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The 40th NIBB Conference "Stress Responses : Sensing, Signal Transduction and Gene Expression"

Organizers Norio Murata
Venue Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
Date Mar. 9-11, 1998
Program
Program  
Monday Morning, March 9, 1998
9:40 Opening address-Norio Murata
09:40-09:50 Welcome to NIBB-Hideo Mohri (Director-General of NIBB)
   
Session I. Osrnostress and salt-stress responses
Chairpersons: Hans J. Bohnert, Hidenori Hayashi and Haruo Saito
09:50-10:25 Takeshi MIZUNO (Nagoya University)
  "His-Asp phosphotransfer signal transduction in ressponse to environmental stimuli in bacteria and plants"
10:25-11:00 Haruo SAITO
  "Osmosensory signal transduction in yeast"
11:00-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:25 Coffee Break
11:25-12:00 Dénes DUDITS, Mária DEÁK, Attila OBERSCHALL, Sholpan DAVLETOVA, Katalin TÖRÖK, László SASS, Imre VASS, Éva Hideg, Balázs BARNA, Zoltan KIRTÁLY, Attila FEHÉR and Gábor V. HORVATH
  "Overproduction of the iron-binding protein, ferritin of an aldose reductase homologous protein provides tolerance against wide range of stresses in transgenic plants"
12:00-12:35 Hidenori HAYASHI (Ehime University)
  "Stress tolerance of Arabidopsis transformed with the choline oxidase gene"
12:35-12:50 Discussion
12:50-13:15 Group photo
13:15-14:10 Lunch
   
Monday Afternoon, March 9, 1998
Session I. Osmostress and salt-stress responses (Continued)
14:10-14:45 David J. COVE, Kamaljit ATWAL, Sultan BAHADUR, David COATES, Andrew C. CUMING, Celia D. KNIGHT, Ralph S. QUATRANO, Arnita SEHGAL, Peter G. STOCKLEY and John C. WALLACE (University of  Leeds, Leeds,  UK)
  "Stress responses in Mosses"
14:45-15:20 Drothea BARTELS, Christine BOCKEL, Antonella FURINI, Wolfgang FRANK, Jonathan PHILLIPS, Jean-Baptiste MARIAUX, Maria-Jesus RODRIGO and Francesco SALAMINI (Max-Plank Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany)
  "How can higher plants survive dehydration? -A molecular analysis"
15:20-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:05 Kazuko YAMAGUCHI-SHINOZAKI and Kazuo SHINOZAKI (Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Science and The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
  "Gene expression and signal transduction in Arabidopsis under water stress"
16:05-16:40 Manabu ISHITANI, Liming XIONG, Jiping LIU, Becky STEVENSON and Jain-Kang ZHU (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
  "Molecular genetic analysis of salt tolerance and osmotic signal transduction in Arabidopsis thaliana"
16:40-16:45 Discussion
16:55-17:10 Coffee Break
   
Session II. Plant hormone receptor and signal transduction
Chairpersons: Tatsuo Sugiyama and Hideaki Shinshi
17:10-17:45 Tatsuo KAKIMOTO, Minoru KUBO, Tsutomu INOUE and Mika SHINDO (Osaka University)
  "Cytokinin signal transduction"
17:45-18:20 Hideaki SHINSHI (National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology)
  "Regulation of gene expression by plant hormone ethylene"
18:20-18:35 Discussion
19:00-21:00 Reception
   
Tuesday Morning, March 10, 1998
Session III. Perception of light and regulation by light
Chairpersons: Winslow R. Briggs and Masayuki Ohmori
09:00-09:35 Hideo TAKAHASHI and Kan TANAKA (University of Tokyo)
  "Nuclear-encoded sigma factors for chloroplast RNA polymerase"
09:35-10:10 Masayuki OHMORI, Mitsunori KATAYAMA, Masahiro KASAHARA and Kazuki TERAUCHI (University of Tokyo)
  "Light-inducible cAMP synthesis"
10:10-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:00 Winslow R. BRIGGS (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA USA)
  "Signal transduction in phototropism: In pursuit of an elusive photoreceptor"
11:00-11:35 Masamitsu WADA, Kaxunari NOZUE and Takeshi KANAGAE (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
  "A novel phytochrome in Adiantum and its characteristics"
11:35-11:50 Discussion
11:50-12:00 Coffee Break
   
Session IV. Temperature Perception and signal transduction
Chairpersons: Bruno Maresca and Naoki Sato
12:00-12:35 Satish RAINA (Centre Médical Universitaire, Genève, Switzerland)
  "Heat shock response and protein misfolding in the extra-cytoplasm of E. coli"
12:35-13:10 S. FRANCESCHELLI, K. LAOTENG, L. MARZULLO, L. VIGH and Bruno MARESCA (International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy)
  "Modulation of lipid unsaturation by H. capsulatum Δ9-desaturase promoter modifies heat shcok response, gene expression and TNF cytotoxicity in yeasts and mammalian cells."
13:10-13:25 Discussion
13:25-14:25 Lunch
   
Tuesday Afternoon, March 10, 1998
Session IV. Temperature  perception  and signal transduction (Continued)
14:25-15:00 Naoki SATO (Saitama University)
  "Cold-inducible gene expression in cyanobacteria"
15:00-15:35 Michael F. THOMASHOW (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
  "Low temperature regulation of Arabidopsis freezing tolerance genes"
15:35-16:10 Francisco LLORENTE, Elisa SANTOS, José M MARTÍNEZ-ZAP ATER and Julio SALINAS (CTI-INIA, Madrid, Spain)
  "Genetical and molecular approaches to study process of cold acclimation"
16:10-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:20 Andrew R. COSSINS, Richard TRUEMAN, Spencer POLLEY and Mark CADDICK (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)
  "Cold-induced lipid biosynthesis in poikilothermic animals"
17:20-17:55 Iwane SUZUKI, Koji MIKAMI, Dmitry A. LOS, Malay RAY and Norio MURAT A (NIBB)
  "Low temperature signal transduction pathway in Synechocystis"
17:55-18:10 Discussion
19:00-21:00 Banquet
   
Wednesday Morning, March 11, 1998
Session V. Chemical perception
Chairpersons: Samuel Kaplan and Takeshi Mizuno
09:30-10:05 Rainer HEDRICH (Julius-von-Sachs­ Institut fur Biowissenshaften, Wurzbrug, Germany)
  "Molecular basis of plant-specific acid activation of K+ uptake channels"
10:05-10:40 Izumi C. MORI, Nobuyuki UOZUMI and Shoshi MUTO (Nagoya University)
  "Phosphorylation of an inward rectifying K+-channel by ABA-responsive protein kinase in guard cells"
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:35 Samuel KAPLAN (The University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA)
  "Control of photosynthesis gene expression in Rhodobactor sphaeroides"
11:35-12:10 Tatsuo SUGIYAMA (Nagoya University)
  "Nitrogen-signal transduction mediated by cytokinin ln maize"
12:10-12:25 Discussion
12:25-14:00 Lunch
   
Wednesday Afternoon, March 11, 1998
Session VI. Regulation of cell cycle and cell growth
Chairpersons: Dénes Dudits and Yasunori Machida
14:00-14:35 Jean-Philippe REICHHELD, Teva VERNOUX, Filip LARDON, Marc VAN MONT AGU and Dirk INZÉ (University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium)
  "How does stress affects cell division?"
14:35-15:10 Yasunori MACHIDA, Ryuichi NISHIHAMA, Marina NAKASHIMA, Kayoko MORIKIYO, Takashi SOYANO and Hiroharu BANNO (Kyoto University)
  "Plant MAP Kinase cascade that is mediated by MAPKKK-related kinase NPKl: Possible involvement in the regulation of M phase"
15:10-15:45 Jen SHEEN, Li ZHOU, Tamara JONES, Jyan-Chyun JANG (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. USA)
  "Sugar sensing and signaling in higher plants"
15:45-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:10 Closing-Norio Murata

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