Dr. Sara Izquierdo Zandalinas. Universitat Jaime I, Castellón. “Plant responses to multiple abiotic stresses” Each year, abiotic stress conditions such as drought, heat, salinity or high light intensity, together with…
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Dr. Malcolm Bennett. University of Nottingham. UK “Uncovering how plant roots use hormones as proxies to sense and respond to soil stresses” Plants exhibit a remarkable ability to modify their growth and development in…
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Dr. Yasin Dagdas. Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna. “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants and humans” Selective autophagy has emerged as a crucial quality control pathway that enables…
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Dr. Jose Manuel Franco-Zorilla. Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Madrid. "Transcriptional regulation in plants in a changing world" Plants are exposed to a changing environment and constantly need to adapt…
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Dr. Jonatan Niño-Sánchez. Universidad de Valladolid "Improving Spray-Inducing Gene Silencing (SIGS) technique by the use of organic and inorganic nanoparticles" Fungal pathogens are a major threat to global food security, and…
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Dr. José Gallego. Centro de Investigación Traslacional San Alberto Magno. Universidad Católica de Valencia "Pathogenic virus RNA: conformation, function and therapeutic targeting" In this lecture, case studies of RNA motifs playing key roles…
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"Autophagy, chloroplast degradation and nutrient recycling " Macroautophagy is induced during leaf senescence and in response to environmental stresses. Dedicated to cell clearance and organelle quality control, macroautophagy sequesters unwanted…
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"Autonomous bioluminescence imaging in eukaryotes" Discovery of the bioluminescence pathway in the fungus Neonothopanus nambi allowed engineering of eukaryotes with self-sustained luminescence, and opened new opportunities for development of biosensors…
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"Post-transcriptional gene regulation by the m6A-mRNA/YTHDF axis shapes plant architecture” N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in mRNA is a key element of post-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes, necessary for embryonic and post-embryonic development in…
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Deciphering the effect of temperature on circadian clock performance in trees Circadian clock increases organism's fitness by providing a mechanism to anticipate events such as sunrise and adjust their transcriptional…
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