As you’ll already know, we held our GARNet 2014 conference, Arabidopsis: The Ongoing Green Revolution, at the University of Bristol on the 9th and 10th September. If you didn’t know, you can read Charis’ report on it by clicking here to go to the main GARNet website, or here to see some photos!
Some of the researchers who spoke at our conference have kindly agreed to share their GARNet 2014 presentations with you online – please click the links in the programme below to view or download a PDF copy of the speaker’s slides.
Programme
Session 1: Physiology & Productivity
- Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol: The response of stomata to environmental signals
- Miriam Gifford, University of Warwick: Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell-specific genomes
- Steve Penfield, University of Exeter: A cryptic switch formed by external temperature coincidence generates a life history strategy for Arabidopsis
- Beatriz Lagunas, University of Warwick: The AtSCL26 transcription factor controls cross-talk between GA- and Nitrogen- control of root architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana roots
Session 2: Genome Biology
- Siobhan Brady, University of California, Davis, USA: Getting to the root of things: spatiotemporal gene regulatory networks in plant roots
- Ian Henderson, University of Cambridge: Unravelling interactions between genetic diversity and recombination in Arabidopsis
- Antony Dodd, University of Bristol: Circadian signalling between subcellular genomes
- Emily Hawkes, John Innes Centre: Evolutionary conservation of an Arabidopsis long non-coding RNA, COOLAIR, supports a regulatory function
Session 3: Natural Variation
- Maarten Kournneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany: Exploring Arabidopsis natural variation
- Adrian Brennan, University of Durham: Population genetic strcuture and natural variation of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in its native southern range extremes
- Javier Agusti, University of Oxford: Using natural variation to identify new cambium regulators
- Monika Mierzwinska, University of Aberdeen: Natural variation in endodermal development and plant mineral nutrient homeostasis
Session 4: Systems and Synthetic Biology
- Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh: Systems for biological timing in the green cells
- Siobhan Braybrook, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge: Understanding the physical basis of growth from the top down
- Leah Band, University of Nottingham: Systems analysis of auxin transport in the Arabidopsis root tip
- Matthew Hindle, University of Edinburgh: The reduced kinome of Ostreococcus tauri: core green lineage signalling components in a tractable model species
Session 5: Plant Interactions with their Environment
- Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany: Functions of the Arabidopsis bacterial root microbiota in plant health
- Cyril Zipfel, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich: Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated immune signalling
- Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol: Sunlight, photoreceptors and plant development
- Sophie Berckhan, University of Nottingham: Why do plants sense oxygen?