Monthly Archives: January 2022

Online course: “Ancestral hydrotechnologies as a response to climate, health and food emergencies”

Curso en línea “Hidrotecnologías ancestrales como respuesta a la emergencia climática, sanitaria y alimentaria”

7, 8 y 14 de marzo de 2022

Hora: 11 horas Montevideo / Buenos Aires (GMT-3)

Link: https://bit.ly/3rQrn2u

El Programa Hidrológico Intergubernamental para América Latina y el Caribe (PHI-LAC) junto a la Conferencia Iberoamericana de Directores de Agua (CODIA) con el apoyo de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), les invitan al curso en línea “Hidrotecnologías ancestrales como respuesta a la emergencia climática, sanitaria y alimentaria“.

La actividad es organizada junto a: Cátedra UNESCO de Sostenibilidad (UPC); Fondo de Cooperación para Agua y Saneamiento (FCAS); Grupo de trabajo del PHI-LAC sobre Educación y Cultura del Agua; Cátedra UNESCO de Agua y Cultura (Universidad de la República de Uruguay); Cátedra UNESCO Manejo de Aguas Dulces Tropicales – Universidad Regional Amazónica (Ikiam); Cátedra UNESCO de Sostenibilidad de los Recursos Hídricos, Universidad de San Carlos; Cátedra UNESCO de Agua y Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina.

Objetivos: presentar casos de rescate de patrimonio cultural inmaterial vinculados a la gestión ancestral del agua para adaptarlos al contexto actual de emergencia climática y sanitaria; crear las bases para el desarrollo de un programa educativo y de formación específico a estas tecnologías y de un proyecto de puesta en valor; y crear un espacio transdisciplinar sobre hidrotecnologías ancestrales.

Drigido a: directivos y técnicos especialistas, gestores locales del agua, profesorado universitario, investigadores de organismos públicos encargados de dar suministro de agua potable a la población, de gestionar e investigar los recursos hídricos, los bosques, la agricultura y las áreas naturales protegidas del ámbito de ALC, y miembros de comunidades con hidrotecnologías ancestrales en su territorio.

English version:

The Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (IHP-LAC) together with the Ibero-American Conference of Water Directors (CODIA) with the support of AECID, invite you to the online course “Ancestral hydrotechnologies as a response to climate, health and food emergencies“.

The activity is organised together with: UNESCO Chair on Sustainability (UPC); Water and Sanitation Cooperation Fund (FCAS); IHP-LAC Working Group on Water Education and Culture; UNESCO Chair on Water and Culture (University of the Republic of Uruguay); UNESCO Chair Tropical Freshwater Management – Amazon Regional University (Ikiam); UNESCO Chair on Sustainability of Water Resources, University of San Carlos; UNESCO Chair on Water and Education for Sustainable Development, National University of Litoral, Argentina.

This virtual course aims to present cases of rescue of intangible cultural heritage linked to ancestral water management to adapt them to the current context of climate and health emergency; to create the basis for the development of an educational and training programme specific to these technologies and a project to enhance their value; and to create a transdisciplinary space on ancestral hydrotechnologies.

It is aimed at managers and technical specialists, local water managers, university professors, researchers from public bodies in charge of supplying drinking water to the population, managing and researching water resources, forests, agriculture and protected natural areas in the LAC area, and members of communities with ancestral hydrotechnologies in their territory.

Reunión de la Red de Diatomólogos Hispanohablantes

Martes, 8 de febrero de 2022, 2pm Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), 11 am Argentina GMT-3

Hacer click aquí para ver tu zona horaria. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Encuentro+Diatomologos+Hispanoblantes&iso=20220208T14&p1=1440&ah=1

Si estás interesado en participar, por favor, rellena este formulario (esto nos facilitará mucho la organización de la reunión): https://forms.gle/hhvf2EiYCBwqY3hHA

Una vez hayas rellenado el formulario, te enviaremos el enlace para el encuentro cuando se acerque la fecha.

Nélida Abarca, Xavier Benito, Andrea Burfeid, Maria Laura Carrevedo , María Lujan García, Sílvia Sala, Julian Simonato, Rosa Trobajo, Carlos Wetzel

Curso online: “Introducción a la divulgación científica”

Sociedad Argentina de Botánica https://www.facebook.com/sabotanica/

Jueves 3, 10, 17 y 24 de febrero de 2022

Un encuentro Semanal a las 18 horas.

INSCRIPCIÓN: del 20 de enero al 2 de febrero de 2022

Inscripción vía E.mail a: inscripcionescursossab@gmail.com, indicando NOMBRE y APELLIDO y DNI

Plant Physiology Webinar: Celebrating the February 2022 Focus Issue on The Plant Cell Atlas

Thursday, February 10, 2022,
8:00 AM PST (UTC-8) | 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5) | 4:00 PM GMT
, 1:00 PM Argentina, GMT-3

REGISTER NOW https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2816420763859/WN_IGhOUjteRpaeoV_KuI-2RQ

Registration is free and opens to ASPB members exclusively for 24 hours before opening to the general plant science community. Don’t delay–seats fill up fast! 

SPEAKERS
Hilde Nelissen: Spatial transcriptomics of the maize shoot apex: from single cell to leaf growth

Hilde Nelissen is group leader at the center for Plant Systems Biology at the VIB and Ghent University. The main focus of Hilde’s research is to understand how plant organs grow, starting from the maize leaf, which offers an accessible model to study the dynamic changes in the molecular and physiological growth processes. Plants with altered growth characteristics are evaluated with a range of molecular and phenotyping technologies. Past research in her lab focused on the translatability of plant biotechnological findings from Arabidopsis to maize, while recent work aims at deepening and applying a highly conserved growth regulatory network.

Daniel Kierzkowski: Live-Imaging provides an atlas of cellular growth dynamics in stamen

Daniel Kierzkowski is an assistant professor and principal investigator at the University of Montreal in Canada. He obtained an MSc in Plant Biology from AgroParisTech in France in 2005, and a PhD in Biology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in Poland in 2009.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Cris Kuhlemeier, and then in the group of Miltos Tsiantis. Daniel’s research focuses on molecular, cellular, and tissue level mechanisms underlying organogenesis in plants. His expertise in growth tracking, 3D-image analysis, genetics, and biomechanics is applied to understand how growth, patterning, and differentiation interact in mechanically connected tissues to produce a diversity of shapes in plant organs.  

Jenn Brophy: Toward synthetic plant development

Jenn Brophy is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford and a Chan Zuckerburg Biohub investigator. She received her BS in bioengineering from UC Berkeley and PhD from MIT, where she worked with Chris Voigt and Alan Grossman to develop a tool for engineering undomesticated bacteria and modifying soil microbiomes in situ.

For her postdoctoral research, she worked with José Dinneny at Stanford to engineer spatial patterns of gene expression across plant tissues using synthetic genetic circuits. In her own lab, Jenn is interested in applying synthetic biology to plants and bacteria in ways that address climate change issues for a sustainable future.

MODERATOR
Kenneth D. Birnbaum

Kenneth D. Birnbaum is a professor and developmental biologist at New York University. His research focuses on the plant’s remarkable ability to reorganize tissues and organs during regeneration. His lab has also helped develop experimental approaches for high throughput and systems biology in plant development. He developed a system for transcriptomic readouts of specific cell types in plants during his postdoc and has since helped adapt single-cell RNA-seq techniques in plants. Kenneth received his PhD from New York University and the American Museum of Natural History. His PhD focused on the conservation genetics of avocado land races in the Pacific Lowlands of the Central American Isthmus.

ASPB – Plant Sciene Articles of the Week – January 27, 2022

Plant Physiology Article of the Week: GWAS on multiple traits identifies mitochondrial ACONITASE3 as important for acclimation to submergence stress
The spotlight is on Xiangxiang Meng, Lu Li, Jesús Pascual, Moona Rahikainen, Changyu Yi, Ricarda Jost, Cunman He, Alexandre Fournier-Level, Justin Borevitz, Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi, James Whelan, and Oliver Berkowitz. They demonstrate that mitochondrial ACONITASE3 is important for the acclimation to submergence stress by integrating carbon and nitrogen metabolism and impacting stress signaling pathways.

The Plant Cell Article of the Week: Molecular Tug-of-War: Plant Immune Recognition of Herbivory
The spotlight is on University of Washington researchers Simon Snoeck, Natalia Guayazán-Palacios, and Adam D. Steinbrenner. Their review describes the mechanisms by which plants perceive chewing and piercing-sucking herbivores, as well as the downstream signaling pathways that mediate specific responses.

Plant Direct Article of the Week: Genotypic differences in response of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) to lime-induced iron chlorosis
The spotlight is on Khaled Salhi, Hichem Hajlaoui, and Abdelmajid Krouma. Their study focuses on the physiological behavior of six Tunisian genotypes of wheat (T. durum Desf.) cultivated on calcareous soil, as compared with fertile soil. The results suggest that plant growth, photosynthesis, chlorophyll biosynthesis, and Fe content are interdependent.

Curso de Postgrado: “Transducción de señales en plantas”

7 al 18 de marzo de 2022

Cierre de Inscripción: 7 de febrero de 2022

INSCRIPCIÓN Enviar CV y Carta de Intención a: tsp.iib@gmail.com

LUGAR Y CRONOGRAMA DE ACTIVIDADES: Lugar: Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina.

MODALIDAD: Presencial, teórico, teórico-práctico y práctico

CARGA HORARIA: 80 horas totales (36 horas de clases teóricas; 12 horas de clases prácticas; 32 horas de clases teórico-práctico).

DOCENTE/S RESPONSABLES:

Dra. Ana M. Laxalt y Dr. Carlos García-Mata

DOCENTE/S COLABORADORES:

Dr. J. Muschietti, Facultad de Cs. Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Hormonas Vegetales (Acido Abscísico (ABA), Acido Giberélico (GA), brasinosteriodes, receptores y vías de señalización

Dr. P. Cerdán, Fundación Instituto Leloir. Percepción de la Luz y Señalización. Ritmos Circadianos

Dr.  N, Cecchini, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Estrés Biótico: percepción y señalización. Ácido Salicílico (SA) y Jasmónico (JA) como hormonas reguladora de respuesta de defensa.

Dra. C. Terrile, UNMdP. Auxinas, receptores de auxinas y modificaciones post-traduccionales

Dr. C. García-Mata, UNMdP. Señalización por Gasotransmisores en plantas.

Dra. A. M. Laxalt, UNMdP. Generalidades/Introducción a la Señalización. Fosfolípidos como segundos mensajeros

Dr. J. Estevez: Fundación Instituo Leloir. Señalización por calcio y ROS

Dra. D Scuffi. A cargo del desarrollo de los prácticos.

Bioq. Rosario Pantaleno. A cargo del desarrollo de los prácticos

CONTENIDOS MÍNIMOS Y PROGRAMA ANALITICO:

Introducción al concepto de señalización:             Percepción de estímulos. Transducción y transmisión de señales.

Receptores: tirosin kinasas, serin/treonine kinsas; cytokine receptores; acoplados a proteína G

Señalización intracelular/segundos mensajeros: Ca2+ CAM; small GTPases, Kinasas; fosfatasas; fosfolípidos; cAMP y cGMP; azúcares, ROS y Gasotransmisores

Respuestas nucleares:             hormonas esteroideas y receptores nucleares; factores de transcripción

Señalización célula-célula e inter-organela: Fithormonas, señalización durante el desarrollo y el estrés:

Señalización durante respuestas de defensa, SA y JA

Hormonas de plantas ABA, GA, Brasinosteroides, Auxinas

Luz y Ritmos Circadianos

Práctico 1: Detección de óxido nítrico (NO) y de especies reactivas de oxígeno (ROS) en células de tomate tratadas con el elicitor xylanasa

Práctico 2: Mecanismos de transducción de señales en células de la guarda de Vicia faba en respuesta al ABA, Ca2+ y gasotransmisores

Oferta de plaza – Beca Doctoral de Agencia – Homeostasis del hierro en plantas

Lugar de trabajo: CEFOBI-CONICET-UNR. Rosario, Argentina

Responsable: Dra. María Ayelén Pagani – ayelen.pagani@gmail.com

Adjuntar: CV y breve carta de motivación

Cierre del Concurso: 28 de febrero de 2022

Oferta de plaza – Beca Doctoral Proyecto PICT 2019 – Producción de melanina en Pseudomonas

Lugar: Depto de Química Biológica – FCEN-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Responsables: Dras. Paula Tribelli y Nancy López –

Enviar CV y certificado analítico a E-mail: paulatrib@qb.fcen.uba.ar, nan@qb.fcen.uba.ar

Webinar: “The Third Year of COVID-19: Is This the New Normal?”

COVID-19 Conversations Webinar Series

Speak for Health

January 26, 2022 | 5 – 6:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 pm Argentina (GMT-3)

The twenty-second COVID-19 Conversations webinar will provide insight into what we have learned from the omicron variant, and how that knowledge, as well as an evolving understanding of vaccine efficacy, emerging therapeutics, and public health guidance can help us move toward the new normal.   The webinar will begin with an introduction from the session’s moderator, Megan Ranney, Brown University, and then feature a conversation with a panel of experts, including:   Jennifer Nuzzo, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Larry Corey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Roy (Trip) Gulick, Weill Medical College of Cornell University Georges Benjamin, American Public Health Association   The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the webinar audience.   This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education credits for CPH, CME, CNE or CHES. Several days after attending the webinar, participants will receive an email with info on how to complete the online evaluation and claim their credits.  
Register to attend the free webinar

expert panel:

  • Megan Ranney, Brown University (Moderator)
  • Jennifer Nuzzo, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
  • Larry Corey, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
  • Roy Gulick, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Georges Benjamin, APHA

Curso de Postgrado: “Transducción de Señales en Platas” – Univ. Nac. de Mar del Plata

7 al 18 de marzo de 2022

Cierre de Inscripción: 7 de febrero de 2022

Responsables: Dra. Ana Laxalt y Dr. Carlos García-Mata

Curso NO ARANCELADO

Enviar CV y Carta de intención a: tsp.iib@gmail.com