| SUNDAY |
| 2:00p-9:00p | Arrival and Registration |
| 4:00p-6:00p | Opening Reception |
| 6:00p | Dinner |
| 7:30p | Mike Hasegawa (Purdue University, USA), Chair
Opening remarks |
| Salt and water stress |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Hasegawa (Purdue University, USA) |
| 7:40p | Emanuel Epstein (UC Davis, USA)
"Salt tolerance: from physiology to molecular biology and beyond" |
| 8:10p | Hans Bohnert (U of Illinois, USA)
"Salinity and drought stress genomics - Lessons and limits" |
| 8:40p | Bob Sharp (U of Missouri, USA)
"Regulation of root and shoot growth under water stress" |
| 9:10p | Discussion |
| 9:30p | Adjourn and informal gathering |
| MONDAY |
| 7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Ion homeostasis |
| Discussion Leader: Eduardo Blumwald (UC Davis, USA) |
| 9:00a | Introduction |
| 9:10a | Daniel Schachtman (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, USA)
"Mechanisms of chloride exclusion in woody plants" |
| 9:40a | Maris Apse (UC Davis, USA)
"Role of vacuolar Na+/H+ antiports in salt tolerance and ion homeostasis" |
| 10:10a | Teruhiro Takabe (Meijo University, Japan)
"Structural and functional properties of NhaP type Na+/H+ antiporters" |
| 10:25a | Discussion |
| 10:40a | Coffee Break |
| 11:10a | Nobuyuki Uozumi (Nagoya University, Japan)
"Structure and function of the Arabidopsis Na+-translocation AtHKT1 protein" |
| 11:40a | Françoise Cellier (INRA, Montpellier, France)
"Identification and characterization of A. thaliana mutants disrupted in putative Na+/H+ antiporter genes" |
| 11:55a | Jose Pardo (IRNA-CSIC, Seville, Spain)
"Sodium in salinized plants: from foe to friend" |
| 12:25p | Discussion |
| 12:45p | Lunch / Photo |
| Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
| 4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session I |
| 6:00p | Dinner |
| Ion homeostasis and signaling |
| Discussion Leader: Heven Sze (U of Maryland, USA) |
| 7:30p | Introduction |
| 7:40p | Mark Tester (U of Cambridge, UK)
"How does Na+ get into plants?" |
| 8:10p | Sylvie Coursol (Penn State U, USA)
"Guard cell abscisic acid signaling involves sphingosine-1-phosphate and heterotrimeric G proteins" |
| 8:25p | Kendal Hirschi (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
"Regulation of plant H+/Ca2+ transporters" |
| 8:55p | Yu Kanesaki (National Institute of Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan)
"Regulation of salt-inducible and hyperosmolarity-inducible genes in Synechocystis" |
| 9:10p | Discussion |
| 9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session I |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Ca2+ signaling in the plant stress response
(Dedicated to the memory of Gethyn Allen) |
| Discussion Leader Andrew Smith (U of Oxford, UK) |
| 9:00a | Introduction |
| 9:10a | John Cushman (University of Neveda, Reno, USA)
"Substrates and interactors of calcium-dependent protein kinases" |
| 9:40a | Frans Maathuis (University of York, UK)
"Transport pathways involved in salinity stress" |
| 10:10a | Tina Romeis (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)
"Plant Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs): a molecular switch in stress signaling" |
| 10:25a | Discussion |
| 10:45a | Coffee Break |
| 11:15a | Julian Schroeder (UC San Diego, USA)
"A calcium module in stress signaling and a mechanism regulating root/shoot Na+ distribution" |
| 11:45a | Jeff Harper (Scripps Research Institute, USA)
"Genomics of Ca2+ signaling" |
| 12:15p | Discussion |
| 12:30p | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
| 4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session I |
| 6:00p | Dinner |
| Model genetic systems for plant stress research |
| Discussion Leader: Mary Bisson (State University of New York, Buffalo, USA)
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| 7:30p | Introduction |
| 7:40p | Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro (U Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
"Potassium influx and sodium efflux in model systems, fungi, rice, and Arabidopsis" |
| 8:10p | Ray Bressan (Purdue University, USA)
"Genomic scale evaluation of Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion mutants for altered salinity responses" |
| 8:40p | Haruo Saito (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA and Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan)
"Osmoregulatory HOG MAP kinase pathway in Yeast" |
| 9:10 | Discussion |
| 9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session I |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Plant osmotic stress responses |
| Discussion Leader Beth Bray (UC Riverside, USA) |
| 9:00a | Introduction |
| 9:10a | Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Japan)
"Regulation of gene expression and signaling pathways in response to osmotic stress" |
| 9:40a | Dorothea Bartels (Botanisches Institut Universität Bonn, Germany)
"Desiccation tolerance in C. plantaginenum: signaling pathways and important gene products" |
| 10:10a | Miguel Botella (University of Malaga, Spain)
"Identification of genes essential for drought tolerance" |
| 10:25a | Discussion |
| 10:45a | Coffee Break |
| 11:15a | Jerome Giraudat (France)
"Abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 11:45a | Marc Knight (Oxford University, UK)
"Signaling during osmotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 12:15p | Discussion |
| 12:30p | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
| 4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session II |
| 6:00p | Dinner |
| Crop production and QTLs |
| Discussion Leader Tim Flowers (U of Sussex, UK) |
| 7:30p | Introduction |
| 7:40p | Mike Kearsey (U Birmingham, UK)
"QTL, methodology and limitations" |
| 8:00p | Brian Forster (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Scotland)
"QTL for drought and salinity in barley" |
| 8:20p | Majid Foolad (Penn State University, USA)
"QTL comparison of salt, cold and drought tolerance in tomato" |
| 8:40p | Miki Koyama (John Innes Centre, UK)
"QTL, salinity and rice" |
| 9:00p | Discussion |
| 9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session II |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Stress signaling |
| Discussion Leader Kazuo Shinozaki (RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Japan) |
| 9:00a | Introduction |
| 9:10a | Jian-Kang Zhu (U Arizona, USA)
"Salt stress signaling and ion homeostasis" |
| 9:40a | Montserrat Pages (Spain)
"The function of ABA induced proteins is modulated by multiple kinases during osmotic stress" |
| 10:10a | Dae-Jin Yun (Gyeongsang National University, Korea)
"Genetic screening for cellular redox regulators and their functional analysis" |
| 10:25a | Discussion |
| 10:45a | Coffee Break |
| 11:15a | Motoaki Seki (RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Japan)
"Expression profiling using Arabidopsis full-length cDNAs under abiotic stress conditions" |
| 11:45a | Heribert Hirt (Vienna Biocenter, Austria)
"Functional analysis of salt-stress induced MAP kinase pathway reveals roles in stress and development" |
| 12:15p | Discussion |
| 12:30p | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Free of all formal activity |
| 4:00p | Business Session |
| 4:30p-6:00p | Poster Session II |
| 6:00p | Dinner |
| Plant and cellular responses to stress |
| Discussion Leader - Rana Munns (CSIRO, Australia) |
| 7:30p | Introduction |
| 7:40p | Hirofumi Uchimiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Cross-talks of cell death regulators: any commonage in plants and animals?" |
| 8:10p | Gerry Berkowitz (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Molecular architecture related to K+ and Na+ permeation/exclusion through cloned plant ion channels; studies using heterologous expression systems"
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| 8:40p | Rainer Hedrich (Julius-von-Sachs-Institut fuer Biophysik, Germany)
"On the roots of mineral nutrition - Regulation of root ion channels by salt and water stress" |
| 9:10p | Discussion |
| 9:20p | Open Discussion |
| 9:30p | Adjourn and Poster Session II |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:45a-8:30a | Breakfast |
| Conferees Depart |
