| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6.00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GENOMICS / PROTEOMICS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Hans Bohnert (University of Illinois, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Henry Nguyen (University of Missouri, USA)
"Transcriptional profiling and proteomic analysis of maize roots under drought stress" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Jan Svensson (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Expression profiling of barley: drought and salt responsive genes" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Ruth Grene (Virginia Tech Univ., USA)
"Adaptation to drought stress in loblolly pine" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GENE EXPRESSION |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki (JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Japan) |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Soo Young Kim (Kumho Life & Env. Sci. Lab., South Korea)
"Role of ABFs in ABA-responsive gene expression" |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Tuan-Hua David Ho (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)
"ABA/stress inducible promoters and their interacting factors" |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Dudy BarZvi (Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel)
"Understanding the role of unknown stress-regulated genes:
The Asr1 case" |
| 10:25 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | James Zhang (Mendel Biotechnology, USA)
"Transcription regulation of drought adaptation in plants" |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Yasunari Fujita (JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Japan)
"Activation of ABA-Responsive Gene Expressions by Drought and Salt Stresses" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Ning Li (Kong Kong University of Science Tech, China)
"The molecular mechanisms of ACC synthase catalysis and ethylene's dual and opposing (Yin and Yang) effects on shoot gravitropism" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | METABOLISM / METABOLOMICS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: John Cushman (University of Nevada at Reno, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Adriana Katz (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
"Elevated Photosynthesis and Redox Energy Production Contribute to Salinity-Tolerance in Dunaliella as Revealed by Homology-Based Proteomics" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Lloyd Summer (Noble Foundation, USA)
"Metabolomics and Proteomics of Medicago trunculata" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Ajay Garg (Cornell University, USA)
"Genetic engineering of rice plants with trehalose-producing genes
improves abiotic stress tolerance" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ION HOMEOSTASIS |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Mark Tester (Adelaide University, Australia) |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Mike Hasegawa (Purdue University, USA)
"Na+ uptake into plants, and effect on K+ acquisition" |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Toshio Yamaguchi (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Structure/function analysis of vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporters" |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Roberto Gaxiola (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Engineering abiotic stress-tolerant crops by overexpression of the
vacuolar H-pump AVP1" |
| 10:25 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Romola Davenport (Cambridge University, UK)
"Plant sodium transporters in physiological context" |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Anna Amtmann (University of Glasgow, UK)
"Sodium and potassium transport in salt tolerant model species" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Zhizhong Gong (China Agricultural University, China)
"Collapsed Xylem Caused by Mutations of Cellulose Synthase
AtCesA8 Gene Impedes Water Transport in Arabidopsis" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SIGNALING |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Gerry Berkowitz (University of Connecticut, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Sona Pandey (Penn State University, USA)
"ABA regulation of post-transcriptional RNA metabolism" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Paul Verslues (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Dissection of ABA and Water-deficit Stress signaling pathways
though the discovery of new Arabidopsis mutants" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Sheng Luan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Decoding calcium signals in stress responses" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CROSSTALK |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Jian Khan Zhu (University of California, Riverside, USA) |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Nam-Hai Chua (Rockefeller University, USA)
"Role of protein degradation in ABA signalling" |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Erwin Grill (Technical University, Munich, Germany)
"Regulatory roles of ABI1/ABI2 interacting proteins" |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Alex Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) |
| 10:25 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Hiroaki Fujii (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Salt and drought stress signaling pathways--specificity and crosstalk" |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Riichiro Yoshida (RIKEN, Tsukuba Institute, Japan)
"Osmotic-stress -activated SnRK2 protein kinases in abitotic
stress signaling |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Jin-Song Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Plant ethylene receptors are involved in abiotic stress responses" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | OSMOSENSING AND EARLY SIGNALING |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Kazuo Shinozaki (RIKEN, Japan) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Norio Murata (Natl Institute for Basic Biology, Okasaki, Japan)
"Osmotic stress sensors and salt stress sensors in cyanobacteria" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Zhunqun Zhang (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
"MAP kinases in plant salt and osmotic stress signalling" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:10 pm | Teun Munnik (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Phospholipids signaling in salt stress response" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOTECHNOLOGY |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Ray Bressan (Purdue University, USA) |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Stanton Dotson (Monsanto, USA)
"Drought responses of crops - new insights from transgene studies" |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | Alessandro Pellegrineschi (Applied Biotechnology Center, Mexico)
"Overexpression of DREB1/CEF in transgenic wheat" |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Vim Van Camp (CropDesign, Belgium)
"Identification of a stress-related transcription factor that
positively controls growth in rice" |
| 10:25 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Swappan Datta (IRRI, Philipines)
"Drought and salinity tolerance in transgenic rice" |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Jos van Boxtel (Arcadia BioSciences, USA)
"Salt tolerance in crop plants" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Piotr Puzio (Metanomics GmbH, Germany)
"Discovering novel genes that confer plant drought tolerance using a high throughput functional genomics approach" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | WHOLE PLANTS / FIELD |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Robert Sharp (University of Missouri, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Rana Munns (CSIRO, Australia)
"How to get salt tolerance from the laboratory to the field" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:30 pm | Arnold Bloom (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Genetics of stomatal closure" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:55 pm | Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna, Italy)
"Fine mapping of root-ABA1, a QTL influencing root traits and
ABA concentration in maize" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | John Bennett (IRRI, Philipines)
"Physiological and molecular analyses of reversible and
irreversible events impacting on yield in rice under drought
stress" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
