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| 8:00 -11:00 AM | Teaching workshop registration |
| 12:00 - 8:00 PM | Main Registration |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Reception in Great Hall (shuttle service provided) |
| 8:30 AM | Convene conference, make announcements, introduce keynote speaker | |
| 8:35 AM | Keynote speaker, David Baulcombe, Sense and sensitivity: using gene silencing to dissect disease resistance in plants | |
| 9:35 AM | Introduce 1st Plenary Session, Recognition of Pathogens by Plants I (chair Jeff Dangl) | |
| 9:40 AM | 1st plenary Speaker, Jonathan Jones, Cladosporium resistance in tomato provides a gene-for -gene model for recognition of extracellular ligands by transmembrane LRR proteins | |
| 10:10 AM | 2nd plenary speaker, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Activation of and rescue from cell death in plant disease resistance | |
| 10:40 AM | Morning Break | |
| 11:10 AM | 3rd plenary speaker, Richard Michelmore, Natural and artificial evolution of disease resistance genes | |
| 11:40 AM | 4th plenary speaker, short, Shunyuan Xiao, RPW8: A novel resistance gene locus of Arabidopsis: its evolution, signaling, and potential inter-generic utilization | |
| 12:00 PM | 5th plenary speaker, Roger Innes, Recognition of the Pseudomonas syringae AvrPphB protein by Arabidopsis requires both a protein kinase and an NBS-LRR protein. What is the role of the kinase? | |
| 12:30-2:00 PM | Lunch on your own | |
| 2:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (2) | ||
| Plant-Virus Interactions (chair Vicki Vance) | Rhizobium-Plant Interactions (chair Sharon Long) | |
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| 2:05 PM | 1st concurrent session speaker, Vicki Vance, Suppression of RNA silencing in plants | 1st concurrent session speaker, Adam Kondorosi, Control of root nodule organogenesis |
| 2:35 PM | 2nd concurrent session speaker, Jim Carrington, Host compatibility functions during virus infection | 2nd concurrent session speaker, Herman Spaink, Avirulence factors from rhizobia |
| 3:05 PM | 3rd concurrent session speaker, short, Steve Whitham, Changes in Arabidopsis gene expression during infection by 5 different RNA viruses | 3rd concurrent session speaker, short, Clare Gough, Genetic dissection of Nod factor signaling in Medicago truncatula |
| 3:25 PM | 4th concurrent session speaker, short, J.F.J.M. Van den Heuvel, Chaperonin camouflage of plant viruses in their insect vectors | 4th concurrent session speaker, short, Jens Stougaard, Genes involved in nodulation and mycorrhization of Lotus japonicus |
| 3:45 PM | Afternoon Break | |
| 4:15 PM | Introduce 2nd Plenary Session Recognition of Pathogens by Plants II (chair Brian Staskawicz) | |
| 4:20 PM | 6th plenary speaker, Partho Ghosh, Target specificity in leucine-rich repeat proteins | |
| 4:50 PM | 7th plenary speaker, short, Giulia De Lorenzo, Structure-function and molecular studies on fungal polygalacturonases and their inhibitors PGIPs | |
| 5:10 PM | 8th plenary speaker, short, Andrew Bent, NBS-LRR R gene products: Functional domains and divergent downstream transcript profiles | |
| 5:30 PM | 9th plenary speaker, Greg Martin, Pseudomonas effector proteins and Pto-mediated disease resistance in tomato | |
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Dinner at Lakefront Cafeteria | |
| 7:30-10:30 PM | Poster Session. Even-numbered posters will be hosted. | |
| 8:30 AM | Convene conference, make announcements, introduce 3rd session chair | |
| 8:35 AM | Introduce 3rd Plenary Session Plant-Fungal (pathogen, endophyte and symbiont) Interactions (chair Anne Osborne) | |
| 8:40 AM | 1st plenary speaker, Pierre de Wit, The molecular basis of co-evolution between Cladosporium fulvum and tomato | |
| 9:10 AM | 2nd plenary speaker, Barbara Valent, Receptor-ligand interactions in control of rice blast disease | |
| 9:40 AM | 3rd plenary speaker, short, Sofia Wretblad, The Lm1 gene confers resistance to the blackleg fungus Leptosphaeria maculans | |
| 10:00 AM | 4th plenary speaker, Nancy Keller, Lipid mediated cross-talk in the Aspergillus/seed interaction | |
| 10:30 AM | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 AM | 5th plenary speaker, Maria Harrison, Development of the Medicago truncatula/Glomus versiforme arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis | |
| 11:30 AM | 6th plenary speaker, Tom Boller, Recognition of "non-self" in plants: symbionts, endophytes, pathogens | |
| 12:00 PM | 7th plenary speaker, Nick Talbot, Molecular genetics of appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe grisea | |
| 12:30-2:00 PM | Lunch on your own | |
| 2:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (2) | ||
| Local/Systemic Resistance (chair Ulla Bonas) | Plant-Nematode Interactions (chair Valerie Williamson) | |
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| 2:05 PM | 1st concurrent session speaker, Xinian Dong, Systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis | 1st concurrent session speaker, Charlie Opperman, Mechanisms Of Nematode Parasitism: A Functional Approach |
| 2:35 PM | 2nd concurrent session speaker, short, Terry Delaney, Analysis of SAR and identification of other pathogen-induced defense responses in Arabidopsis | 2nd concurrent session speaker, short, Isgonhi Kaloshian, Mi-1-mediated signal transduction pathway in tomato |
| 2:55 PM | 3rd concurrent session speaker, short, Corne Pieterse, Cross-talk between jasmonate- and salicylate-dependent induced defenses?! | 3rd concurrent session speaker, short, Thomas Baum, Large scale identification of parasitism genes of the soybean cyst nematode |
| 3:15 PM | 4th concurrent session speaker, Noriyuke Doke, Mechanisms of local and systemic oxidativeburst induced by infection and elicitor in potato plants | 4th concurrent session speaker, Valerie Williamson, Functional analysis of the nematode resistance gene Mi-1 and its interactors |
| 3:45 PM | Afternoon Break | |
| 4:15 PM | Introduce 4th Plenary Session Defense Signal Transduction (chair Jonathan Jones) | |
| 4:20 PM | 8th plenary speaker, Dierk Scheel, Elicitor signaling in parsley cells: Ca2+, MAPKs and ROS | |
| 4:50 PM | 9th plenary speaker, short, Christiane Nawrath, EDS5, an essential component for salicylic acid accumulation after UV-C light exposure or pathogen attack in Arabidopsis, is a potential transporter | |
| 5:10 PM | 10th plenary speaker, short, Jane Glazebrook, Using trees to find the forest: GeneChip analysis of defense signaling in Arabidopsis | |
| 5:30 PM | 11th plenary speaker, Dan Klessig, NO- and SA- mediated signal transduction in disease resistance | |
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Dinner at Lakefront Cafeteria | |
| 7:30-10:30 PM | Poster Session. Odd-numbered posters will be hosted. | |
| 8:30 AM | Convene conference, make announcements, introduce 5th session chair | |
| 8:35 AM | Introduce 5th Plenary Session Ecology and Population Biology of Plant-Associated Microbes (chair Mike Daniels) | |
| 8:40 AM | 1st plenary speaker, Jan Leach, Pathogen fitness penalty as a predictor of durability of disease resistance genes | |
| 9:10 AM | 2nd plenary speaker, Chris Mundt, Host diversity, epidemics, and pathogen evolution | |
| 9:40 AM | 3rd plenary speaker, Brian Staskawicz, Transgenic tomatoes expressing the pepper Bs2 resistance gene confer resistance to Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria in the field | |
| 10:10 AM | 4th plenary speaker, short, Gwyn Beattie, Use of a proU-gfp transcriptional fusion to quantify water stress on the leaf surface | |
| 10:30 AM | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 AM | 5th plenary speaker, Steve Lindow, Characterizing the microhabitats of bacteria on leaves | |
| 11:30 AM | 6th plenary speaker, Susan Hirano, Integrating findings from the lab and field toward understanding the biology of Pseudomonas syringae - plant interactions | |
| 12:00 PM | 7th plenary speaker, Sandy Pierson, Positive and negative cross-communication among rhizosphere bacteria | |
| 12:30-2:30 PM | Lunch at Lakefront Cafeteria and Poster Viewing | |
| 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (2) | ||
| Novel Plant-Microbe Relationships (chair Linda Thomashow) | Secretion avr/vir Factors (chair Noel Keen) | |
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| 2:35 PM | 1st concurrent session speaker, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek, Life in grasses: Interactions of diazotrophic endophytes and rice | 1st concurrent session speaker, Hans Helder, The identity and function of cyst nematode-secreted proteins in pathogenesis |
| 3:05 PM | 2nd concurrent session speaker, short, Bernez Kloareg, Biochemical bases of marine plant-microbe interactions: novel evidence on the evolution of plant immunity | 2nd concurrent session speaker, short, Yuwei Shen, Type 1 secretion components and sulfation are required for Xoo avrXa21 activity |
| 3:25 PM | 3rd concurrent session speaker, short, Casey Crooks, Identification of a host-pathogen-specific gene conferring protection from a preformed antimicrobial activity in Arabidopsis | 3rd concurrent session speaker, short, Sheng Yang He, Overcoming a salicylic acid-mediated Arabidopsis response by the conserved type III effector locus of Pseudomonas syringae pv. Tomato (Pst) DC3000 |
| 3:45 PM | 4th concurrent session speaker, Ben Lugtenberg, Improving root colonization of Pseudomonas inoculants | 4th concurrent session speaker, Ulla Bonas, Role of type III effector proteins from Xanthomonas in the interaction with the plant |
| 4:15 PM | Afternoon Break | |
| 4:45 PM | Introducee 6th Plenary Session Cell Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions (chair Martin Romantschuk) | |
| 4:50 PM | 8th plenary speaker, Sondra Lazarowitz, Macromolecular trafficking within and between plant cells: What viral movement proteins reveal | |
| 5:20 PM | 9th plenary speaker, short, Steve Paddock, Multi-color confocal imaging | |
| 5:40 PM | 10th plenary speaker, short, Rafaella Carzaniga, Localization of melanin in fungal cell walls using phage display antibodies | |
| 6:00 PM | 11th plenary speaker, Ton Bisseling, The rhizobial infection process | |
| 6:30-7:30 PM | Dinner on your own | |
| 7:30-10:30 PM | Poster Session (open viewing) | |
| 8:30 AM | Convene conference, make announcements, introduce 7th session chair |
| 8:35 AM | Introduce 7th Plenary Session Functional Genomics (chair Alan Collmer) |
| 8:40 AM | 1st plenary speaker, Nicole Perna, Comparative analyses of enterobacterial genomes |
| 9:10 AM | 2nd plenary speaker, Chris Boucher, Ralstonia solanacearum genome analysis: insight into virulence,host adaptation and evolution |
| 9:40 AM | 3rd plenary speaker, short, Gillian Turgeon, Genome-wide analysis of fungal pathogenicity to plants |
| 10:00 AM | 4th plenary speaker, Claudia Monterio-Vitorello, Genome sequencing of bacterial plant pathogens |
| 10:30 AM | Morning Break |
| 11:00 AM | 5th plenary speaker, John Hamer, Functional genomics and target-based discovery in fungal crop pathogens |
| 11:30 AM | 6th plenary speaker, Ko Shimamoto, G protein signaling in disease resistance of rice |
| 12:00 PM | 7th plenary speaker, Jeff Dangl, Molecular control of plant-pathogen interactions in Arabidopsis: Both sides now |
| 12:30-2:00 PM | Lunch on your own |
| 2:00 PM | Introduce 8th Plenary Session Functional Genomics and Biotechnology (chair Gary Stacey) |
| 2:05 PM | 8th plenary speaker, Doug Cook, Getting to the root of legume root symbioses with plant genomics |
| 2:35 PM | 9th plenary speaker, Michael Gribskov, Bioinformatic tools for functional genomics |
| 3:05 PM | 10th plenary speaker, short, Clive Ronson, Comparative genomics of the symbiosis island of Mesorhizobium loti |
| 3:25 PM | 11th plenary speaker, short, Sophien Kamoun, Functional genomics of Phytophthora-plant interactions |
| 3:45 PM | Afternoon break |
| 4:15 PM | 12th plenary speaker, Swapan Datta, Transgenic rice in field and beyond |
| 4:45 PM | 13th plenary speaker, John Ryals, Systems Biology: Can we get there from here? |
| 5:15 PM | Final Announcements and Closure of Formal Part of Conference |
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PM-1:00 AM Shuttle: Monona Terrace/Frederick Center/Elizabeth
Waters/Union/Downtown hotels
Posters must be removed by 5 PM |
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| 6:00-7:30 PM | Reception on rooftop of Monona Terrace (Lakeside Commons if raining) |
| 7:30-9:30 PM | Banquet dinner on rooftop of Monona Terrace or Exhibit Halls A/B |
| 9:30(10:00) PM-12:00 AM | Music and dancing at Monona Terrace with Phat Phunktion, www.phatphunktion.com |
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