European Plant Science Organisation
7th EPSO Conference
‘Plants for a Greening Economy’
Porto Heli, Greece
01 – 04 September 2013
http://www.epsoweb.org/7th-epso-conference-1-4-september2013-greece
Programme by 3 August 2012
To invite 1st speaker per session which will recommend as well speakers 2 and 3 for their session
Confirmed chairs and speakers are in bold
Sunday
1 September 2013
10:00 – 17:00
EPSO General Meeting
From 16:00
Registration
Exhibition I
19:00 – 20:30
Opening and keynote
Chairs:
Karin Metzlaff, Brussels, BE
George Skaracis, Athens, GR
EPSO representatives (no public meeting)
Sunday 15:00 – Monday 14:00
Exhibitor I, Exhibitor II
Speakers:
Karin Metzlaff and George Skaracis (10 min)
Executive Director of the European Plant Science Organisation
Local Conference Organiser and Head of Laboratory of Plant
Breeding and Biometry, Agricultural University of Athens, GR
t.b.a., GR (10 min)
General Secretary Research and Technology, GR
Opening on behalf of ….ministry, GR
t.b.a., GR (10 min)
Member of the European Parliament, GR
Title t.b.a.
Gregory Stephanopoulos, US , (60 min)
MIT
Keynote: Plants, the key to a sustainable bioeconomy
20:45 – 22:30
Welcome Reception
Monday
9:00 – 11:00
2 September 2013
Regulatory networks in plants
Chair: Heribert Hirt, Evry, FR
S01
Speakers:
Olivier Voinnet, ETH Zurich, CH (25 + 5 min)
Small RNAs in a plant regulatory network
S02
Choose speakers 2 + 3 from the following proposals: S03, S04
Each (25 + 5 min)
Phil Benfey, Duke University, Durham, US
Regulation of the plant root deevlopment
Javier Paz-Ares, CNB, ES (or M. Udvardi, Noble Found., US)
Functional genomics of transcription factors
Mark Stitt, Max Planck Inst. Golm, DE
Sugar regulation
M. Delledonne, Univ. Verona, IT
NO regulation
K.J. Dietz, DE
Redox dependend regulation in abiotic stressed plants
I Kovalchuk, SH
Heritabel responses to environmental stresses?
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
S05
title
11:00
11:30 – 13:30
Coffee break
Plant response and adaptation to
biotic stresses
Chair: Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury
Lab, Norwich, UK,
Speakers:
John Mundy, Univ Copenhagen, DK (25 + 5 min)
Plant cell death mechanisms
Matthias Erb, Max Plack Inst. Jena, DE (25 + 5 min)
Signaling in plant-insect interactions
S06
S07
Xinnian Dong, Duke Univ., US (25 + 5 min)
S08
Salicylate receptors (Plant systemic and included responses to
plant pathogens)
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
13:30 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:30
Lunch & networking
Exhibition II
Monday 15:00 – Tuesday 14:00
Exhibitor III, Exhibitor IV
Poster Session I with drinks
Chair: Jacek Hennig, Institute of
Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish
Academy of Science, Warsaw, PL
14:00 – 14:30 Opening and short presentations of two
selected posters:
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
14:30 – 15:00 Even poster numbers will be attended
15:00 – 15:30 Uneven poster numbers will be attended
Plant response and adaptation to
abiotic stress (multilevel approach)
Chair: Christophe Plomion,
Biodiversity, Genes and Communities,
INRA, Bordeaux, FR
Speakers:
Coffee break
Science policy: Plant science and
environment
Chair: EPSO Board member
& Karin Metzlaff, Brussels, BE
Pxx
Pxx
Jian-Kang Zhu, Purdue, US (25 + 5 min)
S10
Epigenetic changes in response to climate change (at individual
levels)
Marc de Block, Bayer, Gent, BE (25 + 5 min)
Epigenetics and abiotic stress
S11
Rens Voesenek, Univ Utrecht, NL (25 + 5 min)
Responses to complete submergence
S12
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
17:30
18:00 – 20:00
S09
S13
Speakers:
Heribert Hirt, INRA, Evry, FR (25 + 5 min)
S14
President of the European Plant Science Organisation
Environment – opportunities and challenges which plant science
can help address
Janez Potocnik, Brussels, BE (25 + 5 min)
S15
Commissioner, European Commission
Addressing societal challenges while benefiting the environment Potential of future research and innovation in Europe and beyond
Maive Rute, Brussels, BE (25 + 5 min)
S16
Director in RTD, European Commission
Bioeconomy – plant science and the environment – new avenues
for research and innovation
t.b.a., national ministry or global (25 + 5 min)
S17
Global needs in plant production and protection and environment
and contributions from plant science to these
20:15
Dinner
Tuesday
8:30 – 10:30
3 September 2013
Plant response and adaptation to low
resource availability
Chair: Ton Bisseling, Wageningen,
NL
Speakers:
Kazuo Shinozaki, RIKEN, JAP (25 + 5 min)
S18
Regulation of response to water deficits
Malcolm Bennett, Univ. of Nottingham, UK (25 + 5 min)
Root growth and drying
S19
Eckhard George, Leibniz Inst. Grossbeeren, DE (25 + 5 min) S20
Adaptation to nutrient-poor soils
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
10:30
11:00 – 13:00
Coffee break
Climate change – the mitigating role
of plants
Chair: Uli Schurr, Julich, DE
S21
Speakers:
Philippe Ciais, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat
et de l’ Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR (25 + 5 min)
Drivers and response of the global carbon cycle
S22
Choose speakers 2 + 3 from the following proposals: S23, S24
Each (25 + 5 min)
R. Ceulemans, Univ. Antwerp, BE
Global changes: threat or opportunity for plants and ecosystems?
Dan Yakir, Weizmann, IL
Carbon sequestration in agriculture
Franco Miglietta, CNR di Firenze, IT
Carbon cycle – climate interactions on ecosystems
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
13:00 – 17:30
17:30
18:00 – 20:00
Excursion
Exhibition III
Coffee break
Global food security I: Sufficiency
and affordability
Chair: Chiara Tonelli, Milano, IT
S25
Tuesday 15:00 – Wednesday 19:00
Exhibitor V, Exhibitor VI
Speakers:
Jean-Christophe Glaszmann, CIRAD, Montpellier, FR
(25 + 5 min)
S26
Towards European – Developing Countries longer term
partnerships and linking stakeholders in plant sciences for
sustainable intensification of agricultural production - advances and
outlook following the FAO-EPSO workshop
Mauricio A Lopes, Embrapa, BRA (25 + 5 min)
Biological resources in the context of green economy’
S27
Elías Fereres Castiel, Univ Cordoba, ES (25 + 5 min)
S28
Ecological intensification and sustainable production systems
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
20:15
Wednesday
9:00 – 11:00
11:00
11:30 – 13:30
Dinner
4 September 2013
Global food security II: Nutritional
quality and safety
Chair: Eckhard George, Grossbeeren,
DE
Coffee break
Plant breeding and sustainability:
Novel methodologies and targets,
genomes in action
Chair: George Skaracis, Athens, GR
S29
Speakers:
Cathie Martin, JIC, Norwich, UK (25+5 min)
Plant pigments and human health – advances and outlook
following the EPSO workshop
S30
Jan Delcour, K.U. Leuven, BE (25 + 5 min)
Advances in cereal dietary fibre (incl. research on plants,
production, chemistry and function)
S31
Maurice Moloney, Rothamsted, UK (25 + 5 min)
Omega3 fatty acids – soybean, rapeseed etc.
S32
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
S33
Speakers:
Alain Charcosset, INRA, Toulon, FR (25 + 5 min)
Advances in molecular breeding
S34
Choose speakers 2 + 3 from the following proposals: S35, S36
Each (25 + 5 min)
Marcel Prins, Keygene, NL
NGS technologies for molecular breeding
Christian Bachem, WUR, Wageningen, NL
Novel approaches to exploit omics in potato breeding
Robbie Waugh, Hutton Inst, UK
Whole genome association mapping, a platform for gene isolation
Rod Wing, Univ. Arizona, US
Comparative genomics platforms for closely related species
J. Hibberd, Univ Cambridge, UK
Is the transition from C3 to C4 photosynthesis possible?
J. van Dongen, DE
Metabolic markers for phenotype prediction by untargeted
approach
P. Bundock, NL
Keybase: a novel target mutagenesis for crops
J. Salse, FR
Modeling of ancestors for modern species improvement
E. Paux, FR
Genome saturation and MAS by insertion site-based polymorphism
Diego Sanchez, MPI Golm, DE
Identification of translational traits by comparative functional
genomics
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
13:30 – 15:30
14:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:30
17:30
18:00 – 20:00
Lunch and networking
Poster Session II
Chair: Jose Pio Beltran, Valencia, ES
Plant driven bioeconomy: Bioenergy,
biofuels, molecular farming,
biomaterials
Chair: Eva-Mari Aro, Turku, FI
Coffee Break
Plant evolution – Biodiversity and
ecosystems
Chair: Bruce Osborne, Dublin, IE
14:00 – 14:30 Opening and short presentations of two
selected posters: t.b.a.
t.b.a.
14:30 – 15:00 Uneven poster numbers will be attended
15:00 – 15:30 Even poster numbers will be attended
Conference Dinner with music
Pxx
Pxx
Speakers:
Angela Karp, Rothamsted Research, UK (25 + 5 min)
Tailoring plants for biorefineries
S38
Merja Penttilä, Technical Research Centre, FI (25 + 5 min)
Metabolic engineering of yeast and filamentous fungi for
conversion of hemicellulose sugars to chemicals
S39
Edward Rybicki, Univ. Cape Town, RSA (25 + 5 min)
Biovaccines
S40
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
title
S41
Speakers:
Sandy Knapp, Erasmus School of Economics, UK
Biodiversity conservation (25 + 5 min)
S42
Tom Whitham, Univ. Northern Arizona, US (25 + 5 min)
The community genetics of biodiversity
S43
David Beerling, Univ. of Sheffield, UK (25 + 5 min)
Aspects of the evolution of plant biodiversity
20:45
S37
S44
t.b. selected from abstracts later on (15 + 5 min)
S45
title
Karin Metzlaff, Brussels, BE & Goerge Skaracis, Athens, GR:
Prizes for the three best posters will be awarded
Conference 2014 will be announced
Close of the conference
Thursday
am
5 September 2013
Departure
t.b.a.
Global Plant Council Meeting
t.b.a.
ERA-CAPS High Level group Meeting
t.b.a.
Side-Meetings
e.g. from your EU projects, COST etc.
Time Schedule
Morning
Sunday, 1 September 2013
11 – 17:00
EPSO General Meeting
Monday, 2 September 2013
9 - 11:00
Break 11:30 – 13:30 13:30-15:30
Regulatory
Cof- Plant response Lunch;
networks in fee
/ adaptation to Poster session;
plants
biotic stresses Network
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
8:30 - 10:30
Break 11 -13:00
13 – 17:30
Plant
Cof- Climate
Excursion
response /
change – the
fee
adaptation to
mitigating role
low resource
of plants
availability
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
9 - 11:00
Break 11:30 – 13:30 13:30-15:30
Global food Cof- Plant breeding Lunch;
security II:
&
Poster session;
fee
nutritional
sustainability: Network
quality &
novel
safety
methods,
targets
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Xx am Departure
Global Plant Council Meeting (5-6 September)
ERA-CAPS High Level Group Meeting
Side Meetings (e.g. from your EU projects, COST etc.)
Afternoon
16 – 19:00
Registration;
Coffee at 18:00
Break
20:45-22:30
Welcome
reception
15:30 – 17:30
Break 18:00 – 20:00
Plant response CofPlant science
/ adaptation to fee
and
abiotic stresses
environment
Break
20:15
Dinner
Break 18 – 20:00
Global food
Cofsecurity I:
fee
sufficiency &
affordability
Break
20:15
Dinner
15:30 – 17:30
Plant driven
bioeconomy:
energy, fuels,
molecular
farming,
materials
19-20:30
Opening
Keynote
Evening
Break 18:00- 20:00
Break
Cof-fee Plant evolution Shuttle
– biodiversity
and
ecosystems
20:45 – 23:00
Conference
dinner with
music
Closing
We would like to thank our committees and secretariat members for organising this conference:
Members of the organising committee: Jose-Pio Beltran, Ton Bisseling, Eckhard George, Jacek Hennig, Heribert
Hirt, Jonathan Jones, Bruce Osborne, Christophe Plomion, Karin Metzlaff (EPSO coordinator), Eva-Mari Aro and
Chiara Tonelli.
Members of the local committee: George N. Skaracis (Local coordinator), Nickolas Panopoulos, George
Sakellaris, Epaminondas Paplomatas, Polydefkis Chatzopoulos, Athanasios Tsaftaris, Filippos Aravanopoulos ,
Nicolas Ioannou (CY), Zach Adam (IL), Avraham Levy (IL), Hillel Fromm (IL)
Conference secretariat: Nadia Khawaja (EPSO conference secretariat), Dorothée Bongaerts (EPSO) and Ourania
Pavli (local assistant)