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11.00

Registration

Poster set-up

Coffee and Tea

13:00

Welcome

Bernhard Grimm, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

First Session

Photosynthetic electron transport and retrograde signalling

Chair Person: Dario Leister, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

13:10 – 13:40

13:40 – 13:45

Jean-David Rochaix

University of Geneva, Switzerland

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE STT7/STN7 PROTEIN KINASE INVOLVED IN STATE TRANSITIONS

Discussion

13:45 – 14:15

14:15 – 14:20

Yves Choquet

UMR7141 CNRS/UPMC, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique,  France

POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL AND REGULATION OF CYTOOCHROME f EXPRESSION

Discussion

14:20 – 14:50

14:50 – 14:55

Steve Rodermel

Iowa State University, USA

VARIEGATION MUTANTS OF ARABIDOPSIS, CHLOROPLAST BIOGENESIS AND RETROGRADE SIGNALING

Discussion

14:55 – 15:10

15:10 – 15:15

Marc Aurel Schöttler

MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

TOWARDS THE IDENTIFICATION OF RETROGRADE SIGNALS AFFECTING THE COMPOSITION OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS

Discussion

15:15 – 15:45

15:45 – 15:50

Dario Leister,

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

PHOTOSYNTHESIS - A MATTER OF SELF CONTROL    

Discussion

15:50 – 16:20

Coffee break

Second Session

Reactive oxygen species: sensing and signalling

Chair Person: Karl-Josef Dietz, University of Bielefeld, Germany

16:20 – 16:50

16:50 - 16:55

Jaakko Kangasjärvi

University of Helsinki, Finnland

REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN PLANT STRESS SIGNALING

Discussion

16:55 – 17:25

17:25 – 17:30

Klaus Apel

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research , USA

THE GENETIC BASIS OF SINGLET OXYGEN-MEDIATED RETROGRADE SIGNALING IN HIGHER PLANTS

Discussion

17:30 – 18:00

18:00 - 18:05

Anja Krieger–Liszkay

CEA, iBiTecS, CNRS URA, France

H₂O₂ SIGNALING IN CHLAMYDOMONS REINHARDTII REQUIRES CHLOROPLAST-MEDIATED INACTIVATION OF H₂O₂ DEGRADING ENZYMES

Discussion

18:05 – 18:20

18:20 – 18:25

Vanessa Tognetti

Ghent University, VIB, Belgium

CHLOROPLAST-TRAGETED FLAVODOXIN: A NEW STRATEGY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF ROS SPECICALLY GENERATED IN CHLOROPLASTS UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES.

Discussion

18:25 – 18:40

18:40 – 18:45

Veronica G. Maurino

University of Cologne, Germany

THE GO PLANTS ARE AN IDEAL NON-INVASIVE MODEL TO STUDY CHLOROPLASTIC-PRODUCED H₂O₂ AS A SIGNAL MOLECULE AND OXIDATIVE STRESS AGENT

DISCUSSION

18:45 – 20:00

Dinner at the Harnack House

Third Session

Tetrapyrrole-mediated Signalling

Chair Person: Bernhard Grimm, Humboldt-University, Germany

20:00 – 20:30

20:00 – 20:35

Alison Smith

University of Cambridge, UK

REGULATION OF CHLOROPHYLL PROTEIN ASSEMBLY DURING GREENING OF ETIOLATED SEEDLINGS

Discussion

20:35 – 21:05

21:05 – 21:10

Christoph Beck

University of Freiburg, Germany

HEMIN AND MG-PROTOPORPHYRIN IX INDUCE GLOBAL CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII.

Discussion

21:10 – 21:25

21:25 – 21:30

Celine Vanhee 

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

THE ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA TSPO-RELATED PROTEIN IS AN ABA-REGULATED, TETRAPYRROLES-BINDING PROTEIN AND POTENIALLY INVOLVED IN CELLULAR REDOX HOMEOSTASIS

Discussion

Fourth Session

Mitochondrial retrograde signalling

Chair Person: Ulf-Ingo Flügge, University of Cologne, Germany

08:30 – 09:00

09:00 – 09:05

Iris Finkemeier

University of Oxford, UK

THE INTERRELATION OF ROS- AND TCA CYCLE- METABOLISM IN MITOCHONDRIAL RETROGRADE SIGNALLING

Discussion

09:05 – 09:35

09:35 – 09:40

Zhengchang Liu

University of New Orleans, USA

ATP AS A PUTATIVE SIGNALING MOLECULE IN THE YEAST RETROGRADE PATHWAY

Discussion

09:40 – 10:10

10:10 – 10:15

David Rhoads

University of Arizona, USA

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF ARABIDOPSIS LEAF TRANSCRIPTOME RESPONSES TO MITOCHONDRIAL PURTURBATIONS

Discussion

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

Fifth Session

Bioinformatics and Modelling of Signal Transduction Pathways and Metabolism

Chair Person: Klaus Mayer, MIPS/IBIS, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany

10:45 – 11:15

11:15 – 11:20

Joachim Selbig

University of Potsdam, Germany

ON REVEALING THE METABOLIC CONTEXT OF SIGNALING PROCESSES

Discussion

11:20 – 11:50

11:50 – 11:55

Regina Samaga

MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany

QUALITATIVE MODELING OF SIGNALING NETWORKS:

EGF-/ERBB RECEPTOR SIGNALING AS AN EXAMPLE

Discussion

11:55 – 12:25

12:25 – 12:30

Ines Heiland

Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany

MODELLING DAILY VARIATIONS IN AMINO ACIDS METABOLISM USING ELEMENTARY FLUX MODE ANALYSIS

Discussion

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch at the Harnack House

14:00 – 16:00

Poster Session

Optional: visit of the previous Institutes of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft

Sixth Session

Redox-Control and Retrograde Signaling

Chair Person: Thomas Pfannschmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany

16:00 – 16:30

16:30 – 16:35

Eevi Rintamäki

University of Turku, Finnland

PLASTID SIGNALS MODULATE THE PHOTOPERIODIC DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS

Discussion

16:35 – 17:05

17:05 – 17:10

Stanislaw Karpinski

Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland

EVIDENVE FOR LIGHT WAVELENGTH-SPECIFIC SYSTEMIC PHOTOELECTRICAL SIGNALING AND CELLULAR LIGHT MEMORY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA

Discussion

17:10 – 17:25

17:25 – 17:30

Francisco Javier Cejudo,

University of Sevilla, Spain

THE CYANOBACTERIAL ORIGIN OF PLANT HYDROGEN PEROXIDE SIGNALLING

Discussion

17:30 – 18.00

Coffee break

18:00 - 18:30

18:30 – 18:35

Phil Mullineaux,

University of Essex, UK

THE INTERACTION OF TISSUE-SPECIFIC ABA SIGNALLING WITH ROS- AND REDOX-MEDIATED CHLOROPLAST-TO-NUCLEUS SIGNALLING IN ARABIDOPSIS LEAVES EXPOSED TO HIGH LIGHT

Discussion

18:35 – 18:50

18:50 – 18:55

Renate Scheibe,

University of Osnabrück, Germany

CYSTEINE MODIFICATIONS OF CYTOSOLIC ENZYMES AS A MEANS TO SIGNAL REDOX-IMBALANCES TO THE NUCLEUS?

Discussion

18:55 – 19:25

19:25 – 19:30

Thomas Pfannschmidt

Friedrich-Schiller-Universiy, Jena, Germany

DYNAMIC PLASTID REDOX SIGNALS INTEGRATE GENE EXPRESSION AND METABOLIM TO INDUCE DISTINCT METABOLIC STATES IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACCLIMATION IN ARABIDOPSIS

Discussion

19:30 – 21:30

Conference Dinner at the Harnack House

Seventh Session

Light and environmental stress

Chair Person: Rainer Häusler, University of Cologne, Germany

08:30 – 09:00

09:00 – 09:05

Robert M. Larkin

Michigan State University, USA

INTEGRATION OF LIGHT AND PLASTID SIGNALS

Discussion

09:05 – 09:35

09:35 – 09:40

Enrique Lopez-Juez

Royal Holloway, University of London,UK

LIGHT CONTROL OF CHLOROPLAST DEVELOPMENT OR CHLOROPLAST SELF-CONTROL?

Discussion

09:40 – 10:10

10:10 – 10.15

Barry Pogson,

Australian National University

CHLOROPLAST – NUCLEAR SIGNALING: A TALE OF UNEXPECTED LOCATIONS, PHOSPHATASES AND GENE SILENCING

Discussion

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

Eighth Session

Plastid transcriptional and translational control

Chair Person: Ralph Bock, MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

10:45 – 11:15

11:15 – 11:20

John Gray

Cambridge University, UK

THE ROLE OF GUN1 IN PLASTID RETROGRADE SIGNALING

Discussion

11:20 – 11:50

11:50 – 11:55

Ian David Small

University of Western Australia, Australia

USING RNA EDITING MUTANTS AS TOOLS TO STUDY COORDINATION OF NUCLEAR AND ORGANELLAR GENE EXPRESSION

Discussion

11:55 – 12:10

12:10 – 12:15

Karin Krupinska 

University of Kiel, Germany

CHLOROPLAST-TO-NUCLEUS SIGNALLING DURING SENESCENCE AND CELL DEATH

Discussion

12:15 – 12:45

12:45 – 12:50

Katherine Howell,

MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany

TOWARDS THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL FACTORS INVOLVED IN RETROGRADE SIGNALING VIA THE PLASTID GENE EXPRESSION PATHWAY

Discussion

FINAL REMARKS

13:00 – 14:15

Lunch at the Harnack House

14:30

Sightseeing Tour Berlin