For Immediate Release
Yvonne M. Psaila
Director of Marketing & Communications
Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular
Biology
(970) 262-2676
Keystone
Symposia Invites Public to a Free Talk:
“Making
Plants More Resilient to Drought and Climate Change: Are We There Yet?”
with Professor Julian
I. Schroeder, Ph.D.
SILVERTHORNE,
CO –January 14, 2011– Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology invites
the community to attend a free public talk on “Making
Plants More Resilient to Drought and Climate Change: Are We There Yet?”
on Thursday, January 20 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. This informative and interactive
event will take place in the Grays Peak I room at Keystone Conference Center,
which is across Highway 6 from Keystone Lodge and Spa.
The
presentation will focus on plants’ reactions to environmental (“abiotic”)
stresses including drought, salinity stress, elevated CO2 and heavy
metal stress. With climate change, many of these
stresses pose a growing threat to global plant growth, biomass
production and the need to increase arable land to sustain an expanding world
population. By understanding and manipulating the pathways that mediate
resistance to these stresses, scientists are studying the feasibility of
engineering plants and crops that could be more tolerant and resilient. The
talk will be approximately 45 minutes, followed by Q&A.
The
featured speaker is Julian I. Schroeder, Ph.D., Novartis Chair and
Distinguished Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the
University of California, San Diego. He is also Director of the Plant Systems
Biology UCSD-Salk Graduate Program.
The
author of numerous scientific journal papers, Professor Schroeder has also received
a variety of awards for his research advances, including the Charles Albert
Shull Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Presidential
Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the DFG
Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Research Prize and the Blasker Award in Environmental
Science and Engineering. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by the
Institute for Scientific Information and is a Chinese Academy of Sciences
International Professor as well as an elected Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
Professor Schroeder will be in Summit
County as co-organizer of Keystone Symposia’s scientific conference on “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance Mechanisms,
Water and Global Agriculture,” taking place at Keystone Resort, January
17-22, 2011 and co-organized by Dr. Jacqueline E. Heard of Monsanto Company.
From 2006-2009, Professor Schroeder served on Keystone Symposia’s Scientific
Advisory Board, a group of illustrious scientists from around the world that
helps determine the non-profit’s conference programming.
About Keystone
Symposia
Keystone
Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization,
has been conducting internationally renowned, open scientific conferences since
1972 and has been headquartered in Summit County, Colorado since 1990, when the
organization left the University of California at Los Angeles. Each year, Keystone Symposia holds 50-60
meetings involving more than 13,000 scientists from around the world. Most of
the meetings are held in the Rocky Mountain U.S. states and Canadian provinces,
with a growing number each year overseas. The organization depends greatly on the
generous support provided by corporations, foundations and individual donors.
Keystone
Symposia is pleased to celebrate its 40th conference season in 2010-2011.
More
information can be found at www.keystonesymposia.org.
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