Young Researchers in Crop Sciences 2017

Event Schedule

9:15

Registration and posters

10:10

Crops and robbers (and beneficial fungi); Characterisation of the volatile signalling from the beneficial soil fungus trichoderma hamatum Gareth Thomas, Rothamsted Research, University of Warwick

10:30

Establishing the link between plant stress signaling and activatable endogenous pararetroviruses Ajith Rathnayake Mudiyanselage, NRI, University of Greenwich

10:50

Mapping and characterizing epigenetic loci that control heritable disease resistance in Arabidopsis Furci L. Jain, University of Sheffield

11:10

Refreshments and posters

11:40

Temperature but not the circadian clock determines nocturnal carbohydrate availability for growth in cereals Lukas Mueller, University of Cambridge

12:00

Non-host resistance (NHR) to the wheat powdery mildew pathogen, Blumeria graminis tritici (Bgt) Mathilde Daniau, Wageningen University

12:20

Flash presentations

12:50

Lunch and posters

14:00

Mini-Workshop: Networking for Careers and Ideas

14.20

Cryptic species within cryptic species: previously unrecognised species diversity within the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, species complex Sona Vyskocilova, University of Greenwich

14:40

Elucidating the biosynthesis of the aphid sex pheromone Suzanne Partridge; Rothamsted Research

15:00

Structural basis for the 3-hydroxypropionate cycle of Chloroflexus aurantiacus Burak Kabasakal, Imperial College

15:20

Refreshments and posters

15:50

New opportunities to investigate insecticide and acaricide ion channel targets through their differential interactions with novel chemical agonists Sofia Iqbal, Rothamsted Research

16:10

Resistance to metrafenone of Erysiphe necator and insights into its mode of action Andrea Kunova, University of Milan

16:30

Effect of different nitrogen levels on protein polymerization and solvent retention capacity of wheat flour Abrah Hussain, Rothamsted Research

16:50

Investigation into the structural features of biochar as a cause for change in available water capacity of a sandy soil Hannah Scott, University of Greenwich

17:10

Wine reception and prizes

18:00

Meeting close