Tuesday 21st September |
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8:00–9:00 |
Registration |
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9:00–9:10 |
Welcome |
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Session 1: The early terrestrial environment
Chair:
Chris Hawkesworth |
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9:10–9:50 |
Creating habitable zones |
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Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
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9:50–10:30 |
Effects of plant-fungal co-evolution on the terrestrial environment |
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Jonathan Leake, University of Sheffield, UK |
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10:30–11:10 |
The role of arthropods in the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems |
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Conrad Labandeira, Smithsonian Institution, USA |
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11:10–11:30 |
Coffee break |
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Session 2: Early land plants
Chair:
Mike Benton |
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11:30–12:10 |
Palaeontological evidence for the origin and early evolution of land plants |
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Charles Wellman, University of Sheffield, UK |
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12:10–12:50 |
Early land plant evolution |
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Paul Kenrick, Natural History Museum, London, UK |
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12:50–14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 3: Emerging resources
Chair:
David Beerling |
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14:00–14:40 |
The moss Physcomitrella patens: a model to study how land plants adapted to an arid aerial environment |
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Ralph Quatrano, Washington University, USA
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14:40–15:20 |
Clues to genetic innovations for terrestrialization emerging from the Selaginella genome |
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Jody Banks, Purdue University, USA |
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15:20–15:50 |
Tea |
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Session 4: The evolution of the plant body
Chair:
Phil Donoghue |
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15:50–16:30 |
The evolution of plant roots |
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Liam Dolan, University of Oxford, UK
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16:30–17:10 |
The evolution and development of leaves |
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Jane Langdale, University of Oxford, UK |
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17:10–18:15 |
Poster session (including reception) |
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*Coaches to Physic Powell LT leave at 18.15 |
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18:30–19:30 |
Public plenary lecture ‘The Emerald Planet: how plants “greened the Earth”’ (Physics Powell LT) |
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David Beerling, University of Sheffield, UK |
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20:00 |
Conference dinner |
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Wednesday 22nd September |
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9:00–9:45 |
Plenary lecture ‘The significance of the sequence in which embryophytes acquired nutritional attributes’ |
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John Raven, University of Dundee, UK |
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9:45–10:15 |
Coffee |
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Session 5: The inception of the oxygen cycle and the evolution of key biochemical and physiological processes
Chair: Ian Woodward |
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10:15–10:55 |
Support for a mid-Paleozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen |
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Emma Hammarlund, Nordic Centre for Earth, Denmark |
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10:55–11:35 |
The evolution of nitrogen-fixing symbioses |
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Allan Downie, John Innes Centre, UK |
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11:35–12:15 |
The fossil record of tracheophyte physiological evolution |
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Kevin Boyce, University of Chicago, USA |
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12:15–13:15 |
Lunch |
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Session 6: Colonization and associated challenges–lessons from the present day
Chair: Liam Dolan |
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13:15–13:55 |
Plant diversity and the carbon cycle |
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Ian Woodward, University of Sheffield, UK |
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13:55–14:35 |
Evolutionary consequences of colonization and species range expansion |
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Rémy Petit, INRA, France |
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14:45 |
Summary |
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*Coaches to the Botanic Garden depart at 15.00 |
15:00 |
Visit to the University of Bristol Botanic Garden |
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*Coaches return to Clifton Hill House at 17.00 |
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Close of meeting |
