We are pleased to inform you that the final program is fixed for the next Viennese Plant Networkers Meeting on Friday 13th of February from 13:30 onwards.

We will meet in the large lecture hall (HSXX) in the Muthgasse 18. The Muthgasse can be reached with the U4 (Station Heiligenstadt) or the tram D or the bus 10A, 11A, 5B, 38A, 39A, 239 and 242 from IST Austria.

 

13:30     F-actin dynamics are essential for fertilization in flowering plants. 

Tomokazu Kawashima (GMI-Frederic Berger)

 

14:00     F1000: revolutionizing the way that researchers write, collaborate and publish

Kathleen Wets    (Publisher, F1000, UK)

 

14:30     Molecular differences in the storability of sugar beet varieties: a comparative transcriptome analysis

Sehr Eva-Maria   (AIT)

 

15:00     Fine-tuning of photosynthesis as means for drought-stress acclimation in wheat

Michele Grieco (CALIPSO ITN, Markus Teige)

 

15:30     The GSK3/Shaggy-like kinase ASKα in early immune signaling and acclimation to environmental stress.

Hansjörg Stampfl (GMI-Claudia Jonak)

 

16:00     30 Min coffee and cake break

 

16:30     Cross-species-functionality of a Salix caprea cell wall associated kinase-like protein and its selective control over Cd and Pb stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Andrea Pitzschke and Marie-Theres Hauser (Univ. Salzburg and BOKU)

 

17:00     Plant Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM)

Edmundo R. Sánchez Guajardo (Advanced Microscopy - CSF)    

 

17:30     Identification of novel components of auxin-cytokinin cross-talk by transcriptome profiling

Andrej Hurný, Candela Cuesta Moliner, Jerome Duclercq, Eva Benková^* (IST Austria-Benkova)

 

18:00     Auxin regulates SNARE-dependent vacuolar morphology restricting cell size

Christian Löfke (BOKU-Jürgen Kleine-Vehn)

               

18:30     Sensing of the plant defense hormone Salicylic acid by the smut fungus Ustilago maydis

Franziska Rabe (GMI-Armin Djamei)

 

19:00     snacks and drinks

 

 

With best wishes and hope to see most of you.

 

Marie-Theres and Jürgen