Programme
Click below to jump to the day of interest.| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Please note that this is a preliminary programme There may be slight changes to the schedule for Monday through Thursday.
Sunday 21 March - Arrival
| 2:00-on |
Check-in |
| 2:00-5:30 |
Registration |
| 5:30 |
Welcome |
| 6:00 |
Drinks on the Boilerhouse Terrace |
| 6:30 |
Barbecue dinner at the Boilerhouse
Terrace |
Monday 22 March
| 7:00-8:45 |
Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:15 |
Introduction and Welcome Plasmodesmata boomerang back down under after 35 years Robyn Overall, Peter Goodwin, Alan Walker, Brian Gunning |
| 9:15-10:00 |
‘Omics’ approaches to defining the
plasmodesmal proteome Lourdes Fernandez-Calvino, John Walshaw, Gerhard Saalbach, Alex Jones, Christine Faulkner, Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, Massimo Maffei and Andy Maule |
| Session 1: Proteins in Plasmodesmata (Chair: Friedrich Kragler) |
|
| 10:00-10:30 |
Plasmodesmata-associated
receptor-like kinases Christine Faulkner, Lourdes Fernandez-Calvino and Andy Maule |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning Tea |
| 11:00-11:30 |
PLASMODESMAL GERMIN-LIKE PROTEIN 1
(PDGLP1) functions in selective cell-to-cell trafficking of
non-cell-autonomous proteins (NCAPs) Byung-Kook (Brian) Ham, Gang Li, Fanchang (Frank) Zeng, Byung-Ho Kang, William J. Lucas |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Characterisation of putative
plasmodesmata proteins from two Arabidopsis
families, the calnexins and
fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins Danny Y.T. Liu, Penelope M.C. Smith, David A. Day and Robyn L. Overall |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Three mutations, ise1, ise2, dse1, affect Arabidopsis embryo development and
control plasmodesmata structure and function Tessa Burch-Smith, Emilie Rennie, Solomon Stonebloom, Min Xu, and Pat Zambryski |
| 12:30-2:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 2: Regulation of
Transport Through Plasmodesmata (Chair: Alexander Schulz) |
|
| 2:00-2:30 |
Cell-to-cell trafficking plant
transcription factors and a plasmodesmal gatekeeper, GLUCAN
SYNTHASE-LIKE 8 Xiao Han, Min-hua Zhang, Lijun Huang, Xiong-Yan Chen, Soo-Cheul Yoo, Lin Liu, Yeonggil Rim, Hyosub Chu, Munawar Ahmad, Won Kyong Cho, Byung-Ho Kang, William J. Lucas, Jae-Yean Kim |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Regulation of plasmodesmata
transport by callose turnover is mediated by reactive oxygen species Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, Andy Maule and David Jackson |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Loss of INCREASED SIZE EXCLUSION
LIMIT (ISE)1 and ISE2 increases the formation and modification of
secondary plasmodesmata Tessa M. Burch-Smith and Patricia C. Zambryski |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Myosin, but not actin, inhibitors
alter short- and long-distance transport in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana Rosemary G. White, Mark J.Talbot, and Jennifer Yarnold |
| 4:30-6:00 |
Poster
Session 1 (click
here for titles) |
| 6:00-6:30 |
Drinks on the Boilerhouse Terrace |
| 6:30-8:30 |
Dinner at the Boilerhouse
Restaurant |
| 8:30 |
Evening Activity TBA |
Tuesday 23 March
| 7:00-8:45 |
Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:30 |
A mobile, graft-transmissible gene
silencing signal in Arabidopsis Peter Waterhouse, Dacheng Liang, Neil Smith, Rosemary White, John Watson, Adriana Fusaro, Chris Brosnan, Nina Mitter and Bernie Carroll |
| Session 3: RNA Regulation and
Movement (Chair: Peter Waterhouse) |
|
| 9:30-10:00 |
Long-distance spreading of
transgene silencing in Arabidopsis Bernie Carroll |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Characterisation of microRNAs
from apple (Malus x domestica 'Royal Gala’) vascular
tissue and phloem sap Erika Varkonyi-Gasic, Nick Gould, Manoharie Sandanayaka, Paul Sutherland, Robin M. MacDiarmid |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning Tea |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Temporally and spatially
specific engineering of callose synthesis regulates cell-to-cell
communication during vascular morphogenesis in Arabidopsis Anne Vatén, Jan Dettmer, Shri Ram Yadav, Annelie Carslbecker, Ji-Young Lee & Ykä Helariutta |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Phloem Delivered Non-coding RNA
Molecules and Regulation of Translation Shoudong Zhang, Li Sun, Thomas Ziesler and Friedrich Kragler |
| 12:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 4: Virus Movement I (Chair: Manfred Heinlein) |
|
| 2:00-2:30 |
Role of the G-Box cis element in regulating the
phloem specific promoter of a geminivirus satellite DNA Omid Eini, Ian Dry, Satish Dogra, Ali Rezaian and John Randles |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Plasmodesmal receptor proteins
that mediate tubule-guided movement of plant viruses Khalid Amari, Emmanuel Boutant, Christina Hofmann, Corinne Schmitt-Keichinger, Lourdes Fernandez-Calvino, Pascal Didier, Alexander Lerich, Jérome Mutterer, Carole Thomas, Manfred Heinlein, Yves Mély, Andrew J. Maule & Christophe Ritzenthaler |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Plasmodesmal gating during viral
infection: role of pathogen induced beta-1,3-glucanases
Raul Zavaliev, Amit Levy, Dana Guenoune-Gelbart and Bernard L. Epel |
| 4:00-4:30 |
ANK, a host cytoplasmic receptor
for the Tobacco
mosaic virus
cell-to-cell movement protein, down-regulates callose levels at
plasmodesmata to control intercellular transport Shoko Ueki, Roman Spektor, Danielle M. Natale, and Vitaly Citovsky |
| 4:30-6:00 |
Poster
Session 2 (click here for titles) |
| 6:30-9:30 |
Conference Dinner in Manly |
Wednesday 24 March
| 7:00-8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Navigating the subcellular space:
lessons
from Vaccinia virus Tim Newsome |
| Session 5: Virus movement II (Chair: Pat Zambryski) |
|
| 9:00-9:30 |
The TGB1 movement protein of potato virus
X reorganises the host cytoskeleton and endomembranes into replication
centers that produce viral progeny in direct vicinity to the PD pore
and later function as virion assembly factories Jens Tilsner, Olga Linnik, Kathryn M. Wright, Ian M. Roberts, Karen Bell, Christophe Lacomme, Simon Santa Cruz and Karl J. Oparka |
| 9:30-10:00 |
TMV-infection: spread of viral
RNA in the context of plant defense responses Manfred Heinlein |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Morning Tea |
| 10:20-4:30 |
Offsite Excursion |
| Session 5 resumes (Chair: Jae-Yean Kim) | |
| 4:30-5:00 |
CDC48, a novel interaction
partner of TMV MP: A molecular switch for MP localisation and function? Annette Niehl, Katrin Brandner, Dalya Gereige and Manfred Heinlein |
| 5:00-5:30 |
Analysis of mobile TMV Movement
Protein particles and their role in PD targeting of RNA Eduardo Peña, Adrián Sambade and Manfred Heinlein |
| 5:30-6:00 |
Insights into plasmodesmal
transport – the PLRV MP17 Katrin Link, Florian Vogel, Daniel Hofius, Uwe Sonnewald |
| 6:00-7:30 |
Dinner in the First Class Dining
Room |
| Session 6: "A Night at the
Pictures" (Chair: Bob Turgeon) |
|
| 7:30-8:00 |
Membrane nanotubes formed by
myeloid cells in the mouse cornea during inflammation Holly Chinnery, Eric Pearlman and Paul McMenamin |
| 8:00-8:30 |
Live microscopy and the
functional dynamics of plasmodesmata Rainer Kallmeyer, Xiangdong Liu, Johannes Liesche, Helle Martens and Alexander Schulz |
| 8:30-9:15 |
Super-resolution imaging of
plasmodesmata Karl Oparka, Jessica Fitzgibbon, Jens Tilsner and Karen Bel |
Thursday 25 March
| 7:00-8:45 |
Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:30 |
Companion cell-sieve element
plasmodesmata: a busy thoroughfare for non-cell-autonomous proteins and
ribonucleoprotein complexes William J. Lucas, Byung-Kook (Brian) Ham, Gang Li, Ping-fang (Gloria) Li, Lijun (June) Liu, Yi Ma, Eriko Miura, Michitaka Notaguchi, Soo-Cheul (Charles) Yoo, Brett Phinney, Zee-Yong Park, Sanwen Huang, Danny Alexander, John Ryals, Won Kyong Cho, Jae-Yean Kim |
| Session 7: The Phloem (Chair: Ruth Stadler) |
|
| 9:30-10:00 |
Protein and RNA composition of
phloem exduates from white lupin (Lupinus
albus L.) Caren Rodriguez, Megan Jordan, Penny Smith and Craig Atkins |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Morning Tea |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Did active phloem loading evolve
to drive phloem transport? Robert Turgeon |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Phloem loading in Verbascum phoeniceum L. depends on
synthesis of raffinose-family oligosaccharides, but not on the sucrose
transporter Cankui Zhang, Ashlee McCaskill and Robert Turgeon |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Phloem transport in Gymnosperms:
Mapping the pre-phloem pathway Johannes Liesche, Helle Juel Martens, Alexander Schulz |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
| Session 8: Coordination of
Development (Chair: Yong-Ling Ruan) |
|
| 1:30-2:00 |
A genetic dissection of KNOTTED1
transport through plasmodesmata Morgan Xu, Jing Wang and Dave Jackson |
| 2:00-2:30 |
MPB2C - at the crossroad of
cell-to-cell transport with defense and development Nikola Winter, Daniela Fichtenbauer, Gregor Kollwig, Alexander Goldshmidt, David Jackson and Friedrich Kragler |
| 2:30-3:00 |
KNB36, A Novel Regulator of
Homeodomain Proteins in the Shoot Apical Meristem Daniela Fichtenbauer, Nikola Winter, Valerie Mach, Joachim Uhrig and Friedrich Kragler |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
| (Chair: Dave Jackson) |
|
| 3:30-4:00 |
A Novel Nuclear Protein Affects
Symplasmic Connectivity and Radial Patterning in Arabidopsis Roots Ruth Stadler, Stefan Meyer, Ulrich Wenig, Simon Fischer, Dagmar Werner, Michael Melzer, Stefan Hoth, and Norbert Sauer |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Late graft rejection in fruit
trees is associated with limited plasmodesmal coupling at the time of
grafting Ana Pina, Pilar Errea, Alexander Schulz and Helle Juel Martens |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Coordination between
plasmodesmatal dynamics and cell expansion and cell wall biosynthesis Yong-Ling Ruan |
| 5:00-5:45 |
Wrap up and discussion about
next conference |
| 6:15-9:30 |
Informal “Aussie Barbie” on the
Reef Goddess harbour cruise |
Friday 26 March
| 7:00-9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Depart Q-Station |
Posters (in alphabetical order by presenting
author)
Please note: Authors should be available for questions during BOTH
Poster sessions.| PDLP targeting to plasmodesmata:
Hitchhiking along the actino-myosin
pathway Khalid Amari, Alexander Lerich, Carole Thomas, Valerian Dolja, Andrew J. Maule and Christophe Ritzenthaler |
| Does the extraction of cell contents
during digestion of grasses by the Australian plague locust occur via
plasmodesmata? William Armour, Fiona Clissold, Deborah Barton, Robyn Overall and Steve Simpson |
| 3D-structured illumination microscopy
(3D-SIM) and photoactivation
localisation microscopy (PALM): new tools in the study of plasmodesmal
structure Karen Bell, Jessica Fitzgibbon, Emma King, Cristina Flors, Jens Tilsner and Karl Oparka |
| Plant virus control employing RNA-based
vaccines: A novel
non-transgenic strategy COST FA0806 consortium (Manfred Heinlein) |
| Tracking the emergence of complex
plasmodesmata during the sink-source
transition in Arabidopsis thaliana Jessica J. Fitzgibbon, Karl Oparka |
| Every which way: Movement of
macromolecules through plasmodesmata Peter Goodwin |
| GSL8 functions as a regulator of
intercellular movement of signaling
molecules Xiao Han, Min-hua Zhang, Lijun Huang, Xiong-Yan Chen, Soo-Cheul Yoo, Lin Liu, Yeonggil Rim, Byung-Ho Kang, William J. Lucas, Jae-Yean Kim |
| Development of a cell-type specific
promoter-reporter system in Arabidopsis root for studying
plasmodesmal biology Lijun Huang, Yeonggil Rim, Hyosub Chu, Xiao Han, Min-hua Zhang, Munawar Ahmad, Won Kyong Cho, William J. Lucas, Jae-Yean Kim |
| Callose accumulation in the phloem
plasmodesmata and inhibition of phloem loading in the
Liberibacter-infected citrus leaf vein Eunji Koh, Lijuan Zhou, Donna S. Williams, Yong-Ping Duan, Byung-Ho Kang |
| Mimicry of long-distance silencing by a
specific inducible transgenic
system Dacheng Liang, Rosemary White, Peter Waterhouse |
| The tubular vacuoles in acid secreting
chickpea trichomes (Cicer arietinum) form an intercellular continuum Mark D Lazzaro |
| Constructing a small ER-targeted reporter
to assess cell-to-cell transport via plasmodesmata Danny Liu, Deborah A. Barton, David A. Collings, Penny M.C. Smith, David A. Day, Robyn L. Overall |
| Electron tomography of plasmodesmata Victoria Howard, Louise Cole, Guy Cox, Robyn Overall |
| Determining Increased Size Exclusion
Limit (ISE) 2 function and
localization in Arabidopsis
and Nicotiana Emilie Rennie, Tessa Burch-Smith, and Patricia Zambryski |
| Quantitative in vivo measurement of
plasmodesmatal permeability in Arabidopsis
thaliana roots Heidi L. Rutschow, Tobias I. Baskin and Eric M. Kramer |
| Reflection across plant cell boundaries
in confocal laser scanning microscopy Danny Liu, Boris Kuhlmey, Christine R. Faulkner, Penny M.C. Smith, David A. Day, Robyn L. Overall |
| In search of the mechanism of
cell-to-cell transport of C4
photosynthates in grasses Pawel Sowinski and Jaroslaw Szczepanik |
| Reactions of plasmodesmata in leaves of
chilling-tolerant and chilling
sensitive maize seedlings to moderate chilling Anna Bilska and Pawel Sowinski |
| Loss of the mitochondrial RNA helicase
ISE1 causes defective RNA
processing in Arabidopsis
mitochondria, developmental defects and increased cell-to-cell
transport via plasmodesmata Solomon Stonebloom, Tessa Burch-Smith & Patricia Zambryski |
| The coordinated action of potato mop-top
virus triple gene block movement proteins in cell-cell and
long-distance transport Jens Tilsner, Graham Cowan, Kathryn M. Wright, Angelika Ziegler, Alison Roberts, Sean N. Chapman, Eugene Savenkov and Lesley Torrance |
Contact the conference organizers by email at pd2010@bio.usyd.edu.au
