QMB Plants Programme

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The meeting will have an emphasis on Plant Stress Responses and have sessions focussing on plant stress crosstalk, hormonal responses, abiotic and biotic stress responses, kinase signalling, calcium signalling, small RNAs and reactive oxygen species.

Sunday 28th August
8.30am - 8.35am	Introduction by Robin MacDiarmid
8.35am - 9.15am	Hormones Saskia Hogenhout (P1) The John Innes Centre, Norwich Phytoplasma enhances insect vector reproduction by directly manipulating plant development and defense hormone biosynthesis
9.15am - 9.45am	Karine David (P2) University of Auckland Auxin signalling, function of the extracellular receptor ABP1 during plant development.
9.45am - 10.15am	Morning Tea
10.15am - 10:55am	Stress crosstalk Karam Singh (P3) CSIRO and University of Western Australia Plant resistance to sap-sucking insect pests and soil borne fungal pathogens.
10.55am - 11:35am	Jan Marc (P4) University of Sydney Phospholipase-cytoskeleton interactions in environmental stress signalling networks.
11:35am - 12:15pm	Peter Waterhouse (P5) University of Sydney Roles of double-strand RNA binding motif (drb) proteins in microRNA regulation and viral infection.
12.15pm - 1.15pm	Lunch
1.30pm - 2.00pm	Redox Signalling (Joint with Signalling Satellite) Simon Gilroy (P6) University of Wisconsin ROS, Ca2+ and pH linking stress to growth in Arabidopsis
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Christine Winterbourn (P7) University of Otago, Christchurch Redox signalling: principles, promise and pitfall.
2.30pm - 3.00pm	Barry Scott (P8) Massey University, Palmerston North Oxidative stress signalling in Epichloe festucae, a mutualistic fungal symbiont of grasses.
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Mark Hampton (P9) University of Otago, Christchurch Peroxiredoxins as redox sensors and signalling proteins.
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 4.40pm	Biotic Stress Sophien Kamoun (P10) John Innes Centre, Norwich Functional and evolutionary dynamics of Phytophthora effectors
4.40pm - 5.10pm	Carla Eaton (P11) Massey University, Palmerston North Symbiotic stress: unraveling a plants response to pathogen infection.
5.10pm - 5.40pm	Gail Timmerman-Vaughan (P12) Plant and Food Research, New Zealand Towards understanding the mechanisms of resistance to Ascochyta blight disease of pea (Pisum sativum L.).

Monday 29th August
8.45 - 9.15am	Kinases Robin MacDiarmid (P13) Plant and Food Research, New Zealand Is a calcium-dependent protein kinase mediating a novel antiviral mechanism in plants?
9.15am - 9.45am	Mei Lin Tay (P14) AgResearch, Palmerston North RAPTOR, a highly conserved element of the eukaryotic TOR kinase growth promoting complex, is not essential for plant survival.
9.45am - 10.15am	Morning Tea
10.15am - 10.45am	Abiotic Stress Barry Pogson (P15) The Australian National University A New Chloroplast - Nuclear Signaling Pathway Functions in High Light and Drought Responses in Arabidopsis
10.45am - 11.15am	Paul Dijkwel (P16) Massey University, Palmerston North The Arabidopsis biological clock regulates the anticipation of oxidative stress.
11.15am - 11.45am	Jeanne Jacobs (P17) Plant and Food Research, New Zealand Potato genome sequence & analysis: abiotic stress.
11.45am - 12.15pm	Sathish Puthigae (P18) ViaLactia, New Zealand Enhancing drought tolerance in perennial ryegrass for New Zealand pastures.
12.15pm - 1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm - 1.45pm	Biotic Stress Linda Johnson (P19) AgResearch, Palmerston North Mutualism versus pathogenesis: fungal endophyte friend or foe?
1.45pm - 2.15pm	Marion Wood (P20) Plant and Food Research, New Zealand Actinidia DRM1 - A plant specific protein whose expression appears to be inversely correlated with spring bud break in kiwifruit.
2.15pm - 2.45pm	Matt Templeton (P21) Plant and Food Research, New Zealand Identification of novel effectors in Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae, the causal agent of kiwifruit canker.
2.45pm - 5:00pm	Poster session and reception

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