Sunday 11 April |
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18:00–20:00 |
Registration |
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Monday 12 April |
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7:30–8:30 |
Registration |
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8:30–8:40 |
Welcome from the organisers
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Session 1: Respiratory carbon release over large spatial & temporal scales
Chair:
TBC |
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8:40–9:20 |
Coupling between canopy photosynthesis, below ground respiration and overall ecosystem carbon fluxes |
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Nina Buchman
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9:20–10:00 |
Fine root respiration: importance for ecosystem carbon fluxes |
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Kurt Pregitzer |
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10:00–10:30 |
Tea/coffee break |
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10:30–11:10 |
Using radiocarbon to determine the age of plant-respired CO2
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Susan Trumbore |
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11:10–11:50 |
Using stable isotopes to determine the contribution of respiration to ecosystem carbon fluxes in forests |
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Lisa Wingate |
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11:50–12:20 |
Incorporating plant respiration into predictive dynamic vegetation and global climate models |
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Stephen Sitch |
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12:20–12:40 |
General Discussion |
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12:40–13:40 |
Lunch |
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Session 2: Mitochondrial electron transport and oxygen uptake
Chair:
TBC |
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13:40–14:20 |
Mitochondrial supercomplexes and their role in respiratory function |
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Hans-Peter Braun |
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14:20–15:00 |
Partitioning of electrons between the cytochrome and alternative pathways |
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Miquel Ribas-Carbo |
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15:00–15:30 |
Tea/coffee break |
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15:30–16:10 |
Regulation of respiratory metabolism in germinating seeds |
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David Macherel
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16:10–16:50 |
Impacts of gene knockouts on respiratory functions |
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Lee Sweetlove |
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15:15–15:45 |
Coffee |
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16:50–17:30 |
General Discussion |
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18:00–19:30 |
Poster session and reception (drinks and canapés) |
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Tuesday 13 April |
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8:30–8:40 |
Announcements |
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Session 3: Regulation of respiration in plants and fungal partners
Chair: TBC |
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8:40–9:20 |
Controlling carbon flow at the plant-fungus interface in mycorrhizae |
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Alastair Fitter |
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9:20–10:00 |
Regulation of respiration in plants: the role of cytosolic pyruvate kinase |
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Sandra Oliver |
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10:00–10:40 |
Respiration in illuminated leaves and the association with photorespiration |
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Guillaume Tcherkez |
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10:40–10:55 |
Selected talk |
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10:55–11:20 |
Tea/coffee break |
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11:20–12:00 |
Mitochondrial metabolomics and the regulation of respiration |
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Alisdair Fernie |
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12:00–12:40 |
13C discrimination by plant respiratory metabolism |
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Margaret Barbour |
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12:40–13:00 |
General Discussion |
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13:00–14:10 |
Lunch |
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Session 4: Heterogeneity of respiration in contrasting cells and tissues
Chair: TBC |
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14:10–14:50 |
Proteomics of mitochondria in contrasting cell types |
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Harvey Millar |
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14:50–15:30 |
Multiple respiratory contributors to CO2 release by stems |
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Bob Teskey |
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15:30–16:00 |
Tea/coffee break |
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16:00–16:40 |
Similarities and differences in respiration by roots and leaves |
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Mark Tjoelker |
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16:40–16:55 |
Selected talk |
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16:55–17:15 |
General Discussion |
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19:30 |
Conference dinner |
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| Wednesday 14 April |
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8:30–8:40 |
Announcements |
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Session 5: Respiratory responses to environmental gradients
Chair: TBC |
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8:40–9:20 |
Impacts of abiotic stress on mitochondrial gene expression & development |
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Jim Whelan |
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9:20–10:00 |
Light inhibition of leaf respiration under field conditions |
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Kevin Griffin |
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10:00–10:40 |
Responses of leaf and root respiration to drought |
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Jaume Flexas |
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10:40–11:10 |
Tea/coffee break |
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11:10–11:25 |
Selected talk |
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11:25–11:40 |
Selected talk |
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11:40–12:20 |
Patterns in biological scaling: predicting respiration rates along environmental gradients |
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Peter Reich |
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12:20–12:40 |
General Discussion |
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13:00–14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00–14:45 |
Synthesis and closing comments |
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Owen Atkin, Matthew Turnbull and Harvey Millar |
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14:45 |
Tour of Oxford |
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