Minutes of Lab Meeting 25th August

We had a project meeting on Wednesday 25th August. Pedro, Matt, Titta, Luis, and Fang were present. We all briefly reported on our work progress since the last meeting. We also talked about coming activities.

1. Fang and Luis will give posters at the SPPS meeting for PhD students in Espoo next week.
2. We will meet with Prof. Gareth Jenkins (Glasgow University), UV researcher at a molecular and signalling level, on Friday 3rd September in the morning in Espoo. (He gives a talk on Thursday afternoon.)
3. Pedro had to skip participation in UNEP meeting because he is not fully recovered from the operation in his foot.
4. UV4growth COST work groups’ meetings delayed because of delayed signing of contract and start of activities.
5. The CEO from a LED lamps company will come and talk with us at 9.00 am on 2^nd September about possible collaboration.
6. Luis will go to Talin to the Plant Biology meeting. He will not give a presentation, but will report back on what the other groups are doing.
7. Prof. Ariel Novoplansky will come during the week of 13-18^th September and talk at the seminar series on 13th Sept (Monday). We will have a research group dinner with him on Tuesday evening. In preparation for his visit, each of us will read one of his research papers and report back. Some papers to choose from were attached to Matt’s e-mail and for others follow the link. They go on a first come first served basis. http://www.bgu.ac.il/desert_ecology/Novoplansky/hp.htm#publications
8. A Czech PhD student called Petra Holišová working with Matt’s collaborators in Brno will visit on an exchange to do some research into stomatal response to coloured light from 18^th September (?).
9. Matt will give a presentation at a symposium on water relations in Cartagena, Murcia,Spain, during the first week of October.
10. Pedro will start teaching for the semester on 6^th September – Plant Physiological Ecology.
11. Titta will do a pedagogy course and I will do a teacher training course this term.
12. Luis will take a student from the lab tech training courses to help him with genen expression and phenolic analysis from October to December.
13. We will buy a spectro-radiometer for the group.
14. Pedro and Fang will make another light source for the GSF now, and another two or three a little bit later. We will build a blue light source (435 nm peak), another RGB source, and a red and a far-red source, and possibly a pure green one later. We will have built at the workshop a nicer skirt/light mixing chamber to put between the LED sources and the cuvette.