PhD Summer School Rhizosphere Signaling

Dates: 23 – 25 August 2010
Venue: RADIX building (building nr. 107), Lecture room C92, Wageningen Campus, Droevendaalse steeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands

Organizers: Nicole van Dam (Radboud University Nijmegen), Harro Bouwmeester (Wageningen University) & Douwe Zuidema (Graduate School EPS)
Target group: PhD students and post-docs
Language: English
Course credits: 0.9 ECTS
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Program synopsis
Sunday 22 August 2010
Dinner for the early arrivals (sign-up basis)
Monday 23 August 2010
09:00 - 10:00 Registration with coffee/tea
10:00 - 10:50 Paolina Garbeva (NIOO-KNAW, NL), 'Interspecific bacterial interactions in the rhizosphere and their impact on fungi'
10:50 - 11:40 Anton Hartmann (Helmholtz Zentrum, München, Germany), 'Molecular signaling between rhizobacteria on the root surface and the response by plants'
11:40 - 12:20 Workshop PhD Presentations
Lunch
13:30 - 14:20 Birgit Piechulla (Rostock, Germany), 'Bacterial volatiles and effects on plants'
14:20 - 15:10 Hans de Kroon (RU Nijmegen, NL), 'Root-root interactions with self and others, root foraging'
Tea Break
15:30 - 16.50 Workshop PhD presentations
17:00 – 18: 00 3-minute poster presentations (one-slide only)
18:00 – 20:30 Dinner buffet (with posters)
Tuesday 24 August 2010
09:00 - 09:50 Maria Pozo (Granada, Spain), 'Mycorrhiza-plant interactions'
09:50 - 10:20 René Geurts (WU Wageningen, NL), 'Rhizobium intercepts plant hormone balances to initiate symbiosis'
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10 Workshop PhD presentations
Lunch
13:30 – 14:20 Ted Turlings (Neuchatel, Switzerland), 'Herbivore-induced volatiles of maize roots and their importance for root pest control'
14:20 – 15:10 Richard Hopkins (Uppsala, Sweden), 'Direct defense induction by root herbivores in Brassica species'
Tea Break
15:40 - 17:10 Workshop PhD presentations
Excursion to the Rhizotron facility Radboud University Nijmegen and BBQ near the Huygens building
Wednesday 25 August 2010
09:00 - 09:50 Aska Goverse (WU Wageningen, NL), 'Nematode induced signaling in plant roots'
09:50 - 10:20 Martijn Rep (UvA msterdam, NL), 'Root invasion by pathogenic fungi'
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10 Workshop PhD presentations
Lunch
13:10 – 14:00 John Yoder (UC Davis, USA), 'Chemical communications between plants: Is allelopathy real?
14:00 – 14:50 Carolien Ruyter (WU Wageningen, NL), 'Parasitic plant – host signaling'
14:50 – 16:00 Workshop PhD presentations
16:00 h Closure of the PhD summerschool