1. Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences
Life Science Open Day
September 16, 2009
Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences
09:30 Registration, where you get a ticket valid for the lunch, and a ticket valid for a single drink at the afternoon pub!
10:00 Information about 2010 activities in Life Sciences, and presentation of recipients of travel grants.
10:30 Ken Wolfe, Trinity College, Dublin: Comparative genomics and the aftermath of ancient polyploidization
11:30 Lunch at Botaniska Paviljongen
13:00 Bernard Pfeil, IVM, Systematics of Citrus (Rutaceae): gene trees, incongruence, biogeography, coalescent theory
13:30 Julie Grantham, CMB, Exploring the function of the molecular chaperone CCT: implications for cell cycle progression and cytoskeletal organisation
13:50 Henrik Seth, ZOO, Expedition Greenland Summer 2009: Coupling climate change to physiology and behaviour
14:10 Mats Töpel, IVM: Rapid radiation of the draught-adapted ivesioid Potentilleae (Rosaceae) correlates with the Sierra Nevada uplift and subsequent climate change
14:30 Coffee/Tea
15:00 Mari Källersjö, Presentation of the Botanical Garden
16:30- Pub at Botaniska Paviljongen