Centre for Organismal StudiesCOS Symposium: Life in Context – Organismal Sensing and Adaptation in the Natural Environment
- Monday, 22. July 2024, 13:00
- Centre for Organismal Studies, Bertalanffy-Hörsaal, Im Neuenheimer Feld 231 (Zugang via INF 230), 69120 Heidelberg
Life has a prodigious ability to adapt. Organisms interact with their environment at levels from molecules to cells, tissues, and behaviour and over time scales from milliseconds to years. Consequently, organisms are not just defined by their genomes, but equally by their environment. The symposium will bring together speakers who investigate the impact of the environment on organisms and how they adapt to it, from the genomic, cell-biological, developmental, behavioural and evolutionary perspectives. Topics include environmental sensing, inter-organismal interactions, and adaptation across scales. The symposium will also introduce new experimental systems for integrative biology and cover organismal responses in the context of anthropogenic environmental change.
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Centre for Organismal Studies
Bertalanffy-Hörsaal
Im Neuenheimer Feld 231 (Zugang via INF 230)
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Programme 22 July
13:00 – Session 1
- Thomas Richards, Luis Galindo Gonzalez (Oxford University, UK): The group of Thomas Richards aims to understand how eukaryotic cellular complexity – which encompasses plants, animals, fungi and a vast diversity of microbial forms called protistsm – arose and diversified. To do this, they use phylogenomic approaches combined with cell biology and molecular experiments.
- Rosa Lozano (ZMBP Tübingen, Germany): The Lozano group wants to understand the interactions between plants and viruses at the molecular and cellular level, shedding light on how viruses manipulate and tailor plant development and physiology to favour the infection.
- Magdalena Julkowska (Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca, USA): The focus of the Julkowska lab is to explore stress-induced changes in plant architecture across stress-tolerant species, including wild tomato, cowpea and tepary bean.
14:30 – Coffee Break
15:15 – Session 2
- Hanh Vu (EMBL, Heidelberg, German): The Vu group does comparative studies of planarian flatworms, and aims to understand the control principles that define animal body size.
- Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB, Japan): The Hasebe lab wants to understand the key genetic changes that resulted in the evolution of influential novel traits in land plants, specifically carnivorous plants.
- Janna Gawroth (TUM Munich, Germany): The Gawroth lab explores the physics-based mechanisms by which animals locomote, feed, defend and interact in aquatic environments.
16:45 – Flash Talks by Selected Poster Abstracts
17:30 – Poster Session and Drinks
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The international “Life in Context – Organismal Sensing and Adaptation in the Natural Environment” symposium is hosted by the Centre for Organismal Studies of Heidelberg University. The event is open to all. Attendance is free of charge, registration is required.