SEBatMarseille2008
Cell Biology of Plant Development
Sponsored by the SEB Cytoskeleton Group
Organisers: Patrick Hussey and Keith Lindsey
Marseille 6th-8thJuly
Day 1 - 6thJuly
Keynote
09:00 Prof. Gerd Juergens (Tuebingen University)
Integrating cell biology and development: auxin at the crossroads [C1/P4.1]
Session 1 - Cytoskeleton
Chair: Prof. Patrick J. Hussey
10:00 Prof. Clive Lloyd (John Innes Centre)
The impact of rotary microtubules on cell wall texture [C1/P4.2]
10:30 Dr John Bothwell (MBA of the UK, Plymouth, UK)
Ca2+ signals co-ordinate cytoskeletal polarization and cell cycle progression in the brown alga, Fucus serratus [C1/P4.3]
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:15 Dr Michael Deeks (Durham University)
Regulation of actin polymerisation and morphogenesis [C1/P4.4]
11:45 Prof. Patrick Hussey (University of Durham)
Plant microtubules, MAPs and the cytokinetic phragmoplast [C1/P4.5]
12:15 Lunch
Session 2 - Trafficking
Chair: Prof. Gerd Juergens
14:00 Prof. Chris Hawes (Oxford Brookes University)
Dynamics of plant golgi membranes [C1/P4.6]
14:45 Prof. Ian Moore (University of Oxford)
Small GTPases in post-Golgi and endocytic membrane traffic in Arabidopsis [C1/P4.7]
15:15 Refreshment Break
15:45 Dr Christine Faulkner (University of Edinburgh)
Peeking into pit fields - a new model of secondary plasmodesmata formation [C1/P4.8]
16:15 Prof. Michael Blatt (University of Glasgow)
SNAREs at the traffic junction with signalling, transport and nutrition [C1/P4.9]
16:45 Dr Imogen Sparkes (Oxford Brookes University)
Role of Reticulons on ER morphology and secretion [C1/P4.10]
Monday 7th July
Keynote
10:30 Prof. Jim Murray (University of Cambridge)
Integrating cell division and plant development [C1/P4.11]
Session 3 - Cell Cycle
Chair: Prof. Keith Lindsey
11:30 Dr John Doonan (John Innes Centre)
Cyclin dependent protein kinase substrates: insights into growth control by cell cycle regulators [C1/P4.12]
12:00 Prof. Andrew Fleming (University of Sheffield)
Leaf morphogenesis: a combined computational and molecular analysis [C1/P4.13]
12:30 Dr Peter Doerner (University of Edinburgh)
Genotoxic stress response networks at the nexus of plant growth control, life history traits and macroevolution [C1/P4.14]
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Visit Posters
Tuesday 8th July
Keynote
09:00 Prof. Herman Höfte (Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, IJPB, INRA, Versailles)
Cell-matrix interaction in plants [C1/P4.15]
Session 5 - Cell Walls
Chair: Prof. Clive Lloyd
10:00 Dr Simon Turner (University of Manchester)
Assembly and trafficking of the cellulose synthase complex within developing xylem vessels [C1/P4.16]
10:30 Dr Piers Hemsley (University of Bristol)
Palmitoylation affects multiple processes in Arabidopsis [C1/P4.17]
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:15 Prof. Paul Knox (University of Leeds)
Dissection of cell wall arabinans in relation to cell functions and plant growth [C1/P4.18]
11:45 Dr Kris Vissenberg (University of Antwerp) SEB CELL SECTION PRESIDENT'S MEDALLIST 2008
Arabidopsis root cell elongation and its control [C1/P4.19]
12:15 Lunch
Session 6 - Cell Signalling
Chair: Prof. Herman Hofte
14:00 Prof. Malcolm Bennet (University of Nottingham)
Lateral root emergence: a paradigm for cell signaling in plants [C1/P4.20]
14:45 Prof. Keith Lindsey (Durham University)
Signalling in the Arabidopsis root meristem [C1/P4.21]
15:15 Refreshment Break
15:45 Prof. Vernonica Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham)
Signalling to Programmed Cell Death in self-incompatible pollen [C1/P4.22]
16:15 Prof. Julie Gray (University of Sheffield)
Control of stomatal development [C1/P4.23]
16:45 Miss Xiaoqi Feng (University of Oxford )
Signalling and cell specification in the anther microsporangium of Arabidopsis thaliana [C1/P4.24]
