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

 

Poster

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