Conference Service Mandl

abstract: This course is aimed at young post-doc or mature PhD students who have no or limited experience of developmental neurobiology and need to acquire technical and intellectual knowledge in the field.

Our Centre groups a unique set of technical skills and scientific expertise related to the development of the nervous system of 6 different model organisms from the rather simple nematode to the complex mammal. Moreover, in our respective species, we are using very specialized techniques exploiting at best the different qualities of each model organism to answer the key questions in modern developmental neurobiology.

At the end of the course, our aim is to have informed young scientists in the broadest set of techniques and model organisms, giving them the intellectual and technical tools to explore most efficiently any hot issue in neurobiology.

abstract: Genomic tools have revolutionized most of biology and the biochemistry and cell biology of scent production is no exception. Dramatic advances in instrumentation, particularly in ambient pressure mass spectrometry have allowed for the detection and identification of trace amounts of volatiles and image their release in real time. From this work, it has become clear than plants emit an amazing array of such compounds and the ever expanding genomic tool box is helping plant biologists understand how they are synthesized and released, the signaling cascades that elicit their releases and their evolution.

abstract: In recent years there has been a significant acceleration in our understanding of the molecular processes behind a host of plant reproductive processes, particularly in the role of cell-cell signalling in both pre and post fertilisation events. The meeting will serve to bring together labs at the cutting edge in this field and will focus on cell-cell communication from arrival of a pollen grain at the stigma surface where a molecular dialogue is first established, through guidance signals that ensure the pollen tube successfully delivers sperm to the female gametes deep in maternal tissues, to understanding the complex nature of the relationship between the developing embryo and the nutritive endosperm following double fertilisation.