Developments in Plant Biology
Organised by Professor Christine Raines (University of Essex)
The aim of this group of sessions is to provide the opportunity for young researchers to present their work to a wider audience. This has now run for the last three 3 years and has been highly successful with the quality of talks being higher year on year. In addition to early career speakers we will also have opportunities for established researchers to present unpublished work from their labs. The topics in this session can be in any area of modern plant biology including metabolism, gene expression, development and environmental physiology.
Session Programme - Wednesday 9th July
Chair: Professor Christine Raines
09:00 Dr Lee Sweetlove (University of Oxford)
Getting to grips with the plant metabolic metwork [P3.1]
09:35 Dr Ian Tetlow (University of Guelph)
Protein-protein interactions among enzymes of starch synthesis [P3.2]
10:00 Mr Adam Moolna (University of Manchester)
Catalysing the final electron transfer step in photosynthesis: why are there multiple isoforms of ferredoxin NADP+ oxidoreductase (FNR) in the chloroplast? [P3.3]
10:20 Refreshment Break
10:50 Mr Nicolas Fabre (CNRS)
Functional characterization of AtbCA5, a new chloroplastic carbonic anhydrase isoform in Arabidopsis [P3.4]
11:10 Mr Halley Caixeta de Oliveira (UNICAMP)
Involvement of external NAD(P)H dehydrogenases in nitric oxide degradation by plant mitochondria [P3.5]
11:30 Dr Ricardo Azevedo (Universidade de São Paulo)
Threonine synthesis in maize - LL-DAP-aminotransferase and threonine synthase temporal expression in developing quality protein maize seeds [P3.6]
11:50 Mr Thomas Williams (University of Oxford)
Investigating control of TCA cycle-dependent biosynthesis using metabolic flux analysis [P3.7]
12:10 Lunch Break
Chair: Dr Ian Tetlow
14:00 Dr Mark Hooks (College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University)
Structural properties of the peroxisomal acetyl-CoA synthetase ACN1 from Arabidopsis [P3.8]
14:25 Dr Astrid Wingler (University College London)
Genetic basis of the link between senescence regulation and flowering time control [P3.9]
14:45 Prof. Viktor Zarsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Exocyst complex functions in plant development [P3.10]
15:05 Dr Margaret Pullen (University of Durham)
Stipules produce sterols, which regulate axial bifurcation and phyllotaxy in Arabidopsis [P3.11]
15:25 Refreshment Break
16:00 Dr Zinnia Gonzalez-Carranza (University of Nottingham)
The F-box protein HAWAIIAN SKIRT regulates boundary fusion via miRNA processing [P3.12]
16:20 Dr Wendy Peer (Purdue University)
Mutation of the membrane-associated M1 protease APM1 results in embryonic and seedling developmental defects phenocopied by treatment with 1-N-napthylphthalamic acid [P3.13]
16:40 Mr Gordon Breen (University of Bristol)
Predicting functional modules in root hairs that drive tip growth [P3.14]
Thursday 10th July
Chair: Professor Christine Raines
09:00 Prof. Gail Taylor (University of Southampton)
Natural genetic variation and plant response to the changing climate – what experiments do we need to do in future? [P3.15]
09:35 Miss Katie Field (University of Sheffield)
Does genetic diversity in plants matter? An environmental metabolomic approach [P3.16]
09:55 Dr Penny Tricker (University of Reading)
Epigenetic control of stomatal number in response to humidity environment [P3.17]
10:15 Refreshment Break
10:45 Dr Piotr Stepien (University of Manchester)
Contrasting response of phtosynthesis to salt stress in the glycophyte Arabidopsis thaliana and the halophyte Thellungiella halophila [P3.18]
11:05 Mr Simon Dittami (Station Biologique de Roscoff)
Abiotic stress response in the model brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus (Phaeophycaea) [P3.19]
11:25 Mr Edward Byrne (Rothamsted Research)
The wheat GCN2 signalling pathway: Does this kinase play an important role in stress signalling? [P3.20]
11:45 Prof. Masoud Seidai (Shahid Beheshti University)
Molecular and cytogenetical diversity in gamma irradiated cotton cultivars, their hybrids and tissue culture regenerated plants [P3.21]
12:05 Elodie Lanet (CEA-CNRS/University Aix-Marseille)
mRNA Translation is a Component of Plant RNA silencing [P3.47]
12:25 Lunch Break
Chair: Dr Mark Hooks
14:00 Prof. Wolfgang Schmidt (Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica)
IRONIC controls iron deficiency-induced changes in root epidermal patterning [P3.22]
14:20 DrWieland Fricke (University College Dublin, University of Paisley)
Cloning and expression analyses of potassium channels in barley leaves [P3.23]
14:40 Dr Lucia Primavesi
Trehalose 6-phosphate makes sugar sense [P3.24]
15:00 DrWendy Peer (Purdue Univeristy)
Localization and function of beta-adaptin isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana [P3.25]
15:20 Refreshment Break
15:50 Dr Nynne Christensen (University of Edinburgh)
Imaging the early events of TMV infection [P3.26]
16:10 Dr Andrew Love (Glasgow University)
An effector protein encoded by cauliflower mosaic virus inhibits SA-dependent defence responses in Arabidopsis via an NPR1-dependent mechanism [P3.27]
