draft program 30-04-2011

Day 1: Thursday 02-06 Afternoon
Session 3 Chair: tba
14:00 Keynote: Dr. Miguel Verdú
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Facilitation
14:45 Heidi Hirsch
Are invasives the better – A comparison of hydrochoric spread and
germination performance between native and invasive Ulmus
pumila populations
15:00 Yuan-Ye Zhang
Epigenetic variation can cause heritable variation in complex
traits and phenotypic plasticity
15:15 Susanne Lachmuth
The role of climatic differentiation and pre-adaptation for the
invasion of Senecio inaequidens in Europe
15:30 Andrea Case
Are all female plants created equal Comparing patterns of
population variation across diverse gynodioecious species
15:45 TEA/COFFEE
Session 4 Chair: tba
16:15 Katrin Heer
Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of Neotropical bat-dispersed
fig species (Ficus spp., Moraceae)
16:30 Jarmila Gabrielová
Can we distinguish plant species which are rare and endangered
from other plants using their biological traits
16:45 Mark Bilton
Observed rainfall preference predicts climate change response of
Mediterranean plants
17:00 BREAK
17:15 Yorike Hartman
Using QTL-analysis to localize areas under negative selection:
possibilities for minimizing transgene escape in lettuce
17:30 Hana Skálová
Species traits, plasticity and local differentiation in invasive and
native Impatiens species
17:45 Zuzana Münzbergová
Intensity of seed rain has significant effect on diversity and
composition of artificial plant communities
18:00 End of Day 1