A Brief History of (Flowering) Time
Event details
| Date | 25.04.2013 |
| Hour | 12:15 |
| Speaker |
Dr. Robert Smith, University of Edinburgh Bio: Training: Mathematics MMath (Newcastle University), Systems Biology MSc (University of Warwick). Funding: BBSRC – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
As the climate of Earth changes, an important challenge in plant sciences is to understand the effects of altered light and temperature signalling on crop development. In this talk I will broadly discuss how the BBSRC-funded ROBuST project is using Systems Biology approaches to understand how the circadian clock regulates plant development in response to the external environment, with a focus on how flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana is regulated by light and temperature. By building mathematical models to describe the flowering process, we are starting to uncover a complex feed-forward network that is able to accelerate flowering in specific seasonal conditions.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Felix Naef