Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Insights into How Plants Respond to Drought
Discussion Leader: Megan Bartlett (Princeton University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Diana Macias (University of New Mexico, USA)
"Understanding Global-Change-Type Drought in PiƱon-Juniper Woodlands Using Carbon Isotopes"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Gerard Sapes (University of Montana, USA)
"Depletion of Non-Structural Carbohydrate Pools in the Absence of Drought Increases Plant Vulnerability to Drought"
4:20 pm - 4:25 pm
Discussion
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
General Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Gene to Organ Level Responses to Environmental Change
Discussion Leader: Robert Skelton (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Freya Richardson (University of Tasmania, Australia)
"Is There a Hydraulic Cost to Amphistomaty?"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Laura Fernández de Uña (Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRA, UMR Silva, France)
"Intra-Annual Xylem Formation and Water Flux Dynamics in Fagus sylvatica L."
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Natalie McMann (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)
"Flowering Without Leaves: Does Stem Hydraulic Supply Constrain Floral Water Loss?"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Christina Smith (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA)
"Effect of Sample Length on Xylem Optical Vulnerability Curves from Trees with Long Vessels"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Plant to Ecosystem Level Responses to Environmental Change
Discussion Leader: Martin Venturas (University of Utah, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Helen Holmlund (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
"Positive Root Pressure Drives Desiccation Recovery in Two Desiccation-Tolerant California Chaparral Ferns"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Elisabeth Robert (Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
"The Environmental and Ecological Determinants of Xylem and Phloem Cell Structural Traits Within and Across Species"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Annika Meitern (Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia)
"The Effect of Elevated Air Humidity on Growth Rate, Photosynthetic Capacity, Hydraulic Properties and Biomass Allocation in Silver Birch"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
William Hammond (Oklahoma State University, USA)
"To Tree or Not to Tree? Mechanisms of Tree Mortality Under Global-Change-Type Drought"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leaders: Jess Gersony (Harvard University, USA) and Jennifer Teshera-Levye (University of Minnesota, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Panel Q&A
Brett Huggett (Bates College, USA)
Walid Sadok (University of Minnesota, USA)
Sanna Sevanto (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes