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General Symposia Final Program with rooms
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- Keynote Symposia = 3 x 30 mins
- General Symposia = 6 x 20 mins
| 0700-0830 |
Nomenclature
Section
University of Melbourne
Sunday 17 July
Registration
and Informal Reception
Nomenclatural Sessions
18 - 22 July
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| 0930-0915 |
| 0915-1000 |
| 1000-1030 |
| 1030-1200 |
| 1200-1330 |
| 1330-1530 |
| 1530-1600 |
| 1600-1800 |
| 1830-2000 |
Thursday
21 July
1900 - 2300
Nomenclature Dinner
University House
University of Melbourne
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| 0700-0830 |
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| 0930-0915 |
| 0915-1000 |
| 1000-1030 |
| 1030-1200 |
| 1200-1330 |
Registration
1200-1800 |
| 1330-1530 |
| 1530-1600 |
| 1600-1800 |
1700 - 2030
Opening Ceremony and
Welcome Reception
Melbourne Convention and
Exhibition Centre
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| 1830-2000 |
| 0700-0830 |
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| 0830-0915 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Else Friis
The 'abominable mystery' solved - the origin of flowering plants |
Plenary Lectures sponsored by:
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| 0915-1000 |
Plenary Lecture: Dr David Fischhoff
Technological innovations for tomorrow's crops |
| 1000-1030 |
Morning tea |
| 1030-1200 |
Keynote Symposium: KNS02 Plant Speciation
Chairs: Loren Rieseberg and Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
- Loren Rieseberg - The nature of species boundaries in plants
- Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos - Divergent natural selection and plant speciation
- Leonie C Moyle - From genes to GIS: The origin of diversity in solanum
Keynote Symposium: KNS06 Food Security in a World with Biophysical Limits
Chairs: Ken Cassman and Richard Richards
- Ken Cassman - Megatrends and ecological intensification of major cropping systems
- Richard Richards - Integrated approaches to accelerate crop genetic improvement
- Jeff Amthor - Can we increase net primary productivity of major food crops?
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Keynote Symposium sponsored by:
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| 1200-1330 |
Lunch break
Juleen Blunt and David Robertson
Analysis of the terrestrial flora and fauna of the Tampakan Project Area, Mindanao, Philippines
Lunchtime symposium sponsored by:
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| 1330-1530 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM017: Crassulacean acid metabolism: Evolutionary origins, ecological plasticity and bioenergy potential
SYM027: Fungal symbioses in cryptogamic land plants
SYM127: Genetics, demography and conservation of rare and endangered plants
SYM150: Diversity, ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries
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| T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
SYM032: Engineering crops for the future
SYM161: The genomes of economically significant plants |
| T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
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SYM040: Marchantia as a model for evolutionary and developmental biology |
| T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
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SYM049: Plant hydraulic systems: Structure and function |
| T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM060: Intracellular and intercellular RNA signalling
SYM069: The evolution of plant form and function: Outside the evo-devo box |
| T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM075: Macroalgal floras in the southern hemisphere: Southern origins and worldwide colonization
SYM081: EuphORBia - A global inventory of the spurges
SYM089: An overview of legume systematics: Towards a phylogenetic classification of the family
SYM099: Floral evolution: What we know and what we don't know (yet)
SYM106: Monocot phylogeny and evolution
SYM108: After the break-up: Dispersal and biogeography of late gondwanan austral-pacific plant lineages
SYM116: Exploring the fern frontier: Identifying the next generation of challenges in fern biology
SYM128: The global plants initiative: A digital resource for plant biodiversity research
SYM131: Myrtaceae; Past processes, current systematics and biodiversity informatics for the future
SYM170: Botanical tools |
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| 1530-1600 |
Afternoon tea |
| 1600-1800 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM001: Mistletoes: Diversity, distribution and ecological interactions
SYM024: Interactions between abiotic and biotic stress - susceptibility of drought-affected plants to pest and disease
SYM158: Ecology, environment and conservation of bryophytes |
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
SYM030: Resource use efficient plants and crop systems
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
SYM042: Developmental genetics and cell biology of Marchantia polymorpha
SYM045: Crassulacean acid metabolism: Functional and comparative genomics |
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
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SYM049: Plant hydraulic systems: Structure and function |
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM060: Intracellular and intercellular RNA signalling
SYM069: The evolution of plant form and function: Outside the evo-devo box |
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM083: A perspective on species radiation - the New Zealand story
SYM086: Dating the plant tree of life: Biological and methodological questions
SYM089: An overview of legume systematics: Towards a phylogenetic classification of the family
SYM093: New insights into the biogeography of fungi and lichens in the southern hemisphere
SYM099: Floral evolution: What we know and what we don't know (Yet)
SYM100: Molecular data and the changing circumscriptions of the genera and tribes of grasses (Poaceae)
SYM106: Monocot phylogeny and evolution
SYM116: Exploring the fern frontier: identifying the next generation of challenges in fern biology
SYM121: Patterns and processes of Eucalyptus evolution
SYM136: Informatics tools for the semantic enhancement of taxonomic literature |
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| 1830-2000 |
Public Lecture: Professor Snow Barlow
Fruits of the vine - Future climates and wine |
| 0700-0830 |
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| 0830-0915 |
Plenary Lecture: Dr Gerard Oostermeijer
Integrating genetic and ecological data in plant conservation
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Plenary Lectures sponsored by:
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| 0915-1000 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
Plant modelling
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| 1000-1030 |
Morning tea |
| 1030-1200 |
Keynote Symposium: KNS010 The Past, Present and Future of Plant Diversity
Chairs: Peter Crane and Bob Hill
- Peter Crane - Patterns in the history of plant diversity: Testing, reconciliation and accounting for missing data
- David Coates - The future of plant diversity
- Eimear NicLughadha - Plant diversity today: How well do we know what we have now?
Keynote Symposium: KNS01 Epigenomics and small RNA
Chairs: Rob Martienssen and Tony Millar
- Fred Berger - Asymmetries of DNA methyltransferases activity between male and female gametes cause imprinting Arabidopsis
- Olivier Voinnet - A credible molecular framework for small RNA-based transgenerational effects in plants
- Rob Martienssen - Heterochromatin reprogramming by small RNA regulates germ cell fate and transposon silencing in polyploid hybrids
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Keynote Symposium sponsored by:
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| 1200-1330 |
Lunch and Poster Session (even numbered) and
Student rapid-fire session 1215-1330
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| 1330-1530 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM009: The reintroduction of rare and endangered plants
SYM012: Flooding stress: Mechanisms of adaptation and escape
SYM126: Self-incompatibility: Population genetics, evolution, and ecology
SYM164: Environmental adaptation
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
SYM031: Organic molecules in plant nutrient acquisition: Forest to crop system
SYM159: Plants in human health and well being
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
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SYM039: Regulatory mechanisms and evolution of apomixis
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
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SYM052: Regulation of phosphate acquisition and phosphorus homeostasis in plants
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM061: Cellular dynamics
SYM062: Pollen biology and pollen-pistil interaction
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM007: Molecules and fossils, developing concordance of results for the systematics and phylogeny of conifers
SYM076: Inflorescences: Diversity, development, ecology and evolution
SYM078: Acacia (Mimosaceae) co-evolution: Investigations of the plant genus Acacia and its allied biota
SYM079: From molecules to morphology: An integrative perspective on the evolution and biogeography of Apiales
SYM090: Hydatellaceae and early angiosperm evolution
SYM105: Evolution in orchids - at the interface of populations and species
SYM137: Creating next generation floras
SYM144: Past, present, and future of island plants: Evolutionary, niche modelling and conservation perspectives
SYM155: Liverwort phylogeny and evolution: A window into early land plant diversification
SYM171: Diversity and divergence
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| 1530-1600 |
Afternoon tea
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| 1600-1800 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM002: Plants on rock outcrops: Insights into phylogeny, biogeography and ecology
SYM010: Trace gas and volatile analysis in the study of plant interactions with the abiotic and biotic environment
SYM023: Environmental effects of ultraviolet radiation on terrestrial ecosystems
SYM163: Medicinal plants
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
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SYM028: Novel approaches to engineering C4 photosynthesis into C3 crops
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
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SYM037: The Eucalyptus genome |
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
SYM053: Regulation and genetic manipulation of nitrogen-based secondary metabolism in plants
SYM054: Desiccation tolerance; molecular mechanisms for surviving severe water-deficit
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM064: The evolution and development of the angiosperm female gametophyte
SYM068: From proplastids to chloroplasts in flowering plants
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM005: Historical botanical collections
SYM076: Inflorescences: Diversity, development, ecology and evolution
SYM079: From molecules to morphology: An integrative perspective on the evolution and biogeography of apiales
SYM084: Origin and diversification of the Australian flora
SYM087: Hornworts: Evolution, biology and biodiversity
SYM105: Evolution in orchids - at the interface of populations and species
SYM118: The plant list - a new widely accessible online working list of all plant species
SYM129: The taxonomy and phylogeny of African papilionoid legumes
SYM144: Past, present, and future of island plants: evolutionary, niche modelling and conservation perspectives
SYM169: Reproductive diversity
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| 1830-2000 |
Public Lecture: Professor Peter Raven
The world of plants
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| 0700-0830 |
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| 0830-0915 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama
Live cell analysis of plant fertilisation
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Plenary Lectures sponsored by:
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| 0915-1000 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Zander Myburg
The Eucalyptus grandis Genome Sequence
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| 1000-1030 |
Morning tea |
| 1030-1200 |
Keynote Symposium: KNS05: Perspectives on Climate Change and Adaptation
Chairs: Guy Midgley
- Guy Midgley - Improving projections of plant species and ecosystem responses to climate and atmospheric change
- William Bond - Environmental change and the rise of flowering plants in evolutionary time
- Wendy Foden - Climate change susceptibility and adaptability: How much is too much change for global species?
Keynote Symposium: KNS04: Reproductive Biology (Eco-Physiology)
Chairs: Thomas Dresselhaus and Anna Koltunow
- Thomas Dresselhaus - Female gametophyte patterning and function in grasses
- Noni Franklin-Tong - Recognition of 'self': Conversations that commit 'self' pollen to suicide
- Mohan Singh - Pollen allergens – molecules with impact beyond plant reproduction
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| 1200-1330 |
Public Discussion: Brave New World: plants and microbes solving problems
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| 1330-1530 |
Free afternoon |
| 1530-1600 |
| 1600-1800 |
| 1830-2000 |
1900-2300
Congress Gala
Gardens of the World
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
South Wharf, Melbourne
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| 0700-0830 |
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| 0830-0915 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Peter Quail
Phytochrome photosensory signalling and transcriptional networks |
Plenary Lectures sponsored by:
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| 0915-1000 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Jonathan Wendel
Genes, jeans and genomes: exploring the mysteries of polyploidy in cotton |
| 1000-1030 |
Morning tea |
| 1030-1200 |
Keynote Symposium: KNS09 Plant Taxonomy in the 21st Century
Chairs: Sandra Knapp and Kevin Thiele
- Sandra Knapp - Coalescent global communities for species-level plant taxonomy
- Peter Raven - Beyond the plant list: Plant systematics in the 21st century
- John Kress - Plant DNA barcoding: the future of taxonomy, ecology, and species discovery
Keynote Symposium: KNS03 New Signalling Molecules
Chairs: Christine Beveridge
- Christine Beveridge - Strigolactones: their roles as endogenous hormones and rhizosphere signals
- Markus Schmid - The quest for florigen: are we there yet?
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| 1200-1330 |
Lunch and Poster Session (odd numbered) and
Student rapid-fire session 1215-1330
Lunchtime Symposium |
| 1330-1530 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM013: Plant ancient biomolecules: Human history and changing climates
SYM022: Polar and alpine plants: Coping with extreme and changing climates |
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T02: Economic Botany Incl. Biotechnology, Agriculture & Plant Breeding |
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SYM152: Reproductive development and yield potential in cereals |
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
SYM038: Plant genomes: not just for models anymore
SYM048: Bio-ontologies for plant science
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
SYM051: Plant-rhizosphere interactions
SYM055: Structural basis of function of plant proteins
SYM156: Respiration |
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM056: Evolution, development and function of the leaf venation architecture
SYM065: Mechanics of plant cell growth and plant development |
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM085: Phylogeny and biogeography of Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae: radiations, disjunctions, and evolutionary processes at multiple scales in a diverse cosmopolitan clade
SYM094: Evolutionary systematics and paraphyly
SYM096: Brassicales comparative evolution, development and genomics
SYM102: Evolution and ecology of plant reproductive diversity
SYM104: Patterns and processes in the evolution and biogeography of the Australasian flora
SYM122: The 'bryophyte tree of life (BryoToL)': Towards a bryophyte phylogeny group (BPG)
SYM130: Systematics of papilionoid legumes in Iran
SYM134: Botanical names services: new ways to compare and link "apples to apples"
SYM142: Charles Darwin and orchid pollination (1862-2011)
SYM172: Evolutionary history |
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| 1530-1600 |
Afternoon tea |
| 1600-1800 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM011: The global strategy for plant conservation: An opportunity and challenge for the international community
SYM015: Male function and patterns of paternity in flowering plant populations |
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
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SYM160: New variation in crops for climate change |
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
SYM038: Plant genomes: not just for models anymore
SYM046: Using molecular genetics and bioinformatics to elucidate cell wall proteins and their biosynthesis |
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
SYM151: Plants as concept generators for biomimetic materials and structures with hierarchical organisation
SYM153: Strigolactones, new signals and crosstalk |
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM057: Orchid-pollination: The post-Darwinian revolution
SYM067: Mathematics and biomechanics of plant development
SYM071: How 'housekeeping' genes control organogenesis? |
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM006: Cretaceous angiosperms: phylogeny, ecological adaptations and evolutionary implications
SYM091: Phylogeny, character evolution and biogeography of Cyperaceae: Unpacking patterns and processes
SYM094: Evolutionary systematics and paraphyly
SYM097: Systematics and evolution of Brassicaceae
SYM098: Fine-scale phylogenetics and biogeography in mosses
SYM102: Evolution and ecology of plant reproductive diversity
SYM104: Patterns and processes in the evolution and biogeography of the Australasian flora
SYM109: Next generation palm phylogenetics
SYM168: Biogeography of southern hemisphere groups |
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Public Lecture: Dr Peter Bernhardt
Sister water lily meets the big bad banksia man |
| 1900-2300 |
1900-2300
International Association of
Bryologists (IAB) Dinner
University House
The University of Melbourne |
| 0700-0830 |
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| 0830-0915 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Mike Crisp
Evolution of the Australian flora through the last 65 million years
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Plenary Lectures sponsored by:
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| 0915-1000 |
Plenary Lecture: Professor Chris Somerville
Cellulose synthesis
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| 1000-1030 |
Morning tea |
| 1030-1200 |
Keynote Symposium: KNS07: Plant Diversity and Ecology/Invasion Ecology
Chairs: Mark Burgman
- Frank Bisby - BiodiversityWorld & the Catalogue of Life: tools for studying the ecology and behaviour of the entire global biota in a virtual laboratory
- Mark Burgman - Intelligence systems for emerging plant pests and diseases
- Hugh Possingham - A risk assessment protocol for managed relocation
Keynote Symposium: KNS08: The Role of Modern Biology in Reducing Pest and Pathogen Threats to Global Food Security
Chairs: Jeff Ellis and Barbara Howlett
- Paul Birch - Developing durable resistance to potato late blight disease using an understanding of how the pathogen infects its host
- Robert Park - Reducing the threat of wheat rusts to global food security
- Donald Gardiner - The genome of the wheat and barley crown rot pathogen Fusarium pseudograminearum reveals horizontally transferred virulence functions
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Keynote Symposium sponsored by:
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| 1200-1330 |
Lunch break
Song of Botany
Wendy Silk |
| 1330-1530 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM014: Ecological traits of plant species worldwide
SYM149: Community and ecosystem genetics: The extended genetic effects of plant species
SYM165: Plant invasions
SYM166: Plant conservation general
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
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SYM034: Crops for a changing climate in a high carbon dioxide world
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
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SYM157: The genetic and genomic consequences of polyploidy
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
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SYM124: Mycoheterotrophic plants
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM058: Nectar: Function, ecology and evolution
SYM059: Biosynthesis of plant cell walls
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM004: Diversity, evolution and historical biogeography of Bromeliaceae
SYM073: Orchid pollination and evolution
SYM088: Plant DNA barcoding
SYM092: Origins and evolution of Australian rainforest floras
SYM101: Cenozoic paleofloras of the southern hemisphere: Analysing ancient floras using modern techniques
SYM110: Historical biogeography of Malesia and its effects on current patterns of plant diversity
SYM114: Applying new tools to identify species and to understand the evolution and ecology of tropical tree diversity
SYM120: Understanding evolution in the Compositae
SYM133: The Banksian legacy: Exploring the scientific, historical and cultural significance of the collections made by Banks and Solander on the Endeavour voyage
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T07: Plants In Society |
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SYM003: Interpretation of the relationships between, plants, mythology and art |
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Afternoon tea
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| 1600-1800 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM018: Composition and dynamics of urban floras
SYM020: Phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate
SYM025: Evolutionary ecology of adaptation during plant invasion
SYM167: Plant conservation - population biology
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
SYM035: Nutritional quality of plants in a new climate
SYM162: Molecular and genetic analysis of features important for economically significant plants |
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
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SYM123: The role of heritable epigenetic variation in plant evolution |
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
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SYM145: Evolution of plant secondary metabolites - phylogeny and chemoinformatics |
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
SYM066: Genetics and models of leaf shape development
SYM070: Programmed cell death in plant development and defense |
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM072: Apocynaceae: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversity
SYM077: Neotropical plant evolution: Assembling the big picture
SYM080: Basal angiosperms - multiple evolutionary dead ends or the trial and error trail to success?
SYM088: Plant DNA barcoding
SYM095: The origin of fern diversity in the indopacific realm (SE Asia, Australasia)
SYM115: Systematics, evolution and diversification in the Sapindales
SYM117: Phylogenetics, biogeography, and evolution of Asparagales
SYM139: Geometric morphometric in plant systematics
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T07: Plants in society |
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SYM177: Traditional medicinal plants |
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| 1830-2000 |
Public Lecture: Dr Donald Hobern
The Atlas of living Australia: infrastructure for biodiversity research
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| 1900-2300 |
1900-2300
Australian Systematic
Botany Society dinner
University House
The University of Melbourne |
| 0700-0830 |
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| 0830-1030 |
Concurrent Sessions: General Symposia
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T01: Ecology, environmental change and conservation |
SYM016: Plant-microbe interactions: Mycorrhizas and environmental change
SYM026: Algae and environmental change - impacts and opportunities
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T02: Economic botany incl. biotechnology, agriculture and plant breeding |
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SYM036: Exploiting root: Soil interactions to minimise impacts of below-ground stress on food production |
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T03: Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics |
SYM041: Learning from the extremists: 21st century approaches to understanding plant stress tolerance
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T04: Physiology and biochemistry |
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SYM050: Evolution and ecophysiology of C4 grasses |
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T05: Structure, development and cellular biology |
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SYM063: Retrograde signalling in plants |
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T06: Systematics, evolution, biogeography and biodiversity informatics |
SYM008: Cave speciation
SYM074: Gene tree incongruence and the estimation of species trees
SYM077: Neotropical plant evolution: Assembling the big picture
SYM082: Botanic gardens and their role in the time of climate change
SYM103: Recent advances and new developments in biogeographical reconstruction methods
SYM107: Advances in Solanaceae research - genomics to biodiversity
SYM117: Phylogenetics, biogeography, and evolution of Asparagales
SYM119: Progress in placing gymnosperms on the tree of life
SYM140: Rebuilding botanical capacity
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Morning tea |
| 1100-1230 |
Closing Ceremony
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