DAY 1 (14th of May, Thursday) |
| 17:00-22:00 | Registration and poster set up |
| 20:30-22:00 | Welcome refreshments |
DAY 2 (15th of May, Friday) |
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration and poster set up |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome note by Antonio Tiburcio, chair of INPAS |
Abiotic Stress Signalling |
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Chair: Simon Gilroy |
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| 9:15-9:45 | Ülo Niinemets (Estonia): Scaling abiotic stress resistance from molecular mechanisms to the field |
| 9:45-10:10 | Tamas Dalmay (UK): Plant short RNAs and stress |
| 10:10-10:30 | Irute Meskiene (Austria): Stress and Plant Developmental control by protein phosphatases |
| 10:30-10:50 | Tony Remans (Belgium): Elucidating the molecular triggers of root developmental responses to heavy metal stress |
| 10:50-11:10 | Teun Munnik (Netherlands): Phospholipid Signaling in Plant Stress & Development |
| 11:10-11:40 | Coffee break |
Chair: Dorothea Bartels |
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| 11:40-12:10 | Montserrat Pages (Spain): Drought tolerance in maize, an important crop in agriculture |
| 12:10-12:30 | Laszlo Bogre (UK): Signalling pathways regulating the extent and directionality of plant growth in response to environmental stress factors and during development |
| 12:30-12:50 | Dudy Bar-zvi (Israel): Structure function of tomato ASR1 - a plant specific stress regulated hydrophilin |
| 12:50-13:10 | Natalia Stepanchenko (Russia): Cross-talk between ethylene and abscisic acid signaling pathways mediates proliferation of Arabidopsis thaliana cultivated cells |
| 13:10-14:30 | Lunch |
| Genetics and Natural Variation | |
Chair: Laszlo Szabados |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Matthieu Reymond (Germany): Genetic and molecular basis of plant performance using natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 15:00-15:20 | Arnd Heyer (Germany): Mathematical Modelling of Acclimation to low Temperature Reveals Contrasting Strategies in Natural Accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 15:20-15:40 | Ruben Alcazar (Germany): Environmental dependence of genetic epistatic networks modulating growth, immune responses and speciation processes in Arabidopsis |
| 15:40-16:00 | Gad Galili (Israel): Principal transcriptional programs regulating plant metabolism in response to abiotic stresses |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
Chair: Ülo Niinemets |
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| 16:30-17:00 | John Doonan (UK): Natural variation in cell growth: roles in adaptation to environmental stresses |
| 17:00-17:20 | Arnould Savoure (France): Opposite stress signalling pathways are present in Arabidopsis thaliana and in Thellungiella halophila |
| 17:20-17:40 | Myriam Olortegui (Netherlands): Natural genetic variation of abiotic multi-stress responses in Arabidopsis |
| 17:40-18:00 | Mary Prathiba (Hungary): A Novel genetic approach for Identifying genes involved in Abscisic acid regulation |
| 18:00-19:30 | Free time |
| 19:30-22:00 | Poster session with beer/wine/buffet |
DAY 3 (16th of May, Saturday) |
| Physiology, biochemistry & metabolic profiles | |
Chair: Hannes Kollist |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Rainer Hedrich (Germany): Guard cells in action |
| 9:30-10:00 | Maria Israelsson Nordström (Sweden): Keeping up with changing CO2 levels- new insights from the guard cells |
| 10:00-10:20 | Irina Puzõrjova (Estonia): Over-expression of ERD15 affects stomatal response to several atmospheric stimuli |
| 10:20-10:40 | Triin Vahisalu (Estonia): Key proteins in governing stomatal response to ozone and induction of reactive oxygen species in plants |
| 10:40-11:00 | Kumud Mishra (Czech Republic): Feasibility experiments for developing tools and methodology for non-invasive sensing of drought resistance in tomato transgenics |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
Chair: Antonio Tiburcio |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Alain Bouchereau (France): A comparative functional analysis of salt and osmotic stress metabolome in Thellungiella halophila and Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 12:00-12:20 | Teresa Altabella (Spain): Putrescine as signaling molecule involved in the control of stress responses to cold and drought |
| 12:20-12:40 | Claudia Jonak (Austria): High soil salinity: Metabolic adaptation, redox balance and signalling |
| 12:40-13:00 | Aviah Zilberstein (Israel): Newly Identified Cytosolic-Mitochondrial Proline-P5C Cycle in Plants |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| Abiotic Stress and Development | |
Chair: Pedro Carrasco |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Simon Gilroy (USA): Feeling green: mechanotransduction in Arabidopsis growth and development |
| 15:00-15:20 | Seth Davis (Germany): Redox stress is a major component of circadian-clock resetting in response to dawn |
| 15:20-15:40 | Carlos S. Galvan-Ampudia (Netherlands): Osmotic stress-induced signals control root growth |
| 15:40-16:00 | Margarete Müller (Germany): UBP14 is involved in root hair development under phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-18:00 | Management Committee Meeting |
| 18:00-20:00 | Sightseeing Tour |
| 20:00-03:00 | Closing Dinner |
DAY 4 (17th of May, Sunday) |
| 6:00-12:00 | Dismounting posters |
| 6:00-12:00 | Checkout from Dorpat hotel |
