December 2, 2024
We would like to announce the 38th of our European-wide seminar series by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) and aimed at the Plant Science community and its stakeholders. We continue to provide a stimulating set of seminars once a month on a hot and/or emerging topic in plant science, giving the floor to both eminent world leaders and talented up-and-coming early career researchers.
TTT: The seminar will be held online each third Thursday of the month at three (CET).
On 19th December 2024 at 15:00 (CET) we will present three talks exploring Adaptation to climate change associated stress
Prof. Jonathan DG Jones (JJ), The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
“Why we need to understand plant immunity to cope with climate change”
JJ is a leading researcher in plant disease resistance; his lab works on plant immune receptor mechanisms, their diversity and their deployment. The recent UK Genetic Technologies (Precision Breeding) Act is enabling his team to develop a precision bred potato that is resistant to late blight and to two important viruses (PVY and PLRV). He is an outspoken advocate of using modern genetic solutions to solve crop disease problems and will reflect on the effects of climate change on plant disease and how best to mitigate them.
Dr. Hilde Nelissen, VIB University of Gent, Belgium
“Plant growth under mild drought - cellular and molecular mechanisms."
Hilde Nelissen is group leader at the VIB-Center for Plant Systems Biology. Her research career has focused on the central biological question: How do growth processes determine final plant organ size? She studied Arabidopsis leaf development and later on maize with the goal to decipher the instructor networks that govern leaf size, organ growth and ultimately yield in maize. As plant organ size control is an important yield component that is also impacted by adverse conditions, the team aims to better understand the growth regulatory networks to achieve climate resilient crops using a range of molecular and phenotyping technologies, including multiplex genome editing, single cell and spatial transcriptomics.
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