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