Symposium “General Botany”
9 October at 08:30 - 14:45
We invite all SNP2Prot members and researchers of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) to join the Symposium on “General Botany” on Thursday, 9 October 2025, at the lecture hall of the greenhouse (Biologicum, Weinbergweg 10, 06120 Halle (Saale)).
Date: Thursday, 9 October 2025
Time: 8:30 am – 2:45 pm
Location: Lecture hall, greenhouse (Biologicum, Weinbergweg10, 06120 Halle (Saale))
Schedule:
8:30 – Welcome and Introduction
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 8:35-9:10 | Genetic and molecular mechanisms of plant resilience | Ass. Prof. Dr. Roosa Laitinen |
| 9:10-9:45 | Rethinking pest management: Leveraging plant stress responses to protect biodiversity | Ass. Prof. Dr. Simon Stael |
| 9:45-10:20 | Understanding how paired immune receptors cooperate to triggers an immune response | Dr. Clémence Marchal |
| Break | ||
| 10:50-11:25 | From Genome to Regulation: Mapping Population-Scale Cis-Regulatory Variation Shaping Protein-DNA Interactions and Phenotypic Diversity | Dr. Thomas Hartwig |
| 11:25-12:00 | The versatile functions of plant lipid droplets | Prof. Dr. Till Ischebeck |
| Break | ||
| 13:00-13:35 | Molecular regulation of root stem cell homeostasis | Prof. Dr. Yvonne Stahl |
| 13:35-14:10 | Unraveling the protein machinery controlling secondary wall pattering in the vasculature of plants | Dr. René Schneider |
| 14:10-14:45 | Molecular mechanisms of seed initiation in angiosperms | Dr. Duarte Figueiredo |