Response of plants to increasing ozone stress

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Time:	28.9.-30.9.2011
Place:	Lectures: University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus (map pdf), seminar rooms S23 and S25 (the 2nd floor) and room 4322 (the 4th floor) in Snellmania building
Credits:	2 ETCS
Language:	English
Organizers:	Organized jointly by The Finnish Graduate School in Environmental Science and Technology (EnSTe) and Environmental Risk Assessment Centre (ERACedu)
Course leader:	Elina Oksanen, Prof., University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

Increasing tropospheric ozone is a ubiquitous phytotoxic air pollutant, exposing the plants to increasing load of oxidative stress. During the last decade, the mechanistic responses of plants to ozone have been intensively studied both in crop and forest trees species.

Topics

This ozone course will offer lectures and practical training, transferring current knowledge of the impacts of increasing tropospheric ozone on plants from molecular, physiological and biochemical perspective, effects on plant-insect and plant-soil interactions and interactions of ozone and climate warming on northern trees. We will introduce you powerful and novel methodologies for ecological stress studies and ozone risk assessment.

Lecturers

Elina Oksanen, Prof., University of Eastern Finland, Dept. of Biology

Jarmo Holopainen, Dr., UEF, Dept. of Environmental Science

Elina Häikiö, Dr., UEF, Dept. of Environmental Science

Anne Kasurinen, Dr., UEF, Dept. of Environmental Science

Markku Keinänen, Dr., UEF, Dept. of Biology

Sari Kontunen-Soppela, Dr., UEF, Dept. of Biology

Didier Le Thiec, Dr., INRA-Centre de Recherches Forestie`res, Unite´ Ecophysiologie Forestie`re-Laboratoire de Pollution Atmosphe´rique, Champenoux, France

Course fee

Free of charge for all participants.

Registration by September 20th, 2011.

Programme

28 Sept 2011	Lecturer	Topic
9.00-11.15, S23	Elina Oksanen	Opening of the course
		Lecture 1: Impacts of ozone on plants,general introduction, action of ozone stress mechanisms
Lunch
12.15-13.45, S25	Jarmo Holopainen	Lecture 2: Impacts of ozone on plant-insect interactions, ozone and volatile organic compounds
Coffee break
14.15-15.00	Elina Häikiö	Introduction to ozone chamber experiment (100 ppb ozone, tobacco)
15.00-17.00	Elina Häikiö	Visit to open-field ozone fumigation site, Ruohoniemi (Kuopio campus)
Dinner
29 Sept 2011
9.00 -10.30, Room 4322	Anne Kasurinen	Lecture 3: Impacts of ozone on root systems (mycorrhiza, soil biota), carbon labeling in ozone stress studies, carbon flow to roots
10.30-12.00	Sari Kontunen-Soppela	Lecture 4:Molecular mechanisms, changes in gene expressions, bioinformatics
Lunch
13.00-14.30, Room 4322	Didier LeThiec	Lecture 5: Ozone studies in INRA (France), ozone flux measurements
Coffee break
15.00-18.00 Room 4322 Lab.4147	Didier LeThiec, Elina Häikiö, Sari Kontunen-Soppela, Sarita Keski-Saari	Practical training: ozone flux measurements in ozone chamber experiment, monitoring visible ozone injuries
30 Sept 2011
9.00-11.00, Room 4322	Markku Keinänen	Lecture 6: Oxidative stress, metabolomics, system biology?
Lunch
12.00-14.00, Room 4322	Elina Oksanen, Didier LeThiec	Results and conclusions from ozone flux Measurements, final discussions, closure