Thursday, 24 September 2020
Aula D pt, Vallisneri Building, University of Padova




14:00 – Welcome addresses
Luigi Bubacco, Director of the Dept of Biology of the University of Padova
Michela Zottini, Dept of Biology, University of Padova, Italy

14:30 – Sacco de Vries, Wageningen University & Research, NL
Suspensor derived somatic embryogenesis in Arabidopsis

14:55 – Giovanni Giuliano ENEA, Rome, Italy
Evolution of secondary metabolism in higher plants

15:20 – Pere Puigdomenech, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain
From Copenhagen to Barcelona

15:45 Roberto Defez, Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, CNR, Naples , Italy
Twenty years later

16:10 – Alex Costa, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Italy
Genetics and structure of an aminoacid receptor with distinct ligand specificity

16:35 – Laura De Gara, Campus BioMedico University, Rome, Italy
When the roads meet death and survival of the plant cell

17:00 – Concluding remarks
Fiorella Lo Schiavo. Dept of Biology, University of Padova, Italy