Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd
World Petunia Days
Location: Helsinki
Monday 6th - Wednesday 8th
Stomatal development and function lectures
Location: Seminar room K1088, Viikki info building (Viikinkaari 11) and remotely via Zoom
Monday 6th
Stomatal development and function lectures
09.20 – 09:30 Maija Sierla, Anne Vatén – Introduction
09:30 – 10:10 Julian Schroeder (University of California San Diego, USA) – TBA
10:10-10:50 Toshinori Kinoshita (Nagoya University, Japan) – Light regulation of stomatal opening and control of plant growth
10:50-11:30 Yohei Takahashi (Nagoya University, Japan) – Biochemical and cell biological approaches to understand abscisic acid signal transduction
Break
12:40-13:20 Hanna Hõrak (University of Tartu, Estonia) – Systemic signalling in stomatal development and responses
13:20-14:00 Scott McAdam (Purdue University, USA) – Stomatal evolution as a primary driver of plant success on land
14:00-14:40 Mikael Brosche (University of Helsinki) – Accidental adventures into stomatal regulation – lessons learned from the study of plant-air pollutant interactions
Break
15:10-15:50 Rainer Waadt (University of Münster, Germany) – Dual-reporting genetically encoded fluorescent indicators (2-in-1-GEFIs) resolve the spatiotemporal coordination of signaling processes in Arabidopsis
15:50-16:30 Diana Santelia (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) – The influence of guard cell photosynthesis on starch metabolism and stomatal movements
Location: Seminar room K1088, Viikki info building (Viikinkaari 11) and remotely via Zoom
Tuesday 7th
Stomatal development and function lectures
09:25-09:30 Maija Sierla, Anne Vatén – Introduction
09:30-10:10 Peter Franks (University of Sydney, Australia) – Stomata and climate
10:10-10:50 On Sun Lau (National University of Singapore, Singapore) – Environmental control of stomatal development
10:50-11:30 Sophie Wallner (Stanford University, USA) – Polarity proteins in stomatal development: how to identify the proteome of a polarity domain
Break
12:40-13:20 Kimmy Ho (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) – Leaf epidermal fates and associated quantitative tools
13:20-14:00 Cezary Waszczak (University of Helsinki) – Epidermal permeability and plant water relations
14:00-14:40 Teemu Hölttä (University of Helsinki) – Stomatal control and tree ecophysiology
Break
15:10-15:50 Michael Raissig (University of Bern, Switzerland) – Form, development and function of grass stomata
15:50-16:30 Julie Gray (University of Sheffield, UK) – The consequences of manipulating stomatal density
Location: Seminar room K1088, Viikki info building (Viikinkaari 11) and remotely via Zoom
Tuesday 7th, 14:00
Special plant seminar
Dilfuza Egamberdieva, ZALF, Germany
Interactions between the legume - rhizobium symbiosis and biochar in challenging environments
Host: Priit Tammeorg
Location: Lecture room 332, Forest Sciences building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9 and remotely via Zoom
Wednesday 8th
Stomatal development and function lectures
10:00-10:05 Maija Sierla, Anne Vatén – Introduction
10:05-10:45 Silke Robatzek (Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany) – Manning the gates: Stomatal immune signalling
10:45-11:25 Rob Roelfsema (Würzburg University, Germany) – Combining microelectrode-based techniques and optogenetical tools to study ion transport in guard cells
Location: Seminar room K1088, Viikki info building (Viikinkaari 11) and remotely via Zoom
Tuesday 14th - Wednesday 15th
Maatalouspäivät
Location: Helsinki
Wednesday 15th, 14:00
Invited Plant Seminars
Kan Wang, Iowa State University, USA
CRISPR RNA-guided Integrase system for Agrobacterium genome editing
Host: Teemu Teeri
Location: Remotely via Zoom
Thursday 16th, 13:15
Special plant seminar
Kaisa Kajala, Utrecht University,The Netherlands
Evolution and development of cell types
Host: Ari Pekka Mähönen
Location: Seminar room 2402, Biocentre 3, Viikinkaari 1