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Scientific program

 

Preliminary scientific program is downloadable here.

Invited speakers:

Javier Abadia (CSIC Zaragoza, Spain)
Jean-Francois Briat (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
Ismail Cakmak (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Catherine Curie (BPMP Montpellier, France)
László Erdei (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Michael Grusak (USDA/ARS CNRC, USA)
Mary Lou Guerinot (Dartmouth College, USA)
Von D. Jolley (Brigham Young University, USA)
Hong-Qing Ling (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chian)
Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan)
Naoko K. Nishizawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Roberto Pinton (University of Udine, Italy)
Volker Römheld (University of Hohenheim, Germany)
Elsbeth Walker (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Nicolaus von Wirén (Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany)
Graziano Zocchi (University of Milan, Italy)


The schedule of the symposium:


The program of the symposium:

SATURDAY, 26 June 2010

10:30-13:00    Registration and poster mounting

13:00-14:30    Lunch

Welcome address

14:30-14:50    Ferenc Fodor (Eötvös University, Hungary)
                          Ferenc Hudecz (Rector of the Eötvös University, Hungary)

Opening lecture

14:50-15:50    Mary Lou Guerinot (Dartmouth College, USA)
                          The Ins, Outs, Ups and Downs of Iron Homeostasis in Plants     

15:50-16:10    Coffee break

Session 1:      Iron dynamics in the rhizosphere
        
16:10-16:40    Roberto Pinton (University of Udine, Italy)
                          Organic substances in the rhizosphere: consequences for iron mobilization and plant
                          acquisition                                        

16:40-17:00    Seher Bahar Aciksoz (Sabanci University, Turkey)                    
                          Effect of nitrogen nutrition on phytosiderophore secretion in iron-deficient durum wheat

17:00-17:20    Antonio Delgado (University of Seville, Spain)                    
                          Effect of trichoderma asperellum strain T34 on iron nutrition of plants with different
                          acquisition strategy (white lupin and wheat)

17:20-17:40    M. del Carmen del Campillo (University of Cordoba, Spain)                
                          Microbial reduction increases available Fe in calcareous soils

17:40 18:00     Alia Dellagi    (AgroParisTech, France)                                
                          Iron-deficiency and immunity responses triggered by bacterial siderophores in
                          arabidopsis


Session 2:     Diagnosis and correction of iron deficiency
                         Dedicated to the memory of Arthur Wallace

    
18:00 18:40    Von D. Jolley (Brigham Young University, USA)
                          Building on the legacy of Arthur Wallace: Practical aspects of iron nutrition in plants

Welcome party

18:45-        

SUNDAY, 27 June 2010

Session 2:     Diagnosis and correction of iron deficiency
                         Dedicated to the memory of Arthur Wallace

    
9:00- 9:30      Javier Abadía (CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain)
                        Towards a knowledge-based correction of iron chlorosis                 

9:30- 9:50      Juan J. Lucena (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)                
                         HBED/Fe3+ remediates iron chlorosis

9:50-10:10     Marta Fuentes (CIPAV TimacAGRO International-Roullier Group, Spain)    
                         A new class of hetero-molecular natural iron-chelates as efficient correctors of iron
deficiency
                        in fruit trees cultivated in alkaline and calcareous soils
                                 

10:10-10:30   Hamdi El Jendoubi (CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain)                    
                         Do’s and do not's when assessing the efficacy of iron fertilizers

10:30-10:50   Patricia Rodriguez-Lucena                                 
                         Evaluation of the foliar application of 57Fe-LS complexes to cucumber chlorotic plants

10:50-11:10   Coffee break

Session 3:      Plant iron uptake, transport and distribution within plants
        
11:10-11:40    Nicolaus von Wirén (Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany)
                          Morphological responses of Arabidopsis roots to localized iron supply        

11:40-12:10    Naoko Nishizawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
                          The regulation of iron transport and homeostasis in Strategy II plants        

12:10-12:35    Elsbeth Walker (University of Massachusetts, USA)
                          The Yellow Stripe1 Like (YSL) transporters: distinctive roles in grains and grasses,
                           weeds and seeds

12:35- 13:00   Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan)                        
                           Isolation and functional characterization of YSL genes in barley

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-15:30    Poster viewing Sessions 1, 2, 3

15:30-15:55    Hong-Qing Ling (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
                          New insights into the understanding the molecular regulation mechanisms of iron uptake
                          in strategy I plants                                

15:55-16:20    Catherine Curie (BPMP Montpellier, France)                    
                          The citrate efflux transporter frd3 is required for iron-dependent pollen development

16:20-16:50    Coffee break

16:50-17:10    Mara Schuler (Saarland University, Germany)                    
                          The interaction of NAS genes and FRD3 in the long-distance transport of iron in arabidopsis thaliana

17:10-17:30    Thomas Buckhout (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)            
                          A small family of nodulin-like genes is down-regulated in response to iron deficiency
                          and may play a role in iron and/or metal ion homeostasis in shoots and roots of arabidopsis thaliana

17:30-17:50    Volker Römheld                                    
                          Is Fe retranslocated out of leaves of trees before leaf fall in autumn?

17:50-            Free evening

MONDAY, 28 June 2010

Session 4:     Iron and plant metabolism

9:00- 9:30      Graziano Zocchi (University of Milan, Italy)
                         Metabolic and Bioenergetic Advances in Strategy I Plants    

9:30- 9:50      Ruben Rellan (CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain)
                        Delving into iron deficiency metabolomics                        

9:50-10:10    Marta Dell’Orto (University of Milano, Italy)                    
                        The role of vacuolar H+ pumps in cytosolic ph homeostasis of fe deficient roots

10:10-10:30  Kyoko Higuchi (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan)                
                        The mechanisms of adaptation to iron deficiency in barley shoots

10:30-11:00   Coffee break

Session 5:      Iron homeostasis in plant cells and its regulation
        
11:00-11:30   Jean-Francois Briat (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
                         Integration of iron homeostasis with light and oxidative stress signalings        

11:30-11:50    Hannetz Roschzttardtz (BPMP Montpellier, France)                
                          Highly sensitive histochemical staining of iron: towards an atlas of fe localization in
                          arabidopsis cells

11:50-12:10    Wolfgang Schmidt (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)                    
                          Arabidopsis ferromics: parallel interrogation of changes in the quantitative (phospho-)
                          proteome and transcriptome of Arabidopsis roots upon Fe deficiency using iTRAQ and
                          mRNaseQ

12:10-12:30    Shao Jian Zheng (Zhejiang University, China)                    
                          Fe-deficiency-induced response and its regulation in strategy I plants

12:30-12:50    Katrin Philippar (Ludwig Maximilians University München, Germany)        
                          Homeostasis and transport of iron in chloroplasts

12:50-13:00    Group photos
13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-16:00    Poster viewing: Sessions 4, 5        
14:00-              Steering committee meeting

16:00-16:30    Coffee break

16:30-16:50    Gregory Vert (CNRS Montpellier)                            
                          Control of iron homeostasis in arabidopsis root epidermal cells : the ons and offs of
                          the IRT1 root iron transporter

16:50-17:10    Sabine Lüthje (University of Hamburg, Germany)                    
                          Regulation of the plasma membrane redox proteome by iron

17:10-17:30    JoseMaría García-Mina (University of Navarra, Spain) 
                          Experimental evidence for the important role of IAA in the expression of iron deficiency stress
root
                          responses in cucumber plants

17:30-17:50    Francisco J. Romera (University of Córdoba, Spain)               
                          Ethylene and nitric oxide are involved on the expression of key genes involved in Fe acquisition and
                          homeostasis of Arabidopsis plants

17:50-18:10    Petra Bauer (Saarland University, Germany)   
                           Hormonal influence on iron-deficiency responses mediated by FIT protein interaction

18:10-               Free evening


TUESDAY, 29 June 2010

Session 6:     HarvestPlus - Iron biofortification and human nutrition
        
9:00- 9:30      Michael Grusak (USDA/ARS CNRC, USA)
                        Status and Future Developments in Plant Iron for Animal and Human Nutrition    

9:30- 9:50      Hiroshi Masuda (Ishikawa Prefectural University, Japan)
                        Iron biofortification of rice grains with combination of various transgenic approaches
                        and field trial                                         

9:50-10:10     Bianca Kyriacou (The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Australia)
                         Increased iron loading in rice endosperm as a result of OsNAS overexpression    

10:10-10:30   Cristina Cvitanich (Aarhus University, Denmark)
                         Is ferritin the major iron storing protein in legumes?                

10:30-10:50   Chunquin Zou (China Agricultural University, China)
                         Influence of nitrogen nutrition on retranslocation of iron in barley            

10:50-11:10   Behrooz Darbani (Aarhus University, Denmark)
                         Iron biofortification of grain of modern cultivar wheat                

11:10-11:40   Coffee break

11:40-12:05   Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer (Head Product Development, Harvestplus, Columbia)   
                         HarvestPlus: Developing and Delivering Micronutrient-Dense Crops

12:05-12:30   Erick Boy (Harvestplus, Colombia)
                         Harvestplus: developing and delivering micronutrient-dense crops                               

12:30-13:30   Poster viewing: Session 6, 7

13:30-14:30   Lunch

14:30              Excursion

20:00              Banquet


WEDNESDAY, 30 June 2010

Session 7:    Interaction of iron with other elements and phytoremediation
        
9:00- 9:30     Ismail Cakmak (Sabanci University, Turkey)
                       Nitrogen in Uptake, Translocation and Seed Deposition of Iron            

9:30- 9:55     László Erdei (University of Szeged, Hungary)
                       Food chain safety and phytoremediation                        

9:55-10:15   Mark Aarts (Wageningen University, Netherlands)                    
                      Two Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factors regulate the adaptation to zinc deficiency

10:15-10:35 Sébastien Thomine (CNRS, Montpellier, France)                    
                       Analysis of the mechanisms of cadmium tolerance in plants using cadmium
                       hypersensitive arabidopsis thaliana mutants

10:35-11:05  Coffee break

11:05-11:25  Yasuhiro Ishimaru (University of Tokyo, Japan)                    
                        Protocatechuic acid efflux transporter in iron uptake strategy affects cadmium transport
                        in rice

11:25-12:45  Stephane Mari (BPMP Montpellier, France)                        
                        Arabidopsis NRAMP1 and NRAMP2 are physiological manganese transporters required for
                        mn acquisition from the root and mn homeostasis in the chloroplast, respectively

12:45-13:05  Ádám Solti (Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary)                
                        Effect of Cd(II), Zn(II) and Mn(II) on chloroplast iron uptake

13:05-13:25  Damien Sudre (INRA Montpellier, France)                        
                        AtABCB29/AtATH12: A new member of abc transporter protein family involved in metal
                        transport across chloroplast membrane

13:25-13:45  Hugo Shimo (University of Tokyo, Japan)                        
                        Low cadmium (LCD), a novel gene related to cadmium tolerance and accumulation in rice seeds

Concluding remarks

Poster dismounting

Lunch

(The program may be subject to minor changes)

 


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