SUNDAY |
2:00p-9:00p | Arrival and Registration |
4:00p-6:00p | Opening Reception |
6:00p | Dinner |
7:30p | Mike Hasegawa (Purdue University, USA), Chair Opening remarks |
| Salt and water stress |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Hasegawa (Purdue University, USA) |
7:40p | Emanuel Epstein (UC Davis, USA) "Salt tolerance: from physiology to molecular biology and beyond" |
8:10p | Hans Bohnert (U of Illinois, USA) "Salinity and drought stress genomics - Lessons and limits" |
8:40p | Bob Sharp (U of Missouri, USA) "Regulation of root and shoot growth under water stress" |
9:10p | Discussion |
9:30p | Adjourn and informal gathering |
MONDAY |
7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Ion homeostasis |
| Discussion Leader: Eduardo Blumwald (UC Davis, USA) |
9:00a | Introduction |
9:10a | Daniel Schachtman (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, USA) "Mechanisms of chloride exclusion in woody plants" |
9:40a | Maris Apse (UC Davis, USA) "Role of vacuolar Na+/H+ antiports in salt tolerance and ion homeostasis" |
10:10a | Teruhiro Takabe (Meijo University, Japan)
"Structural and functional properties of NhaP type Na+/H+ antiporters" |
10:25a | Discussion |
10:40a | Coffee Break |
11:10a | Nobuyuki Uozumi (Nagoya University, Japan) "Structure and function of the Arabidopsis Na+-translocation AtHKT1 protein" |
11:40a | Françoise Cellier (INRA, Montpellier, France)
"Identification and characterization of A. thaliana mutants disrupted in putative Na+/H+ antiporter genes" |
11:55a | Jose Pardo (IRNA-CSIC, Seville, Spain) "Sodium in salinized plants: from foe to friend" |
12:25p | Discussion |
12:45p | Lunch / Photo |
Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session I |
6:00p | Dinner |
| Ion homeostasis and signaling |
| Discussion Leader: Heven Sze (U of Maryland, USA) |
7:30p | Introduction |
7:40p | Mark Tester (U of Cambridge, UK) "How does Na+ get into plants?" |
8:10p | Sylvie Coursol (Penn State U, USA)
"Guard cell abscisic acid signaling involves sphingosine-1-phosphate and heterotrimeric G proteins" |
8:25p | Kendal Hirschi (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) "Regulation of plant H+/Ca2+ transporters" |
8:55p | Yu Kanesaki (National Institute of Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan) "Regulation of salt-inducible and hyperosmolarity-inducible genes in Synechocystis" |
9:10p | Discussion |
9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session I |
TUESDAY |
7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Ca2+ signaling in the plant stress response (Dedicated to the memory of Gethyn Allen) |
| Discussion Leader Andrew Smith (U of Oxford, UK) |
9:00a | Introduction |
9:10a | John Cushman (University of Neveda, Reno, USA) "Substrates and interactors of calcium-dependent protein kinases" |
9:40a | Frans Maathuis (University of York, UK) "Transport pathways involved in salinity stress" |
10:10a | Tina Romeis (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) "Plant Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs): a molecular switch in stress signaling" |
10:25a | Discussion |
10:45a | Coffee Break |
11:15a | Julian Schroeder (UC San Diego, USA) "A calcium module in stress signaling and a mechanism regulating root/shoot Na+ distribution" |
11:45a | Jeff Harper (Scripps Research Institute, USA) "Genomics of Ca2+ signaling" |
12:15p | Discussion |
12:30p | Lunch |
Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session I |
6:00p | Dinner |
| Model genetic systems for plant stress research |
| Discussion Leader: Mary Bisson (State University of New York, Buffalo, USA)
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7:30p | Introduction |
7:40p | Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro (U Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) "Potassium influx and sodium efflux in model systems, fungi, rice, and Arabidopsis" |
8:10p | Ray Bressan (Purdue University, USA) "Genomic scale evaluation of Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion mutants for altered salinity responses" |
8:40p | Haruo Saito (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA and Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan) "Osmoregulatory HOG MAP kinase pathway in Yeast" |
9:10 | Discussion |
9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session I |
WEDNESDAY |
7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Plant osmotic stress responses |
| Discussion Leader Beth Bray (UC Riverside, USA) |
9:00a | Introduction |
9:10a | Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Japan) "Regulation of gene expression and signaling pathways in response to osmotic stress" |
9:40a | Dorothea Bartels (Botanisches Institut Universität Bonn, Germany) "Desiccation tolerance in C. plantaginenum: signaling pathways and important gene products" |
10:10a | Miguel Botella (University of Malaga, Spain)
"Identification of genes essential for drought tolerance" |
10:25a | Discussion |
10:45a | Coffee Break |
11:15a | Jerome Giraudat (France) "Abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
11:45a | Marc Knight (Oxford University, UK) "Signaling during osmotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
12:15p | Discussion |
12:30p | Lunch |
Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session II |
6:00p | Dinner |
| Crop production and QTLs |
| Discussion Leader Tim Flowers (U of Sussex, UK) |
7:30p | Introduction |
7:40p | Mike Kearsey (U Birmingham, UK) "QTL, methodology and limitations" |
8:00p | Brian Forster (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Scotland) "QTL for drought and salinity in barley" |
8:20p | Majid Foolad (Penn State University, USA) "QTL comparison of salt, cold and drought tolerance in tomato" |
8:40p | Miki Koyama (John Innes Centre, UK) "QTL, salinity and rice" |
9:00p | Discussion |
9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session II |
THURSDAY |
7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Stress signaling |
| Discussion Leader Kazuo Shinozaki (RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Japan) |
9:00a | Introduction |
9:10a | Jian-Kang Zhu (U Arizona, USA) "Salt stress signaling and ion homeostasis" |
9:40a | Montserrat Pages (Spain) "The function of ABA induced proteins is modulated by multiple kinases during osmotic stress" |
10:10a | Dae-Jin Yun (Gyeongsang National University, Korea) "Genetic screening for cellular redox regulators and their functional analysis" |
10:25a | Discussion |
10:45a | Coffee Break |
11:15a | Motoaki Seki (RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Japan) "Expression profiling using Arabidopsis full-length cDNAs under abiotic stress conditions" |
11:45a | Heribert Hirt (Vienna Biocenter, Austria) "Functional analysis of salt-stress induced MAP kinase pathway reveals roles in stress and development" |
12:15p | Discussion |
12:30p | Lunch |
Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
4:00p | Business Session |
4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session II |
6:00p | Dinner |
| Plant and cellular responses to stress |
| Discussion Leader - Rana Munns (CSIRO, Australia) |
7:30p | Introduction |
7:40p | Hirofumi Uchimiya (University of Tokyo, Japan) "Cross-talks of cell death regulators: any commonage in plants and animals?" |
8:10p | Gerry Berkowitz (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Molecular architecture related to K+ and Na+ permeation/exclusion through cloned plant ion channels; studies using heterologous expression systems"
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8:40p | Rainer Hedrich (Julius-von-Sachs-Institut fuer Biophysik, Germany) "On the roots of mineral nutrition - Regulation of root ion channels by salt and water stress" |
9:10p | Discussion |
9:20p | Open Discussion |
9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session II |
FRIDAY |
7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Conferees Depart |