Organizers:
Alison Bennett (The James Hutton Institute, UK)
Alison Karley (The James Hutton Institute, UK)
Scott Johnson (The James Hutton Institute, UK; University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Tim Daniell (The James Hutton Institute, UK)
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Session 1: Cross-disciplinarity in trophic interactions research
12:00 - 13:00 Registration and lunch
13:00 - 13:15 Welcome and opening comments
Richard Bardgett (Lancaster University, UK)
Interactions between microbes, plants, aphids and their natural enemies
Julia Ferrari (University of York, UK)
Interactions between the crucifer Barbarea vulgaris, flea beetles (Phyllotreta nemorum), white rust (Albugo candida), and others: a multidisciplinary quest
Thure Hauser (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Integrating biodiversity: the aboveground-belowground impacts of legume cropping in Europe
Selected Oral Communication - Susannah Cass (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break
Rhizodeposition: a new approach to mitigating soil nitrous oxide production
Selected Oral Communication - Liz Baggs (University of Aberdeen, UK)
The role of aboveground and belowground plant traits in driving microbial abundance and activity
Selected Oral Communication - Catherine Baxendale (Lancaster University, UK)
16:40 - 17:00 Flash poster presentations
17:00 - 18:30 Poster session with drinks reception and buffet dinner
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Session 2: New advances in understanding above-belowground interactions
Aboveground-belowground interactions of plants with microbes and insects: from mechanisms to ecology
Marcel Dicke (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Multiple stress management in plants: interactions between aboveground and belowground herbivore-induced responses
Nicole van Dam (Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Drought modifies trophic cascades above and below ground
Selected Oral Communication - Joanna Staley (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK)
Priming in below-aboveground interactions
Selected Oral Communication - Susanne Wurst (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee/tea break
Litter inputs and plant interactions affect nectar sugar content
Selected Oral Communication - Xavier Raynaud (Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France)
From micro to macro – upscaling from microbial processes to ecosystem functioning
Selected Oral Communication - Emma Sayer (The Open University, UK)
11:50 - 12:20 Discussion session for Sessions 1 and 2
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Session 3: Techniques and novel approaches
(Ultra)high resolution approaches for above- and belowground metabolomics
Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
Insights into the community ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through new analytical and molecular techniques
Alex Dumbrell (University of Essex, UK)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee/tea break
Effects of vegetation and microbial community change on peatland carbon cycling
Selected Oral Communication - Susan Ward (Lancaster University, UK)
From whole-organism to sub-cellular localization of metabolites by mass spectrometry imaging, approaches in an invertebrate
Selected Oral Communication - Manuel Liebeke (Imperial College London, UK)
Breaking open the black box – can non-invasive soil imaging help answer questions in aboveground-belowground ecology?
Selected Oral Communication - Scott Johnson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
16:30 - 17:00 Discussion session for Session 3
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Session 4: Understanding and interpreting the data
Ecological metabolomics of invasive plants
Mirka Macel (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Is vegetation composition or soil chemistry the better predictor of the soil microbial community?
Selected Oral Communication - Ruth Mitchell (The James Hutton Institute, UK)
17:50 - 18:10 Flash poster presentations
18:10 - 19:15 Poster session with drinks reception
19:30 - 22:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Next-generation data mining: characterizing microbial communities associated with leaf-cutter ant colonies
Garret Suen (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Molecular and cytological insights into the mutualistic symbioses of plants with the fungus Piriformospora indica
Selected Oral Communication - Patrick Schäfer (University of Warwick, UK)
Rapid transfer of organic N-compounds excreted by decomposers to plants and herbivores
Selected Oral Communication - Olaf Schmidt (University College Dublin, Ireland)
The hidden season – subarctic plant communities grow longer belowground than aboveground
Selected Oral Communication - Gesche Blume-Werry (Umeå University, Sweden)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 - 11:30 Discussion session for Session 4
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Session 5: Unifying approaches to above-belowground research
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Ted Turlings (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
12:15 - 12:30 Closing remarks
12:30 Lunch and departure
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