Friday 6th June, 12:00-14:00
Special plant seminars: Retirement of Alan Schulman
Stress Not: Dynamic Genomes Give Seeds for the Future
12:00 Juha Huiskonen, Director, HiLIFE Institute of Biotechnology: Opening words.
12:05 Kaisa Poutanen, Professor Emerita, VTT, Finland: “Aiming at Better Grains - What a Journey”
12:15 Petri Auvinen, Research Director, Institute of Biotechnology: “Next-Generation Genomics”
12:25 Laura Rossini, Professor, University of Milan, Italy: "Culm-ination of a Barley Collaboration to Resist the Winds of Change"
12:40 Francois Sabot, Senior Scientist, DIADE Unit, University of Montpellier, Cirad, IRD, France: “More Than 10 Years of Pangenomics in Rice, and Still So Much to Do for Starting..."
12:55 Thomas Wicker, Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland: “Mind the 95% - Working with Transposable Elements in Large Genomes”
13:10 Donal O’Sullivan, Professor, University of Reading: “Dreaming of Clean Bean Protein”
13:25 Triin Vahisalu, Senior Scientist, University of Helsinki and Tallinn Technical University: “SHEER Déjà Vu: Heme Proteins in Plants”
13:35 Alan Schulman, University of Helsinki & LUKE: “Summa Summarum”
14:00 Reception (lobby)
Location: Auditorium 2041, Biocentre 2, Viikinkaari 5
Friday 13th June, 12 noon
Thesis defence
Pinky Dutta, Faculty of Agricluture and Forestry & DPPS
Potyviral Translation and Encapsidation Dynamics - A Labyrinth of Viral and Host Factors
Opponent: Betty Chung, University of Cambridge, UK
Location: Raisio Hall (B1), Forest Sciences Building, Latokartanonkaari 7-9