Symposium November 7th, 2019

About
Organization: Institute of Phytopathology
Welcoming words: Eva Stukenbrock
Program
Session 1
Chair: Karin Schrieber
Part 1: Institute of Phytopathology (AG Cai)
Speaker: Markus Schemmel "Distribution, Structure and Composition of the Soil Microbiome across Schleswig-Holstein"
Part 2: Plant Breeding Institute (AG Jung)
Speaker: Dilan S. R. Patirange "Genome-wide association mapping for flowering time in quinoa"
Session 2
Chair: Dirk Schenke
Part 1: Institute of Phytopathology (AG Cai)
Speaker: Samarah Rizvi "Investigation on the role of NAC transcription factors targeted by miR164 in regulating plant-Verticillium longisporum interaction"
Part 2: Pharmaceutical Institute
Speaker: Christian Zidorn "Plant Chemophenetics: Chemophenetics of the Cichorieae (Asteraceae)"
Summer Symposium 22 nd - 23 rd July, 2019

You can find the abstract booklet here.
Schedule Monday July 22nd
Scientific Program
from 12:00 Lunch and registration
13:00 Welcome by Eva Stukenbrock, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel and MPI, Plön
13:10 - 16:40 Session I
Chair: Dr. Janine Haueisen, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel and MPI, Plön
13:10 Invited Speaker Prof. Rüdiger Hell, Dept Molecular Biology of Plants, Heidelberg
University
14:00 Prof. Christian Jung, Plant Breeding Institute, CAU, Kiel
14:20 Prof. Daguang Cai, Institute for Phytopathology, CAU, Kiel
14:40 Dr. Heike Seybold, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel and MPI, Plön
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Invited speaker Prof. Tina Romeis, Dept. Biochemistry of Plant Interactions,
IPB Halle
16:20 Prof. Kirsten Krause, Dept. Arctic and Marine Biology, Tromsø, Norway
16:40 End of symposium at Zoological Museum
18:30 Evening program at the Botanical Garden, CAU, Kiel
19:00 Evening lecture: Prof. Andreas Graner, Dept. of Genebank, IPK
Gatersleben
Poster Session and flying buffet
Schedule Tuesday July 23rd
9:00 - 12:30 Session II
Chair Dr. Nazgol Emrani, Plant Breeding Institute, CAU, Kiel
09:00 Invited speaker Dr. Claire Gachon, Scottish Association of Marine Sciences
09:50 Prof. Margret Sauter, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel
10:10 Prof. Wolfgang Bilger, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Prof. Deniz Tasdemir, Marine Natural Products Chemistry, GEOMAR, Kiel
11:20 Dr. Tobias Demetrowitsch, Institute for Human Nutrition and Food Science,
CAU, Kiel
11:40 Prof. Birgit Classen, Pharmaceutical Institute, CAU, Kiel
12:00 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session III
Chair Dr. Opayi Mudimu, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel
13:30 Invited speaker Jürgen Gross, Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and
Viticulture, Julius Kühn Institute, Dossenheim
14:20 Prof. Ralf-Udo Ehlers, Gesellschaft für Biotechnologie und biologischen
Pflanzenschutz, Schwentinental
14:40 Dr. Elisabeth Kaltenegger, Botanical Institute, CAU, Kiel
15:00 Closing
Symposium June 13th, 2019

About
Organization: Botanical Institute
Welcoming words: Margret Sauter
Program
Session 1
Chair: Wagner Fagundes
Part 1: Pathology and Biogenic Stress biology of Marine Macrophytes, Geomar
Speaker: Guido Bonthond "Microbial communities associated to an invasive seaweed and how they vary across ecological scales"
Part 2: Molecular Phytopathology and Biotechnology, CAU Kiel
Speaker: Dirk Schenke "Crosstalk between abiotic UV-B and biotic stress by bacterial infection / flg22-induced MTI - evolutionary aspects and potential impact on the plant - environment interaction"
Details KPC Summer Symposium: Eva H. Stukenbrock
Session 2
Chair: Lizel Potgieter
Part 3: Pharmaceutical Institute, Kiel Plant Glycan Group, CAU Kiel
Speaker: Lukas Pfeifer "First structural characterisation of arabinogalactan-proteins from Zostera marina L."
Part 4: Botanical Institute, Bioenergetics in Photoautotrophs, CAU Kiel
Speaker: Kirstin Gutekunst "Hypothesis on the synchronistic evolution of autotrophy and heterotrophy"
You can find the full program here.
Symposium April 25th, 2019

About
Organization: Botanical Institute
Welcoming words: Eva H. Stukenbrock
Program
Session 1
Chair: Janine Haueisen
Part 1: Environmental Genomics, MPI Plön & CAU Kiel
Speaker: Cecile Lorrain "Transposable elements dynamics in Zymoseptoria spp."
Part 2: Molecular Phytopathology and Biotechnology, CAU Kiel
Speaker: Falk Behrens "The role of microRNAs in regulating plant-fungus interactions"
Session 2
Chair: Tanja Rehders
Part 3: Institute for Ecosystem Research, Geobotany, CAU Kiel
Speaker: Karin Schrieber "The role of inbreeding × herbivory interactions for the success of biological invasions"
Part 4: Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, CAU Kiel
Speaker: Bahar Razavi "Plant-Soil microbial interaction: molecular to ecological perspective"
You can find the full program here.
Symposium February 7th, 2019

About
Organization: Plant Breeding Institute
Welcoming words: Dr. Siegbert Melzer
Session chair: Nazgol Emrani
Program
Part 1: GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
Speaker: Larissa Büdenbender "Bioactivity mapping of an in-line SPE fractionated Fucus vesiculosus extraxt using LC-MS/MS based metabolomics”
Part 2: Plant Cell Biology
Speaker: Svenja Oetke “The role of WHIRLY1 in control of chloropast development and stress signaling”
Part 3: Plant Developmental Biology and Plant Physiology
Speaker: Chen Lin “Control of adventitious root system architecture in rice”
Part 4: GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
Speaker: Thorsten Reusch “A return to the sea - evolutionary adaptions of marine angiosperms (seagrasses) to life in the ocean”
Part 5: Eva Stukenbrock
KPC news
You can find the full program here
Symposium January 17th, 2019

About
Organization: GEOMAR-Biotech and GEOMAR
Welcoming words: Dr. Larissa Büdenbender, Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir
Program
Part 1: Institute of Pharmacy
Speaker: Serhat Sezai Cicek „Phytochemical, pharmacological and analytical investigations of the Copaifera reticulata oleoresin”

Part 2: GEOMAR, RU Marine Natural Products Chemistry
Speaker: Caroline Utermann “The combined analysis of the surface microbiome and metabolome of the seaweed Fucus vesiculosus by amplicon sequencing, molecular networking and imaging techniques”
Part 3: Botanical Institute
Speaker: Jay Jethva “Mitochondrial alternative ETC improves plant survival during reoxygenation”
Part 4: Plant Breeding Institute
Speaker: Nirosha L. Karunarathna “Knock-out of SEED FATTY ACID REDUCERS4 by CRISPR-Cas9 increases seed oil content in rapeseed (Brassica napus)”
You can find the full program here
Symposium November 29th, 2018

About
Organization: Institute of Botany
Welcoming words: Dr. Frauke Peschek
Program
Part 1: Plant Cell Physiology and Biotechnology Group
Speaker: Berit Bürger "Insights into the central carbon metabolism in plants"
Part 2: Environmental Genomics
Speaker: Mareike Möller "Extraordinary genome instability in a fungal pathogen of wheat"
Part 3: Ökophysiologie der Pflanzen
Speaker: Paul-Christian Wieners "The role of desiccation induced chlorophyll fluorescence quenching as protection against photoinhibition in green algae"
You can find the full program here.
Symposium July 12th, 2018

About
Organization: Marine Sciences
Welcoming words: Prof. Deniz Tasdemir & Prof. Eva Stukenbrock
Program
Part 1: Botanical Institute, Department Plant Ecophysiology
Speaker: Frauke Peschek "UV-restistance strategies in green macroalgae"
Part 2: Plant Nutrition
Speaker: Hartmut Kaiser "The role of apoplastic pH in leaf water homeostasis and stomatal responses: Insights from in-situ-microfluorometry under defined changes of leaf water content"
Part 3: GEOMAR, RU Marine Natural Products Chemistry/GEOMAR-Biotech
Speaker: Delphine Parrot "A powerful tool to investigate the spatial distribution of metabolites in marine macroorganisms"
Part 4: Botanical institute, Department Biochemical Ecology and Molecular Evolution
Speaker: Thomas Stegemann "A multifaceted approach to elucidate the pathway of pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis"
You can find the full program here.
Symposium June 21th, 2018

About
Organization: Agriculture
Welcoming words: Prof. Dr. Christian Jung
Session chairs: Dr. Hans Harloff & Dr. Siegbert Melzer
Program
Part 1: Institute of Phytopathology (Director Prof. Dr. Daguang Cai)
Speaker: Dr. Dirk Schenke “Improving crop disease resistance by implementation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for targeted genome editing”
Part 2: Institute of Botany, Department of Botanical Genetics and Molecular Biology (Director Prof. Dr. Frank Kempken)
Speaker: Hossein Emami "A mitochondrial PPR protein effects flowering time and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Part 3: Institute of Botany, Department of Plant Cell Physiology and Biotechnology (Director Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schulz)
Speaker: Alexander Makowka "Revision of the central carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria"
Part 4: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Marine Natural Products Chemistry Research Unit (Director Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir)
Speaker: Ernest Oppong-Danquah "The potential of marine-adapted fungi in control of plant pathogens"
Closing remarks of the symposium: Prof. Dr. Christian Jung
Post-symposium tour: Visit the field and greenhouses of the Plant Breeding Institute (Am Botanischen Garten 22), Dr. Nazgol Emrani
You can find the full program
here.
Symposium May 31th, 2018

About
Organization: Pharmacy
Welcoming words: Prof. Dr. Christian Zidorn
Session chairs: Hardy Mitdank & Dr. Serhat Sezai Çiçek
Program
Part 1: Institute for Ecosystem Research, Department of Geobotany (Director Prof. Dr. Alexandra Erfmeier)
Speaker: Maria Hock “Local adaption of exotic species in high-UV-B environments”
Part 2: Institute of Botany, Department of Botanical Genetics and Molecular Biology (Director Prof. Dr. Frank Kempken)
Speaker: Dr. Krisztina Kolláth-Leiß “Auxin biosynthesis in the fungus Neurospora crassa”
Part 3: Chair for Plant Breeding (Director Prof. Dr. Christian Jung)
Speaker: Niharika Sashidh “Reverse genetic tools for mutational analyses of all genes of a complex metabolic pathway in Brassica napus“
Part 4: Institute of Botany, Department of Environmental Genomics (Director Prof. Dr. Eva Holtgrewe-Stukenbrock)
Speaker: Dr. Heike Seybold “Infection with Zymoseptoria tritici renders wheat susceptible to non-adapted plant pathogens“
You can find the full program
here.
Symposium April 19th, 2018

About
Organization: Botany
Welcoming words: Prof. Dr. Eva H. Stukenbrock
Session chair: Dr. Elisabeth Kaltenegger
Program
Part 1: Plant breeding (Prof. Dr. C. Jung)
Speaker: Smit Shah "Identification and characterization of flowering time genes in oilseed rape through mutant and transcriptome analysis"
Part 2: Plant Developmental Biology and Physiology (Prof. Dr. M. Sauter)
Speaker: Emese Eysholdt-Derzsó “Mechanisms of flooding tolerance”
Speaker: Christine Kaufmann “Peptide signaling“
Part 3: Virtual tour through the “Zentrale Mikroskopie im Biologiezentrum“
You can find the full program here.