Confirmed Speakers and Tentative Titles:
Alain Bouchereau
(Rennes, France): A comparative functional analysis of salt and osmotic stress metabolome in Thellungiella halophila and Arabidopsis thaliana
Tamas Dalmay
(Norwich, UK): Plant short RNAs and stress
John Doonan
(JIC, Norwich, UK): Natural variation in cell growth: roles in adaptation to environmental stresses
Simon Gilroy
(Madison, USA): Feeling green: mechanotransduction in Arabidopsis growth and development
Rainer Hedrich
(Würzburg, Germany): Guard cells in action
Maria Israelsson Nordström
(Stockholm, Sweden): Keeping up with changing CO2 levels- new insights from the guard cells
Montserrat Pages
(Barcelona, Spain): Drought tolerance in maize, an important crop in agriculture
Matthieu Reymond
(Cologne, Germany): Genetic and molecular basis of plant performance using natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana