Program

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Registration

Management Committee Meeting

Welcome refreshments

Registration and poster set up

Welcome note by P. Carrasco and AF Tiburcio, chair of INPAS

Pedro Luis Rodríguez Egea

“Regulation of ABA signaling and drought resistance through the ABA-receptors PYR/PYL/RCAR, phosphatases type 2C (PP2Cs) and SNF1-related kinases group 2 (SnRK2s).”

Claudia Jonak

"ASK4, a novel protein kinase, regulates tolerance to osmotic stress conditions."

Christa Testerink

"SnRK2 protein kinases directly bind the lipid second messenger phosphatidic acid and are involved in the response of Arabidopsis roots to salinity."

Ana Perea

"Copper homeostasis influences the expression of the Myb transcription factors LHY and CCA1, components of the Arabidopsis circadian clock."

Coffee break

Jaakko Kangasjärvi

"Reactive Oxygen Species in sensing, signaling and acclimation of plants to the environment."

Vasileios Fotopoulos

"Hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide reprograms signal transduction in leaves of citrus plants under natural and salt stress conditions."

Teun Munnik

"Phospholipid Metabolism in Plant Stress and Development."

Arie Altman

"Two separate mechanisms control tolerance of Populus euphratica to salt stress: sumoylation and accumulation of specific metabolites."

Lunch

Erwin Grill

"Regulation of plant’s water status."

Menachem Moshelion

"The Role of Tobacco Aquaporin 1 in Improving Water-Use Efficiency, Hydraulic Conductivity and Yield Production Under Salt Stress."

Andrzej Jerzmanowski

"BRM- containing SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex in Arabidopsis modulates gibberellin signaling by direct binding to DELLA proteins."

Olga Popova

"Transgenerational inheritance and resetting of stress-induced loss of epigenetic gene silencing."

Coffee break

Eduardo Blumwald

"Cytokin- induced drought tolerance in crop plants."

Gad Galili

"Interaction of the lysine metabolism pathway with metabolic and gene expression networks associated with plant growth and response to stress."

Aviah Zilberstein

"The involvement of 8CM-Proline-Rich Proteins in maintaining cytosol- plasma membrane-cell wall continuum in plants during dehydration stress."

Narendra Tuteja

"MCM6 DNA helicase from pea promotes salinity stress tolerance without yield penalty in planta."

Anna Amtmann

"Towards a molecular understanding of the relationship between K-deficiency, metabolism and defense in plants."

Esmat A Hassan

“The response of wheat cultivars to different levels of Na Cl salinity.”

R. Vankova

“Characterization of the initial phase of heat stress response.”

Philip R. Young

"The role of carotenoid genes in light and drought stress – towards a systems approach to abiotic stress tolerance in grapevine."

Coffee break

Joachim Kopka

“The GC-MS based metabolite profiling for robust responses to salt stress: A case study on the model legume Lotus japonicus.”

Stefania Grillo

"Heat-stress induced expression profiling and physio-biochemical changes during tomato flower development."

I. Marcinska

"Changes of physiological characters in drought sensitive or resistant seedlings of wheat genotypes under osmotic stress adjusted with PEG 6000."

Thierry Franck

"How to evaluate the antioxidant capacity of stressed plants?"

Lunch

Jonathan Phillips

"Stabilizing maize yield under drought stress."

Rina Iannacone

"Translational biology approaches to improve abiotic stress tolerance in tomato."

Matthew Hannah

“Approaches to improve stress tolerance in crops.”

Visit to the city and dinner