IPPS 09 - Programme and Speakers


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Tuesday, April 21

1pm to 5pm - Registrations - CSIRO Discovery
5pm to 7.30pm - Ice Breaker - CSIRO Discovery Cafe After registering please join us for an informal social event and the opportunity to meet old and new friends.

Wednesday, April 22

8.30 Bob Furbank
CSIRO
Welcome / general introduction
8.35 Representative of the ACT Government Welcome and opening address
8.45am to 2.10pm - Session 1: Abiotic Stress   Chair: Mark Tester
8.45 Bernhard Genty
Cadarache DEVM-Laboratoire d'Écophysiologie de la Photosynthèse, France
Infra-red screening for stomatal mutants
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9.25 Bob Furbank
CSIRO
Adaptive or survival trait? Designing appropriate germplasm screens for abiotic stress research.
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10.05 Peter Gregory
Scottish Crops Research Institute
Root phenomics of crops– opportunities and challenges
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10.45 Morning Tea
11.10 Richard Richards
CSIRO
Breeding for water-use efficiency – genes, QTLs and phenotypes
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11.50 Mark Tester
University of Adelaide
Salt tolerance screening
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12.30 12.30pm to 1.30pm - Lunch
1.30 Peter Langridge
University of Adelaide
Identifying QTLs for root development in dry environments
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2.10pm to 4.40pm - Session2: Biotic Stress   Chair: John Manners
2.10 Michelle Watt
CSIRO
Imaging root biosphere interactions
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2.50 Julie Scholes
University of Sheffield, UK
Fluorescent imaging of fungal pathogen infections
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3.30 Afternoon Tea
4.00 Mick Ayliffe
CSIRO
Barley activation tag screening
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4.40pm to 6.30pm - Poster Sessions and Short Talks. Light food and drinks – mixing opportunity
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Thursday, April 23

9am to 12.50pm - Session 3: Growth and Yield   Chair: Suzanne von Caemmerer
9.00 Achim Walter
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Digital imaging of growth dynamics reveals gene x environment interactions on plant phenotype
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9.40 Terenzio Zenone
European commission. Joint research centre
Use of Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Electrical Resistivity Tomography, to study tree roots
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10.20 Murray Badger
ANU
Chlorophyll fluorescence screening for photorespiratory mutants
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11.00 Morning Tea
11.20 Dave Kramer
Washington State University
Non-invasive measurements of chloroplast function in leaves
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12.00 Uli Schurr
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Imaging roots and root function in soil
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12.40 12.40pm to 1.30pm - Lunch
1.30pm to 5.00pm - Session 4: Ecosystem Dynamics and Climate Change   Chair: Mark Howden
1.30 Darius Culvenor
CSIRO
Evaluation of Imaging Lidar for Plant Structural Measurement
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2.10 Joe Berry
Stanford University, USA
Monitoring, Understanding and Modeling Agroecosystems
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2.50 Marilyn Ball
ANU
Hyperspectral and IR imaging of leaves during freezing
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3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.45 Michael Purugganan
New York University, USA
Understanding the limits of environmental plasticity
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4.25 Hamlyn Jones
University of Dundee, UK
IR imaging of plant canopies: scaling up the remote diagnosis and quantification of plant stress to the field and beyond
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6pm to 10.30pm - Symposium Dinner at the National Gallery of Australia
Busses will collect registrants from University House and Civic Centre at 6pm, for transport to the Australian National Gallery and will return at 10.30.
Directions to the National Gallery of Australia

Friday, April 24

8.45am to 12.45pm - Next Generation Technologies and High Throughput Screening   Chair: Geoff Fincher
8.45 Short Talks
  • APPF nodes
  • Jülich Phenomics Centre
  • CropSense
  • CropDesign
  • Monsanto
  • LemnaTec – new tools
10.00 Morning Tea
10.30 to 12.00 Roundtable: Where to from here?
  • How do we apply the new technologies to solve problems (yield and food production [food security], climate change adaptation, drought tolerance, biofuels / biomass)?
  • Future R&D collaborations
  • Future development of International Plant Phenomics Network (http://www.plantphenomics.com/ ); coordination and funding of major international initiatives, e.g. phenotyping model systems and cereal collections. Widen membership? Establish a steering committee?
  • Future meeting? Date? Hosting?
  • Building a phenomics centre – architectural fly-through and site visit (12 noon)
12.30 Close

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