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Multivariate analysis of hyperspectral images

Wheat endosperm development

Wheat endosperm development

Two modes of mass, energy and information exchange

the L-PEACH model

 

The meeting will take place over two days, 13-14th September, with an informal reception and poster session, followed by the conference dinner on the evening of the 13th September.

Thursday 13 September

 
12:00-13.00

Registration and lunch

13.00-13.10

Welcome & Introductions, Ian Woodward

 

 

Session 1

Chairperson: Helen Ougham (IGER, Aberystwyth, UK)

 



13:10-13.50

1.1 Unwinding the circadian clock with systems biology

 

Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh, UK)

   

13.50-14.30

1.2 Tracking plant growth and form

 

Andrew Bangham (University of East Anglia, UK)

   
14:30-15.10 1.3 Real world genomics
 

Stefan Jansson (Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden)

 

 

15:10-15.40

Coffee

 

 

Session 2

Chairperson: Alan Gay (IGER, Aberystwyth, UK)

 



15:40-16.20

2.1 Rational design of a plant sentinel

 

June Medford (Colorado State University, USA)

 

 

16:20-17.00

2.2 Can the properties and goals of systems biology be useful for investigating the ecology of a symbiosis at the ecosystem level?

 

Andy Taylor (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)

 

 

17:00-17.40

2.3 Integrating computational modelling of regulatory networks and plant development

 

Jan Kim (University of East Anglia, UK)

 

 

19.00

Reception and posters

   
20:00

Dinner

 

 

Friday 14 September
   
8:30 Announcements, Sid Thomas

 

 

Session 3 
Chairperson: Stefan Jansson (Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden)

 

8:40-9.20 3.1 Integrating computational modeling of regulatory networks and plant development

 

Gerhard Buck-Sorlin (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)

 

 

9:20-10.00

3.2 Biological systems analysis: useful and useless

 

John Sheehy (IRRI, Philippines)

 

 

10:00-10.30

Coffee

   

10:30-11.10

3.3 Integrating crop modelling and functional genomics: towards crop systems biology

 

Xinyou Yin (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)

 

 

11:10-11.50

3.4 Strategies for predicting the movement and fitness of transgenes in wild plant communities

 

Mike Wilkinson (Aberystwyth University, UK)

 

 

11:50-12:30

Discussion

 

Malcolm Bennett (University of Nottingham, UK)

 

 

12.30

Summary, conclusions, farewell
  Sid Thomas (Aberystwyth University, UK)

 

 

12:45

Lunch


 

 

 

 

Symposium logo, Leaf circuit board by Sam Day. Spatial and compositional discontinuities at the plant community and landscape levels revealed by multivariate analysis of hyperspectral images, courtesy of Alan Gay. Wheat endosperm development; Models of syncytia at 3 and 4d postanthesis and 12C nucleus 16 dpa, courtesy of Wegel et al., 2005 New Phytologist 168, p253. Two modes of mass, energy and information exchanges for a plant, courtesy of Chelle, 2005 New Phytologist 166, p781. Using L-systems for modeling source–sink interactions, architecture and physiology of growing trees: the L-PEACH model courtesy of Allen et al., 2005 New Phytologist 166, p869.