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.
TITLE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | DATE | TIME | OUTLOOK | VENUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wave-length specific photosynthesis and semi-transparent photovoltaics for agrivoltaics | Utrecht University | 01.06.2026 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Appointment (msg) | Plant Sciences (IBG-2), building 06.2, room 406 | |
Algal/ Cyanobacterial Biotechnology: Unfurling A Few Possibilities | Prof. Dr. Nirupama Mallick | Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, Inidia | 22.06.2026 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Appointment (msg) | Plant Sciences (IBG-2), building 06.2, room 406 |
Universität Copenhagen | 06.07.2026 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Appointment (msg) | Plant Sciences (IBG-2), building 06.2, room 406 | ||
Angers University | 05.10.2026 | 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.
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
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 |
Prof. Dr Jan van den Berg | 10.06.2025 | |
JPSS lecture: Pinpointing the Shift from Environmental to Stomatal Control of Transpiration | Prof. Dr. Martin Bader | 10.06.2025 |
Tanja Kostic | 07.07.2025 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| Molecular ecophysiology of wood formation under drought | Prof. Dr. Andrea Polle, Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany | 07.12.2021 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
