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Presentations by six invited postdoctoral candidates
9:00 Welcome by Johannes Hanson
9:05 Plant cell’s borderline in cell fate
Andriani Mentzelopoulou, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
9:35 The Role of the Plant Endomembrane System in Salt Stress Tolerance
Daniel McKay, University of Heidelberg, Germany
10:05 Unravelling the role of root cap in shaping the Arabidopsis response towards abiotic stress
Krishna Kodappully Das, IISER Tirupati, India
10:40 Coffee break
10:55 Physiological, molecular and genetic mechanisms of adaptation to alkaline in Arabidopsis thaliana populations
Laura Perez Martin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
11:25 The ups and downs of being an outdoor plant-The epigenetic and transcriptomic landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to fluctuating light
Robyn Emmerson, University of Birmingham, UK
11:55 Comparing genomic prediction methods for (relatively) oligogenic traits: a case study in maize grain carotenoids
Mary-Francis LaPorte, University of California, Davis, USA
The afternoon programme is tailored to the invited candidates and not open for everyone.
Please find more information about the symposium on the UPSC homepage
Contact:
For questions, please contact Laura Bacete (laura.bacete@umu.se, Umu), Petra Marhava (petra.marhava@slu.se, SLU) or Stéphane Verger (stephane.verger@umu.se, Umu).
