Workshop program:
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
14:00-16:00 Round Table for Ph.D students and Keynote speakers
Chairs: Lidor Shaar-Moshe and Oded Pri-Tal
Students are invited to a discussion with keynote speakers on plant science as
academic carrier path.
16:30-16:50 Greetings and opening remarks:
Prof. Shmuel Wolf, Dean The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and
Environment, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot.
Dr. Assaf Mosquna, Chair of the organizing committee, Hebrew University
Prof. Hillel Fromm, ICORE center: Plant Adaptation to Changing Environment
16:50-17:30 Eduardo Blumwald, University of California, Davis, USA
Modifications of source/sink relationships and stress tolerance in crop plants
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17:30-18:10 Avi Gopher, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Ancient culture, innovative behavior and the origins of modern man: A view
from middle pleistocene Qesem cave, Israel
18:20 Reception
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
08:00-09:00 Registration and refreshments
Session 1 Molecular and classic crop improvement
09:00:10:30 Chair: Assaf Mosquna
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09:00-09:15 Avraham Levy, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Give me a break - A new tool kit for tomato genome editing
09:15-09:30 Yehoshua Saranga, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ancestral QTL alleles from wild emmer wheat improve drought resistance and
productivity of modern wheat
09:30-09:45 Roi Ben-David, ARO-Volcani Center, Israel
Comparative field study of cereals productivity under semi-arid conditions
09:45-10:00 Shilo Rosenwasser, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Compartmentalized redox metabolism under stress conditions
10:00-10:15 Shimon Rachmilevitch, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Roots - an open frontier towards a second green revolution
10:15-10:30 Or Sperling, Agriculture Research Organization - Gilat
Are your roots supportive? Intra-tree temperature variability facilitates
carbohydrate translocation in dormant trees
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10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 2 Advance approaches of phenotyping stress
11:00-12:30 Chair: Zvi Peleg
11:00-11:30 Harkamal Walia, University of Nebraska, USA
Exploring allelic variation for salinity tolerance in rice
11:30-11:45 Hillel Fromm, Tel Aviv University, Israel
High-throughput phenomics for studying abiotic stress responses: the TAU
experience
11:45-12:00 Nimrod Schwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Modeling the impact of root exudates on water dynamics at the soil - plant -
atmosphere continuum
12:00-12:15 Ran Lati, Agricultural Research Organization - Newe Ya’ar, Israel
Autonomous image driven models for 3-D plant morphological analysis - A new
approach for detection of abiotic stresses
12:15-12:30 Menachem Moshelion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
New high-throughput functional (physiological) phenotyping platform for whole-
plant water relations characterization
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12:30 Visit to the ICORE Phenotyping Facility (Prof. Menachem Moshelion)
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
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Session 3 Genetic and epigenetics of crop adaptation to stress
14:00-15:40 Chair: Smadar Harpaz-Saad, Hebrew University
14:00-14:25 Bao Liu, Northeast Normal University, China
Abiotic stress enhances karyotype stabilization in newly synthesized
allohexaploid wheat
14:25-14:50 Clarice Coyne, USDA ARS, USA
Winter-hardiness in a chickpea RIL population
14:50-15:15 Joshua Udall, Brigham Young University, UT, USA
Re-sequenced genomes reveal the genetic diversity of polyploid cotton
15:15-15:30 Simon Barak, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Stress tolerance in the extremophyte Arabidopsis Negev desert relative,
Anastatica hierochuntica (True Rose of Jericho)
15:30-15:45 Lidor Shaar-Moshe, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Unique physiological and transcriptional shifts under combinations of salinity,
Drought and Heat
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15:45-16:10 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4 Hormonal regulation of plant stress response
16:10-18:00 Chair: Roi Ben-David
16:10-16:40 Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, USA
Tuning plant transpiration through rational design
16:40-16:55 David Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The gibberellin signaling suppressor DELLA affects stomatal movement and
increases tolerance to transient drought stress
16:55-17:10 Doron Shkolnik, Tel Aviv University, Israel
A phloem-specific long-distance calcium signal mediates root hydrotropism
17:10-17:25 Oded Pri-Tal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Non-redundant functions of the dimeric ABA receptor BdPYL1 in the grass
Brachypodium
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17:30 Closing remarks
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