PLANT ENERGY AND WATER PRODUCTIVITY: From Genes to Environment. | |||
18 - 20 September 2008 | |||
Robertson Lecture Theatre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. | |||
Day 1 - Thursday 18 September 2008. |
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08:00 - 08:20: | Registration. | ||
08:29 - 08:30: | Welcome address. | TBA | |
Session 1: | Control of Transpiration. | ||
Chair: | Richard Richards | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | |
08:30 - 09:00: | Sarah Assmann | Penn State Univ., Pennsylvania, USA | G-proteins, guard cells, and the control of transpiration |
09:00 - 09:30: | Peter Franks | James Cook Univ., Cairns, Australia | Leaf gas exchange: Stomatal mechanics, hydraulics and environment |
09:30 - 10:00: | Susanne von Caemmerer | Australian National Univ., Canberra | The relationship between stomatal conductance and photosynthesis |
10:00 - 10:30: | Josette Masle | Australian National Univ., Canberra | Transpiration efficiency genes |
10:30 - 10:40: | General Discussion. | ||
10:40 - 11:00: | Coffee Break. | ||
Session 2: | Roots and Hormone Signalling. | ||
Chair: | Ulrike Mathesius | Australian National Univ., Canberra | |
11:00 - 11:30: | Frank Hochholdinger | Univ. Tuebingen, Germany | Genetic dissection of maize root system development |
11:30 - 12:00: | Robert Sharp | Univ Missouri, Columbia, USA | Root growth maintenance under water deficits. Physiology to cell wall proteomics - and back to physiology |
12:00 - 12:30: | Sally Wilkinson | Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, UK | Plant responses to the basic root-shoot ABA signal: modifications in a changing environment |
12:30 - 12:40: | General Discussion. | ||
12:40 - 14:00: | Lunch and Poster Viewing. | ||
Session 3: | Roots and Hydraulic Signalling. | ||
Chair: | Michelle Watt | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | |
14:00 - 14:30: | Ralf Kaldenhoff | Darmstadt Univ., Darmstadt, Germany | Molecular function and significance of plant aquaporins for water transport and photosynthesis |
14:30 - 15:00: | Brian Loveys | CSIRO Plant Industry, Urrbrae, South Australia | Root-to-shoot signalling and exploiting plant response to soil moisture deficit |
15:00 - 15:30: | Steve Tyerman | Univ. Adelaide, South Australia | The role of aquaporins in controlling root hydraulic conductance |
15:30 - 15:40: | General Discussion. | ||
15:40 - 16:00: | Coffee Break. | ||
Session 4: | Drought Stress and Reproductive Development. | ||
Chair: | Liz Dennis | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | |
16:00 - 16:30: | Michael Nuccio | Syngenta, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA | Tools to Improve Productivity in Maize Subject to Drought at Flowering. |
16:30 - 17:00: | Linda Tabe | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | Stem carbohydrate reserves for grain filling in drought. |
17:00 - 17:30: | Rudy Dolferus | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | Control of grain number by reproductive stage drought stress in rice and wheat |
17:30 - 17:40: | General Discussion. | ||
17:40 - 19:30 | Drinks and Poster Viewing. | ||
Day 2 - Friday 19 September 2008. |
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Session 5: | Enhancing CO2 uptake efficiency | ||
Chair: | Spencer Whitney | Australian National University, Canberra | |
08:30 - 09:00: | Christoph Peterhansel | RWTH, Aachen, Germany | Chloroplastic oxidation of photorespiratory glycolate enhances plant photosynthesis and biomass production. |
09:00 - 09:30: | Tim Caspar | Dupont, Wilmington, Delaware, USA | Strategies for engineering an improved rubisco for increased crop productivity |
09:30 - 10:00: | Murray Badger | Australian National Univ., Canberra | Single cell CO2 concentrating mechanisms in C3 plants based on prokaryotic and algal bicarbonate transporters: is it possible? |
10:00 - 10:30: | Spencer Whitney | Australian National Univ., Canberra | Modifying CO2-assimilation in plants via plastome engineering of Rubisco |
10:30 - 10:40: | General Discussion. | ||
10:40 - 11:00: | Coffee Break. | ||
Session 6: | Light and Oxidative stress tolerance | ||
Chair: | Harvey Millar | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | |
11:00 - 11:30: | Phil Mullineaux | Univ. Essex, Colchester, UK | ROS-mediated chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling in high light: Insights for diverse abiotic and biotic stresses |
11:30 - 12:00: | David Kramer | Washington State Univ, Pullman, Washington, USA | Co-regulation of the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis: Strategies for plant productivity and responses to environmental challenges. |
12:00 - 12:30: | Barry Pogson | Australian National Univ., Canberra | Systemic Signalling of Oxidative Stress |
12:30 - 12:40: | General Discussion. | ||
12:40 - 14:00: | Lunch and Poster Viewing. | ||
Session 7: | Organelle Biogenesis and Metabolism, I | ||
Chair: | Ian Small | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | |
14:00 - 14:30: | Asa Strand | Univ. Umeå, Sweden | Mg-Protoporphyrin IX, a coordinator of photosynthetic gene expression in the nucleus and the chloroplast |
14:30 - 15:00: | Steve Smith | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | Sterol signaling in response to abiotic stresses in Arabidopsis |
15:00 - 15:30: | Jim Whelan | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | Interaction of regulatory pathways controlling the expression of genes encoding mitochondrial and chloroplast proteins |
15:30 - 15:40: | General Discussion. | ||
15:40 - 16:00: | Coffee Break. | ||
Session 8: | Organelle Biogenesis and Metabolism, II | ||
Chair: | Murray Badger | Australian National Univ., Canberra | |
16:00 - 16:30: | Andreas Weber | Heinrich-Heine-Univ., Dusseldorf, Germany | Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants |
16:30 - 17:00: | Allan Green | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | Metabolic engineering of fatty acid biosynthetic pathways spanning plastidic, microsomal and cytosolic compartments of developing seed cells |
17:00 - 17:30: | Dean DellaPenna | Michigan State Univ. East Lansing, USA | Integrating genetics, genomics and natural variation to study plastid metabolism |
17:30 - 17:40: | General Discussion. | ||
17:40 - 19:30 | Drinks and Poster Viewing. | ||
20:00 - 00:00 | Conference Dinner at Hudson's Café, Australian National Botanic Gardens. | ||
Day 3 - Saturday 20th September 2008. |
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Session 9: | From Artifical Photosynthesis to Biofuel production | ||
Chair: | Bob Furbank | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | |
08:30 - 09:00: | Steve Long | Univ. Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA | Increasing productivity - the common denominator in meeting food and fuel demands. Can improved photosynthetic efficiency contribute?" |
09:00 - 09:30: | Ben Hankamer | Univ. Qld, St. Lucia, Brisbane | The Solar Biofuels Consortium: Developing high-efficiency microalgal biofuel production systems |
09:30 - 10:00: | Thomas Sharkey | Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, Michigan, USA | Hemiterpenes: Biosynthesis, functions, and potential as biofuels |
10:00 - 10:30: | Warwick Hillier | Australian National Univ., Canberra | Engineering Photochemistry for Molecular Biofuels |
10:30 - 10:40: | General Discussion. | ||
10:40 - 11:00: | Coffee Break. | ||
Session 10: | Metabolism and stress tolerance | ||
Chair: | Vaughan Hurry | University of Umeå, Sweden | |
11:00 - 11:30: | Per Gardestrom | Univ. Umeå, Sweden | Mitochondrial contributions to photosynthesis and leaf senescence |
11:30 - 12:00: | Harvey Millar | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | The leaf mitochondrial proteome and what it reveals about respiratory function in Arabidopsis |
12:00 - 12:30: | Manuela Chaves | Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal. | Effects of drought stress on photosynthesis and sugar metabolism |
12:30 - 12:40: | General Discussion. | ||
12:40 - 14:00: | Lunch and Poster Viewing. | ||
Session 11: | 'Omics approaches to future crop improvements | ||
Chair: | Jim Whelan | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | |
14:00 - 14:30: | Robert Furbank | CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra | Photosynthesis and food security: the need for a second Green Revolution |
14:30 - 15:00: | Rob Last | Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, USA | Grid Genetics: Large Scale Reverse Genetic Approaches to Understanding Chloroplast Function |
15:00 - 15:20: | Ian Small | Univ. Western Australia, Perth | Combining ‘omics data for a systems level picture of energy metabolism in plants |
15:20 - 15:30: | General Discussion. | ||
15:30 - 16:00: | Coffee Break. | ||
Conference Conclusion and Summary | |||
16:00 - 16:15 | TBA | ||
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