Events in June

ViPS events in June 2022

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