Titel: Imaging and Integrating Heterogeneity of Plant Functions: Functional Biodiversity from Cells to Biosphere

Termin: 29.7.2007, 20:00 Uhr, bis 31.7.2007, 13:00 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße
52428 Jülich

Referenten: Achim Walter (Forschungszentrum Jülich) *** Evan De Lucia (University of Illinois, USA) *** Frantisek Baluska (University of Bonn) *** Joe Berry (Carnegie Institution of Global Ecology, Stanford, USA) *** Julie Scholes (University of Sheffield, UK) *** Keith Mott (Utah State University, USA) *** Marc-Thorsten Hütt (Bremen International University) *** Michael Schaepman (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) *** Paul Quick (University of Sheffield, UK) *** Peter Blümler (Forschungszentrum Jülich) *** Sigi Jahnke (Forschungszentrum Jülich) *** Susanne von Caemmerer (Australian National University) *** Uli Schurr (Forschungszentrum Jülich) *** Ülo Niinemets (Turku University) *** Ulrich Lüttge (Darmstadt University of Technology) *** Uwe Rascher (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-3/leopoldina

Kurzbeschreibung: The Meeting will take place between 29 and 31 July 2007 at FZJ, Jülich, Germany. The workshop will start on Sunday evening in Jülich with a social dinner in a city park and an introductionary talk. It will end on Tuesday, early afternoon.

Scope

Plants form the green roof of the biosphere, are the primary transducers of solar energy and atmospheric chemistry that supports all life on Earth, and are also first responders to global environmental change. Today, a common challenge faces plant systems biology and Earth systems biology: to observe, integrate and quantitatively evaluate functional biodiversity in space and time. There is little point to listing the elements of biodiversity itself (individual species or ecosystems) without an understanding of their functions in response to environmental variables. We need to identify functions at the cell, tissue and organismal levels, and to be able to observe and integrate these functions in diverse, complex ecosystems in order to understand and predict the feedbacks of living plant biota on the Earth system. Eventually, we will need to incorporate these insights into the design of plants better suited to the changed global climate that is transforming human life support systems on Earth. The importance of this task has been recognised in the recent decision by the European Space Agency to press ahead with the next phase of its FLEX program (FLuorescence EXplorer; measuring photosynthesis from space).

Kontakt: Dr. Uwe Rascher
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre (ICG)
Phytosphäre (ICG-3)
52425 Jülich
Tel.: +49 - (0)2461 - 61 26 38
Fax: +49 - (0)2461 - 61 24 92
u.rascher@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/

Veranstalter: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Schlagworte: Biodiversität, Grüne Gentechnik