X Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
Parque Katalapi, Pichiquillaipe, Puerto Montt, Chile
January 16-19th, 2015
IX Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
http://www.parquekatalapi.cl
General Program
Friday Jan 16
Saturday Jan 17
Sunday Jan 18
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00.9:30
Mini-lecture
Claudio Pastenes
“Turning water into wine:
ecophysiology of water stress
in Vitis vinifera”
9:00.9:30
Mini-lecture
Victoria Fernández
“The Eucalyptus globulus and E.
camaldulensis leaf cuticle: a
lipidized cell wall region”
9:00.9:45
Morning Lecture
Jorge Prieto
“Measuring and modelling of
grapevine from leaf to whole
canopy”
9:30-10:30
1.Short communications
9:30-10:30
4. Short communications
9:45-10:30
7. Short communications
10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:15
2. Short communications
11:30-12:15
5. Short communications
12:15-13:00
Noon Lecture
Michael Shane
“Reversible Dark-Induced
Dephosphorylation of
Phosphoenolpyruvate
Carboxylase in Proteoid
Roots”
12:15-13:00
Noon Lecture
Matthew Turnbull
“Separating genetic/taxonomic
and environmental determinants
of leaf traits in temperate
rainforest plants along a soildevelopment chronosequence”
11:30-12:15
Closing Lecture
Bruce Osborne
“The Gunnera genus: success,
failure and resurgence'”
13:00 Lunch
13:00 Lunch
15:00-15:30
Mini-lecture
Jorge Pérez-Quezada
“Carbon fluxes and reservoirs
in arid and humid zones of
Chile”
15:00-15:30
Mini-lecture
Alex Fajardo
“Functional traits and species
coexistence”
15:30-16-30
3. Short communications
15:30-16-30
6. Short communications
16:00 Registration
16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 Coffee Break
19:00
Welcome remarks
Luis Corcuera
19:15 Opening Lecture
Rafael Oliveira
"The ups and downs of water
transport in trees"
17:30-18:15
Evening Lecture
Günther Hoch
“Carbon reserve
concentrations as a proxy for
the carbon balance of trees”
17:30-18:15
Evening Lecture
Marilyn Ball
“A salty tale: the ups and downs
of water use in mangroves”
19:00 Dinner
19:00 Dinner
20:00
Mini-lecture:
Alejandra Zúñiga
“Functioning of cluster roots
from Southern South
American Proteaceae”
20:30 “Cata en Kata” and
Dinner
20:30-21:30
Discussion
Rodrigo Guijón
“From science to public
conservation policies”
Monday Jan 19
13:00 Farewell lunch
16:00 Departure
X Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
Parque Katalapi, Pichiquillaipe, Puerto Montt, Chile
January 16-19th, 2015
IX Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
http://www.parquekatalapi.cl
General Program
January 16 (Friday)
Colloquium opening
19:00 Corcuera Luis (U. de Concepción, Chile): “Opening remarks and welcome”.
19:15 Opening Lecture by Rafael Oliveira (UNICAMP, Brazil): "The ups and downs of water transport in trees".
20:00 Mini-lecture: Alejandra Zúñiga (Universidad Austral de Chile): “Functioning of cluster roots from Southern
South American Proteaceae”.
20:30 Cata en Kata and Dinner (New Quincho)
January 17 (Saturday)
9:00 Mini-lecture. Claudio Pastenes (Universidad de Chile): “Turning water into wine: ecophysiology of water stress
in Vitis vinifera”
9:30 Short Communications 1
Larama, G. & Bravo, León.A. (Universidad de La Frontera, Chile): “Transcriptomic analyses of two filmy ferns from
contrasting micro-habitats in the temperate rain forest”. Fondecyt 1120964
Natalia Ricote M, Cristina Crespo B, Fernando Valladares, María Fernanda Pérez y Francisco Bozinovic (P.
Universidad Católica de Chile): "El Rol de la autofertilización en la tolerancia al estrés en Schizanthus grahamii"
Rabert C., Reyes, M., Mellado, R. Acevedo, P. & Bravo L.A (Universidad de La Frontera, Chile): “Assesing
photosynthetic performance in Antarctic vascular Plants under nitrogen fertilization”. Proyecto Anillo de Investigación
en Ciencias Antártica ART1102
10:30 Coffee Break
11:30 Short Communications 2
Victoria Fernández, Domingo Sancho-Knapik, Paula Guzmán, José Javier Peguero-Pina, Luis Gil, Eustaquio GilPelegrín. (Forest Genetics and Eco-physiology Research Group, School of Forest Engineering, Technical University
of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Unidad de Recursos Forestales, Centro de Investigación y
Tecnología Agroalimentaria, Gobierno de Aragón, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain): “Water drops and Quercus ilex leaf
surface interactions: contact angles, work-of-adhesion and water absorption”
Hoa Nguyen (Australian National University): "Pathways of water transport in Avicennia marina leaves".
Karusion Annika (University of Tartu, Estonia): “An experimental facility for free air humidity manipulation (FAHM)“
12:15 Noon Lecture by Michael Shane (University of Western Australia): “Reversible Dark-Induced
Dephosphorylation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase in Proteoid Roots”.
13:00 Lunch
X Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
Parque Katalapi, Pichiquillaipe, Puerto Montt, Chile
January 16-19th, 2015
IX Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
http://www.parquekatalapi.cl
15:00 Mini-lecture by Jorge Pérez-Quezada (Universidad de Chile): “Carbon fluxes and reservoirs in arid and humid
zones of Chile”
15:30 Short Communications 3
Patrick E. Hayes1,2, Peta L. Clode2, Caio Guilherme Pereira1,2, Hans Lambers1 (1School of Plant Biology, The
University of Western Australia,. 2Centre for Microscopy, Characterization & Analysis): “Distribution of calcium and
phosphorus in leaves of the Proteacae”
Ávila-Akerberg, V., González-Martínez, T. y Almeida-Leñero, L. (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico) ”A
plant functional analysis of a high altitudinal gradient forested catchment near Mexico City”.
Avila Carlos (Instituto de Investigación y Servicios Forestales de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica): "Early
selection of Gmelina arborea clones based on their physiological behavior in nursery vs plantation, in the South
Pacific of Costa Rica"
16:30 Coffee Break
17:30 Evening Lecture by Günther Hoch (University of Basel, Switzerland): “Carbon reserve concentrations as a
proxy for the carbon balance of trees”
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Discussion led by Rodrigo Guijón: “From science to public conservation policies”
January 18 (Sunday)
9:00 Mini-lecture by Victoria Fernández: (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): “The Eucalyptus globulus and E.
camaldulensis leaf cuticle: a lipidized cell wall region”
9:30 Short communications 4
Enrique Ostria (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile): “An insight in leaf primordium transcriptomics suggest new
interactions of floral homeotic genes driving heteroblasty in Gevuina avellana Mol. (Proteaceae)”.
Piper FI, Fajardo A, Gundale M. (Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de la Patagonia, Chile):. “Extreme defoliation
reduces tree growth but not carbon and nitrogen storages in a winter deciduous species”
10:30 Coffe break
11:30Short communications 5
Sara Lucía Colmenares Trejos, MSc.Eduardo Arcoverde de Mattos, Dr.Rita de Cássia Quitete Portela (Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): “Functional and Ecophysiological Responses of Contrasting Palm Species at
Different Environmental Conditions on Atlantic Forest, Rio de Janeiro, BR”.
Avila Eleinis (University of Southern California, Riverside, CA, USA) "Do green stems function like leaves?
Coordination between photosynthetic and hydraulic traits in green stemmed species from Southern California"
Andrea P. Loayza, Danny E. Carvajal, Patricio García-Guzmán, and Francisco A. Squeo. (Universidad de La Serena,
Chile). Photosynthetic and growth responses to soil water availability of reproductive and non-reproductive individuals
of Myrcianthes coquimbensis: an endangered Atacama Desert shrub
X Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
Parque Katalapi, Pichiquillaipe, Puerto Montt, Chile
January 16-19th, 2015
IX Summer Colloquium on Plant Ecophysiology
http://www.parquekatalapi.cl
12:15 Noon Lecture by Matthew Turnbull (University of Christchurch, New Zealand): “Separating genetic/taxonomic
and environmental determinants of leaf traits in temperate rainforest plants along a soil-development chronosequence
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Mini-lecture by Alex Fajardo (Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de la Patagonia, Chile): “Functional traits
and species coexistence”
15:30: Short communication 6
Rafael E. Coopman (Universidad Austral de Chile) "Low photosynthetic capacity and efficiency of ferns is related to
frond anatomy restrictions to CO2 diffusion"
Mercedes. Vivas, A.K. Sanhueza, L. Bravo & L. Cavieres (Universidad de Concepcion, Universidad de La Frontera,
Chile) "Effect on the photosynthetic performance of the interaction between Colobanthus quitensis and Deschampsia
antarctica under two different nitrogen growth regimes",
Carolina Hernández (Universidad de Concepción, Chile). “Assessing responses of Alpine cushion plants to increase in
temperature”.
16:30 Coffe break
17:30 Evening Lecture. Marilyn Ball (Australian National University) “A salty tale: the ups and downs of water use in
mangroves”
19:00 Dinner
January 19 (Monday)
9:00. Morning Lecture Jorge Prieto (INTA EEA Mendoza, Argentina) “Measuring and modelling of grapevine from leaf
to whole canopy”
9:45 Short c0mmunications 7
Nicolás Frank (Universidad de Chile) Carbon assimilation and accumulation in leaves of five horticultural crops with
different phloem loading mechanisms in response to decreasing sink demand
Lohengrin Cavieres (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) Interactions among antarctic plants
Antonio Escandón (Universidad de Concepción, Chile). "Regeneration niche of woody species of the temperate rain
forest with special focus on sprouters"
10:30 Coffe break
11:30 Closing Lecture. Bruce Osborne (University College Dublin, Ireland) “The Gunnera genus: success, failure
and resurgence'”
13:00 Farewell Lunch
16:00 Departure