2021

Day Speaker Affiliation Title

April 8 Felipe Klein Ricachenevsky UFRGS, Brazil The wild side of the ionome: natural variation in elemental composition in plants

April 15 Wagner L. Araújo UFV, Brazil A long stressful day: photoperiod modulates Aluminum tolerance in plants

April 22 Agustin Zsögön UFV, BrazilFunctional characterization of the CETS (florigen) gene family of tomato and its role in

domestication

April 29 Marcia Margis Pinheiro UFRGS, Brazil To be confirmed

May 6 Luis Alejandro de Haro Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelStrategies for genome mining towards the identification of novel genes involved in

specialized metabolism

May 13 Subhash C. Minocha University of New Hampshire, USA Getting High on Putrescine: Metabolic Engineering of the Polyamine Pathway in plants

May 20 Jorge CasalUniversidad de Buenos Aires,

ArgentinaEnvironmental regulation of hormone signalling in plant growth plasticity

May 27 Luisa Fernanda BermudezInstituto Nacional de Tecnología

Agropecuaria, Argentina

Deciphering the epigenetic variability in S. lycopersicum accessions and its influence

on hybrid vigor

June 10 André Rodrigues Reis UNESP, BrazilSinalização bioquímica da FBN em plantas leguminosas: Quimiotaxia, nodulação e

produtividade agrícola

June 17 Isabel Rodrigues GerhardtThe Genomics for Climate Change

Research Center, BrazilTake a walk on the wild side: genômica da tolerância à seca em Velloziaceae

June 24 André Marques

Max Planck Institute for Plant

Breeding Research Cologne,

Germany

Genome function and evolution in plants with holocentromeres

July 1 Ana Margarida Fortes Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalMolecular, hormonal and metabolic events in susceptible and resistant grape cultivars

under infection with Botrytis cinerea

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Professors: Prof. Dr. Igor Cesarino and Profa. Dra. Maria Magdalena Rossi Collaborator: Dr. Leandro Francisco de OliveiraDay: Thursdays | Time: 12h30 to 14h00 (São Paulo/Brazil time GMT-3)

The wild side of the ionome: natural variation in elemental composition in plantsProf. Dr. Felipe Klein Ricachenevsky

Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: April 8 2021

A long stressful day: photoperiod modulates Aluminum tolerance in plants

Prof. Dr. Wagner L. AraújoDepartamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: April 15 2021

Functional characterization of the CETS (florigen) gene family of tomato and its role in domestication

Prof. Dr. Agustin ZsögönDepartamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: April 22 2021

Title: To be confirmed

Profa. Dra. Marcia Margis-PinheiroDepartamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: April 29 2021

Strategies for genome mining towards the identification of novel genes involved in specialized metabolism

Dr. Luis Alejandro de HaroWeizmann Institute of Science, Israel

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: May 6 2021

Getting High on Putrescine: Metabolic Engineering of the Polyamine Pathway in plants

Prof. Dr. Subhash C. MinochaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, USA

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: May 13 2021

Environmental regulation of hormone signalling in plant growth plasticity

Prof. Dr. Jorge CasalUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: May 20 2021

Deciphering the epigenetic variability in S. lycopersicumaccessions and its influence on hybrid vigor

Profa. Dra. Luisa Fernanda BermudezInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Argentina

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: May 27 2021

Sinalização bioquímica da FBN em plantas leguminosas: Quimiotaxia, nodulação e produtividade agrícola

Prof. Dr. André Rodrigues ReisSchool of Science and Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: June 10 2021

Take a walk on the wild side: genômica da tolerância à seca em Velloziaceae

Dra. Isabel Rodrigues GerhardtThe Genomics for Climate Change Research Center – GCCRC

EMBRAPA/Unicamp/Fapesp, Brasil

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: June 17 2021

Genome function and evolution in plants with holocentromeres

Dr. André MarquesMax Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, Germany

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: June 24 2021

Molecular, hormonal and metabolic events in susceptible and resistant grape cultivars under infection with Botrytis cinerea

Profa. Dra. Ana Margarida FortesUniversidade de Lisboa, Portugal

BIB5788 – Seminars in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

Day: July 1 2021