Jülich Plant Science Seminars (JPSS)

TITLE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	DATE	TIME	OUTLOOK	VENUE
New knowledge, molecular, microbial and bioinformatics, for more resilient crop plants	Lene Lange	LL-BioEconomy, Research & Advisory	23.09.2026	14:00 - 15:00	Appointment (msg)	Plant Sciences (IBG-2), building 06.2, room 406
TBC	David Rousseau	Angers University	05.10.2026	14:00 - 15:00	Appointment (msg)	Plant Sciences (IBG-2), building 06.2, room 406
TBC	Siri Fjellheim	NMBU	09.11.2026	14:00 - 15:00	Appointment (msg)	Plant Sciences (IBG-2), building 06.2, room 406

Furthermore, there is the option to add your email to the JPSS mailing list for information about next seminars. We are looking forward to your participation!

Keep in mind that external visitors have to be pre-registered to get access to the Forschungszentrum Jülich campus. For this, contact the IBG-2 secretary.

Past seminars

Seminars 2026

18.02.2026 - JPSS lecture: Prof. Hervé Vanderschuren
Advancing biotechnology and omics techniques to improve tropical food security crops

04.05.2026 - JPSS lecture: Adam Schikora
Specific and general factors modulating plant's response to bacterial N-acyl homoserine lactones

01.06.2026 - JPSS lecture: Hugo de Boer, Utrecht University
Wave-length specific photosynthesis and semi-transparent photovoltaics for agrivoltaics

22.06.2026 - JPSS lecture: Prof. Dr. Nirupama Mallick, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, Inidia
Algal/ Cyanobacterial Biotechnology: Unfurling A Few Possibilities

06.07.2026 - JPSS lecture: Svend Christainsen, Universität Copenhagen
Robotic Intercropping: Monitoring and Managing Plant–Plant Interactions to Reenable

Seminars 2025

JPSS lecture: Out of sight, but not out of mind! Interactions between root and shoot feeding herbivores via systemically induced responses in Brassicaceae	Prof. Dr. Nicole van Dam	11.12.2025
JPSS/ BioSC lecture: Contained agriculture, enhanced photosynthesis and cell-free biosynthesis - new tools for the bioeconomy	Stefan Schillberg, Fraunhofer Institute	13.01.2025
JPSS lecture: From Evolution to Innovation: Breeding Research on Rye for a Resilient and Sustainable Production of Healthy Grain	Bernd Hackauf, Julius Kühn-Institut	03.02.2025
JPSS lecture: X-ray based tuber phenotyping from plant to data	Stefan Gerth, Fraunhofer-Institut	24.02.2025
JPSS lecture	Katja Frühwald-König, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe	07.04.2025
JPSS lecture: Vegetables: fun and vitamins	Prof. Dr Jan van den Berg: Maastricht University/ Brightlands Venlo	10.06.2025
JPSS lecture: Pinpointing the Shift from Environmental to Stomatal Control of Transpiration	Prof. Dr. Martin Bader: Maastricht University/ Brightlands Venlo	10.06.2025
JPSS lecture: Exploration of biological resources	Tanja Kostic: Austrian Institute of Technology	07.07.2025

Seminars 2024

Bioeconomy starts at farmer´s fields – Closing the gaps between science, agriculture and industrial processing	Fred Eickmeyer, RWTH Aachen	01.03.2024
Exploring the Potential of Russian Dandelion as a Valuable Rubber Crop: Current Status and Future Prospects	Dirk Prüfer, University Münster	11.03.2024
Root Phenotypes for Crop Improvement	Hanna Schneider, University Göttingen	08.04.2024
New approaches for monitoring forest functioning in a changing climate - crossing scales from molecular mechanisms to stand wide processes	Arthur Gessler, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL	06.05.2024
Challenges in root-ideotype breeding for developing crops adapted to the era of climate change	Yusaku Uga	10.06.2024
Sustainable and Resilient Plant Production and Land Use – Optimizing Trade-Offs and Synergies	Frank Ewert	01.07.2024
High Throughput Plant Phenotyping and Envirotyping for Future-Proofing Agroecosystems	Bertrand Muller	02.09.2024
Extracting Relevant Traits from Phenotyping Platforms: Beyond High-Throughput	Llorenç Cabrera-Bosquet	02.09.2024
Bridging the scale gap – Advancing high-resolution biodiversity monitoring with hyperspectral and lidar drone technologies	Arko Lucieer	02.10.2024
Tailor-made functional papers – a complex low-cost material in high-tech applications	Markus Biesalski	04.11.2024
Field phenotyping: concepts to dissect yield into its components by means of imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution	Andi Hund	02.12.2024

Seminars 2023

Drone based phenotyping of phenology and drought stress	Ingo Ensminger: University of Toronto	06.11.2023
Modellfabrik Papier – Leading the way for sustainable paper production	Peter Bekaert: Modellfabrik Papier gGmbH	04.12.2023
“The rhizosphere rules”	Prof Dr. Corné Pieterse - Plant-Microbe Interactions and scientific director of the Institute of Environmental Biology of the Faculty of Science	17.10.2023

Seminars 2022

A cross-section of capabilities at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility - From seeds to plants to fields	Dr. Richard Poiré, Dr. Frederike Stock, Dr. Tim Brown - Australian Plant Phenomics Facility / Australian National University	22.09.2022
Do traits from phenotyping platforms facilitate yield prediction?	Dr. Francois Tardieu, Dr. Claude Welcker - INRAE Montpellier, France	31.08.2022
Robust yet adaptive - morphogenesis and growth regulation in root hairs	Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann, Cell and Interaction Biology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf	16.08.2022

Seminars 2021

Seminars 2020

Science and Technology Innovations Advancing Mutation-Assisted Plant Breeding	Ivan Ingelbrecht (FAO/IAEA)	25.08.2020
How do hybrid species form?	Annaliese Mason, Plant Breeding Department, Justus Liebig University Gießen	postponed
The Automatic Data Scientist	Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting, Technischen Universität Darmstadt	postponed
EDEN ISS: Analogue Testing of Plant Cultivation for Space	Dr. Daniel Schubert, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt	16.06.2020

Seminars 2019

Seminars 2018

Non-invasive imaging of plant vascular function	Prof. Brendan Choat, Western Sydney University	11.12.2018
Smart Farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture	Prof. Achim Walter, ETH Zürich	06.11.2018
Hybrid allele-specific chromatin analysis links variation in BZR1 binding to yield and disease-related traits in maize	Dr. Thomas Hartwig, MPIZ Köln	23.10.2018
From lab to space to field – Examples from the Agricultural Remote Sensing Research Center (FLF)	Dr. Holger Lilienthal, Julius Kühn-Institut Braunschweig	16.10.2018
Assessing chemical energy use by plants through new evaluations of costly processes in cellular maintenance	Prof. Harvey Millar	03.05.2018
ANU Plant Phenomics at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility - Open source tools for high throughput Phenomics, NextGen data visualization and Deep Learning	Dr. Richard Poire-Lassus, Australian National University, Canberra	02.05.2018
Making more out of phenotypic information by statistical modelling	Prof. Fred van Eeuwijk, Wageningen University	19.04.2018
Rice Phenomics for Genetics and Breeding: The Challenge of Trait Plasticity and Epigenetic Acclimation	Dr. Michael DIngkuhn, CIRAD, Montpellier	14.03.2018

Seminars 2017

Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology – a Scientific Challenge	Dr. Ralf Wilhelm, Julius-Kühn-Institut Quedlinburg	08.08.2017
Natural variation in nutrient homeostasis	Prof. Stanislav Kopriva, Universität Köln	18.07.2017
Digital Technology for Agriculture: from NECTEC’s Experience	Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, NECTEC, NSTDA, Thailand	18.05.2017
The lessons green algae taught us on the regulation of central metabolism and what they will teach us in the future	Tabea Mettler-Altmann, HHU Düsseldorf	16.05.2017
Spying on cells with the help of genetically encoded sensors to unravel the mechanisms of carbon allocation in plants	Wolf Frommer, Stanford University	23.01.2017

Seminars 2016

Bioeconomy: opportunities for collaboration with Costa Rica	Keilor Rojas, PhD, former Viceminister in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica, currently Universidad Latina de Costa Rica	19.01.2016
Diversity Seek (DivSeek): An international partnership to harness the genetic potential of crop diversity	Peter Wenzl from the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Bonn	22.01.2016
Illuminating root structure and function	Dr. Rosemary White, Head, Microscopy Centre, CSIRO Canberra, Australia: Illuminating root structure and function	23.02.2016
Rhizosphere biophysics and root water uptake	Prof. Andrea Carminati, Division of Soil Hydrology, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany	29.02.2016
Phenotyping Challenges in Oil Palm Crop Improvement	Choo Kien Wong, Applied Agricultural Resources Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia,	07.03.2016
Nodulation in legumes and its relationship to the control of root architecture	Dr. Ulrike Mathesius, Australian National University: http://biology.anu.edu.au/people/ulrike-mathesius	30.03.2016
The rhizosphere microbiome of cultivated plants and effects of bacterial inoculants or pathogens on the indigenous bacterial community in the rhizosphere	Prof. Dr. Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany http://www.jki.bund.de/en/startseite/institute/epidemiologie-pathogendiagnostik/staff/prof-dr-smalla-kornelia.html	25.04.2016
Woody legumes are different: Water Use Efficiency and global cycles of carbon water and nitrogen	Prof. Mark Adams Professor and Director, Centre for Carbon Water and Food, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, Australia (https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=isp7tF0AAAAJ&hl=en)	18.05.2016
Exploring plant-plant interactions in mixed-species stands using functional-structural plant modelling, can improvement in leaf photosynthesis increase crop productivity?	Jochem Evers&Xinyou Yin, Wageningen UR, Netherlands	21.06.2016
Can improvement in leaf photosynthesis increase crop productivity?
Spatially resolved systems biology to identify novel salinity tolerance mechanisms in barley roots	Ute Roessner, University of Melbourne, Australia	11.07.2016
Phenotyping infrastructure controlled environment and field	Francesco Loreto, Italian National Research Council Department of Bio-Agro-Sciences, Italy	19.07.2016
Topical talks Plant-biotic interaction	Michael Udvardi, Noble Foundation, USA	16.08.2016
Field Phenotyping and quantification of Plant traits	Holger Lilienthal, Julius-Kühn-Institute for Crop and Soil Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany	20.09.2016
Improving phosphorus efficiency in rice: A strategy targeting complementary efficiency mechanisms	Matthias Wissuwa, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)	04.10.2016
CT technology development and application on plants	Norman Uhlmann, Fraunhofer (EZRT), Fürth, Germany	18.10.2016
Perennials as renewable resources	Reinhart Ceulemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium	15.11.2016

Seminars 2015

Crop phenotyping @ ETH Zürich: Optimizing shoot and root growth via image analysis based approaches	Prof. Achim Walter, head of the Crop Science Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland	19.11.2015
Modelling crops across scales	Prof. Frank Ewert - INRES Crop sciences, Universität Bonn	20.10.2015
Title Getting to the root of dwarfing control in apple rootstocks and the role of emmer introgression in wheat	Peter J Gregory East Malling Research and University of Reading UK	23.07.2015
Modelling the genetic architecture of flowering time control in barley through nested association	Prof. Klaus Pillen, head of the institute of plant breeding, University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany	15.07.2015
Evolution in a changing environment: the genetic architecture of adaptation outside centers of domestication of Phaseolus vulgaris and P. coccineus	Prof. Roberto Papa, Department of Agriculture, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.	03.07.2015
Image Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Organisation: Methods and Tools with a Focus on Leaf Morphogenesis	Philippe Andrey, Jasmine Burguet and Patrick Laufs, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France.	21.04.2015
Biorefinery of microalgae	Prof. René H. Wijffels, Bioprocess Engineering, Wageningen University, the Netherlands	20.01.2015

Seminars 2014

Affordable plant phenotyping: the challenges and opportunities	Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris, IMT Lucca, Italy.	17.12.2014
Brachypodium distachyon: a useful model for root research in cereals.	Dr. Vincent Cochois, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia	02.12.2014
Rate-limiting Function of Phytoene Synthase in Carotenoid Biosynthesis,	Dr. Ralf Welsch, Department of Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany	18.11.2014
A systems approach to improved root traits.	Philip N. Benfey, Biology Department and HHMI, Duke University, Durham, NC USA	22.09.2014
SPATIAL ECOLOGY AND EARTH OBSERVATION,,	Prof. Dr. Andrew Skidmore, University of Twente, the Netherlands (http://www.itc.nl/resumes/skidmore)	15.04.2014
Uncovering Root Systems Architecture: new angles and perspectives.	Prof. Dr. Malcolm Bennett, University of Nottingham, UK	18.03.2014
Neo-functionalisation of the flowering pathway for vegetative storage-organ formation in potato,	Christian Bachem, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Wageningen-UR	05.02.2014
Understanding Root Behavior	Prof.Dr.Dario Floreano, Director of the laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland	11.02.2014

Seminars 2013

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How will global climate change affect isoprene emission from plants?	Thomas Sharkey, Michigan State University	07.11.2019
Multi-omic assessment of plant tolerance to water scarcity: a case study in barley	Pawel Krajewski, Polish Academy of Science	08.11.2019
SOYbean for CLIMate (SOYCLIM)	Prof. Giorgio Alberti, University of Udine, Italy	04.09.2019

JPSS Jülich Plant Science Seminar Series:	Dr. Helen North, INRA Versailles France	10.12.2013
JPSS Jülich Plant Science Seminar Series:	Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller-Röber, University of Potsdam	12.11.2013
JPSS Jülich Plant Science Seminar Series:	Prof. Dr.John Doonan, University of Aberystwyth, UK. (http://www.phenomics.org.uk/).	19.11.2013

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Jülich Plant Science Seminars (JPSS)

This seminar series is hosted by IBG-2 on a monthly base. Internationally renowned experts from different fields within plant sciences and related disciplines are invited. We are aiming on the integration of regional plant sciences and therefore open JPSS also for external people to participate.

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