Second International CRC 973 Symposium "Bridging Ecology and Molecular Biology: Organismic Responses to Recurring Stress"

Scientific Sessions
Memory of environmental stress and adaptation to stress in plant and microbes
Ecological stress memory and the role of epigenetics, transcription factors, autophagy
Intracellular and intra-organismic plant stress signalling: Ca++, ROS, phytohormones
Plant stress by herbivory: Warning of herbivory, plant signalling, insect counteradaptations

Speakers
TAMAR AVIN-WITTENBERG, Silberman Inst. Life Sciences, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Israel
ZOYA AVRAMOVA, Biological Sciences, Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
ANGUS BUCKLIN, Evolutionary Biology, Univ. Exeter, UK
MATTHIAS ERB, Inst. Plant Sciences, Univ. Bern, Switzerland
GARY FELTON, Dept. Entomology, PennState Univ., USA
SIMON GILROY, Dept. Botany, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, USA
REES KASSEN, Dept. Biology, Univ. Ottawa, Canada
JOSE GUTIERREZ-MARCOS, School of Life Sciences, Univ. Warwick, UK
BARRY J. POGSON, Australian Natl. Univ., Acton/Canberra, Australia
BRIGITTE POPPENBERGER, School of Life Sciences, Technical Univ. Munich, DE
FRANK VAN BREUSEGEM, VIB-Univ. Gent, Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, B
PHILIP A. WIGGE, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Univ. Cambridge, UK

The symposium brings together scientists and students of different disciplines that range from plant ecology to plant biochemistry and molecular biology of plants and microorganisms.

Website
http://www.sfb973.de/Symposium/index.html

Registration
+++ No registration fees for this symposium+++
For organisational reasons, advance registration is mandatory for all non-CRC-participants. Please send an e-mail to tobias.otte@fu-berlin.de for registration.

Contact
Tobias Otte