Programme

Session 3: Adapting plant metabolism to heatwaves

Chair: Carl Ng, University College Dublin, Ireland

Invited speakers:

• Annapurna Devi Allu, IISER Tirupati, India

• Joanna Kacprzyk, University College Dublin, Ireland

Session 4: Water to mitigate heat stress

Chair: Charlotte Grossiord, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

Invited speakers:

• Dani Way, Australian National University, Australia

• Celia Rodriguez-Domiguez, CSIC - IRNAS Seville, Spain

Session 5: Modelling impacts of heatwaves

Chair: Rich Norby, University of Tennessee, USA

Invited speakers:

• Sean Michaletz, The University of British Columbia, Canada

• Belinda Medlyn, Western Sydney University, Australia

Day 3: Thursday 4 June

Session 6: Plant-biotic interactions during heatwaves

Chair: Mike Kearney, University of Melbourne

Invited speakers:

• Sergey Rasbakh, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

• Madhav Thakur, University of Bern, Switzerland

Session 7: Ecosystem responses to a future, hotter world

Chair: Adrienne Nicotra, Australian National University, Australia

Invited speakers:

• Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, University of Cambridge, UK

• Hua Lin, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Session 8: Remote sensing of heatwaves

Chair: Belinda Medlyn, Western Sydney University, Australia

Invited speakers:

• Andrew Feldman, NASA / University of Maryland, USA

• Pablo Zarco-Tejada, CSIC – IAS, Córdoba, Spain

Symposium dinner

Session 9: Designing food systems and landscapes for a hotter world

Chair: Tracy Lawson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Invited speakers:

• Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lancaster University, UK

• Kevin Hultine, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, USA

Session 10: Preparing plant life for a hotter planet?

Chair: Sasha Reed, US Geological Survey, USA

Invited speakers:

• Fernando Valladares, CSIC, Madrid

The symposium will finish following lunch at approximately 2pm