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Workshop 1: Mathematical Modeling of Plant Development: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, September 27
Why are we making models?
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-9:30am Welcome from MBI: Marty Golubitsky
9:30-9:45am Welcome from organizers: Vincent Gutschick, Karine Chenu, Michael Chelle, and Hamlyn G. Jones
Chairman: Vince Gutschick
9:45-10:20am Evelyne Costes: Modelling tree development : overview of open questions specific to fruit species
10:20-11:00am Thierry Simonneau: Combining multiple modeling approaches to design plant ideotypes for specific climates
11:00-11:30am Break
11:30-12:30pm Group discussion: What model for which purpose?
Leader: Tom Vogelmann & Hamlyn Jones
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break and Poster Session:
Eric Casella: Forest canopy gap fraction from terrestrial laser scanning: trade-off between speed and quality
Chairman: Eric Casella
2:00-2:30pm Michael Chelle: At which scale modeling plant-climate-pathogen interactions to find new levers in pest management? - Phylloclimate a key variable to study interactions?
2:30-3:00pm Abraham Escobar-Gutierrez: Simulating grasses morphogenesis with a [self-organisation]-based cybernetic framework
3:00-3:30pm Christine Beveridge: Strigolactones and long-distance polar auxin transport
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Report of group discussion and common discussion.
Leader: Tom Vogelmann and Hamlyn G. Jones
5:00-7:00pm Reception in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, September 28
Modeling the impact of the ultimate drivers - Genes, biochemistry, environment effect 1/2
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chairman: Wendy Silk
9:15-10:00am Jan Vos: Functional-structural plant modelling: a new versatile tool in crop science
10:00-10:45am Karine Chenu: Functional whole plant modelling: the missing link between molecular biology and crop improvement?
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Group discussion: Role that may play plant models by linking the huge data flow from -omics to agricultural and ecological questions and problems?
Leader: Xavier Draye & Evelyne Costes
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Chairman: Abraham Escobar-Gutierrez
2:00-2:30pm Ted DeJong: Using functional-structural plant modeling to study, understand and simulate fruit tree physiology, architecture, growth and production responses to changes in genetics, environment and management
2:30-3:00pm Veronique Letort: Simplifying modeling asumptions in the GreenLab models and methods for parameter identification for trees
3:00-3:30pm John Sperry: Using models of plant hydraulic function to predict gas exchange, growth, and survival in response to environment and ontogeny
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Report of group discussion and common discussion.
Leaders: Xavier Draye & Evelyne Costes
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, September 29
Modeling the impact of the ultimate drivers - Genes, biochemistry, environment effect 2/2
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chairman: Christine Beveridge
9:15-10:00am Wendy Silk: Growth kinematics to understand gene functioning for adaptation to a changing environment
10:00-10:45am Xavier Draye: Model-assisted integration of physiological and environmental constraints affecting the dynamic and spatial patterns of root water uptake from soils
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Demonstration: Greg McLean and Karine Chenu
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Implications at Higher Levels Such as Ecology
Chairman: Michael Chelle
2:00-2:45pm Matt Disney: Leaf to forest: 3D modelling for quantifying and understanding radiation interactions in vegetation
2:45-3:30pm Hamlyn Jones
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Discussion leaders: Ilya Ioslovich and Eric Casella
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, September 30
How do we analyse the results? image analysis, optimisation, inverse modelling
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chairman: Thierry Simonneau
9:15-10:00am Jan Kozlowski: Allocation dilemmas in plants
10:00-10:45am Ullo Niinemets: Optimal acclimation of leaf photosynthetic capacity to light: finding appropriate constraints
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Group discussion: Development of shared database, and modeling platforms such as OpenAlea for FSPMs and grid computing. Advantage, inconvenient, feasibility, constraint?
Leaders: Phillip Lewis and Jean-Christophe Soulie
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
Chairman: Hamlyn Jones
2:00-2:30pm Ilya Ioslovich: Optimal Control of Dynamical Biological System: Simplified Model of Balanced Growth and Development
2:30-3:00pm Mengzhen Kang: Optimization in plant model and computational intelligence
3:00-3:30pm Jean-Christophe Soulie: Modeling approach enabling integrative studies from morphogenesis regulation
3:30-4:00pm Rachel Leander: Formal modeling coupling using DEVS
4:00-4:30pm Nathan Miller: A Data Model of Root Gravitropism
4:30-5:30pm Report of group discussion and common discussion.
Leader: Phillip Lewis and Jean-Christophe Soulie
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet
Friday, October 1
How do we advance?
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
Chairman: Ted DeJong
9:00-9:20am Pablo Padilla: From genes to patterns: Mathematical models for plant development and evolution
9:20-10:00am Vince Gutschick: A brief review of progress and some remaining challenges in modelling plant development
10:00-10:45am Group discussion: How do we advance?
10:45-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Discussion leaders: Hamlyn G. Jones
12:30pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)