WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH
09.00 – 10.00 – Registration
10.00 – 10.30 – Coffee
10.30 – 10.45 – Welcome
SESSION 1: ECOLOGY (chair Anne E. Bjune)
10.45 – 11.15 – John-Arvid Grytnes – Alpine Plants in a Warmer World – Species’ Richness and Extinctions on Mountain Summits of Europe
11.15 – 11.30 – Carl Gunnar Fossdal – Epigenetic Memory in Plants
11.30 – 11.45 – Ole Reidar Vetaas – Macro Ecological Test of Tropical Conservatism Hypothesis: On Diversity Across Biomes in Mountain Ranges
11.45 – 12.00 – Siri Vatsø Haugum – Drought Responses in a Precipitation-Rich Coastal Ecosystem are Linked to Land Use History
12.00 – 12.15 – Joachim Töpper – The Devil is in the Detail: Non-Additive and Context-Dependent Plant Population Responses to Increasing Temperature and Precipitation
12.15 – 13.15 – Lunch
SESSION 2: EVOLUTION (chair Heidi Lie Andersen)
13.15 – 13.45 – Elena Conti – Macro- and Micro-Evolutionary Perspectives on Diversification: Linking Pattern with Process
13.45 – 14.00 – Rakel Blaalid – Life in Death – Can Cadaver Islands Explain the Reproduction Paradox?
14.00 – 14.15 – Jonfinn Blix Knutsen – Evolutionary Adaptability Linked to Length Variation in Short Genic Tandem Repeats
14.15 -14.45 – Garden Tour with Torsten Eriksson
SESSION 3: PLANT NETWORK NORWAY & TEACHING IN PLANT BIOLOGY (chair Paul Grini)
14.45 – 15.00 – Paul Grini – Plant Network Norway – Challenges and Opportunities
15.00 – 15.30 – Petra Korall – What Students (Don’t) Hear of What We Say
15.30 – 15.45 – Anna Avetisyan – Teaching Plant Biology Brings Together Norway and Armenia as a Platform for International Collaboration
15.45 – 16.00 – Anne E. Bjune – Germinating Popcorn and Making Spores Dance – How to Make Undergraduates’ First Meeting with Plants a Success
16.00 – 16.30 – Coffee
16.30 – 18.00 – Poster Session
19.30 – Dinner at Fløien Folkerestaurant, on Mount Fløien
THURSDAY, MAY 31ST
09.30 – 10.00 – Coffee
SESSION 4: DEVELOPMENT & CELL BIOLOGY (chair Thorsten Hamann)
09.30 – 10.00– Herman Höefte – The Role of Cell Wall Integrity Signaling in Growth Regulation in Plants
10.00 – 10.15 – Thorsten Haman – Plant Cell Wall Integrity Maintenance and Immune Signaling Regulate Jointly Stress Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
10.15 – 10.30 – Johnathan Bramsiepe – Elucidating the Role and Regulatory Networks of the Putative DCAF Protein WDR55 in Growth and Plant Reproductive Development
10.30 – 10.45 – Chunlin Shi – Regulation the Dynamics of Root Cap Sloughing in Arabidopsis by Peptide Signaling
10.45 – 11.00 – Paul Grini – Imprinting Revisited: Regulation of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana Endosperm
11.00 – 12.00 – Lunch
SESSION 5: APPLIED PLANT SCIENCE & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (chair Paul Grini)
12.00 – 12.30 – Stephan Wenkel – Function(s) of microProteins in Plants
12.30 – 12.45 – Morten Lillemo – Use of Phenomics and Genomics Tools to Accelerate Genetic Gains in Plant Breeding
12.45 – 13.00 – Tatiana Belova – Annotation and Mapping of Genes Encoding Allergenicity Proteins in Wheat
13.00 – 13.15 – Coffee
SESSION 6: BIOTIC & ABIOTIC STRESS (chair Carl Gunnar Fossdal)
13.15 – 13.30 – Jorunn Olsen – Effects of Combined UV-B Gamma Radiation on Plant Development and DNA Damage in Scots Pine
13.30 – 13.45 – Paal Krokene – Primed Defenses in Norway Spruce
13.45 – 14.00 – Most Champa Begum – QTL Analysis of Pre-Harvest Sprouting Resistance in SHA3/CBRD x Naxos Spring Wheat Population Under Different Environmental Conditions
14.00 – 14.15 – Samuel Wilkinson – Long-Lasting Jasmonate Induced Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana and Picea abies
14.15 – 14.30 – Lauri Vaahtera – Genome-Wide Association Study of Cell Wall Integrity Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
14.30 – 14.45– Raghuram Badmi– Priming Strawberry for Defence Against Botrytis cinerea
14.45 – 15.00– Min Lin – QTL Mapping of Septoria nodorum Blotch Sensitivity Related Loci in European Winter Wheat
15.00 – Closing Remarks & Discussion
POSTERS
- Renate Alling – Evolution and Molecular Function of the IDA-Like Peptides
- Payel Bhattacharjee – Identification and Functional Characterization of Membrane Bound NAC Transcription Factors in Tomato (SlNACMTFs) and Understanding Their Role in Stress Response
- Yuri van Ekelenburg – Analysis of Domain Specific Genomic Imprinting in the Arabidopsis Endosperm
- Ida Marie Johannessen – The Genetic Basis of Post-Zygotic Hybridization Barriers Between Arabidopsis lyrata and A. arenosa
- Mallikarjuna Rao Kovi – Genomic Selection Strategies in Timothy
- Elisabeth Nesheim-Hauge – Variation in Leaf Functional Traits Through the Early Development of Coastal Heathland Plants
- Anush Panosyan – Application of an Open Gas-Exchange Measuring System with Self-Clamping Leaf Chambers in Greenhouse and Growth Chamber
- Nannie Persson – Untangling the Origin of a Polyploid – The Evolutionary History of Potentilla norvegica L. (Rosaceae) Based on a Single-Copy Nuclear Marker
- Espen Sannes Sørensen – Oat Breeding in the Era of Genomics: Resistance to Fusarium (OatGen)
- Marcos Viejo – Epigenetic Memory in Picea abies
- Igor Yakovlev – Novel Class of 31-nt smallRNAs in Gymnosperm Stem Cells
- Vegard Iversen – Elucidation of the Function of CW-MBD Proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana – A Potential Role in Light-Mediated Processes