“Plant Cell Walls, Pectic Arabinans and Plant Growth” Paul Knox (Univ. Leeds, UK)
10:00-10:30
“Different Vacuole-Mediated-Defense Strategies Against Invading Viral and Bacterial Pathogens” Ikuko Hara-Nishimura (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
10:30-10:45
“Light-Dependent Mitochondrial Intracellular Positioning in Arabidopsis thaliana Mesophyll Cells” Md. Sayeedul Islam (Osaka Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
Session 2 Phytohormones
Chairs: Stefan Kepinski and Moto Ashikari
10:45-11:25
“Quantitative and Contextual Modelling of Transcriptional Responses to Auxin” Stefan Kepinski (Univ. Leeds, UK)
11:25-11:55
“Regulation in Ethylene Signaling Allows Rice to be Aquatic” Moto Ashikari (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
11:55-12:10
“Polyamine-Dependent Control of Stem Elongation in Arabidopsis” Taku Takahashi (Okayama Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
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13:30-14:30
Poster Session (odd numbers)
Session 3 Systems Biology and Evo-Devo
Chairs: Gerrit T.S. Beemster and Takahiro Yamaguchi
14:30-15:10
“Systems Biology Approaches to Leaf Development” Gerrit T.S. Beemster (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
15:10-15:40
“Evolutionary Developmental Studies on Unifacial Leaves in Monocots” Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB, Japan)
15:40-15:55
“Profiling of Regulatory Network Governing Arabidopsis Leaf Development” Frederik Coppens (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
15:55-16:10
“Gene Losses in the Cultivated Rice Unveiled by Comparative Analysis with Wild Relatives” Hiroaki Sakai (Nat’l Inst. Agrobiol. Sci., Japan), * Short talk from posters
“Lessons from a Search for Leaf Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana” Jose Luis Micol (Univ. Miguel Hernandez, Spain)
17:05-17:35
“Roles of ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2) and ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1) of Arabidopsis thaliana in Leaf Development” Yasunori Machida (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
17:35-17:50
“Growth Coordination is Essential for Arabidopsis Leaf Flatness” Jose Manuel Perez-Perez (Univ. Miguel Hernandez, Spain)
17:50-18:05
“Analysis of enlarged fil-expression domain1 (enf1) Mutant Defective in Establishment of the Adaxial-Abaxial Axis in Leaves” Koichi Toyokura (Kyoto Univ. / NIBB, Japan), * Short talk from posters
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September 14 (Sun)
Session 5 Flower Induction Mechanism
Chairs: George Coupland and Antonis Giakountis
9:00-9:40
“Seasonal Control of Flowering in Annual and Perennial Plants” George Coupland (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
9:40-9:55
“Molecular-Genetic Analysis of Natural Variation in Day Length Perception for Flowering in Arabidopsis” Antonis Giakountis (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
9:55-10:10
“Intragenic Elements and the Evolution of the Floral C-Function” Barry Causier (Univ. Leeds, UK)
10:10-10:25
“APETALA1 Homolog Expression is Induced Immediately by a Single Short-Day in Pharbitis nil” Ryuta Sasaki (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan), * Short talk from posters
Chairs: Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi and Tetsuji Kakutani
11:00-11:30
“Novel Approaches to Identify Peptide Hormone Candidates in Arabidopsis” Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
11:30-12:00
“Genetics of DNA Methylation in the BONSAI Locus” Tetsuji Kakutani (NIG, Japan)
12:00-12:15
“RNAi-Mediated Crop Improvement for Sustainable Resistance to Plant-Parasitic Nematodes” Richard Collins (Univ. Leeds, UK)
12:15-12:30
“ANXUR1 and 2, Sister Genes to FERONIA/SIRENE are Male Factors for Coordinated Fertilization”
Saori Miyazaki (NIBB, Japan), * Short talk from posters
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Session 9 Plant-Microbe Interaction
Chairs: Paul Schulze-Lefert, Masayoshi Kawaguchi and Ko Shimamoto
13:30-14:00
“Long-Distance Control of Nodulation in Lotus japonicus” Masayoshi Kawaguchi (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
14:00-14:40
“Natural Chemical Diversity in the Brassicaceae: A Novel Glucosinolate Degradation Pathway Mediates Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Defense” Paul Schulze-Lefert (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
14:40-15:10
“Defensome Model for Rice Innate Immunity” Ko Shimamoto (NAIST, Japan)
15:10-15:25
“Signal Integration between MAMP-Triggered Immunity and Abiotic Stress Responses” Yusuke Saijo (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
15:25-15:40
“Nonhost Resistance of Arabidopsis to Anthracnose Fungi” Yoshitaka Takano (Kyoto Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
15:40-15:45
Closing Remarks Hirokazu Tsukaya (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB, Japan)