Plant Science Wales 2007 - Aberystwyth (IGER)

PROGRAMME

Monday 17 December

11:00 Registration opens

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Welcome, introduction and domestic announcements

13:30 Kerrie  Farrar and Elaine Jensen (IGER): "The role of morphology in biomass yield and quality: Flowering time and stem architecture in Miscanthus"

14:00 Natalia Ivashikina (Bangor): "Screening plant secondary metabolites using Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry "

14:20 Natasha  de Vere (NBG) "Oh what a tangled web we weave...the interactions between population size, genetic diversity, fitness and habitat quality in the meadow thistle, Cirsium dissectum" 

14:40 Jessica Adams (IGER) "The Potential of Brown Seaweed as a substrate for Bioethanol Production"

15:00 Tea/coffee/posters/trade exhibits

15:30 Sandra Pierre (Aberystwyth) "Proteomics of Moniliophthora perniciosa, causal agent of the witches’ - broom disease of cacao"

15:50 Edward Hodgson (IGER) "Thermochemical conversion of Miscanthus"

16:10 Jennifer Evans (Cardiff) "Metabolite production during interspecific basidiomycete interactions: the role of volatile organic chemicals"

16:30 Sid Thomas (Aberystwyth) "A pestilent enemy among the corn: the plant science of King Lear"

17:00 Poster session, trade exhibition and drinks reception

19:00 Tour of National Library of Wales (optional)

20:00 Buffet dinner at NLW

Tuesday 18 December

09:00 Domestic announcements

09:05 Steve Neill (Bristol) Keynote speaker " ROS and NO: key members of the stomatal closure team?"

09:45 Irene Griffiths (IGER) "Dissecting the yield components of oats"

10:05 Richard Kipling (Aberystwyth) "Floral Colour Variation in Sympatric Ranunculus species" 

10:25 Denis Murphy (Glamorgan) "A novel class of multifunctional membrane-bound peroxygenase is involved in biotic and abiotic stress responses in plants and (possibly) fungi"

10:55 Coffee/tea/posters/trade exhibits

11:15 Robert Hatch (IGER) "Transposons as a tool for understanding and manipulating phytogenetics"

11:35 Rosalind Jones (Aberystwyth) "Detecting N pollution using metabolomics: Bioindicators in heathland communities"

11:55 Mark Hooks (Bangor) "Relationships between metabolite and transcript levels in developing seedlings of arabidopsis"

12:15 Natasha Spadafora (Cardiff) "Interactions between plant cell cycle genes and plant growth regulators 

12:35 Paul Robson (IGER) "Breeding Miscanthus for improved yield through variation in plant architecture"

12:55 Lunch and depart