Fondation Francqui-Stichting
Fondation d’Utilité Publique -  Stichting van Openbaar Nut

Plants for Growth

(Hotel le Méridien, Brussels, 1-3 December, 2006)

Programme

Friday December 1, 2006

9:00 Welcome Professor Mark Eyskens, Chairman of the Francqui Foundation, Minister of State

Chairman : Professor Marc Van Montagu, IPBO, Ghent University

9:20-10:10   Professor Gerd Jürgens, University of Tübingen, Germany - Cell specification in early embryogenesis
10:10-11:00 Professor Yasunori Machida, Nagoya University, Japan - Phragmoplast expansion controlled by the MAP kinase cascade in plant cytokinesis

11:00-11:30  Coffee

11:30-12:20  Professor Wilhelm Gruissem, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich-Switzerland - Connecting the cell cycle to control of plant growth and development

12:20-13:30  Lunch

Chairman : Professor Wilhelm Gruissem, ETH, Zurich

13:30-14:20  Professor Denes Dudits, Biological Research Center, Szeged-Hungary - Regulation of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) function in dividing alfalfa cells
14:20-15:10  Professor Crisanto Gutierrez, Centro de Biologia Molecular «Severo Ochoa», Spain - Links between cell cycle control and cell fate specification

15:10-15:40  Coffee

15:40-16:30  Professor Laszlo Bögre, University of London, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, UK - Signalling pathways to organ growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
16:30-17:20  Professor Dirk Inzé, VIB, Ghent University, Belgium - The Ins and Outs of the plant cell cycle

17:30 Drink, on the invitation of the Francqui Foundation

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Saturday December 2, 2006

Chairman : Professor Chris Somerville, Stanford University, Department of Plant Biology, Carnergie Institution of Washington and Department of Biological Science-USA

09:00-09:50  Professor Masaaki Umeda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Plants pecific players on the cell cycle circuit

09:50-10:40  Professor Pascal Genschik, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des plantes, France
Cullin-based ubiquitin protein ligases : how do they regulate the cell cycle ?

10:40-11:10  Coffee

11:10-12:00  Professor Ben Scheres, Utrecht University, Department Molecular Cell Biology, the Netherlands - Using Arabidopsis roots to study control of cell division and cell differentiation
12:00-12:50  Professor Philip Benfey, Duke University, Durham-USA - A systems approach to understanding root development

12:50-14:00  Lunch

Chairman : Professor Philip Benfey, Duke University, Durham-USA

14:00-14:50  Professor Arp Schnittger, Max-Delbruck-Labor, Germany - Regulation of CDKA;1 activity in plants - at the crossroad between cell cycle and development
14:50-15:40  Professor Paolo Sabelli, University of Arizona, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Tuczon-USA - Cell cycle regulation in maize endosperm and embryogenic callus

15:40-16:10  Coffee

16:10-17:00  Professor Ottoline Leyser, University of York, UK - Hormonal control of shoot branching
17:00-17:50  Professor Eva Kondorosi, Institut des Sciences Végétales CNRS, Gif sur Yvette-France - Endoreduplication : a common differentiation path in plant cells and bacteria during symbiosis

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Sunday December 3, 2006

Chairman : Professor Yasunori Machida (Nagoya University, Japan)

09:00-09:50  Professor Herman Höfte, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin INRA, Versailles-France - Building walls for growth
09:50-10:40  Professor Soren Brunak, Technical University of Denmark, Lyndby - Constructing protein-protein interaction networks for compartments and processes

10:40-11:10  Coffee

11:10-12:00   Professor Chris Somerville, Stanford University, Department of Plant Biology, Carnergie Institution of Washington and Department of Biological Sciences, USA - Genetic dissection of cell wall structure and function
12:00-12:15  Thank you and farewell

12:30  Lunch