EPS Annual Theme 3 Symposium – Metabolism and Adaptation

Registration deadline 14-10-2019!

Venue: Room HG00.307,  Huygens Building, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Organizer: Leonie Bentsink, Ivo Rieu
Contact: Ivo Rieu

All EPS members with an interest in Metabolism and Adaptation are hereby kindly invited to join the EPS Theme 3 Symposium on the 21st of October in Nijmegen.
This symposium gives EPS theme 3 members the opportunity to present and discuss their own work, especially the young scientists (PhD candidates & postdocs).
To make an attractive program we invite EPS members  to send name(s) of speaker(s) and title(s) of oral presentation(s) to Ivo Rieu.

Preliminary program

9.45 COFFEE/TEA AND WELCOME

Chair: Leónie Bentsink

10.00  Invited speaker: Aoife Gowen (School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland)
Spectral imaging of biological systems: state of the art, key challenges and future perspectives

10.45  Bing Bai (Plant Physiology, Wageningen University)
SeedTransNet – a network for the identification and validation of novel translational regulator in seeds

11.10 COFFEE/TEA

11.35  Yutao Zou (Plant Physiology, Wageningen University)
A natural variation approach to uncover early salt signaling

12.00  Sjors van der Horst (Molecular Plant Physiology, Utrecht University)
The Ribosome as a Metabolite Multi-sensor: Metabolite Control of Translation by Conserved Peptide uORFs

12.25 LUNCH

Chair: Ivo Rieu

13.15 Invited speaker: Victoria Mironova (Computational Transcriptomic and Evolutionary Bioinformatics Lab, Novosibirsk State University, Russia)
Systems analysis of Arabidopsis root meristem response to biotic and abiotic stress

14.00 Jesse Küpers (Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University)
Phytochrome signalling in the leaf tip regulates petiole hyponasty through combined hormone regulation

14.25 COFFEE/TEA

14.50 Shuang Song (Plant Physiology, Wageningen University)
Functional analyses of the DELAY OF GERMINATION 6

15.15 Francesco Garassino (Genetics, Wageningen University)
Hirschfeldia incana as the model species for high light-use efficiency in photosynthesis

15.40 Martina Huber (Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University)
Shoot architecture regulation in rice for sustainable weed suppression

15.55  END OF MEETING/DRINKS

 

Registration
The registration deadline has now passed and the registration is therefore closed. Please contact Ivo Rieu if you still want to register for this event and the coffee/tea, lunch and drinks.


Monday, October 21, 2019
09:45 - 17:00
Huygens Building – RU
Heyendaalseweg 135, Nijmegen