PROGRAM
Oct 1 (Thursday)
9:00 – 9:45 Registration
9:45 - 9:50 Opening. Ülle Jaakma, Vice-Rector of Research, Estonian University of Life Sciences
9:50 – 12:35 Global change from mechanisns to patterns, modrator Ülo Mander
9:50 Ülo Niinemets (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Head of the ENVIRON):
„How ENVIRON tries to understand adaptation to global change“.
10:45 –11:05 Coffee/tea break
11:05 Markku Kulmala (Univ. of Helsinki, ENVIRON board member):
„Biogenic volatile compounds enhancing aerosol load“.
11:50 Rainer Matyssek (Technische Univ. München, ENVIRON board member):
„Drought – Challenge of the Future, for Trees and Science".
12:35 – 13:35 Lunch
13:35 – 15:25 I session: Role of volatile messengers in plant adaptation, moderator Ülo Niinemets
13:35 Michael Staudt (CNRS, Montpellier, invited keynote):
"The role of BVOC emissions in Global Change".
14:20 Jörg-Peter Schnitzler (Helmholz Gesellschaft, Germany, invited keynote):
„Plants under environmental stress - biosynthesis and function of plant volatiles“.
15:05 Astrid Kännaste (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences):
"Conifers´ chemotypes and their resistance against environmental stress factors".
15:25 – 15:45 Coffee/Tea break
15:45 - 17:55 II session: Plant-microbe interactions in the changing environment, modrator Hannes Kollist
15:45 Corné Pieterse (Utrecht University, ENVIRON board member):
“The root microbiome and plant health”.
16:30 Denis Fargette (Montpellier, France, invited keynote):
„Virus emergence in rice in the changing environment of Africa“..
17:15 Miroslav Valarik (Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc - Holice, Czech Republic):
„The Central Europe, a brewing pot of cereal powdery mildew disease.“
17:35 Anders Kvarnheden (Swedish Univ of Agricultural Sciences):
„Plant-infecting viruses in the Nordic countries and the possible effects of climate change“.
17:55 – 18:10 Break
18:10 – 19:00 Posters session, moderator Ivika Ostonen (Univ. of Tartu)
1 minute poster presentations
19:00 – 21:00 … and refreshments
Oct 2 (Friday)
8:45 – 11:55 III session: Adaptation at cell and plant level, moderator Erkki Truve (Tallinn Univ of Technology, Estonia)
8:45 Stefan Jansson (Univ. of Umeå, ENVIRON board member):
"Natural variation in aspen".
9:30 Timothy Brodribb (Univ. of Tasmania, invited keynote):
„Evolution of stomatal signaling“.
10;15 – 10:35 Coffee/Tea break
10:35 Hannes Kollist (Univ. of Tartu, Estonia):
„Stomatal regulation in response to environment“.
10:55 Hanna Hõrak (Univ. of Tartu, Estonia): „Stomatal CO2 signalling“.
11:15 Arne Sellin (Univ. of Tartu, Estonia):
"Tree growth under increasing atmospheric humidity: possible mechanisms behind the growth retardation".
11:35 Tiina Tosens (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences):
"The long and winding road of CO2 from leaf mesophyll to chloroplasts - an evolutionary obstruction to plant functioning".
11:55 – 12:55 Lunch
12:55 – 15:00 IV session: Carbon and nitrogen cycles of forests and wetland ecosystems, moderator Jaak Truu
13:55 Markus Reichstein (Max Planck Inst. for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, invited keynote):
"Ecosystem functional responses to the environment - a FLUXNET perspective".
14:40 Ivika Ostonen, Marika Truu et al (Estonia):
“Ecosystem-level adaptation to environmental changes - ENVIRON results from local to regional scale”.
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 – 17:00 IV session continues, moderaator Ebe Merilo (Univ. of Tartu)
15:30 Ülo Mander et al (Univ. of Tartu, Estonia):
„Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions – ENVIRON results from local to global scale”.
15:50 Jaak Truu et al (Univ. of Tartu, Estonia):
"Climate change nd Earth microbiome - understanding the processes and their controls".
16:10 Steffe M. Noe (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Estonia):
"Perspectives from SMEAR Estonia: First long term measurements of biosphere-atmosphere interactions in Estonia".
16:30 Krista Lõhmus et al (Univ. of Tartu, Estonia):
"Elevated atmospheric humidity changes deciduous forest carbon and nitrogen cycling".
16:50 – 17:00 Closing, Ülo Niinemets
18:30 – 22:00 Conference dinner
Oct 3 (Saturday)
8:45 – 17:15 Excursion
 Centre of Excellence in Environmental Adaptation, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr.R.Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014, Tartu, ESTONIA |
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