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Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Gene Expression

15—17 April 2004

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK



Organizers:
Anthony J. Michael (Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK)
John W.S. Brown (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK)

RNA cellular and molecular biology

Thursday 15 April 2004
14:20 - 15:00
Proteomic analysis of the Arabidopsis nucleolus
Peter Shaw (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)
15:00 - 15:40
Involvement of the nucleous in plant virus systemic infection
Michael Taliansky (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK)
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 16:40
Plant splicing factors: interactions within a dynamic RNP-complex
Andrea Barta (Vienna, Austria)
16:40 - 17:20
RNA processing and flowering time control
Gordon G. Simpson (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK)
17:20 - 18:00
Nuclear genes involved in chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas
Jean-David Rochaix (Geneva, Switzerland)
Friday 16 April 2004
08:50 - 09:30
Chloroplast RNA-binding proteins and PPR proteins
Takahiro Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan)
09:30 - 10:10
In chase of plant miRNA genes and targets
Pierre Rouzé (Gent, Belgium)
10:10 - 10:50
Genetics and genomics of sequence-specific mRNA decay
Pam Green (Delaware, USA)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/tea break

11:20 - 11:40
Arabidopsis XRN4 degrades aberrant RNA that initiates post-transcriptional gene silencing
Selected Poster Presentation - Robert Sablowski (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)
11:40 - 12:00
The role of two atCPSF73 genes in Arabidopsis development
Selected Poster Presentation - Qingshun Quinn Li (Miami, OH, USA)
12:00 - 12:20
Characterization of a plant rRNA processing complex
Selected Poster Presentation - Julio Saez-Vasquez (Perpignan, France)

Translation

Friday 16 April 2004
14:20 - 15:00
Genetics of the Arabidopsis TOR pathway
Christophe Robaglia (CEA, Centre de Caderache, France)
15:00 - 15:40
The role of the translation initiation surveillance complex in promoting efficient protein synthesis
Daniel Gallie (Riverside, CA, USA)
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 16:40
The subunits of eIF4F and eIFiso4F: are they interchangeable?
Karen Browning (Texas, TX, USA)
16:40 - 17:20
Control of translation reinitiation on the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) polycistronic RNA
Lyubov Ryabova (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plants (IBMP), Strasbourg, France)
17:20 - 18:00
Autoregulation for the gene for Cystathionine gamma-synthase in Arabidopsis: post-transcriptional regulation induced by S-adenosylmethionine
Satoshi Naito (Hokkaido, Japan)

Genomic approaches to translation

Saturday 17 April 2004
09:30 - 10:10
Genomic and bioinformatic analysis of differential mRNA translation in response to abiotic stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana
Julia Bailey-Serres (Riverside, CA, USA)
10:10 - 10:50
Regulation of translation in the chloroplast: interactions of RNA elements, RNA binding proteins, and the plastid ribosome
Stephen Mayfield (Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/tea break

11:20 - 12:00
Micro-array analysis of the translational control of gene expression during apoptosis
Martin Bushell (Leicester, UK)
12:00 - 12:20
A key factor of translation re-initiation, ribosomal protein L24, is involved in gynoecium development in Arabidopsis
Selected Poster Presentation - Taisuke Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan)
12:20 - 12:40
An Arabidopsis homologue of the yeast GCN2 protein kinase: an important regulator of protein synthesis in plants?
Selected Poster Presentation - Yuhua Zhang (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK)
12:40 - 13:00
Choice of start codon in a single transcript determines DNA ligase 1 isoform production and intracellular targeting in Arabidopsis
Selected Poster Presentation - Paul Sunderland (Manchester, UK)