meeting

 

Program for NorFA network meeting

Umeå August 13-14,

 

 

Wednesday 13/8

 

13:00 – 13:30

Per Gardeström: Introduction, present status of the network

13:30 – 15:00

Owen Atkin: Cold acclimation of leaf respiration: a passive or active response to low temperatures

Liz covey-Crump: Temperature-dependent changes in the redox poise of the mitochondrial quinine pool

Anna Armstrong: Mechanistic changes underlying leaf respiratory acclimation to the cold

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee

15:30 – 16:30

Priscilla Gan: Leaf area expansion in the cold

Johanna Zaragoza-Castells: Does light inhibit leaf respiration?

16:30 – 17:30

Olav Keerberg: Photosynthetic carbon metabolism in cold shocked and cold developed leaves of an Arabidopsis thaliana transformant over-expressing SPS

Tiit Pärnik: Photosynthetic and respiratory CO2 exchange in cold-shocked leaves of different C3 species

18:30 -

Dinner

 

 

Thursday 14/8

 

08:30 – 10:00

Tapio Palva: Cold acclimation and stress tolerance in Arabidopsis and birch

Elina Helenius: Signal transduction during cold acclimation

Francoise Martz: Freezing resistance and seasonal changes in expression of omega-3 fatty acid desaturase genes in birch bark chlorenchyma

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee

10:30 – 11:30

Tom Hamborg Nielsen: Carbon metabolism and phosphate sensing

Kjell-Ove Holmström: Trehalose in plants

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30

Discussion on the future of the network