News from the Lab

We are pleased to announce the 1st International Meeting on the Gas Phase in Plants, which will take place at the Hyytiälä research station in Finland from 11 until 14 September 2023. Because gases are involved in a wide range of metabolic processes, transport, stress response mechanisms, as well as biotic and abiotic interactions, we are convinced that a meeting that will focus on the gas phase in plants will be a highly exciting interdisciplinary event, bringing together a wide range of scientists. You might be surprised to find out that gasses-related topics in plants have more in common than one would have thought.
The following five sessions have been identified, for which we welcome oral presentations and posters:
1. Gases in leaves (including photosynthesis and respiration)
2. Gases in stems (including embolism formation)
3. Gases in roots
4. Methane and VOCs in plants
5. The role of the microbiome in gas-plant interactions
For more information and registration details, please see: https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/GPIP23/
The website also includes detailed information about transport from the airport to the Hyytiälä station. The registration deadline is 15 June 2023. The meeting includes the famous Boreal Dinner, an excursion to the SMEAR II station, saunas, the Kota (BBQ in the evening), etc. The local organizing team from the University of Helsinki includes Teemu Hölttä, Timo Vesala, Stephen Ingram, and Paulina Dukat, and the scientific committee includes Jochen Schenk and Steven Jansen as additional members.


November 2018: Proceedings from the 10th International Workshop on Sap Flow in Fullerton in 2017 published as volume 1222 of Acta Horticulturae. Check out the cover below!

October 2018:  New postdoc Kerri Mocko, formerly at the University of Connecticut joined our lab on 29 October 2018. Welcome, Kerri!

April 2018:  New NSF Grant awarded! "“RUI: Apoplastic lipids in xylem of vascular plants:Composition, locations, origins, and possible functions”, H. Jochen Schenk (PI), Steven Jansen (co-PI, Ulm University, Germany), Ruth Welti (co-PI, Kansas State University), and Yi Zuo (co-PI, University of Hawaii at Manoa).

March 2018: We made the cover again! See image below of the cover of American Journal of Botany, volume 105, issue 2. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1043onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1043

March 2018: Three new papers published in a special section of the American Journal of Botany, volume 105, issue 2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/105/2

May 2017: The Plants &H2O Lab hosted the 10th International Workshop on Sap Flow sponsored by the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS) at the Fullerton Arboretum in Fullerton, California, from 22-26 May, 2017.

February 2017: New paper on xylem surfactants published with open access in Plant Physiology. Check it out at http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/173/2/1177

February 2015: Check out our cover image for Trends of Plant Science volume 20(4), 2015: