Thursday 11 November 2004
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee/tea
Salt, drought and cold stress signalling in Arabidopsis
Phytohormonal metabolic and light regulation of Arabidopsis seed germination
A Myb transcription factor regulates salt tolerance mechanisms in Arabidopsis
Jillian Price - Selected poster presentation (Glasgow, UK)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch and poster session
Investigating the molecular genetics of appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe grisea
Serpentine plant MLO proteins as entry portals for powdery mildew fungi
Ralph Panstruga (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany)
Construction of T-DNA inserted rice populations for functional genomics
Zongxiu Sun - Selected poster presentation (China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, P. R. China)
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee/tea break
16:10 - 16:45 Lectures transferred to the Main Lecture Theatre (B419) of the Joseph Black Building
Presentation of the Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Medal
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture - Genetic dissection of cell wall structure and function
18:00 - 19:00 Wine reception (courtesy of the Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences) to be held in the Bower Building Foyer
19:30 - 22:30 Meeting dinner at The Ubiquitous Chip restaurant (for Speakers and Delegates that have pre-booked)
OXI1 and SFR6: intersections in plant signalling pathways
Domain swapping of phototropin 1 to assess photoreceptor function
John Christie - Selected poster presentation (UDCF, Glasgow, UK)
Role of the Ubiquitin/26S proteasome system in plant hormone responses
12:35 - 13:45 Lunch and poster session
Mobile signals in plant defence
Exploiting numerous Triticum monococcum L. - pathogen interactions to identify critical defence signalling components for hexaploid wheat
Hai-Chun Jing - Selected poster presentation (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK)
A central role for S-Nitrosothiols in plant disease resistance
Gary Loake - Selected poster presentation (Edinburgh, UK)
The transition to flowering: signalling mechanisms linking daylength perception to floral induction
George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany)
Molecular dissection of the circadian clock that controls Crassulacean acid metabolism
James Hartwell - Selected poster presentation (York, UK)