Workshop

European Molecular Biology Organization

Genomic approaches to interactions

between plant viruses, their hosts

and their vectors

 

 

 

 

 



12 - 16 June | 2010 |Fenestrelle| Italy

Programme (final)

 

 

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SATURDAY June 12

14.45-18.00

Registration
Mounting of posters

18.15-18.30

Opening of the Workshop
Gian Paolo Accotto

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES
Chair: Gian Paolo Accotto

18.30-19.10

RNA conformational shifts control translation and replication of Turnip crinkle virus (O1)
Anne E. Simon

19.10-19.50

Defense, counter-defense and counter-counter-defense: a never ending tale of RNA silencing (O2)
Olivier Voinnet

20.30

Dinner

22.00-23.00

Mounting of posters

 

SUNDAY June 13

SESSION:  REPLICATION AND TRANSLATION
Chair: K. Andrew White

8.30

Tombusvirus recruitment of the host translational machinery via the 3’UTR (O3)
K. Andrew White

8.55

Viroid replication: recent insights on the enzymes and ribozymes involved (O4)
Ricardo Flores

9.20

Geminivirus infection and plant cell cycle controls (O5)
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin

9.45

Host factors required for plant susceptibility to viruses: targets to improve plant resistance to viruses (O6)
Carole Caranta

10.10

Post-translational modifications of TYMV polymerase
and their role(s) in viral replication (O7)
Isabelle Jupin

10.45-11.15

Coffe break

11.15-12.15

Four short talks (15 min each)

 

Specific Interaction with Viral RNA Reveals a Novel Role of Hsp90 in the Initiation of Plant Virus Replication (P3)
Y.W. Huang

 

Quantitation of Potato virus A gene expression under various conditions gives new insights into the regulation of viral translation and replication (P4)
K. Mäkinen

 

The Cauliflower mosaic virus reinitiation factor TAV controls the TOR signalling pathway (P8)
L. Ryabova

 

Viral-induced systemic necrosis in plants involves both programmed cell death and the inhibition of viral multiplication, which are regulated by independent pathways (P40)
M. Hashimoto

12.30-14.00

Lunch (buffet)

14.00-15.30

Poster session (P1-P20) Presenters standing near their poster

SESSION:  PLANT RESPONSE (part I)
Chair: Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar

15.30

Emerging perspectives on the antiviral innate immune response (O8)
Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar

15.55

Massive production of small RNAs from a non-coding region as a decoy strategy of Cauliflower mosaic virus to counteract gene silencing (O9)
Mikhail M. Pooggin

16.20

RNA silencing suppressors and potyviral infections: a complex tale (O10)
Juan A. García

16.45-17.15

Coffee break

17.15

Multiple effects of silencing the RDR1 gene of tobacco (O11)
Peter Palukaitis

17.40

Toward understanding the mechanisms of tobamovirus replication complex formation (O12)
Masayuki Ishikawa

18.15

Bus leaving for the Visit to the Fortress of Fenestrelle

20.30

Dinner in the Fortress, with music entertainment

 

MONDAY June 14

 

SESSION:  PLANT RESPONSE (part II)
Chair: Jari P.T. Valkonen

8.45

Viral Class 1 RNase III enzymes as suppressors of RNA silencing (O13)
Jari P.T. Valkonen

9.10

The role of TYLCV V2 in suppression of RNA silencing (O14)
Yedidya Gafni

9.35

Mechanisms of argonaute targeting viral suppressors of RNA silencing (O15)
Jozsef Burgyan

10.00

Viral secondary siRNAs in antiviral silencing (O16)
Shou-Wei Ding

10.25

Organ-specific transcriptional response in tomato systemically infected by Tomato spotted wilt virus (O17)
Gian Paolo Accotto

11.00-11-30

Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Six short talks (15 min each)

 

A new potyvirus virulence determinant: the CI C-terminus modulates pathogenicity of Lettuce mosaic virus in lettuce (P18)
S. German-Retana

 

Virus-derived small RNAs and their potential to control the outcome of plant-virus interactions (P23)
C. Llave

 

Plant virus mediated induction of miR168 is associated with repression of ARGONAUTE1 accumulation (P19)
Zoltan Havelda

 

Structural and functional analysis of viral siRNAs (P30)

G. Szittya

 

Role of C2 during Geminivirus infection: effect on the CSN and the SCF complexes (P36)
R. Lozano-Duran

 

RNA silencing in plant-viroid interactions: insights from deep sequencing of the small RNAs from plants infected by nuclear- and chloroplast-replicating viroids (P17)
Francesco Di Serio

13.15-14.45

Lunch (buffet)

SESSION:  VIRUS / VECTOR INTERACTIONS
Chair: Juan José López-Moya

15.00

Vector transmission mechanisms in two genera of the family Potyviridae: differences between potyviruses and ipomoviruses  (O18)
Juan José López-Moya

15.25

How can a plant virus “sense” the feeding of its insect vector on the infected plant and immediately relocate within the cell and increase its chances of acquisition? (O19)
Stéphane Blanc

15.50

Microarray-based analysis of interactions between Tomato yellow leaf curl virus and its vector the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (O20)
Henryk Czosnek

16.30-17.00

Coffee break

17.00-17.30

Two short talks (15 min each)

 

What’s new in polerovirus transmission ? (P43)
V. Brault

 

Facilitation of Bemisia tabaci transmission of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus by a single symbiotic bacterium (P44)
M. Ghanim

17.40-18.20

EMBO Science & Society Lecture: Communicating science: people and biology, hopes, expectations and fears
Silvia Rosa-Brusin

18.30

Poster session (P21-P42) Presenters standing near their poster

20.30

Dinner

22.00

Presentation of the next EMBO Workshop
Tasting of local food and spirits, also for sale

 

TUESDAY June 15

SESSION:  MOVEMENT AND TRAFFICKING
Chair: Andrew J. Maule

 

8.45

Plasmodesmata - Gateways to local and systemic virus infection (O21)
Andrew J. Maule

9.10

The cell nucleus and plant virus movement (O22)
Michael Taliansky

9.35

Structural and functional insights into tubule-guided virus movement (O23)
Christophe Ritzenthaler

10.00

Couple-skating Abutilon mosaic virus movement proteins (O24)
Holger Jeske

10.25

Phloem tropism of poleroviruses does not hinge only upon Dicer-like activity (O25)
Véronique Ziegler-Graff

11.00-11-30

Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Poster session (P43-P66) Presenters standing near their poster

13.00

Lunch (buffet)

14.30

Departure from Pracatinat to Torino: visit to the town centre and dinner

22.00

Bus departure from Torino to Pracatinat

 

WEDNESDAY June 16

SESSION:  RECOMBINATION AND EVOLUTION
Chair: Fernando García-Arenal

 

8.30

Mechanisms and genetic regulation of plant tolerance to virus infection (O26)
Fernando García-Arenal

8.55

Adaptation process of Rice yellow mottle virus to two alleles of the eIF(iso)4G-mediated rice resistance (O27)
Denis Fargette

9.20

Variability and evolution rate of plant viruses with a single-stranded DNA genome (O28)
Bruno Gronenborn

9.45

A systems biology approach to dissect the roles of host proteins
in tombusvirus RNA replication (O29)
Peter D. Nagy

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-12.30

Six short talks (15 min each)

 

The cytosolic nucleoprotein of the plant-infecting bunyavirus Tomato spotted wilt is able to recruit ER-resident proteins to ER export sites (P50)
Richard Kormelink

 

The intra- and intercellular movement of Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) depends on an active secretory pathway (P51)
Vicente Pallas

 

Genetic and functional characterization of the RTM-mediated resistance (P52)
Frédéric Revers

 

Biological and cellular evaluation of the association of the movement protein of Tobacco mosaic virus to biological membranes (P53)
Jesús A. Sánchez-Navarro

 

Nuclear and chloroplastic viroids replicate with different mutation rates (P59)
Selma Gago

 

VPg and HCpro: central players in potyvirus-host interactions (P29)
Minna-Liisa Rajamäki

13.00

Lunch (buffet)

14.00

Departure of shuttle buses for Torino (airport and city centre)

 

 



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