NPBC 2026

Main Hall

Rooms

Main conference hall at Scandic Havet

Scandic Havet, Bodø
Tollbugata 5, 8006 Bodø, Norway

Closest airport: Bodø (BOO)
We’ll provide hotel recommendations and local transport details closer to the event.

Talks in this room:
Thursday
 8:45

Welcome

 9:00

Roles and recognition of stress-regulated secreted signaling peptides

Cyril Zipfel

 10:05

Snow algae and glacier ice algae biogeography and ecophysiology

Lenka Procházková

 10:50

Transcriptome analysis of cell wall biomineralization in the large diatom Coscinodiscus

Tore Brembu

 11:00

Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of eATP signalling during regulated cell death in Arabidopsis thaliana

Leah Gachao

 11:10

Role of abscisic acid metabolism in regulation of bilberry fruit ripening

Katja Karppinen

 11:15

Gene loss and horizontal gene transfer in plants as a consequence of parasitism

Karsten Fischer

 11:20

 16:00

Effects of thermal priming on the Saccharina latissima transcriptomic response to heat stress

Anne Nilsen

 16:10

Environmental Drivers of Phlorotannin Variability in the macroalga Alaria esculenta (Phaeophyceae). Insights from Wild Populations, Aquaculture and Laboratory Studies

Ralf Rautenberger

 16:20

The evolutionary origin of the Arabidopsis receptor kinase THESEUS1 and its function in plant cell wall integrity maintenance

Steven Zwartkruis

 16:30

Deciphering the functions of three Phytophthora cactorum RXLR effectors involved in strawberry colonization

Anupam Gogoi

 16:40

Extracellular ATP and Metabolomic Fingerprints of Regulated Cell Death in Tomato and Arabidopsis

Jo Helstad

 16:50

Short break

 17:00

 17:05

Polyphenolic content and bioactivity in Norwegian brown macroalgae in response to light intensity, temperature, salinity, and UV-radiation stress

Sara Roosvall

 17:10

Investigating trafficking-related candidate genes involved in cell wall-mediated stress perception in Arabidopsis thaliana

Nelly Braun

 17:20

Acquisition and maintenance of environmental stress memory in red algae ‘Bangia’ spp.

Puja Kumari

 17:25

The role of cell wall integrity maintenance mechanisms in hyperosmotic stress and cell wall damage responses

Sara Morghen

 17:35

Climate Change Modulates Glyphosate Efficacy and Species-Specific Stress Responses in Key Weed and Crop Species

Zahra Bitarafan

 17:40

Uncovering the strawberry-crown rot pathosystem and domestication of wild resistance genes

May Brurberg

 17:45

Discussion / buffer

Friday
 8:45

Form and function of a plant-fungal symbiosis

Caroline Gutjahr

 9:30

Molecular actors in the brown algal oxylipin biosynthesis pathway

Gabriel Markov

 10:45

CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing and functional genomics for development of multiple biotic & abiotic stress tolerance in Solanum lycopersicum L.

Banashree Saikia

 10:55

Assisting species differentiation using hyperspectral imaging

Vasili Balios

 11:05

Adaptive IoT-enabled automation with multimodal sensing and real-time image analysis for CEA

Arshad Ajilan

 11:15

Time-series multispectral UAV imaging reveals dynamic N-responses and breeding gains for N-uptake and protein yield in Norwegian spring barley

Morten Lillemo

 11:25

Lithologically diverse Nordic glacial flours as macro- and micronutrient sources for northern plants

Colin Sinclair

 11:35

Experimental breeding of the diatom Cylindrotheca sp. and high-throughput phenotyping of F1 offspring

Chris Hulatt

 11:45

Short break

 11:55

The Norwegian Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure (PheNo) – a new era of opportunities for plant research in Norway

Sara Laranjeira

 12:00

Discussion / buffer

 12:40

Group Photos and Closing Remarks