Advances in Plant Omics and Systems Biology Approaches

Flavia Vischi Winck is a biologist, with a PhD in molecular biology. She has worked on protein chemistry, plant systems biology, functional genomics, molecular biology and biochemistry with focus in understanding signaling mechanisms and complex gene regulatory networks using proteomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics approaches in a systems biology framework.

• 1. Introduction to plant omics and systems biology.- 2. Modern approaches for transcriptome analyses in plants.- 3. Plant proteomics and systems biology .- 4. Subcellular proteomics as a unified approach of experimental localizations and computed prediction data for Arabidopsis and crop plants.- 5. The contribution of metabolomics to systems biology: current applications bridging genotype and phenotype in plant science.- 6. Interactomes: Experimental and in silico approaches.- 7. Probabilistic graphical models applied to biological networks.- 8. Cataloging posttranslational modifications in plant histones.- 9. Current challenges in plant systems biology.- 10. Contribution of omics and systems biology to plant biotechnology.