| SUNDAY 16 AUGUST | Session 1: Keynote Lecture
(7.30 - 9.15 p.m.) |
- Chair: André Läuchli (U. California, Davis)
- 7.30 - Welcome/Opening remarks
- 7.50 - Ernesto Medina (IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela): Physiological ecology of stress adaptation in plants
| MONDAY 17 AUGUST | Session 2: Ionic Relations
(9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.) |
- 9.00 - Introduction: Eduardo Blumwald (U. Toronto, Canada) - Discussion Leader
- 9.10 - Eugene Kim (U. California, San Diego): Sodium and potassium transport
- 10.00 - Steve Tyerman (Flinders U., Adelaide, Australia): Ion channels and salinity
- 10.50 - Coffee break
- 11.15 - Anna Amtmann (U. York, U.K.): Short talk - Plasma membrane transporters involved in Na+ and Cl- uptake
- 11.40 - Mike Hasegawa (Purdue U., Indiana): Functions of genes implicated in salt stres tolerance
- 12.45 - Group photograph (Queen's College)
| Session 3: Cell Water Relations
(7.30 - 9.30 p.m.) |
- 7.30 - Introduction: Mary Bisson (State U. of New York, Buffalo) - Discussion Leader
- 7.40 - Christophe Maurel (C.N.R.S., Gif-sur-Yvette, France): Aquaporins and cell membrane permeability to water and small solutes
- 8.30 - Ernst Steudle (U. Bayreuth, Germany): Stress effects on cell and tissue water relations
| TUESDAY 18 AUGUST | Session 4: Regulation of Metabolism
(9.00 a.m. - 12.15 p.m.) |
- 9.00 - Introduction: Marianne Popp (U. Vienne, Austria) - Discussion Leader
- 9.10 - Dorothea Bartels (MPI, Köln, Germany): Biochemical basis of dehydration tolerance
- 10.00 - Ann Moons (U. Montreal, Canada): Short talk - Low-oxygen stress and water deficit induce cytosolic pyruvate, Pi dikinase (PPDK) expression in roots of rice
- 10.25 - Coffee break
- 10.50 - John Everard (Du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware): Regulation of carbohydrate metabolism
- 11.40 - Riccardo Gucci (U. Pisa, Italy): Short talk - Carbon partitioning in olive trees under stress
- 12.05 - Howard Griffiths (U. Newcastle, U.K.): Short talk - A biochemical perspective on CAM: insights for metabolic regulation under stress
| Session 5: Regulation of Gene Expression by Stress
(7.30 - 9.30 p.m.) |
- 7.30 - Introduction: José Pardo (IRNAS-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain) - Discussion Leader
- 7.40 - Jian-Kang Zhu (U. Arizona, Tucson): Genetic analysis of plant salt tolerance
- 8.30 - Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Japan): Regulation of ABA-dependent and ABA-independent gene expression under drought stress
| WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST | Session 6: Stress Metabolism and its Engineering
(9.00 a.m. - 12.15 p.m.) |
- 9.00 - Introduction: Tim Flowers (U. Sussex, UK) - Discussion Leader
- 9.10 - Leif Bülow (U. Lund, Sweden): Genetic engineering of salt tolerance
- 10.00 - Hans Bohnert (U. Arizona, Tucson): Polyol biosynthesis and its significance
- 10.50 - Coffee break
- 11.15 - Doug Gage (Michigan State U., East Lansing): Biosynthesis of osmoprotectants
- 5.00 - Round-table discussion: Plant stress tolerance - the advent of functional genomics
| Session 7: Stress-Induced Signaling Mechanisms
(7.30 - 9.45 p.m.) |
- 7.30 - Introduction: Elizabeth Bray (U. California, Riverside) - Discussion Leader
- 7.40 - Marc Knight (U. Oxford, U.K.): Drought/salt calcium signaling
- 8.30 - Herman Lips (Ben Gurion U. of the Negev, Israel): Short talk - Molybdenum-enzymes, xylem loading and hormone balance as affected by inorganic ions and stress
- 8.55 - Yan Wu (Rockefeller U., New York): ABA signaling pathways
| THURSDAY 20 AUGUST | Session 8: Signal-Transduction Pathways
(9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.) |
- 9.00 - Introduction: Andrew Smith (U. Oxford, U.K.) - Discussion Leader
- 9.10 - Nathalie Verbruggen (U. Gent, Belgium): Strategies to enhance osmotolerance of plants
- 10.00 - John Cushman (Oklahoma State U., Stillwater): Stress signaling in halophytes
- 10.50 - Coffee break
- 11.15 - Omar Pantoja (Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Mexico): Short talk - Regulation of adaptive responses to salinity in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
- 11.40 - Heribert Hirt (Vienna Biocenter, Austria): MAP kinases in signal transduction
- 5.00 - Business Session
| Session 9: Growth responses and whole-plant signaling
(7.30 - 9.45 p.m.) |
- 7.30 - Introduction: Ernesto Medina (IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela) - Discussion Leader
- 7.35 - Bob Sharp (U. Columbia, Missouri): Regulation of root and shoot growth responses to water stress
- 8.20 - Hargurdeep Saini (U. Montreal, Canada): Stress effects on reproductive development
- 9.05 - Bill Davies (U. Lancaster, U.K.): Whole-plant signaling
- Conference summation
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