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

First Academia Belgica-Francqui Conference

Plants for the Future (Academia Belgica, Rome May 18, 2006)

Programme

9:00-9:30 Welcome (Walter Geerts, Paolo Constantino, local authorities)

Scientific session, Chair : Paolo Costantino

9:30-10:00   Dirk Inzé "Cell division and growth control"
10:00-10:30 Ida Ruberti "The shade avoidance response in Arabidopsis"
10:30-11:00 Chris Bowler "Photoreceptor control of tomato fruit qulity"

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Scientific session, Chair : Giorgio Morelli

11:30-12:00 Chiara Tonelli "A guard cell-specific MYB transcription factor regulates stomatal movements and plant drought tolerance"
12:30-13:00 Alessadro Vitale "Protein synthesis and accumulation in the plant secretory pathway"
13:00-13:30 Massimo Delledonne "Nitric oxide functions in the plant hypersensitive disease resistance response"

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

Perspective session, Chair : Roberto Tuberosa

14:30-15:00 Wilhem Gruissem "Plant research today - from functional genomics to agricultural innovation"
15:00-15:30 Lothar Willmitzer "Metabolomics - a new tool in basic plant science and breeding"
15:30-16:00 Francesco Salamini "Plant genetics and breeding in the coming 20 years"

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Round table. Science, Society, Development. Moderators :
Gilberto Corbellini, GT Scarascia-Mugnozza and Marc Van Montagu

Panelists : Paolo Costantino, Emile Frison, Giorgio Morelli, Shivaji Pandey, Raffaele Ranucci, Luigi Rossi-Bernardi, Francesco Salamini

18:30 Farewell cocktail