: Christian Jung |
| 14.00-14.45 |
Keynote lecture Maarten Koornneef Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne |
Arabidopsis Natural Variation: Epistasis of Flowering Time Alleles Reveals A New Function For An Old Gene |
| 14.45-15.15 |
Fernando Andres (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | Photoperiodic signals activate the gibberellin pathway to accelerate flowering in Arabidopsis |
| 15.15-15.45 |
Liangyu Liu (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | A distant enhancer controls Flowering Locus T in Arabidopsis |
| 15.45-16.15 |
Coffee break | |
| 16.15-16.45 |
Ute Höcker (University of Cologne): | SPA-mediated protein degradation in flowering time control and photomorphogenesis |
| 16.45-17.15 |
Peter Huijser (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | Redeployment of SPL genes beyond the vegetative-to-reproductive phase transition |
| 17.15-18.00 |
Poster Session | |
| 19:30 - open end | joint in-town evening (Brauhaus Päffgen). Address: Friesenstraße 64, 50670 Cologne Please be prepared to pay for drinks yourself. |
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Wednesday, January 23
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| SESSION 4: | Flowering time genes and Adaptation to different environments |
Chair: Seth Davis |
| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Claus Schwechheimer (WissenschaftszentrumWeihenstephan, TU München): | Cross-repressive interactions between SOC1 and the GATA factors GNC and GNL/CGA1 in the control of greening, cold tolerance and flowering time in Arabidopsis |
| 9.30-10.00 |
Benedikt Drosse (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne) | Whole Transcriptome Profiling in Barley Shoot Apices During Floral Transition |
| 10.00-10.30 |
Susan Duncan (John Innes Centre, Norwich): | An Increased Vernalization Temperature Optimum at the Northerly Limit of the Arabidopsis Range |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Amaury de Montaigue (Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne): | Phenotypic impact of natural variation in diurnal gene expression waveforms |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
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| 11.30-12.30 |
Keynote lecture: Cynthia Weinig, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming |
Characterizing the circadian clock in seasonal settings. |
| 12.30-13.00 |
Closing Remarks, Comments |
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