Many thanks to all of our delegates for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2019 such a success. We are grateful to Wiley, University College, Dublin, and the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland for their support.
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Recordings of the lectures given at this event can be found in the speakers tab
Organisers
We are delighted to be organising New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists 2019 with the following scientists, all of whom are based at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Carl Ng (Organising Committee Lead)
David Hunt
Sonia Negrao
Rainer Melzer
Alexandre Perochon
Aisling Reilly
Emma Doyle
Keynote speakers
Name | Affiliation | Title |
Amy Austin | CONICET University of Buenos Aires IFEVA-CONICET, Argentina | Diminishing the climate footprint with exotic pine afforestation in Patagonia, Argentina? |
Stella Cesari | BGPI, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, France | Mode of action and engineering of a rice NLR immune receptor for broader recognition specificity of Magnaporthe oryzae effectors |
Catherine Feuillet | INARI Agriculture, USA | A next generation wheat genome sequence for next generation breeding by next generation scientists |
Alistair Hetherington | University of Bristol, UK | |
Sandy Hetherington | University of Oxford, UK | Getting to the root of roots: from fossils to transcription factors |
Anna-Liisa Laine | University of Helsinki, Finland | What keeps pathogens in check in the wild? |
Keith Lindsey | University of Durham, UK | Cellular pattern and growth in the Arabidopsis root |
Jennifer McElwain | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | |
Edwige Moyroud | Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK | Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning |
Maarja Öpik | University of Tartu, Estonia | Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: from local to global and back |
Selected talks
Name | Affiliation | Title |
Andrew Felton | Utah State University, USA | Spatiotemporal dynamics of net primary productivity sensitivity to precipitation |
Francielli Bao | Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) | Do neighbours matter: Densitydependent effects of intra and interspecific competition on seed germination in experimental microcosms |
Chrysoula Pantazopoulou | Plant Ecophysiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University | Every time we touch, I feel the static – molecular basis of touch induced leaf movement |
Alvaro Montiel Jorda | Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, UMR5546 CNRS/Université | Characterisation of BML1, a novel protein linking brassinoteroid signalling with microtubules |
Silvia Artuso | Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg | Tempo and mode of flower shape evolution in a small-sized radiation of Madagascan Bulbophyllum orchids (clade ‘C’) using 3D geometric morphometrics |
Sarah Carroll | The Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield | |
Cecilia Cheval | John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park | A plasmodestmata-specific signalling cascade mediates chitin-triggered PD closure |
Susanne Schilling | School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin | |
Harriet Benbow | School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin | The Serpin gene family contribute to disease resistance, yield, and grain quality in bread wheat |
Jonathan Henn | Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Winter climate, fire, and species characteristics affect prairie plant response to climate change |
Juan Baca Cabrera | Grassland Group, Technical University of Munich | Diurnal oscillation of leaf elongation rate is sensitive to atmospheric CO2 and VPD |
Arun Kanti Bose | TBC? | The potential role of transgenerational epigenetic effects for the acclimation of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) to drought |
Homero Garate Escamilla | BIOGECO, INRA-Université de Bordeaux | |
Lisa Fürtauer | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department Biology I, Plant Evolutionary Cell Biology | |
Alvaro Fernandez-Fernandez | VIB-Ghent University, Ghent | Getting to know plant metacapases: cues above, substrate identification and downstream signalling |
Marian Schubert | Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås | Evolution of tolerance to temperate climates in the grass subfamily Pooideae |
Victoria DeLeo | Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University | 200 years of Arabidopsis thaliana phenotypic variation |
Tom Thirkell | Centre for Plant Sciences, School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds | |
Aidee Guzman | Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley | The relationship between aboveground diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on agroecosystems |
Xi Zhang | University of Bern |
Poster presenters
Poster titles and abstracts can be found in the abstract book
First name | Last name | Affiliation |
Muhammad | Abid | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
Md Bulbul | Ahmed | IRBV; University of Montreal |
Osama M A | Alabdallah | National Agriculture Research Center |
Andre Melao | Alcantara | Gregor Mendel Institute |
Nadia | Al-Tamimi | KAUST |
Luis | Andrade | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Cambridge University |
Jana Christin | Askani | Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg |
Amit | Bajhaiya | Umeå University; Sweden |
Sajid Ali Khan | Bangash | IBGE; The University of Agriculture; Peshawar; Pakistan |
Lina | Baz | King Abdulaziz University |
Craig | Brelsford | University of Helsinki |
Lucia | Campos-Dominguez | University of Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
Dhiman | Chakravarty | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
Saurabh | Chaudhary | Canterbury Christ Church University |
Marco | Cosme | Université catholique de Louvain |
Mauricio | Cruz Mantoani | UCD |
Van Cong | Doan | Institute of Plant Science; the University of Bern |
Febri | Doni | University of Malaya |
Caroline | Dowling | University College Dublin |
Bernd | Dreyer | IPK Gatersleben |
Pauline | Duminil | Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay |
Manuel | Esperon | Western Sydney University |
Roisin | Fattorini | Cambridge University |
Flavia Pilar | Forte | Aarhus University |
Bliss Ursula | Furtado | Nicolaus Copernicus University |
Jordi | Gamir Felip | University Jaume I Castellon |
George | Giannakopoulos | Newcastle University |
Tamara | Gómez-Gallego | Estación Experimental del Zaidin; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas EEZ-CSIC |
Bianca | Govi | University College Cork |
Florian | Hahn | Rothamsted Research |
Katie | Hetherington | Teagasc Oak Park |
Tania | Ho-Plágaro | EEZ-CSIC |
Hanna | Hõrak | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
Mia | Howard | Mia |
Israel | Ikoyi | University of Limerick |
Ruth | Ilesanmi | University of Bath |
Godwin | James | National University of Ireland Galway |
Stephen | Kehoe | University College Dublin |
Ravi | Koppolu | IPK |
Allan | Kouidri | NIAB |
Katarzyna | Kozak | University of Warsaw |
Gretchen | Kroh | Colorado State University |
Dushan | Kumarathunge | Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka |
Maria de la O | Leyva Perez | TEAGASC |
Bin | Liu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Caitlin | Looney | University College Cork and Teagasc |
Joshua | Lynn | University of Bergen |
Keshav Bahadur | Malla | University College Dublin |
Leonor | Margalha | Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência |
Alejandra | Martinez-Berdeja | University of California; Davis |
Fergus | Meade | Teagasc |
Marcela Soledad | Mendez | IFEVA-CONICET University of Buenos Aires |
Rox | Middleton | University of Bristol |
Alexandra | Miricescu | NUI Maynooth |
Brian | Mooney | Maynooth University |
Beatriz | Moreno Garcia | University of Oxford |
Zoe | Nemec Venza | University of Bristol |
Rodolfo | Nobrega | Imperial College London |
Rengin | Ozgur-Uzilday | Ege University |
Paige | Panter | University of Bristol |
Simona | Paolacci | University college Cork |
Hélène | Pidon | IPK Gatersleben |
Mutiara Kusumaningtyas | Pitaloka | Kasetsart University Thailand |
Boas | Pucker | CeBiTec; Bielefeld University |
Susan | Quick | BIFoR; University of Birmmingham |
Paulina | Rajewicz | University of Helsinki / INAR |
Dheeraj | Rathore | Teagasc |
Helen | Rees | University of Bristol |
Victoria | Ruiz-Hernández | University of Salzburg |
Bong | Salazar | University of Sheffield |
Betty | Sands | The University of Warwick |
Victoria | Spencer | University of Bristol |
Eva | Stricker | University of New Mexico |
Huang | Tan | Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology |
Ben | Thomas | Ben Thomas |
Fabrizio | Ticchiarelli | University of Cambridge - Sainsbury Laboratory |
Hayley | Tumas | University of Oxford |
Jakob | Weiszmann | University of Vienna |
Katarzyna | Sleczka | University College Dublin |
Samuel | Wilkinson | University of Sheffield |
Claire | Willing | University of California; Berkeley |
Long | Xie | University of Helsinki |
Weimu | Xu | Trinity College Dublin |
Poster prize winners
Many congratulations to all of our poster prize winners! Poster prizes were on awarded on the basis of votes cast by the conference delegates.
First prize
Rox Middleton, Department of Biology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
'Structural colour in fruits for insight into cell wall growth'
Second prize
Hélène Pidon, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany
'Positional cloning of two resistance genes to barley viral diseases from a wild relative'
Third prize
Sajid Bangash, Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
'(Sub)cellular glutathione homeostasis and secondary active transport of glutathione across the plasma membrane'
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