25th Anniversary Symposium
- Start: Sep 29, 2022
- End: Sep 30, 2022
- Location: Abbe Lecture Hall
29th September
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks, Jonathan Gershenzon
09:30-10:30 Alumnus Talk in German
Georg Pohnert, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jena University
Sex, Nahrungsaufnahme oder Verteidigung - Entscheidungsfindung bei Einzellern unter Stress
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 1 (Chair: Claudia Voelckel)
11:00 - 11:30 Jonathan Gershenzon, Department of Biochemistry
Dining with poisons: The challenging lives of herbivorous insects
11:30 - 12:00 Sarah O’Connor, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Chemistry of plant natural products
12:00 - 12:30 Bill Hansson, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology
Stop the cannibals - odor-based defence against conspecifics in locusts
12:30 - 13:00 Martin Kaltenpoth, Department of Insect Symbiosis
Host-microbe coadaptations for the maintenance and regulation of beneficial symbioses
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch snacks
Session 2 (Chair: Sonja Bisch-Knaden)
14:00 - 14:15 Hannah Rowland, Max Planck Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey
Prehistoric proteins: the origins of predator toxin resistance revealed by resurrection of an ancestral Na+ K+ ATPase
14:15 - 14:30 Yuko Ulrich, Lise Meiter Research Group Social Behaviour
Social behaviour and disease in clonal ant colonies
14:30 - 14:45 Silke Sachse, Research Group Olfactory Coding
From brain to behavior: Sensory processing in Drosophila
14:45 - 15:00 Axel Mithöfer, Research Group Plant Defense Physiology
Defense against herbivorous insects in an insectivorous plant?
15:00 - 15:15 Christian Paetz, Rayko Halitschke, Veit Grabe, Grit Kunert
Scientific Service at the MPICE - From NMR to MS to Microscopy to Statistics
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
Session 3 (Chair: Heiko Vogel)
15:45 - 16:00 Eric Schranz, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Elucidating the origins and diversification of plant specialised biosynthetic genes using phylogenomic synteny analysis
16:00 - 16:15 Radhika Venkatesan, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata, India
Understanding the multifaceted role of plant volatiles in tritrophic interactions
16:15 - 16:30 Astrid Groot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From moth pheromones to food web interactions
17:00 Networking, Fun and Party with our institute’s band
18:30 - 20:00 Speed Informing
30th September
Session 4 (Chair: Lorenzo Caputi)
09:00 - 09:15 Sandra Irmisch, Leiden University, The Netherlands
From Plant Metabolite Biosynthesis to Engineering Production Systems
09:15 - 09:30 Ian Keesey, University of Nebraska, USA
Multimodal sensory neuroecology: how to keep genomics from lapping behavioral studies
09:30 - 09:45 Nawaporn Onkokesung, Newcastle University, UK
Molecular mechanisms of natural and anthopogenic stresses responses: From basic to translational research
09:45 - 10:00 Jakob Franke, Hannover University
Elucidating the Biosynthesis of Quassinoid Triterpenes in the Invasive Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
10:00 - 10:15 Laura Flórez, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Insects as an arena for bacterial-fungal interactions
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Session 5 (Chair: Sybille Unsicker)
10:45 - 11:00 Seung-Joon Ahn, Mississippi State University, USA
Slug neuropeptides and their receptors
11:00 - 11:15 Martin Strube-Bloss, Bielefeld University
Categorization in mushroom body output neurons: Making sense of a multimodal environment
11:15 - 11:30 Samay Pande, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Bacterial predator-mediated enrichment of antibiotic resistance in complex microbial communities
11:30 - 11:45 Evangelos Tatsis, Centre for Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Shanghai, China
Convergent gene clusters underpin hyperforin biosynthesis in St John’s wort
11:45 - 12:00 Mayuri Napagoda, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
Unveiling the secrets of nature: The ethnobotanical, pharmacological, phytochemical, and nanotechnology-based investigations on Sri Lankan flora
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch at own expense
13:00 - 15:00 Guided tours