<html><body><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>Van: </b>"Delphine Verspeel" <delphine.verspeel@psb.vib-ugent.be><br><b>Aan: </b>"meetings" <meetings@psb.vib-ugent.be><br><b>Verzonden: </b>Maandag 28 maart 2022 10:51:47<br><b>Onderwerp: </b>You are invited to attend “Deciphering the role of brassinosteroids in plant adaptation to climate change” ON March 30, 2022<br></div><div><br><style><!--
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--></style></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>REMINDER</div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div><b>Van: </b>"Delphine Verspeel" <delphine.verspeel@psb.vib-ugent.be><br><b>Aan: </b>"meetings" <meetings@psb.vib-ugent.be><br><b>Verzonden: </b>Dinsdag 15 maart 2022 11:32:13<br><b>Onderwerp: </b>You are invited to attend “Deciphering the role of brassinosteroids in plant adaptation to climate change” ON March 30, 2022<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><div><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="22"><br><br><div><div><center>You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to our seminars announcements and reminders service at <a href="https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars</a>.<br><br> <img data-mce-src="cid:d2469bfe296ccedfabb1afb9cf140b5868607e7c@zimbra" pnsrc="cid:d2469bfe296ccedfabb1afb9cf140b5868607e7c@zimbra" src="cid:d2469bfe296ccedfabb1afb9cf140b5868607e7c@zimbra"><h1 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 251);"><br></h1><h1 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 251);"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">''Deciphering the role of brassinosteroids in plant adaptation to climate change''</span></i></span></h1><h1 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida sans", sans-serif; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 251);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><br></h1><br><h2>Dr Ana <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Caño</span></span></h2><br><h2 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)</span></span></h2><h2 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"></span>Barcelona<br>SPAIN</h2><br><br><h2>Wednesday, March 30, 2022<br>11:00</h2><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">Despite the massive amount of information gathered around the functions and mechanisms of Brassinosteroids (BRs) in plants, an important limitation persists in our knowledge of this signaling pathway: almost all we know comes from observations on the BRI1 receptor pathway, that is essential for growth and development, and for which mutants are highly pleiotropic and typically dwarf. Since the discovery of BRI1-like receptors <span style="font-size: 9pt;">(BRL1/3) </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">(1)</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">, we still do not really grasp what are their fundamental functions in plants. Twenty years of research (by ours and other labs) have resumed the analysis of BRLs as redundant BRI1 receptors with a marginal vascular expression and lack of apparent mutant phenotypes. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">Strikingly, our work carried in the context of an ERC CoG “ICRICA” takes a novel perspective to explore the function of BRLs in Arabidopsis, to understand the inner working of this pathway.</span><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">In light of our recent findings showing that overexpression of BRL3-receptors confers drought resistance, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">we have now deciphered the BRL3 pathway in Arabidopsis, including novel components in the pathway essential to plant adaption to climate change. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">Our new data not only change the paradigm for our present understanding of BR signaling in plants, but also open new and exciting avenues for engineering climate resilient crops. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The latest results of our research will be presented at the VIB seminar.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><br><br><h3><br></h3><h3>Jozef Schell seminar room<br>Technologiepark 71 - 9052 </h3><br><br><br><br>Invited by Prof Dirk Inzé and Prof Jenny Russinova<br><br>If you do not wish to receive this information anymore, please unsubscribe from future mailings at <a href="https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars</a><br><p style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 251); margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 183, 185);"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 251); margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 183, 185);"><b></b></span><br></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 253, 251); margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(65, 183, 185);"><b>Genome editing, cutting-edge technology for a sustainable agriculture</b></span></p><br><img alt="banner mail" width="498" height="81" data-mce-src="https://psbzim02.psb.ugent.be/home/signature@psb.ugent.be/Briefcase/PUBLIC/footer.png" style="" src="https://psbzim02.psb.ugent.be/home/signature@psb.ugent.be/Briefcase/PUBLIC/footer.png" saveddisplaymode=""><br>VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology</center><center>Ghent University<br>Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71<br>9052 Ghent-Belgium<br>Phone: +32(0)9 331 38 00<br><a href="http://www.psb.vib-ugent.be" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.psb.ugent.be/</a></center></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>