02 May

14:00-17:00
Arrival & Registration
Coffee

17:00-17:15                  
Dirk Inzé             
Opening

17:15-18:00                  
Marc Van Montagu         
“From Plant Science to Agricultural Biotechnology”

18:00-18:45                 
Lothar Willmitzer                    
“Small molecules, genes and many data : does it make sense ?”     

Control of plant development : Cell cycle, differentiation,
hormone, light and stress signalling
Chairs : Dirk Inzé & Dénes Dudits

09:00-09:30                 
Dirk Inzé                      
“Cell cycle and growth control”

09:30-10:00                  
Crisanto Gutierrez         
"Crosstalks among cell proliferation, cell differentiation and cell fate"

10:00-10:30                  
Dénes Dudits                
“Regulation of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) function”

10:30-11:00                  
Coffee break

11:00-11:30                  
Dorothea Bartels           
“Convergence and divergence of abiotic stress pathways”

11:30-12:00                  
Montserrat Pages         
“Hormonal and developmental interactions in plant responses to abiotic stress”

12:00-12:30                  
Chiara Tonelli                
“Plant tolerance to abiotic stress : Modulation of transcription factors”

12:30-13:00                  
Klaus Palme                 
“Auxin in action : signalling, transport and the control of plant growth”

13:00-14:00                  
Lunch break + poster viewing

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14:00-14:30                  
Diter von Wettstein        
“Chlorophyll synthesis : Insertion of magnesium into
protophorphyrin IX and formation of the fifth ring”

14:30-15:00                  
Jean-David Rochaix       
“Assembly and dynamics of photosynthetic membranes”

15:00-15:30                  
Jürgen Soll                   
“Protein and solute transport into Chloroplasts”

15:30-16:00                  
Robert Huber                
"Proteins and their structures in plant protection"

16:00-16:30                  
Coffee break

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Plant-microbe & -virus interactions
Chairs : J. Tempé & Regine Kahmann

16:30-17:00                  
Jens Stougaard 
 “Receptors and signalling in legume-rhizobial symbiosis” 

17:00-17:30  
 Regine Kahmann                   
"Secreted proteins as central players for establishing the biotrophic phase in the Ustilago maydis/maize pathosystem"

17:30-18:00                            
Eva Kondorosi                        
“Coordination of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell cycle and
 differentiation during nitrogen fixing nodule development in Medicago”

18:00-18:30             
Jeff Dangl         
“The Plant-Immune System : Coping with Pathogen Subterfuge”

20:30                                    
Conference dinner

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Plant reproduction, genetic variation & comparative genomics
Chairs : Gerd Jürgens & Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer

9:00-9:30
Gerd Jürgens          
 “Pattern formation in plant embryogenesis“

9:30-10:00              
George Coupland                    
“Initiation of flowering in response to environmental signals”

10:00-10:30             
Yves Van de Peer 
“Modeling gene and genome duplications to explain plant evolution and complexity”
               
10:30-11:00             
coffee break

11:00-11:30             
Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer     
“Flower development : The Antirrhinum perspective”

11:30-12:00             
Barbara Hohn                                        
“Genetic Flux in Plants”

12:00-12:30             
Pere Puigdomènech                
“Starting the use of genomic tools in an old group species, the Cucurbitaceae”

12:30-13:00             
Chris Bowler                                          
“Insights into the new world of diatom genomics”

13:00-14:00             
Lunch break + poster viewing

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Metabolism and metabolic signalling
Chairs : Dianna Bowles & Lothar Willmitzer

14:00-14:30             
Jiri Friml
"Auxin-dependent regulation of cell polarity and vesicle trafficking"

14:30-15:00             
Michel Caboche                                     
“An integrated view of flavonoid biosynthesis in seed  development”

15:00-15:30             
Dianna Bowles                                       
“The role of glycosylation in cellular homeostasis”

15:30-16:00             
Csaba Koncz                                         
“Signalling role of plant AMP activated kinase”

16:00-16:30             
Coffee break

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RNA processing, gene silencing & recombination

Chairs : Thomas Hohn & David Baulcombe

16:30-17:00             
Andrea Barta                          
“The plant spliceosome : SR proteins and their interactions within a dynamic RNP complex”

17:00-17:30             
Jozsef Burgyan                       
“The role of RNA silencing in the plant-virus interplay”

17:30-18:00             
Thomas Hohn                         
"Sleeping Beauty : Silencing and Rousing induced by plant DNA viruses”

18:00- 18:30            
Coffee break

18:30-19:00             
Marjori Matzke                       
“RNA-mediated gene silencing in Arabidopsis”

19:00-19:30             
David Baulcombe     
“Diverse RNA silencing pathways in plants”

19:30-20:00             
Closing remarks –
Csaba Koncz and the organizers of the second meeting :
C. Gutierrez
Pere Puigdomènech
Javier Paz-Ares
Monserrat Pages
Ramòn Serrano

20:30                      
Dinner – meeting of EMBO members

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