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 Kerry Franklin (University of Leicester)
‘Light and Temperature Crosstalk in Plant Environmental Adaptation’
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 Enrique Lopez-Juez (Royal Holloway)
‘Rapid hormonal responses in the Arabidopsis shoot apex during light-triggered leaf initiation.’
12:20 – 12:40 Steve Penfield (University of York)
‘A key role for Arabidopsis circadian clock genes in temperature sensing and the control of seed germination’
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 Wolfgang Schmidt (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Post-embryonic cell fate changes of Arabidopsis rhizodermic cells in response to phosphate deficiency
14:50 – 15:10 Keke Yi (John Innes Centre)
Temporal regulation of root hair development by RHD6 family genes.
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 Sarah Mugford (John Innes Centre)
‘Characterisation of the APS kinase gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana’
16:20 – 16:40 Patrick Armengaud (University of Glasgow)
‘EZ-Rhizo: Integrated Software for Fast and Accurate Measurement of Arabidopsis Root System Architecture’
16:40 - 17:30 Poster Session
To see the abstracts for the posters please here.
17:30 - 18:30 Workshop Sessions
Workshop 1: Tools and Resources Workshop
Workshop 2: Systems Biology Workshop
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 Mike Holdsworth (University of Nottingham)
‘Post-genomics approaches to understand mechanisms regulating the completion of germination’
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 Maaike de Jong (Radboud University Nijmegen)
‘The Solanum lycopersicum Auxin Response Factor 7 (SlARF7) Regulates Auxin Signaling during Tomato Fruit Set and Development’
12:20 – 12:40 Carol Wagstaff (University of Reading)
‘Senescence in Arabidopsis siliques: a comparison to senescence in other tissues and its role in seed development and nutrition’
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 Elaine Jensen (Aberystwyth University)
Optimising Flowering Time in Miscanthus for Improved Biomass Yield and Quality
14:50 – 15:10 Astrid Wingler (University College London)
Genetic basis of the link between senescence regulation and flowering time control
15:10 – 15:30 Refreshment Break
15:30 -16:00 Gunther Theissen (ILRS, Jena, Germany)
‘Evolution of regulatory networks controlling floral organ identity: a MIKC blessing’
16:00 – 16:20 Fabrizio Van Kerkhoven
‘Control of floral transition in maize’.
16: 40 - 17:30 Poster session
To see the abstracts for the posters please here.
17:30 - 19:30 Workshop Sessions
Workshop 4: Hands on Workgroup Workshop
Workshop 5: Next Generation Sequencing Workshop
Workshop 6: Speed, Knowledge and the Public Good in Plant Science
Wednesday 10th September
Session 5 Plant Growth and Development
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 Daniela Dietrich (University of Nottingham)
To divide or not to divide – How ABA affects root growth
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:20 To be confirmed
11:20 – 11:40 Peter Etchells (University of Manchester)
PXY signalling induces vascular development
11:40 – 12:00 Filip Vandenbussche (Ghent University)
Auxin influx carriers are involved in apical hook development
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 Reka Toth (Max Planck Institute)
Novel compounds that disrupt actin filaments identified by chemical genetic screen for impairment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock
14:20 – 14:40 John Runions (Rothamsted Research)
Intramembrane protein dynamics in the ER and plasma membrane is affected by the actin cytoskeleton.
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
16:30 – 16:45 Andrew Millar(CSBE, University of Edinburgh, UK)
16:45 - 17:00 Malcolm Bennett (CPIB, University of Nottingham, UK)
‘Adopting an integrative biology approach to study root growth and development’