Coordinators: Robert Schuurink (UvA) and Kenji Matsui (Japan); Young researchers’ seminar by Nina Guarneri and Marlot Westera (both UvA).

Keynote speakers:

• Junji Takabayashi, Kyoto University, Center for Ecological Research
• Robert Schuurink, University of Amsterdam, Department of Plant Physiology

This seminar is partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI, NWO, Kindai University, University of Amsterdam

Monday 22/9 start conference 9 AM with coffee and registration- @Chirurgisch Theater, University Library, Vendelstraat 2-8, Amsterdam

Session 1, chair Rob Schuurink
9.30 Explanation of the purpose of the seminar by Kenji Matsui
10.00 Keynote 1: Junji Takabayashi: Current status and future prospects of chemical ecology from a macro perspective
11.00 Kenji Matsui: How and Why Plants Came to Smell Green: The Origins, Biosynthesis, and Roles of Green Leaf Volatiles
11.30 Silke Allmann: Green leaf volatile signalling and perception

12-13.30 Lunch -@Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam (~5 min. walk)

Session 1 continued, chair Kenji Matsui @Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
13.30 Keynote 2: Robert Schuurink: Current status and outlooks of chemical ecology from a micro perspective
14.30 Takuya Uemura and Gen-Ichiro Arimura: Anti-herbivore defense shift between aquatic and aerial environments in amphibious Rorippa aquatica.
14.55 Saskia van Wees: Gene regulatory network induced by Western flower thrips in Arabidopsis.
15.20 coffee-tea break
15.50 Gen-Ichiro Arimura and Takuya Uemura: Molecular crosstalk in plant-herbivore interactions: functions of oral elicitors and effectors
16.15 Sebastian Tonn: Uncovering the localized plant response to aphid feeding using transcriptomics
16.40 Jun Murata: Responses of plants to the volatile calls from microbes.
17.05 Petra Bleeker: How tomato specialised metabolites help a plant defend itself against whitefly
17.30 Rika Ozawa: Does fatty acid hydroperoxide dehydratase (FHD) in Mythimna separata regulate plant defense responses?
18.00 Drinks @ Cafe De Jaren, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20 (~5 min walk)

Tuesday 23/9 continue conference  @Chirurgisch Theater, University Library, Vendelstraat 2-8, Amsterdam
Session 2, chair Prof. Junji Takabayashi
9.30 Kaori Shiojiri: Long-term Proximity to Neighbors Influences Effectiveness of Sagebrush Responses to Damage-Induced Volatiles of Those Neighbors
9.55 Nina Fatouros: Ecology and application of plant volatiles - It’s about time for oviposition-induced cue use
10.20 coffee-tea break
10.40 Haruna Osaki: How plant–plant interaction drives herbivore spatial aggregation and foraging strategy evolution
11.00 Aalt-Jan van Dijk: Structure-based machine learning for decoding enzyme function and interaction specificity
11.25 Masayoshi Uefune: Effects of plant volatiles on the foraging behavior of the parasitoid wasp Cotesia vestalis
11.45 Marcella Bovio: Decoding thrips resistance in cultivated chrysanthemum through LC-MS metabolomics
12:10 Lemeng Dong: Decoding an interkingdom hybrid chemical language: insights into the role of eclepins in the plant-microbe-nematode

12.35-13.30 Lunch @Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam (~5 min. walk)

Session 3: Young Researchers' Seminar; chairs Marlot Westera and Nina Guarneri @Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
13.30-13.50 Suraj Hassan Muralidhar: Red Alert: Stop the Infection! Do anthocyanins accumulate intercellularly? (WUR)

13.50-14.10 Ernesto Villacís Pérez: Natural variation in Spider mite effectors as fuel for co-evolution (UvA)

14.10-14.30 Niels Aerts: Dynamic interplay between the abscisic acid and jasmonic acid gene regulatory networks (UU)

14.30-14.50 Sjors Huizinga: “Lettuce” analyze nutrient stressed root exudates (UvA)

14.50-15.20 coffee-tea break

15.20-15.30 Leonora Kurdow: Uncovering the Role of Hexenal Isomerases in Potato (UvA) – flash talk

15.30-15.50 Max Stassen: Root-secreted coumarin promotes Fe nutrition of coumarin-tolerant rhizobacteria (UU)

15.50-16.10 Szymon Szrajer: Machine learning-based approaches to predicting terpene synthase specificity (UvA)

16.10-16.30 Yu-Hsien Lin: Independent evolution of hexenal isomerases in plants and insects reshapes green leaf volatiles (UvA)

Wednesday 24/9 continue conference @Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
Session 4, chair Silke Allmann
9.30 Kinuyo Yoneya: Arthropod species richness is enhanced by exposure to herbivory and its induced plant volatiles through diversification of community assembly
9.55 Merijn Kant: Induction and suppression of plant defenses by spider mites
10.20 coffee-tea break
10.50 Yasuo Yamauchi: Evaluation of biological information included in BVOCs using Arabidopsis as a model receiver plant
11.15 Iris Kappers: How computational metabolomics can help to explore the chemical space in plant communications
11.40 closure meeting

12.15-13 Lunch

Afternoon: Japanese delegation visits Koppert. Other participants have the possibility to visit UvA.

Speakers:

Kenji Matsui; Professor, Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi

Junji Takabayashi; Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto

Rika Ozawa; Researcher, Kyoto University, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto

Yasuo Yamauchi; Associate Professor, Kobe University, Faculty of Agriculture, Hyogo

Kaori Shiojiri; Professor, Ryukoku University, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiga

Kinuyo Yoneya; Associate Professor, Kindai University, Faculty of Agriculture, Nara

Jun Murata; Principal Investigator, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto

Gen’ichiro Arimura; Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo

Uefune Masayoshi; Professor, Meijo University, Faculty of Agriculture, Aichi

Takuya Uemura; Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo

Haruna Osaki; Assistant Professor, Meijo University, Faculty of Agriculture, Aichi

Iris Kappers; Senior researcher, WUR, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen

Nina Fatouros; Associated professor, WUR, Biosystematics Group, Wageningen

Saskia van Wees; Professor, Utrecht University, Department of Biology, Utrecht

Petra Bleeker; Associated professor, University of Amsterdam, Department of Plant Physiology

Silke Allmann; Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam, Department of Plant Physiology

Merijn Kant; Associated professor, UvA, Department of Evolutionary & Population Biology

Robert Schuurink; Professor, University of Amsterdam, Department of Plant Physiology

Aalt-Jan van Dijk; Professor, University of Amsterdam, Biosystems Data Analysis

Marcella Bovio; PD, WUR, Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen

Sebastian Tonn; PD, WUR, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen

Lemeng Dong; Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam, Department of Plant Hormone Biology

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