Plants, People, Planet Symposium
Programme
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Wednesday 4th September |
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07:30 – 09:30 |
Registration and refreshments |
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09:30 – 09:40 |
Welcome and introduction Simon Hiscock, Paul Wilkin and Alexandre Antonelli |
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09:40 – 10:20 |
Keynote Lecture – Nicola Spence How the global threat of pests and diseases impacts plants, people and the planet |
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Session 1 10:20 – 12:00 |
Plants and society Chair: Simon Hiscock |
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10:20 – 10:40 |
S1.1 Alexandre Antonelli Testing traditional plant knowledge using genomic tools: Revisiting the fascinating history of the fever tree (Cinchona) |
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10:40 – 11:00 |
S1.2 Dawn Sanders Standing in the shadows of plants: New perspectives on plant blindness |
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11:00 – 11:20 |
S1.3 Crystal McMichael Late Holocene changes in Amazonian palm abundances |
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11:20 – 11:40 |
S1.4 Stephanie Smith Drops join to make a stream, ears combine to make a crop: multinational and multidisciplinary approaches to solving global challenges in plant science |
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11:40 – 12:00 |
Selected poster talk - Jessica Turner-Skoff The benefits of trees for livable and sustainable communities |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 2 13:00 – 14:40 |
Plant diversity Chair: Pamela Diggle |
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13:00 – 13:20 |
S2.1 Simon Hiscock Hybridization and polyploidy as drivers of rapid speciation in plant |
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13:20 – 13:40 |
S2.2 Susanne Renner Narrowing down the early domestication history of the watermelon with ancient seeds and DNA |
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13:40 – 14:00 |
S2.3 Eric von Wettburg The Queen of Sheba's chickpeas: post-domestication dispersal of crops along trade-routes |
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14:00 – 14:20 |
S2.4 Oscar Alejandro Pérez Escobar Tracing date palm (Pheoenix dactylifera) domestication through time using whole-genome sequencing of achaeological remains |
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14:20 – 14:40 |
Selected poster talk - Adriane Tobias On the identity of Rafflesia banaoana, a unique and magnificent flower of the Banao Indiginous Cultural Community |
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14:40 – 14:50 |
Group photograph |
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14:50 – 15:20 |
Refreshment break |
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Session 3 15:20 – 17:00 |
Plants and global change Chair: Alexandre Antonelli |
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15:20 – 15:40 |
S3.1 Katie Field The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbioses through the Phanerozoic |
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15:40 – 16:00 |
S3.2 Evan DeLucia Farming with rocks: Using agriculture to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere |
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16:00 – 16:20 |
S3.3 Rich Norby Rapid loss of an ecosystem engineer: Sphagnum decline in an experimentally warmed bog |
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16:20 – 16:40 |
S3.4 Pam Diggle Does variation in flower development explain anomalous phenological responses to temperature? |
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16:40 – 18:00 |
Flash poster presentations Chairs: Dawn Sanders and Chris Thorogood |
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18:00 – 19:00 |
Drinks reception and poster session |
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19:30 – 22:30 |
Symposium dinner at Cambridge Cottage |
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Thursday 5th September |
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| 8:55 – 9:00 |
Announcements |
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09:00 – 09:40 |
Keynote Lecture – William (Ned) Friedman Mutants in our midst: Can botanical gardens do more to promote more societal understanding of evolution? |
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Session 4 09:40 – 10:20 |
Engaging people with plants Chair: Dawn Sanders |
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09:40 – 10:00 |
S4.1 Jill Edmondson Grow your own food security? Integrating science and citizen science to estimate the contribution of own-growing to UK food production |
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10:00 – 10:20 |
S4.2 Chris Thorogood Engaging people with plants |
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10:20 – 10:50 |
Refreshment break |
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Session 5 10:50 – 12:30 |
Plant natural assets Chair: Susanne Renner |
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10:50 – 11:10 |
S5.1 Paul Wilkin Large scale phylogenomics of the yam genus (Dioscorea) to identify the origins of crops and their relationships to wild species |
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11:10 – 11:30 |
S5.2 Julie Hawkins People and Medicinal Plants |
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11:30 – 11:50 |
S5.3 Colin Khoury Developing meaningful indicators of the importance, interdependence with regard to genetic resources, and conservation status of socioeconomically valuable plants |
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11:50 – 12:10 |
S5.4 Olwen Grace Water storage in succulent plants |
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12:10 – 12:30 |
Selected poster talk - Katie Marfleet Gathering evidence to meet gaps in Pest Risk Analysis evidence - The International Plant Sentinel Network
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12:30 – 13:25 |
Lunch |
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Session 6 13:25 – 15:05 |
Plant Genomic Applications Chair: Howard Sidney Thomas |
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13:25 – 13:45 |
S6.1 Ana Caicedo Reinventing the wheel? The evolution of seed shattering in de-domesticated populations of weedy rice |
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13:45 – 14:05 |
S6.2 Richard Buggs Genomics for future trees |
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14:05 – 14:25 |
S6.3 Andrew Groover Understanding the genetic basis of quantitative trait variation in Populus |
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14:25 – 14:45 |
S6.4 Katherine Denby Genetic improvement of leafy vegetables for sustainable production and livelihoods |
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14:45 – 15:05 |
Selected poster talk - Zoë Migicovsky The genomic consequences of apple domestication |
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15:05 – 15:35 |
Refreshment break |
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Session 7 15:35 – 17:15 |
Plant conservation Chair: Paul Wilkin |
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15:15 – 15:55 |
S7.1 Toby Pennington The dry tropics: science, conservation and restoration |
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15:55 – 16:15 |
S7.2 Cicely A. Marshall Reconciling global and local priorities for plant conservation and economic development in the west African mining context: the case of Guinea’s bauxite |
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16:15 – 16:35 |
Selected poster talk - Jenny Williams Madagascar drone survey mapping: illegal deforestation and early warning detection |
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16:35 – 16:55 |
S7.3 Antje Ahrends The impact of rubber on forests in South East Asia |
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16:55 – 17:15 |
S7.4 Paul Smith Integrated plant conservation. What can the botanic garden community do to prevent plant species extinctions? |
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17:15 – 17:30 |
Closing remarks and prize-giving |