07-10 October 2009
Lisbon, Portugal
Plant GEM Scientific Program
The 8th Plant GEM envisage 9 sessions. You can read further details in the list below. There are also community organized workshops during Plant-GEM.
The Organising Committee of the 8th Plant Gem Meeting will accept the submission of abstracts for presentation as posters until August 28th. No abstracts will be considered for a Selected Talk after July 24th.
Attention: There are also community organized parallel meetings and workshops supported by P-GEM. Here you can get further details (please check the time table)
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Meeting venue: Rectory of the New University Lisbon
Campus de Campolide, 1099-085 Lisboa
Wednesday, October 07
| 08:30-11:00 11:00-14:30 |
Arrival for PlantGEM PlantGEM Meeting registration and poster hanging |
| Opening Ceremony: Welcoming address from the organizers and local authorities |
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| 14:30 |
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| Opening Session: Highlights in Genomics/ Opening Keynote Lectures |
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Chairs: Margarida Oliveira (ITQB-UNL, PT) & C. Pinto Ricardo (ITQB-UNL, PT) |
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15:00 16:00 17:00 |
Nina Fedoroff (Penn State University, USA) Portrait "MicroRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis" Catherine Feuillet (INRA, France) Portrait "Sequencing the wheat genome? Yes, we can" Coffee break |
Session 1. Genomics of abiotic stress response |
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Chairs: Antonio Tibúrcio (Univ.Barcelona, SP) & Sara Amâncio (ISA, PT) |
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17:30 18:00 18:30 18:45 19:00 19:15 19:30 |
Christine Foyer (University of Newcastle, UK) Portrait "Cellular Redox Homeostasis and Regulation of Plant Growth and Defence" Elena Baena-Gonzalez (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT) Portrait "Convergent stress and energy signaling" Camila Caldana, Thomas Degenkolbe, Alvaro Cuadro-Inostroza, Sebastian Klie, Andrea Leisse, Dirk Steinhauser, Lothar Willmitzer, Matthew A Hannah SYSTEM-WIDE METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING IN RESPONSE TO INTERACTING ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS Jeffrey Leung, Michael R Blatt, Jens Uwe Sutter, Aleksandra Wasilewska A REVERSE HALF-MOLECULE ABC TRANSPORTER INTEGRATES LIGHT AND ABSCISIC ACID SIGNALS IN STOMATAL REGULATION Triin Vahisalu, Irina Puzõrjova, Mikael Brosché, Heino Moldau, Priit Pechter, Yuh-Shuh Wang, Jarkko Salojärvi, Jaakko Kangasjärvi, Hannes Kollist OZONE-TRIGGERED RAPID STOMATAL RESPONSE INVOLVES PRODUCTION OF ROS AND IS GOVERNED BY SLAC1 AND OST1 Ana Paula Farinha, Sami Irar, Montserrat Pagés, M. Margarida Oliveira PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF RICE VARIETIES (ORYZA SATIVA L.) WITH CONTRASTING SENSITIVITY TO ABIOTIC STRESS Welcome Reception (at the Meeting Venue) |
Thursday, October 08
| Session 2. Genomics of biotic interactions
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Chairs: Kristina Gruden (NIB, SI) & Teresa Lino Neto (Univ. Minho, PT) |
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08:30 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 |
Charles H. Opperman (North Carolina State University, USA) Portrait "Plant-parasitic nematode genomes: Comparative analysis begins to reveal paths to adaptation and evolution" Sophien Kamoun (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK) Portrait "Functional and evolutionary dynamics of oomycete effectors" Špela Baebler, Polona Kogovšek, Ana Rotter, Kamil Witek, David Dobnik, Marko Petek, Katja Barle, Maruša Pompe-Novak, Jana Žel, Jacek Hennig, Maja Ravnikar, Kristina Gruden TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGY OF POTATO-PVY INTERACTION Tiago Lourenço, Tânia Serra, Nelson Saibo, Cândido Pinto Ricardo, M. Margarida Oliveira THE ROLE OF OSHOS1 IN THE MODULATION OF ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC STRESS Hassen Gherbi V, Valérie Hocher, Florence Auguy, Patrick Doumas, Sergio Svistoonoff, Laurent Laplaze, Claudine Franche, Didier Bogusz FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS AS A TOOL TO STUDY SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY IN CASUARINA-FRANKIA ACTINORHIZAL SYMBIOSIS Sandra Fonseca, Andrea Chini, Mats Hamberg Bruce Adie, Andrea Porzel, Robert Kramell, Otto Miersch, Claus Wasternack, Roberto Solano (+)-7-ISO-JASMONOYL-L-ISOLEUCINE IS THE HORMONE THAT TRIGGERS THE JASMONATE SIGNALING PATHWAY Coffee-break |
| Session 3. Plant genomics and sustainable agriculture
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Chairs: Roberto Tuberosa (DiSTA, IT) & Ana Ribeiro (IICT, PT) |
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11:00 11:30 12:00 12:15 12:30 12:45 13:00 14:00 |
Cécile Grenier (Purdue, USA) Portrait "Integrating Genomic, Genetic, and Agronomic Technologies for Control of Striga" Rajeev K. Varshney (ICRISAT, India) Portrait "Developing genomic resources for enabling genomics-assisted breeding in chickpea" Ana Margarida Fortes, Marta S. Silva, Ali Kashiff, Federica Maltese, Young H. Choi, Lisete Sousa, José M. Martínez-Zapater, Rob Verpoorte, Rui Malhó, Maria S. Pais TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND METABOLIC PROFILING DURING RIPENING OF TRINCADEIRA GRAPES Abel Barrios, Alberto Martin, Sonia Ramos, Björn Rotter, Ralf Horres, Anne Plötner, Nico Kretzdorn, Constantino Caminero Saldana, Marcelino P. Vega, Peter Winter BULKED EXTREMES SUPERTAG DIGITAL GENE EXPRESSION (BE-STDGE) PROFILING: A FAST TRACK TO GENES UNDERLYING COLD TOLERANCE James Cockram, Jon White, Diana Zuluaga, Ian Mackay, Zewei Luo, Mike Kearsey, Jordi Comadran, David Marshall, Luke Ramsay, Bill Thomas, David Harrap, Peter Werner, AGOUEB, Robbie Waugh, Donal O’Sullivan GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION MAPPING OF MULTIPLE MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS IN BARLEY Tian Tang, Haijun Wen, Ziwen He, Bin Zhang, Suhua Shi, Chung-I Wu REGIONS OF SELECTIVE SWEEP IN DOMESTICATED RICE REVEALED BY WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING Lunch Posters EVEN NUMBERS |
| Session 4. Epigenetics, small RNAs and chromatin structure
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Chairs: Nina Fedoroff (Penn State Univ., USA) & Wanda Viegas (ISA, PT) |
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15:00 15:30 16:00 16:15 16:30 16:45 17:00 |
Barbara Hohn (Emeritus, Friedrisch-Miescher Inst., CH) Portrait "Environmental influences on plant genome dynamics" Olga Pontes (Washington University, USA) Portrait "Functional significance of nuclear compartmentalization in the regulation of RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana" Boris Vanyushin, L.I.Fedoreyeva, V.V. Ashapkin, P.N. Kharchenko ADENINE DNA METHYLATION AND UNIQUE ENDONUCLEASES IN PLANTS Tatjana Sjakste, Kristina Bielskiene, Marion Röder, Lida Bagdoniene, Nikolajs Sjakste TISSUE AND DEVELOPMENT SPECIFIC CHANGES IN THE TIGHT DNA-PROTEIN COMPLEXES IN BARLEY GENES AND CHROMOSOMES Katerina Krizova, Miloslava Fojtova, Ann Depicker, Ales Kovarik DYNAMIC OF EPIGENETIC SWITCHING BETWEEN POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL TRANSGENE SILENCING IN TOBACCO Liliana Ferreira, M. Margarida Oliveira, Ana Paula Santos ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AFFECTS INTERPHASE RIBOSOMAL CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION Coffee-break |
| Session 5. Genome structure, evolution and comparative genomics |
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Chairs:Ian King (Aberystwyth Univ., UK) & Carlos Faro (BIOCANT, PT) |
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17:30 18:00 18:30 18:45 19:00 19:15 |
Pere Arús (IRTA, Spain) Portrait "The peach: variability, genome knowledge and comparison with other rosaceous genomes" Michele Morgante (University of Udine, Italy) Portrait "The grapevine pan-genome: structure, diversity and function" Miguel Bento, Augusta Barão, Perry Gustafson, Wanda Viegas, Manuela Silva GENOME EVOLUTION BY POLYPLOIDIZATION: BACKCROSS ENHANCES DNA SEQUENCE RESTRUCTURING IN TRITICALE Ezio Portis, Alberto Acquadro, Davide Scaglione, Giovanni Mauromicale, Rosario Mauro, Chris A. Taylor, Steven J. Knapp, Sergio Lanteri CONSTRUCTION OF AN SSR-BASED LINKAGE MAP FOR CYNARA CARDUNCULUS Tomas Cermak, Roman Hobza, Zdenek Kubat, Boris Vyskot, Eduard Kejnovsky SEX-DEPENDENT DIFFERENCES IN TRANSCRIPTION OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS IN A DIOECIOUS PLANT SPECIES Franc-Christophe Baurens MECHANISMS OF HAPLOTYPE DIVERGENCE AT THE RGA08 NBS-LRR LOCUS IN WILD BANANA (MUSA BALBISIANA) |
Friday, October 09
Sightseeing and Gala Dinner
| Session 6. Bioinformatics and systems networks
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Chairs: Heiko Schoof (Max Planck, DE) & José Leal (IGC, PT) |
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08:30 09:00 09:30 09:45 10:00 10:15 10:30 |
Michael Bevan (John Innes Centre, UK) Portrait "Genome knowledge for plant science: Applications for gene discovery and crop plant improvement" Wolfram Weckwerth (Univ. of Vienna, Austria) Portrait "Systematic metabolomics and proteomics data integration for genome annotation and systems-level understanding." D.M. Riaño-Pachón, P. Durek, S. Kleessen, J. Neigenfind, W. Engelsberger, D. Walther, J. Selbig, W. Schulze, B. Kersten PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION PATTERNS AFFECTED BY NUCLEAR DNA POLYMORPHISMS IN A GENOME-WIDE SCALE IN ARABIDOPSIS Susanne P. Pfeifer, Petra Bauer, Volkhard Helms SCAMPI: IDENTIFICATION OF MOLECULAR MARKERS IN THE ARABIDOPSIS GENOME Wojciech M. Karlowski, Andrzej Zielezinski WHOLE GENOME ANNOTATION OF GW REPEAT PROTEINS IN ARABIDOPSIS Antonio Tiburcio COST ACTION FA0605 – AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK IN PLANT ABIOTIC STRESS Coffee-break |
| Session 7. Nutrigenomics and molecular farming |
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Chairs: Dirk Buessis (GABI, DE) & Mariana Sottomayor (Porto Univ., PT) |
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11:00 11:30 12:00 12:15 12:30 13:30 |
Yuri Gleba (IconGenetics, Germany) Portrait "Plants as manufacturing hosts for pharmaceutical and high-value proteins" Paul Christou (University of Lleida, Spain) Portrait "The development of multivitamin corn in the context of food security" Gabriella Sonnante, Rosalinda D’Amore, Emanuela Blanco, Ciro L. Pierri, Jie Luo, Cathie Martin TWO NOVEL HQT GENES SHOW DIFFERENT SPECIFICITIES IN THE PATHWAY OF CHLOROGENIC ACID SYNTHESIS IN ARTICHOKE Marco Maccaferri, Maria Corinna Sanguineti, Karim Ammar, Ivan Ortiz Monasterio, Andrea Demontis, Andrea Massi, Roberto Tuberosa, Ismail Cakmak ASSOCIATION MAPPING IN DURUM WHEAT REVEALS THE PRESENCE OF LOCI CONTROLLING MICRONUTRIENT CONCENTRATION IN THE GRAIN Lunch Posters ODD NUMBERS |
| Cultural Events during PlantGEM |
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| 14:30-18:30 20:00-23(4):00 |
BUS pick-up at the Meeting Venue Cultural afternoon: Guided Tour in Lisbon and Boat Trip in River Tagus GALA DINNER Bus pick up at Hotels and transport to Gala Dinner "Casal de Paulos" » more information (including Fado singing and animation) |
| Session 8. Agri-food plant genomics
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Chairs: Atanas Atanassov (AgroBioInstitute, BG) & José Leitão (Univ. Algarve, PT) |
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09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 |
Andreas Renz (BASF, Germany) Portrait "Plant biotechnology for agri-food applications - challenges, achievements and perspectives" Inge Broer (Rostock University, Germany) Portrait "Biopolymers in transgenic plants: Optimization of Cyanophycin production in different species" Coffee-break Jeannette Rode, Jutta Ahlemeyer, Wolfgang Friedt, Frank Ordon DETECTION OF MARKER TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS IN A SET OF GERMAN WINTER BARLEY CULTIVARS Jaakko Tanskanen, Heidrun Gundlach, Klaus Mayer, Alan H. Schulman THE LTR RETROTRANSPOSONS OF BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON Sandra Correia, Margarida Oliveira, Célia Miguel, Jorge Canhoto ASSAYS OF GENE SILENCING IN TAMARILLO (SOLANACEAE) TO UNDERSTAND NEP25 ROLE ON SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS INDUCTION Claude Urbany, Lysann Schmidt, Thomas Colby, Jürgen Schmidt, Ludwig Simon, Hergen Berding, Josef Berger, Holger Junghans, Karl-Heinz Niehoff, Alexander Braun, Eckart Tacke, Hans-Rheinhardt Hofferbert, Jens Lübeck, Josef Strahwald, Bernd Truberg, Ramona Thieme, Christiane Gebhardt POTATO TUBER BRUISING DISSECTED BY AN OMICS APPROACH |
| Sponsor Companies |
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Chair: José António Matos |
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12:00 12:20 12:30 |
Roche Applied Biosystems DNAvision |
| Further appointments |
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| 12:40 13:00 |
Next Meeting 9th PlantGEM (discussing / presenting) Lunch |
| Session 9. Genomics for Bioenergy |
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Chairs: Pablo Vera (IBMC, SP) & Cristina Marques (RAIZ, PT) |
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14:00 14:30 15:00 |
Wout Boerjan (U-Gent-VIB, Be) Portrait "Systems Biology of lignification, and relevance to biofuels" Jacqueline Grima-Pettenat (CNRS, France) Portrait "Seeking for masters genes controlling wood formation" Ryan R. McKenzie, Mary De Pauw, Melissa J. Roach, Naomi S. C. Hotte, Neil Hobson, Andrea Bloom, Ben Morris, Jason Gardiner, Corey Davis, Raju Datla, Michael K. Deyholos GENETIC AND HORMONAL REGULATION OF STEM DEVELOPMENT IN FLAX (LINUM USITATISSIMUM L.) |
| Closing Session
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Chairs: José Matos (INETI, PT) & José Feijó (IGC, PT) |
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15:15 16:15-16:30 |
Thomas Mitchell-Olds (Duke Univ., USA) Portrait "Evolution and ecology of a cloned QTL in natural plant populations" Closing Ceremony
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Time Table for the
Preliminary Programm - 8th PlantGEM and Satellite Meetings
7-10 October, 2009 - Lisboa - Portugal
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