Plant Owganells
The 53rd NIBB Conference

Dynamic Organelles in Plants

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June 14 (Wed)    at Okazaki New Grand Hotel   (http://www.newgrand.yad.jp/english.html)

16:00- Registration at Okazaki New Grand Hotel
17:00-17:05 Yoshitaka Nagahama
(Deputy Director-General, NIBB)		 Welcome Address
17:05-17:15 Mikio Nishimura Introduction
17:15-18:00 Kozi Asada
“Photoreduction and Photoexcitation of Oxygen and Relaxation of Photon Excess Stress in Chloroplasts”		 Plenary lecture
18:00-20:00 Get together

June 15 (Thu)    at Okazaki Conference Center   (http://www.orion.ac.jp/)

8:45- Registration at the Main hall, Okazaki Conference Center
9:15-9:25 Opening Remarks Mikio Nishimura
Session 1 Differentiation and Degradation
Chair : Tetsuro Mimura
9:25-9:50 Ikuko Hara-Nishimura “Involvement of Vacuolar Processing Enzyme (VPE) in Plant Cell Death”
9:50-10:15 Jean T. Greenberg “Endogenous Elicitors of Programmed Cell Death in Arabidopsis”
10:15-10:40 Yoshinori Ohsumi “Cellular Recycling System - Mechanism and Physiological Role of Autophagy”
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:35 Akihiko Nakano “Emerging Roles of Endocytosis in Plant Development”
11:35-12:00 Jeffrey L. Brodsky “Molecular Chaperones and Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD)”
12:00-12:25 Gerhard Thiel “Dynamic Properties of the Guard Cell Plasma Membrane”
Lunch at the Conference Room B
Chair : Ikuko Hara-Nishimura
13:45-14:10 Tomoyuki Yamaya “Comprehensive Approaches for Understanding Mechanisms of Nitrogen Utilization in Rice”
14:10-15:10 Poster Talk (odd numbers, 1min/each poster with transparency)     at the Main Hall
15:10-16:10 Poster Session (odd numbers)     at the Conference Room C and Foyer
16:10-17:10 Poster Talk (even numbers, 1min/each poster with transparency)    at the Main Hall
17:10-18:10 Poster Session (even numbers)    at the Conference Room C and Foyer
18:35-21:00 Banquet at the Conference Room B

June 16 (Fri)

Session 2 Biogenesis and Protein Transport
Chair : Kazuhiko Nishitani
9:00-9:25 Ron Mittler “Reactive Oxygen Species, Abiotic Stress and Cross-Compartment Protection in Plants”
9:25-9:50 Mikio Nishimura “Biogenesis and Differentiation of Plant Peroxisomes”
9:50-10:15 Alison Baker “Trafficking of Peroxisome Membrane Proteins: Sorting Via The ER or A Role for PEX19? ”
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:10 Kentaro Inoue “Involvement of Type I Signal Peptidase in the Biogenesis of Chloroplasts”
11:10-11:35 Hiroyoshi Takano “Genes for the Peptidoglycan Synthesis Pathway Are Essential for Moss Plastid Division”
11:35-12:00 Toshiharu Shikanai “Machinery of RNA Editing in the Chloroplast”
12:00-12:25 Kan Tanaka “Cyanidioschyzon merolae, A New Model Cell for Plant Organelle Study”
Group photo All attendants, Please come to the main entrance of this hall before lunch.
12:25-13:55 Lunch at the Conference Room B
Session 3 Post-Genome Approach
Chair : Mikio Nishimura
13:55-14:20 Daisuke Shibata “Plant Metabolomics Approaches”
14:20-14:45 Paul Dupree “Proteomic Analysis of Organelle Membrane Proteins”
14:45-15:10 Jurgen Denecke “Transport of the Plant Vacuolar Sorting Receptor BP80”
15:10-15:35 Kazuki Saito “Metabolomics towards Phytochemical Genomics”
15:35-16:05 Coffee break
16:05-16:30 David Ehrhardt “Molecular Dynamics Underlying Plant Cell Morphogenesis”
16:30-16:55 Olga Koroleva “Systematic Determination of Protein Localisation in Arabidopsis: Proteomics and Fluorescent Tagging”
16:55-17:20 Kazuhiko Nishitani “Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Cell Wall Dynamics in Arabidopsis”

June 17 (Sat)

Session 4 Metabolic Regulation and Signal Transduction
Chair : Kazuki Saito
9:00-9:25 Hirofumi Uchimiya “Metabolic Processes Regulating Stress Homeostasis”
9:25-9:50 John T. Christeller “Targeting a Plant Toxic, Insecticidal Protein to the Plant Vacuole”
9:50-10:15 Ken Shirasu “The RAR1-SGT1-HSP90 Complex and its Potential Link to a MAP Kinase Kinase Kinase in Plant Immunity”
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:10 Youngsook Lee “Actin Filaments in Guard Cells”
11:10-11:35 Ken-ichiro Shimazaki “Blue Light Signaling for Stomatal Opening in Guard Cells”
11:35-12:00 Naoko K. Nishizawa “Organelles Involved in the Uptake of Metal Nutrients in Graminaceous Plants”
Lunch at the Conference Room B
Session 5 Integrated Functions
Chair : Tomoyuki Yamaya
13:30-13:55 Anthony H. C. Huang “Structure, Biogenesis, and Function of Tapetosome: A Novel Organelle in the Tapetum of Brassicaceae Species”
13:55-14:20 Sumie Ishiguro “The Mevalonate Pathway is Required for the Development of Tapetum-Specific Organelles that are Essential for the Pollen Coat Formation”
14:20-14:45 Wataru Sakamoto “Genetic Dissection of Leaf Variegation: A Study in the Arabidopsis var2 Mutant”
14:45-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-15:40 Shuh-ichi Nishikawa “Analyses of the Hsp70 System in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Arabidopsis thaliana”
15:40-16:05 Miyo Terao Morita “Molecular Genetic Network of Vesicular Trafficking Involved in Gravitropism in Arabidopsis”
16:05-16:30 Tetsuro Mimura “Involvement of Vacuolar Network in Plant Ion Homeostasis”
16:30-16:35 Mikio Nishimura Closing Remarks
 
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