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Nutrient Sensing through the Plasma Membrane of Eukaryotic Cells

25—29 September 2004

Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester



Organizers:
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium)
Frank Stolz (Leuven, Belgium)

Timetable

Saturday 25 September 2004Sunday 26 September 2004Monday 27 September 2004Tuesday 28 September 2004
16:00 - 21:00
Arrival and registration

08:00 - 20:30
Nutrient sensing in yeast

08:00 - 14:00
Nutrient sensing in plants

15:00 - 16:39
Selected poster presentations

08:00 - 20:00
Nutrient sensing in mammalian cells


Arrival and registration

Saturday 25 September 2004
16:00 - 18:00
Registration
19:00 - 21:00
Welcome buffet

Nutrient sensing in yeast

Sunday 26 September 2004
15:00 - 19:00
Afternoon visit to the village of Bibury
19:30 - 20:30
Dinner

One

Chair:
Morten Kielland-Brandt (Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sunday 26 September 2004
08:00 - 08:40
Glucose receptors and glucose signal transduction in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Mark Johnston (Washington, MO, USA)
08:40 - 09:20
Nutrient sensing systems for rapid activation of the Protein Kinase A pathway in yeast
Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium)
09:20 - 10:00
Glucose sensing via the PKA pathway in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Charles Hoffman (Boston, MA, USA)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee/tea break
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Poster viewing and mounting

Two

Chair:
Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium)
Sunday 26 September 2004
10:30 - 11:10
Glucose repression in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha is controlled by hexose transporter homologue
Oleh Stasyk (Institute of Cell Biology, Lviv, Ukraine)
11:10 - 11:50
Amino acid sensing by Ssy1
Morten Kielland-Brandt (Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark)
11:50 - 12:30
Glucose sensing through the Hxk2-dependent signalling pathway
Fernando Moreno (Oviedo, Spain)
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Poster viewing and mounting

Nutrient sensing in plants


One

Chair:
Ian Graham (York, UK)
Monday 27 September 2004
08:00 - 08:40
Sugar sensing and signalling networks in plants
Jenq-Yunn Sheen (Harvard, MA, USA)
08:40 - 09:20
Sucrose-specific signalling in plants
Sjef Smeekens (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
09:20 - 10:00
Trehalose metabolism and glucose sensing in plants
Gabriel Iturriaga (Morelos, Mexico)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee/tea break
11:10 - 11:50
Nitrate and glutamate sensing in plant roots
Brian Forde (Lancaster, UK)
11:50 - 12:30
Development and use of fluorescent nanosensors for metabolite imaging in living cells
Marcus Fehr (Stanford, CA, USA)
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

Two

Chair:
Sjef Smeekens (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Monday 27 September 2004
10:30 - 11:10
The role of trehalose 6 phosphate synthase in Arabidopsis embryo development
Ian Graham (York, UK)
11:10 - 11:50
Nitrate and glutamate sensing in plant roots
Brian Forde (Lancaster, UK)
11:50 - 12:30
Development and use of fluorescent nanosensors for metabolite imaging in living cells
Marcus Fehr (Stanford, CA, USA)
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

Selected poster presentations

Monday 27 September 2004
15:00 - 15:13
The C. albicans G protein-coupled receptor and its Galpha protein CaGpa2 regulate yeast-hypha transition through the cAMP-PKA pathway
Selected poster presentation - Patrick Van Dijck (Leuven, Belgium)
15:13 - 15:26
Glucose modulation of cell size in yeast
Selected poster presentation - Marco Vanoni (Milano, Italy)
15:26 - 15:39
G-Protein Coupled Sugar Sensing in Arabidopsis Involving a Novel Plastid Protein
Selected poster presentation - Alan Jones (North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 16:13
Phosphate signalling in Arabidopsis
Selected poster presentation - Fan Lai (Edinburgh, UK)
16:13 - 16:26
Acquired glucose sensitivity of k-ras transformed fibroblasts
Selected poster presentation - Marco Vanoni (Milano, Italy)
16:26 - 16:39
Nutrient sensing in pancreatic beta cells suppresses mitochondrial superoxide generation and its contribution to apoptosis
Selected poster presentation - Geert Martens (Diabetes Research Center, Brussels, Belgium)
19:00 Conference dinner

Nutrient sensing in yeast


Nutrient sensing in plants


Nutrient sensing in mammalian cells


Nutrient sensing in mammalian cells

Tuesday 28 September 2004
17:00 - 19:00
Poster session and discussion
19:00 - 20:00
Dinner

One

Chair:
Nada Abumrad (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Tuesday 28 September 2004
08:00 - 08:40
What taste may tell us about gastrointestinal chemosensation
Robert Margolskee (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NY, USA)
08:40 - 09:20
Glucose sensing in the intestinal epithelium
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
09:20 - 10:00
Glucokinase and glucose homeostasis: a 2004 perspective
Franz Matschinsky (Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee/tea break
11:10 - 11:50
Amino acid sensing in mammalian cells: mechanisms underpinning the regulation of the system A amino acid transporter by amino acid availability
Hari Hundal (Dundee, UK)
11:50 - 12:30
Extracellular calcium-sensing receptors in physiology and disease
Daniela Riccardi (Manchester, UK)
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00
Social programme

Two

Chair:
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
Tuesday 28 September 2004
08:40 - 09:20
Glucose sensing in the intestinal epithelium
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
09:20 - 10:00
Glucokinase and glucose homeostasis: a 2004 perspective
Franz Matschinsky (Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee/tea break
10:30 - 11:10
Membrane fatty acid transporter and nutrient sensing
Nada Abumrad (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
11:10 - 11:50
Amino acid sensing in mammalian cells: mechanisms underpinning the regulation of the system A amino acid transporter by amino acid availability
Hari Hundal (Dundee, UK)
11:50 - 12:30
Extracellular calcium-sensing receptors in physiology and disease
Daniela Riccardi (Manchester, UK)
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00
Social programme