WORKSHOP
Map
Metro lines 9 or 10
Bus lines 22, 72, 52, 62
Stop at "Michel-Ange Auteuil"
Optimisation of Plant
Photosynthesis
December 11th 2012
9.30am to 4.45pm
Location
Contact and Registration
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GIS Biotechnologies Vertes
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Photo: © International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR)
CNRS
Salle Fernand BRAUDEL
3 rue Michel-Ange
75016 Paris
P
hotosynthesis ranks among the
greatest inventions of nature. After it
arose at least 3.5 billion years ago, it established an oxygenic atmosphere on
earth, permitting the evolution of complex life forms,
including multicellular eukaryotes such as higher plants
and humans. The biologically driven alterations in atmospheric and ocean chemistries probably changed
the climate as well.
Until very recently, photosynthesis driven crop production has kept pace with the rising global demand of
food, and it is believed that further increases in yield
potential for food and biofuel will rely in large part on
the improvement of photosynthesis. To set up this new
age in photosynthesis research, experimental and computational methods that integrate physiological responses, changes in the transcriptome, proteome, and
metabolome must face practical issues related to the
improvement of light capture, stress response, and
carbon assimilation for the production of biomass and/
or of metabolites of interest.
In this context, the scope of this workshop is to present
a global vision of the state-of-the-art research being
carried out on the topic of Photosynthesis. This event
will bring together private and public members of the
French scientific community to promote exchange of
information, evaluate potential technology transfer
applications, and encourage common research projects. Finally, a general discussion led by the GIS BV
governing board and the coordinators of the working
group "Plant biology and biotechnologies" of AllEnvi will
set the basis for a position paper summarizing the position of the research community and making recommendations on the potential areas to support in national calls for proposals.
(Authors: G. Finazzi / C. Zimmerli)
PROGRAM
MORNING
9:30am
Welcome – Coffee
10:00am Martin Parry
Rothamsted Research
Head of Plant Science
11:00am Giovanni Finazzi
CEA Grenoble
Plant Cell Physiology,
head of the GDR Photosynthesis (Network of
Research Units)
11:30am Alain Gojon
INRA Montpellier
Plant Biochemistry and
Molecular physiology
12:00pm Michel Havaux
CEA Cadarache
Laboratory of Plant Molecular Ecophysiology
Introduction and International state of the art
Presentation of the GDR Photosynthesis and of model
microorganisms
AFTERNOON
2:00pm François Tardieu
INRA Montpellier
Plant Ecophysiology under
Environmental stress
2:30pm Francis-André Wollman
CNRS Paris
Chloroplast Membrane
Molecular Physiology
3:00pm
CO2 fertilization and nitrogen
nutrition
Photosynthesis and environmental stress
Lunch-break
Scientific committee of the present workshop : Thierry
Gaude, Frédéric Gaymard, Hélène Lucas and Norbert
Rolland.
Genetics of photosynthesis
and potential ways of optimisation
Break
3:15pm Hélène Lucas (INRA)
Pascual Perez (Limagrain)
GIS BV Governing Board
Frédéric Gaymard (INRA)
Thierry Gaude (CNRS) Coordinators of the working
group "Plant biology and
biotechnologies" of AllEnvi.
4:45pm
12:30pm
Photosynthesis and
Modelling
End of meeting
Synthetic summary
General discussion
Conclusions