PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (11 August 2003)
Sunday - August 31, 2003
16:00 - 22:00 |
Registration: Hotel International Hall |
Monday - September 1, 2003
8:00 - 17:00 |
Registration: Hotel International Hall |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Conference Opening |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Dieter Schweizer (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna, Austria): OPENING ADDRESS |
A: SESSION " SEX DETERMINATION AND FLOWER
FORMATION "
Chairpersons: Philip M: Gilmartin and Boris Vyskot
9:15 - 9:45 |
Deborah Charlesworth (University of Edinburgh, Scotland): WHAT PLANTS CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF SEX CHROMOSOMES |
| 9:45- 10:15 | Sabine Zachgo, Heinz Saedler (Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany): LET IT 'B' - NEWS FROM THE FLORAL ABC |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Philip Gilmartin et al: (University of Leeds, England): HETEROMORPHIC FLOWER DEVELOPMENT IN PRIMULA VULGARIS |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Brian Charlesworth (University of Edinburgh, Scotland): EVOLUTION OF SEX CHROMOSOMES - ANIMALS |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Françoise Monéger et al: (ENS Lyon, France): WHICH GENES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DIOECY IN SILENE? |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Sachihiro Matsunaga (Osaka University, Japan): SEX DIFFERENTIATION IN WHITE CAMPION |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | LUNCHES |
Chairpersons: Deborah Charlesworth and Françoise Monéger
| 13:45 - 14:15 | Matthew Olson (University of Alaska, USA): CYTOPLASMIC MALE STERILITY IN SILENE VULGARIS |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Boris Vyskot et al: (Institute of Biophysics, Brno, Czech Republic): PLANT SEX CHROMOSOMES: A CYTOGENETIC POINT OF VIEW |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Jaroslav Matoušek et al: (Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic): MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESEARCH OF HOP |
| 14:45- 15:00 | Karel Říha (Gregor Mendel Institute for Plant Molecular Biology, Vienna, Austria): TELOMERE MAINTENANCE AND GENOME STABILITY IN ARABIDOPSIS |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Aleš Kovařík, Andrew Leitch (Institute of Biophysics, Brno, Czech Republic): EVOLUTION OF RIBOSOMAL GENE CLUSTERS IN NICOTIANA ALLOTETRAPLOIDS |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Olga Erdelská, Miroslav Ovečka (SAS, Bratislava, Slovak Republic): SENESCENCE IN GENERATIVE ORGANS OF EPIPHYLLUM HYBRIDS |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Charles Ainsworth (University of London, England): AUTOSOMES AND SEX CHROMOSOMES - SEX DETERMINATION IN RUMEX ACETOSA |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | POSTER SESSION I |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | WELCOME PARTY, Augustinian Monastery, Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady, organ prelude, and Mendel's exhibition |
Tuesday - September 2, 2003
B: SESSION "MICROSPOROGENESIS AND
MICROGAMETOGENESIS"
Chairpersons: Dawid Twell and Jaroslava Dubová
| 8:00 - 8:30 | David Twell et al: (University of Leicester, United Kingdom): GENETIC ANALYSIS OF POLLEN DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | David Honys, David Twell (Institute of Experimental Botany, Prague, Czech Republic): TRANSCRIPTOME PROFILING THROUGHOUT ARABIDOPSIS POLLEN DEVELOPMENT |
| 8:45 - 9:15 | Gerhard Obermeyer (University of Salzburg, Austria): POLAR GROWTH OF POLLEN TUBES AND ION TRANSPORTER ACTIVITY |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Rui Malhó et al: (Department of Plant Biology, University of Lisbon, Portugal): SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN POLLEN: CA2+, ROPS, CAMP AND CALMODULIN CROSSTALK IN THE POLLEN TUBE APEX |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Laura Zonia (Institute of Experimental Botany, Prague, Czech Republic): MULTI-PATH NETWORKS REGULATING POLLEN TUBE GROWTH |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Viktor Žárský et al: (Institute of Experimental Botany, Prague, Czech Republic): SMALL GTPASES AND CELL POLARITY MACHINES IN POLLEN TUBES |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | COFFEE BREAK |
Chairpersons: Rui Malhó and Laura Zonia
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Elizabeth Mattys-Rochon et al: (ENS Lyon, France): PROTEINS SECRETED BY MAIZE MICROSPORES IN CULTURE MIGHT BE INVOLVED IN DEVELOPMENTAL SIGNALLING |
| 11:05 - 11:35 | Alisher Touraev et al: (Vienna Biocenter, University of Vienna, Austria) MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF PLANT MICROSPORE TOTIPOTENCY AND EMBRYOGENESIS |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Clément Christophe et al: (University of Riems, France): APOPTOSIS IN THE ANTHER OF LILIUM DURING POLLEN DEVELOPMENT |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Ettore Pacini et al: (University of Siena, Italy): ANTHER OPENING AND POLLEN DURING EXPOSURE AND DISPERSAL |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Mei Wang et al: (Department of Applied Plant Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands): IDENTIFICATION OF STRESS-INDUCED DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS OF BARLEY MICROSPORES BY SINGLE-CELL TRACKING TECHNIQUE |
| 12:20 - 12:35 | Ence D: J: Supena et al: (Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands): A NEW BRASSICA NAPUS MICROSPORE EMBRYOGENESIS PROCEDURE THAT FULLY MIMICS ZYGOTIC EMBRYOGENESIS |
| 12:35 - 13:30 | LUNCHES |
| 13:45 | EXCURSION DEPARTURE: MORAVIAN KARST, PUNKVA CAVES COFFEE BREAK HOTEL MACOCHA |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | ARBORETUM OF MENDEL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY BRNO |
Wednesday - September 3, 2003
C: SESSION "MEGASPOROGENESIS AND
FERTILIZATION"
Chairpersons: Beata Barnabas and Ladislav Havel
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Beata Barnabas et al: (Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian AS, Martonvasar, Hungary): MICROMANIPULATION ON THE FEMALE GAMETES OF WHEAT |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Jan Hejátko et al: (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic): THE GAMETOPHYTIC EXPRESSION OF THE GENE FOR SENSOR HISTIDINE KINASE CKI1 IS ESSENTIAL FOR EMBRYO SAC FORMATION IN ARABIDOPSIS |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Tatiana Batygina (Komarov Botanical Institute, S: - Petersburg, Russia): FERTILIZATION IN FLOWERING PLANTS: HYPOTHESES AND FACTS |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Renata Sniezko et al: (Marie Curie-Sklodowka University, Poland): COMPONENS OF THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX IMPORTANT FOR THE OVULE FERTILITY IN FLOWERING PLANTS |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | POSTER SESSION II |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | LUNCHES |
D: SESSION "EMBRYOGENESIS AND SEED DEVELOPMENT"
Chairpersons: Gerd Jürgens and Pavla Binarová
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Gerd Jürgens (University of Tübingen, Germany): EMBRYOGENESIS - OLD FACTS AND NEW FICTIONS |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Jiří Friml et al: (University of Tübingen, Germany): EFFLUX-DEPENDENT AUXIN DISTRIBUTION MEDIATES AXIS SPECIFICATION IN ARABIDOPSIS EMBRYOGENESIS |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Takashi Okamoto et al: (Hamburg University Germany and Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan): IDENTIFICATION OF GENES THAT ARE UP- OR DOWN- REGULATED IN THE APICAL OR BASAL CELL OF TWO-CELLED MAIZE EMBRYOS |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Daniel Philippe Matton et al: (University of Montreal, Canada): A NOVEL KINASE FAMILY INVOLVED IN SEED AND FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF SOLANUM CHACOENSE |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Stefanie Sprunck et al: (University of Hamburg, Germany): GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES FROM ISOLATED EGG CELLS, CENTRAL CELLS AND PRO-EMBRYOS OF WHEAT |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Romana Czapik (Jagellonian University Krakow, Poland): PLANT ECOLOGICAL EMBRYOLOGY IN POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
Chairpersons: Thomas Dresselhaus and Olga Erdelská
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Thomas Dresselhaus et al: (University of Hamburg, Germany): APOMICTIC EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT IN MAIZE AND TRIPSACUM |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Mark Curtis et al: (University of Zurich, Switzerland): APOMIXIS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGIES TO GENERATE ELEMENTS OF APOMIXIS IN SEXUAL MODEL SYSTEMS |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Attila Fehér et al: (Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged HUNGARY): SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS: A STRESSFULL START |
| 16:45- 17:00 | Valayamghat Raghavan (Ohio State University, USA): THE ROLE OF 2,4-D IN SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN ARABIDOPSIS |
| 17:00 | CONFERENCE CLOSING |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | FAREWELL PARTY, Hotel International |