Plant adaptations to a stressful world: Computational analysis of big data to uncover novel gene and metabolite networks for stress-tolerant crops of the future
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September 3-4, 2018
George Evens Auditorium
Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Midreshet Ben-Gurion
Organizers:
Prof. Simon Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Prof. Philip Mullineaux, University of Essex, UK
Program
Sunday, September 2, 2018
20:00
Welcome dinner for international speakers
Monday, September 3, 2018
08:00
Welcome remarks
08:10
Anne Visscher, Royal Botanical Gardens, UK
Plant survival in challenging environments on Earth and in Space
08:50
Alexander Bowles, University of Essex, UK
Evolutionary genomics: the emergence of drought tolerance in plants
09:30
Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State University, USA
Insights into the genomic basis of extreme edaphic adaptations in Schrenkiella parvula
10:10
Coffee Break
10:40
Menachem Moshelion, The Hebrew University, Israel
Whole-plant stress performance testing: A new tool for functional phenotyping
11:20
Zvi Peleg, The Hebrew University, Israel
Phenotypic plasticity facilitates alterations in life-history strategies under combinations of environmental stresses
12:00
Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
NeatSeq-Flow: A platform for easy design and execution of complex high-throughput sequencing workflows for programmers and non-programmers alike
12:40
Lunch break
14:00
Simon Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Using Arabidopsis and its extremophyte relatives to identify genes involved in tolerance to abiotic stresses
14:40
Stephen Chivasa, Durham University, UK
Gene discovery by signal interception - a tool for mining plant stress adaptation for biotechnology
15:20
Coffee break
15:50
Amy Marshall-Colon,University of Illinois, USA
Predictive modeling to determine causal factors involved in long distance nitrogen signaling in plants
16:30
Esti Yeger-Lotem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Quantitative views into the tissueselectivity of hereditary diseases
17:10
Closing remarks
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
08:30
Tour around Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Ben-Gurion's gravesite, view over the Wilderness of Zin
09:30
Brief refreshments
09:40
Shiri Freilich, Volcani Institiute, Newe Yaar, Israel
What can a farmer do with NGS data? Challenges in mapping quantitative traits based on NGS data.
10:20
Aaron Fait ,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Correlation-based network analysis to reduce complexity of metabolomics data matrices
11:00
Coffee break
11:20
Maxim Kapralov, University of Newcastle, UK
Exploring the natural diversity of plant enzymes to increase efficiency of photosynthesis in crops: Rubisco with or without C4 and CAM carbon concentration mechanisms
12:00
Philip Mullineaux, University of Essex, UK
Heat shock transcription factors- targets for increasing yield in the face of stress in the Brassicaceae. Can this strategy be applied to all crop species?
12:40
Ulrike Bechtold, University of Essex, UK
Identification of genes important for heat and drought tolerance in desert species
13:20
Closing remarks