Programme - Plant Symposium/GARNet2008
8-10th September 2008
Monday 8th September - Adaptation to Environmental Stress
Session 1 Light and Environment
09:00 - 09:40
Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol, UK)
‘The responses of stomata to environmental signals’
09:40 – 10:10
Phil Mullineaux (University of Essex, UK)
‘A high light responsive chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling pathway in Arabidopsis involves discrete H2O2 sources linked by ABA and is regulated by leaf water status’
10:10 – 10:30 Selected Abstract
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break
11:00 -11:30 Marc Knight (University of Durham, UK)
‘Signalling and gene expression in response to low temperature’
11:30 – 12:00 Jeff Leung (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
‘Biochemical Scanning of Combinatorial Peptides to Deduce Optimal Phosphorylation Sites of Protein Kinases’
12:00 – 12:20 Selected Abstract
12:20 – 12:40 Selected Abstract
12:40 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 2 Nutrient
13:30 – 14:00 Tzyy-Jen Chiou (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
‘Regulatory Network of MicroRNA399 and PHO2 by Systemic Signaling’
14:00 – 14:30 Peter Doerner (University of Edinburgh, UK)
‘Nutrient Stress and Root Development’
14:30 – 14:50 Selected Abstract
14:50 – 15:10 Selected Abstract
15:10 – 15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30 – 16:00 Mark Aarts (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Analysis of natural variation for mineral concentration in Arabidopsis thaliana
16:00 – 16:20 Selected Abstract
16:20 – 16:40 Selected Abstract
16:40 - 17:30 Poster Session
17:30 - 18:30 Workshop Sessions
Workshop 1: Tools and Resources Workshop
Workshop 2: Systems Biology Workshop
Workshop 3: Career Development Workshop
Workshop places are limited - please sign up when you register for the meeting.
Tuesday 9th September – Reproductive Development
Session 3 Reproductive Biology
9:00-9:40
Ueli Grossniklaus (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
The molecular basis of cell-cell communication during double fertilization in Arabidopsis
9:40 – 10:10
David Twell(University of Leicester, UK)
‘Genetic control of male germ line development in flowering plants’
10:10 – 10:30 Selected Abstract
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 -11:30
Zoe Wilson(University of Nottingham, UK)
‘From Arabidopsis to rice: pathways in pollen development’
11:30 – 12:00
Lars Ostergaard (John Innes Centre, UK)
Cell fate determination by genetic and hormonal patterning in fruits
12:00 – 12:20 Selected Abstract
12:20 – 12:40 Selected Abstract
12:40 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 4 Floral Initiation/Evolution
13:30 – 14:00 George Coupland (MPI, Cologne, Germany)
‘Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants’
14:00 – 14:30 Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre, UK)
‘The need for winter in the switch to flowering’
14:30 – 14:50 Selected Abstract
14:50 – 15:10 Selected Abstract
15:10 – 15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30 -16:00Gunther Theissen (ILRS, Jena, Germany)
‘Evolution of regulatory networks controlling floral organ identity: a MIKC blessing’
16:00 – 16:20 Selected Abstract
16:20 – 16:40 Selected Abstract
16: 40 - 17:30 Poster session
17:30 - 19:00 Workshop Sessions
Workshop 1: Hands on Workgroup Workshop
Workshop 2: Next Generation Sequencing Workshop
Wednesday 10th September - Plant Growth and Development
Session 5 Hormone Signalling
09:00 – 9:30 Ottoline Leyser (University of York, UK)
‘Hormonal control of shoot branching’
09:30 – 10:00 Nick Harberd (University of Oxford, UK)
‘To grow or not to grow’
10:00 – 10:20 Selected Abstract
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:20 Miltos Tsiantis (University of Oxford, UK)
Title TBC
11:20 – 11:40 Selected Abstract
11:40 – 12:00 Selected Abstract
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
Session 6 Cell Biology
13:00 – 13:30
Natasha Raikhel (UC Riverside, USA)
‘Plant endomembrane system and chemical genomics’
13:30 – 14:00
Patrick Hussey( University of Durham, UK)
‘The Cytoskeleton in Plant Cell Morphogenesis and Development’
14:00 – 14:20 Selected Abstract
14:20 – 14:40 Selected Abstract
14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break
Session 7 Systems Biology
15:00 -15:30
John Schiefelbien (University of Michigan, USA)
‘The Gene Regulatory Network for Root Epidermal Cell Differentiation’
15:30 – 16:00
Tetsuro Toyoda(Riken Genomics Science Centre, Japan)
‘Arranging Biological Resource Information on the Semantic Web, An Information Platform Towards Genome Design in Arabidopsis’
16:00 – 16:30
Vicky Buchan-Wollaston (Warwick HRI, UK)
‘A systems biology approach to identify transcription networks in Arabidopsis leaf senescence’
Systems Biology Centres
Andrew Millar(CSBE, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Malcolm Bennett (CPIB, University of Nottingham, UK)
