24-27 September 2008
Albena,
Bulgaria
Plant GEM Scientific Program
The 7th Plant GEM envisage 12 sessions. You can read further details in the list below. There are also community organized workshops during P-GEM.
The Organising Committee of the 7th Plant Gem Meeting will accept the submission of abstracts for presentation as posters until August 20th. No abstracts will be considered for a Selected Talk after July 21st.
Attention: There are also community organized parallel meetings and workshops supported by P-GEM. Here you can get further details.
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Meeting venue: Flamingo Grand Hall, Hotel Grand Flamingo
Wednesday, September 24
| 09:30-15:00 | Plant Gem Meeting registration - Hotel Grand Flamingo Posters set up - Flamingo Grand Hall |
| Opening Session: Highlights in Genomics/ Opening Keynote Lectures |
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Chair: Atanas Atanassov |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Welcoming address from the organizers and local authorities |
| 15:30-15:55 | Contributions from Framework Programme 7 to Plant Genomics Alfredo Aguilar, European Commission - DG Research (Brussels, Belgium) |
| 15:55-16:20 | European Technology Platform "Plants for the Future" Marc Cornelissen, TP Executive Committee Member |
| 16:20-16:50 | Opening keynote lecture: The path forward : From functional genomics to systems biology Lothar Willmitzer (Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany) |
| 16:50-17:20 | Opening keynote lecture: Heterosis: new tools and complexities Patrick Schnable (Iowa State University, USA) |
| 18:30-22:00 | Welcome Reception - Hotel Grand Flamingo |
| 22:00 | Return to Official Meeting Hotels |
Thursday, September 25
| Session 1. Emerging Plant Genomics Tools and Platforms |
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Co-Chairs: Valerie Frankard & Tsanko Gechev |
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| 08:30-09:00 | SoluCel technology platform - Plant cells as efficient green factories Anneli Ritala (VTT, Finland) |
| 09:00-09:30 | High throughput approaches to elucidating the molecular biology of crop yield Valerie Frankard (Crop Design, Belgium) |
| 09:30-09:55 | Current Status of Monocot Genetic Transformation Platforms in Europe Huw Jones (Rothamsted Research, UK) |
| 09:55-10:20 | ERA-NET Plant Genomics Christine Bunthof (ERA-PG, www.erapg.org) |
| 10:20-10:45 | Development of a multi-parental (four-way cross) mapping population for multi-allelic QTL analysis in durum wheat Marco Maccaferri (DiSTA, Bologna, Italy) |
| 10:45-11:15 | Poster viewing & Coffee break |
| Session 2. Genomes of Model Plants and Crops |
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Co-Chairs: Dorothea Bartels & Dimitar Djilianov |
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| 11:15-11:45 | Desiccation tolerance: how to dissect the complex response network? Dorothea Bartels (University of Bonn, Germany) |
| 11:45-12:10 | Current status in developing a genome-wide physical map in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Daniela Shulte (IPK, Gatersleben, Germany) |
| 12:10-12:35 | Identifying genes involved in leaf development using PopGenie: A new resource for exploring the poplar genome Nathaniel Street (Umeå University, Sweden) |
| 12:35-13:00 | The sua mutant is an allele specific suppressor of the seed maturation mutant abi3-5 in Arabidopsis Matteo Sugliani (MPI, Cologne, Germany) |
| 13:00-13:20 | Applied Biosystems Workshop: Enabling RNA Analysis Solutions Using SOLiD(TM) System Next Generation Sequencing Platform Thomas Rygus, PhD (Senior Specialist Business Development, Next Generation Sequencing Applied Biosystems Europe) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Poster Viewing & Lunch in “Essentials” restaurant |
| Session 3. Genome Structure & Comparative Genomic Approaches |
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Co-Chairs: Catherine Feuillet & Ivan Atanassov |
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| 14:00-14:30 | A glimpse into the impossible: physical mapping and comparative analyses of the giant hexaploid wheat genome Catherine Feuillet (INRA-ASP, Clermont-Ferrand, France) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Structure of the Soybean (Glycine max) Genome and Comparisons to Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Scott Jackson (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA) |
| 15:00-15:25 | Cereal Ancestor Genome Structure and Evolution Jerome Salse (INRA-ASP, Clermont-Ferrand, France) |
| 15:25-15:50 | Will second generation sequencing technology impact the strategy of sequencing the barley genome? Nils Stein (IPK, Gatersleben, Germany) |
| 15:50-16:20 | Poster viewing & Coffee break |
| Session 4. Gene and genome evolution under domestication |
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Co-Chairs: Willem Stiekema & Sevdalin Georgiev |
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| 16:20-16:50 | The SOL Genome Project Willem J. Stiekema (Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands) |
| 16:50-17:20 | Domestication as genetic phenomena Valeriy Glazko (SAU, Moscow, Russia) |
| 17:20-17:45 | Exploiting molecular evolution of barley vernalization and photoperiod genes under domestication for the rational manipulation of flowering time Donal O Sullivan (NIAB, Cambridge, UK) |
| 20:00 | Wine tasting with folklore programme- restaurant “Bulgarian Fiesta” |
| Session 4a. Genomics perspectives for cooperation of Black Sea Biotechnology Association (BSBA) and ERA-PG 16:20-18:10 Hall Ara in Hotel Grand Flamingo (in parallel to session 4) |
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Chair: Atanas Atanassov |
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| 16:20-18:10 | The Importance of Public - Private Partnerships in Strategizing the Future of Agricultural Biotechnology Joint Genomics studies on grape, sunflower, plum pox virus in the BSBA countries as a groundbase for cooperation with ERA-NET Plant Genomics:
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Friday, September 26
| Session 5. Natural Variation & Ecosystem Genomics |
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Co-Chairs: Alan Schulman & Bojin Bojinov |
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| 08:30-09:00 | The role of retrotransposons in genome dynamics over gradients of space and time Alan Schulman (MTT, Finland) |
| 09:00-09:30 | Directions of ecological genomics Malgorzata Korbin (RIPF, Skernevice, Poland) |
| 09:30-09:55 | The Division of Wild Barley (Hordeum spontaneum) to Meta-Population Structure is Attributed Primarily to Temperature Variation Eyal Fridman (The Hebrew University, Israel) |
| 09:55-10:20 | Characterization of Ac transposon – homologous sequences in wheat genome Sevdalin Georgiev (Sofia University, Bulgaria) |
| 10:20-11:00 | Poster Viewing & Coffee break |
| Session 6. Plant Systems Oriented Genomics |
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Co-Chairs: Lothar Willnintser & Nikolai Christov |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Functional genomics: a new force in plant cell wall biology Geoffrey B. Fincher (ACPFG, Adelaide, Australia) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Cellulose synthase complex of Arabidopsis secondary cell walls: purification, subunit composition and interaction Ivan Atanassov (ABI, Bulgaria) |
| 12:00-12:25 | Dissecting the steps leading to peach ripening by means of microarray expression profiling of ripening peach treated with ethylene, auxin and 1-methylcyclopropene Llivio Trainotti (UP, Padova, Italy) |
| 12:25-14:00 | Poster viewing & Lunch in “Essentials” restaurant |
| Session 7. Bioinformatics & Process Oriented Approaches |
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Co-Chairs: Jack Leunissen & Dimitar Vassilev |
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| 14:00-14:30 | The quest for orthologs Jack Leunissen (WUR, Wageningen,The Netherlands) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Barley data integration: a case history of comparative genomics David Marshall (SCRI, Dundee, UK) |
| 15:00-15:25 | The GABI Primary Database: GabiPD – Integration of plant ‘omics’ data Birgit Kersten (MPI, Golm, Germany) |
| 15:25-15:50 | Whole transcriptome analysis of germinating smoke water treated maize seeds Endre Sebestyén (ARI, HAS, Hungary) |
| 15:50-16:20 | Poster Viewing & Coffee break |
| Session 8. Phenotypic Plasticity on Biotic & Abiotic Stresses |
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Co-Chairs: Beat Keller & Elena Marinova |
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| 16:20-16:50 | Molecular and functional diversity of powdery mildew resistance genes in the wheat gene pool Beat Keller (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 16:50-17:20 | Functions of cold shock domain proteins in plants Ryozo Imai (NARC Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan) |
| 17:20-17:45 | Advances in positional cloning of PpALG1 and Pp523, two linked downy mildew adult-plant resistance genes in Brassica oleracea L. José Leitão (UA, Faro, Portugal) |
| 17:45-18:10 | Isolation and cloning of dehydration-responsive element binding proteins (DREB) from Triticum dicoccoides Emel Durmaz (SU, Tuzla, Turkey) |
| 18:10-19:35 | Biological function analysis of genes involved in disease resistance via virus induced gene silencing in wheat, barley, and grass model organism; Brachypodium distachyon Mahinur S. Akkaya (METU, Ankara, Turkey) |
| 20:00-22:30 | Congress dinner – Cazino |
Saturday, September 27
| Session 9. Genomics for Agriculture Sustainability & Food Security |
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Chair: Pablo Vera |
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| 08:30-09:00 | QTL-based approaches to sustain the performance of cereal crops under conditions of abiotic constraints Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna, Italy) |
| 09:00-09:30 | Leveraging plant genomics to improve a breeding program in maize Milena Ouzunova (KWS, Germany) |
| 09:30-09:55 | Seed quality modifying treatments cause characteristic changes of gene expression profiles in sugar beet seeds (Beta vulgaris L.) Elena Pestsova (University of Dusseldorf, Germany) |
| 09:55-10:20 | Induced mutations: a shortcut from candidate gene mapping to cloning in rice Qingyao Shu (Zhejiang University, China) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Poster viewing & Coffee break |
| Session 10. Epigenetics, Small RNAs and Chromatine Structure |
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Co-Chairs: Aliki Kapazoglu & Ivan Minkov |
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| 10:50-11:20 |
Chromatin modifiers in the epigenetic regulation of barley seed development Aliki Kapazoglu (INA, Tessaloniki, Greece) |
| 11:20-11:50 | Dedifferentiation-associated promoter hypermethylation and gene repression in Arabidopsis María Berdasco (Oviedo University, Spain) |
| 11:50-12:15 | Genetic and epigenetic stability in somatic embryogenesis of Pinus pinaster Liliana Marum (IBET/ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal) |
| 12:15-12:40 | Rapid changes in the repertoire of transcripts for DNA-binding proteins in chickpea roots and nodules suggest drastic genome wide chromatin remodelling upon stress: stress chromatin? Peter Winter (GenXPro GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany) |
| 12:40-13:05 | DNA methylation and endonucleases dependent on S-adenosyl-L-methionine and sensitive to DNA methilation status in plants Boris F. Vanyushin (Moskow State University, Russia) |
| 13:05-14:00 | Poster viewing & Lunch in “Essentials” restaurant |
| Session 11. Nutrition and Health Related Plant Genomics |
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Co-Chairs: Paul Christou & Ivelin Rizov |
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Combinatorial genetic transformation and the generation of plant mutant libraries for metabolic engineering Paul Christou (University of Lleida, Spain) |
| 14:30-14:55 | Molecular cloning of fructan biosynthetic genes from yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) and its expression in transgenic plants Hiroyuki Anzai (Ibaraki University, Japan) |
| 14:55-15:20 | Polyamine and fruit crops: growth, development and stress response Ji-Hong Liu (Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China) |
| 15:20-15:50 | Poster viewing & Coffee break |
| Session 12. Genomics for biosafety in plant biotechnology |
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Co-Chairs: Kristina Gruden & Nevena Alexandrova |
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| 15:50-16:20 |
Scientific and technical support for the implementation of EU GMO policies Guy Van den Eede (Joint Research Centre, EC) |
| 16:20-16:50 | Biological containment strategies for transgenic plants Ruud de Maagd (WUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands) |
| 16:50-17:15 | GMO traceability in view of expanding GMO market Kristina Gruden (NIB, Slovenia) |
| 17:15-17:40 | Cisgenenic barley for animal feed Inger Holme (University of Aarhus, Denmark) |
| Closing Session: Flamingo Grand Hall |
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Co-Chairs: Atanas Atanassov, Ivan Minkov & Nikolai Christov |
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| 17:40-18:10 |
Closing Keynote lecture: Using genetics and genomics to bridge the gap between phenotype and genotype in a crop plant Richard Visser (Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands) |
| 18:10-18:25 | Introduction of the 8-th Plant GEM Venue |
| 18:25-18:35 | Closing Ceremony |