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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
International Leopoldina Meeting
Satellite Meeting of PS07 - 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis
Imaging and Integrating Heterogeneity of Plant Functions: Functional Biodiversity from Cells to Biosphere
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
29 - 31 July 2007
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).
Information on participating / attending:
Registration
There is a registration fee of € 120, which includes lunches, dinner (July 29) and coffee breaks. Please register until 1 May 2007 using the online registration form. On 29 July we will have a conference dinner in a city park in Jülich. The costs are included in the conference fee.
Poster
We warmly invite poster presentations during the meeting and there will be time reserved for poster presentations. If you want present a poster, please submit a short abstract (maximum 500 words) to a.lorenz@fz-juelich.de. Abstracts will be included in the proceedings book that will be published after the meeting.
Date:
07/29/2007 - 07/31/2007
Event venue:
Forschungszentrum Jülich
52825 Jülich
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Biology, Chemistry, Environment / ecology, Geosciences, Information technology, Oceanology / climate, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences
Types of events:
Entry:
06/22/2007
Sender/author:
Peter Schäfer
Department:
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event20746
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