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Sunday, June 23 | |
17:00 |
Bus transfer to Gargnano (optional) |
19:30 |
Arrival and registration |
20:00 |
Welcome dinner |
Monday June 24 | |
8:30 |
Nutrients bioavailability in soil |
9:20 |
Mining for nutrients in the rhizosphere: solutions from the roots |
10:10 |
Root development and mineral nutrition |
11:00 |
break |
11:30 |
Contribution of microbial symbionts to plant nutrition S. Kopriva (John Innes Centre - UK) |
12:20 |
Acquisition of nutrients and pollutants from the atmosphere |
13:10 |
lunch |
15:30 |
Theoretical basis of nutrient transmembrane transport |
16:20 |
Vacuolar transporters |
17:10 |
break |
17:30 |
Natural variation in anions homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana P. Baraniecka (John Innes Centre – UK) |
17:45 |
Deciphering natural variation for nitrogen and sulfur use efficiencies in Arabidopsis thaliana G. Chietera (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Versailles - FR) |
18:00 |
The interaction between iron and sulfur metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana I. Forieri (Center for Organismal Studies – Universität Heilderberg - DE) |
18:15 |
Analysis of genes affecting plant mineral nutrition E. Heyneke (Max- Planck- Institute für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm - DE) |
18:30 |
Functional analysis of OAS cluster genes F. Aarabi (Max- Planck- Institute für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm - DE) |
18:45 |
Molecular interaction of phosphite with phosphate signalling and phytophthora defence: insights from a transcriptomic analysis M. Borges Osorio (School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia – AU) |
19:00 |
Seed-specific expression of a feedback-inhibition insensitive form of cystathionine--synthase (CGS) increases the production of Met and other amino acids in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana seeds H. Cohen (Galilee Research Institute – IL) |
19:15 |
Structural and functional analysis of GOGAT genes involved in wheat nitrogen metabolism D. Nigro (Università degli Studi di Bari – IT) |
20:00 |
Dinner |
21:00 |
Free discussion with the teachers |
Tuesday June 25 | |
8:30 |
Systemic partitioning, re-mobilization and allocation of mineral nutrients |
9:20 |
Regulatory networks controlling nutrient acquisition (sensing and signaling) |
10:10 |
Omics approaches to study mineral nutrition |
11:00 |
Break |
11:30 |
Metabolomics and plant nutrition |
12:20 |
Phytoremediation of heavy metals: plant uptake and accumulation |
13:10 |
lunch |
15:30 |
Trace elements: from hyperacumulator to biofortification |
16:20 |
Metabolism of Molybdenum |
17:10 |
break |
17:30 |
A note of warning: the Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion line SALK135513 case study M.Collados—Rodríguez (Inst. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Ac. of Science - PL) |
17:45 |
Metabolic control of nutrient use efficiency at a whole plant perspective in a changing global atmosphere M. Reich (University of Groningen -NL) |
18:00 |
Sentinel plants to improve nutrient use efficiency: living tools for non destructive analysis under field conditions M. Maghrebi (Università degli Studi di Milano - IT) |
18:15 |
Nutrient acquisition and utilization in wheat A. Grün (Rothamsted Research - UK) |
18:30 |
Integrated “omics and trials” approach to characterize the effect of a special fertilizer/biostimuant promoting seed germination and early growth G. Povero (Valagro Spa – IT) |
18:45 |
Phosphorilation of UP9/LSU as a potential mechanism regulating its function P. Sęktas (Inst. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Ac. of Science - PL ) |
19:00 |
Expression of AhNAS2 gene in tomato modifies response to iron and cadmium K. Tracz (University of Warsaw – PL) |
19:15 |
Using metabolic engineering to improve the nutritive quality of rice Whitcomb (Max- Planck- Institute für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm – DE) |
20:00 |
Dinner |
21:00 |
Free discussion with the teachers |
Wednesday June 26 | |
8:30 |
Exploiting natural variation to uncover genes controlling NUE |
9:20 |
Making sense of genomics: genetic and molecular tools for improving mineral nutrition
in crops |
10:10 |
Autophagy and plant mineral nutrition |
11:00 |
Break |
11:30 |
Chasing and cloning QTLs for mineral nutrition in crops R. Tuberosa (Università degli Studi di Bologna - IT) |
12:20 |
Increasing NUE in an industry perspective |
13:10 |
Lunch |
15:30 |
Evaluating plant nutrient status: from satellite to lab* |
20:00 |
Farewell dinner |
Teachers | |
Luisella Celi |
Università degli Studi di Torino (IT) |
Fabien Chardon |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (F) |
Brian Forde |
Lancaster University - UK |
Massimo Galbiati |
Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) |
Yves Hatzfold |
CropDesign N. V. (B) |
Malcolm Hawkesford |
Rothamsted Research (UK) |
Rüdiger Hell |
Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heilderberg (DE) |
Rainer Höfgen |
Max Planck Institute für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie (DE) |
Stanislav Kopriva |
John Innes Centre (UK) |
Luit De Kok |
University of Groningen (NL) |
Mario Malagoli |
Università degli Studi di Padova (IT) |
Enrico Martinoia |
University of Zurich (CH) |
Antony Miller |
John Innes Centre (UK) |
Ralph R. Mendel |
Technische Universität Braunschweig (DE) |
Fabio F. Nocito |
Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) |
Roberto Pinton |
Università degli Studi di Udine (IT) |
Gian Attilio Sacchi |
Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) |
Kazuki Saito |
Riken Plant Science Center (JP) |
Agnieszka Sirko |
Polish Academy of Science (PL) |
Roberto Tuberosa |
Università degli Studi di Bologna (IT) |
Philip White |
The James Hutton Institute (UK) |