FSU Jena - Kolloquium - Biologisch-Pharmazeutische Fakultät

The MPI for Chemical Ecology in Jena was founded more than 15 years ago, and this will be one of a series of lectures to provide an overview of the research that has been going on at the institute. Ian Baldwin, director of the Department of Molecular Ecology, will describe a research/training program for Genome-Enabled Field Biologists that he has established in his department, and summarize the last decade of research on how a native tobacco plant, Nicotiana attenuata, copes with environmental stresses, such as herbivore attack. The research program is singular in that it uses a nature preserve to understand gene function in a native organism. While the research relies heavily on cutting edge methods in analytical chemistry, bioinformatics, plant and microbial molecular biology, and field ecology, the lecture will be targeted at the larger issues involved in this research and hence should be interesting to a broad audience.