Symposium 4

Wednesday August 22

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: University main building, Room IX

  “Plant eco-devo”: ecology and genetics of life history timing in plants
  Organizers: Renate Wesselingh, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Henk van Dijk, Universite de Lille 1, France
     
  9.45-10.15 Sonia E. Sultan (invited)
Eco-Devo variation in reproductive and offspring developmental timing
  10.15-10.45 Kathleen Donohue (invited)
Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories
  10.45-11.05 Juliette De Meaux
Evolution of seed dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Kristen Wagmann
The variation in seed dormancy among Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima populations along a latitudinal gradient: impact of environmental factors
  11.55-12.15 Andrew M. Simons
Variable selection on the timing of germination over multiple seasons and the evolution of diversification bet hedging
  12.15-12.35 Amy Strange
Molecular basis of adaptive vernalization response
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.30 Outi Savolainen (invited)
Genetics of adaptation: flowering time in Arabidopsis lyrata
  14.30-14.50 Benjamin K. Blackman
Connecting the sun to flowering in sunflower ecology and genetics
  14.50-15.10 Nora Scarcelli
The effect of FRIGIDA on flowering time and its fitness value in an outbred population of Arabidopsis thaliana
  15.10-15.30 Renate A. Wesselingh
Counting nodes: timing of flowering in the annual Rhinanthus angustifolius
  15.30-16.00 Coffee
  16.00-16.20 Jutta Buschbom
The impact of stand-specific timing of flowering on pollen-mediated gene flow across the landscape in Quercus petraea
  16.20-16.40 Antonina I. Internicola
Should a food-deceptive species flower before or after a rewarding species? An experimental test of pollinator visitation behaviour under contrasting phenologies
  16.40-17.00 Jelmer A. Elzinga
Synchronous flowering increases seed predation in small Silene latifolia patches: a field experiment
  17.00-17.20 Elze Hesse
Life history variation in contrasting habitats: flowering decisions in the clonal perennial herb Veratrum album

 

 

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