Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance VI (February 2020)
Welcome to the 6th International Conference on “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance”!
Abiotic stresses, defined as the negative impact of non-living factors on the living organisms in a specific environment are the primary causes of crop loss worldwide. Abiotic stresses include high and low temperatures, salinity, drought, flooding, heavy metal stress and many other environmental factors. Plant tolerance to these stresses is dependent on the molecular networks involved in stress perception, signaling, and the expression of specific stress-related genes and metabolites.
The 6th International Conference “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance” to be held on February 21-22, 2020, in Vienna, Austria will discuss the most recent advances in understanding and combating plant abiotic stress and tolerance mechanisms and to define new frontiers in this field.
This two-day event will provide leading academy and industry scientists a platform to communicate recent advances in “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance”, and an opportunity to establish multilateral collaboration.
The 6th International Conference on “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance” will cover the following research topics:
- Plant Response to Heat Stress
- Plant Response to Temperature & Drought
- Plant Response to Salt & Osmotic Stress
- Plant Response to Nutrient Stress & Heavy Metals
- Plant Response to Oxidative- and Flooding Stress
- Plant Abiotic Stress Signaling
- Breeding & Engineering of Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Approximately 150 participants are expected to attend this exciting scientific forum including almost 30 lectures delivered by worldwide known invited speakers and young, talented speakers selected from submitted abstracts. The program combines plenary lectures, poster sessions, a unique Conference Dinner Party and sightseeing tours of Vienna.
Prof. Alisher Touraev (VISCEA, Austria, Local Organizer)
Eduardo Blumwald (USA)
Heribert Hirt (Saudi Arabia)
Martijn van Zanten (The Netherlands)
Sergey Shabala (Australia)
Mark Aarts (The Netherlands)
Kaisa Kajala (The Netherlands)
Michael Wrzaczek (Finland)
Claudia Jonak (Austria)
Teun Munnik (The Netherlands, Co-Organizer)
Eduardo Blumwald (USA)
Heribert Hirt (Saudi Arabia)
Martijn van Zanten (The Netherlands)
Sergey Shabala (Australia)
Mark Aarts (The Netherlands)
Kaisa Kajala (The Netherlands)
Michael Wrzaczek (Finland)
Claudia Jonak (Austria)
Teun Munnik (The Netherlands)
| 6th International Conference on “Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance”
(February 21 – 22) |
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| February 21 (Friday) | |
| 08.00 – 17.00 | Registration |
| 09.30 – 09.40 | Opening Welcome address by Alisher Touraev (Local Organizer, Austria)Welcome address by Teun Munnik (Conference Co-Chair, The Netherlands) |
| 09.40 – 10.30 | Keynote Lecture:
Eduardo Blumwald (USA): CHLOROPLAST VESICULATION Mediates Chloroplast and Peroxisome Turnover, Source-sink Relationships and Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.30: | Session I: Plant Response to Heat Stress |
| Chairs | Eduardo Blumwald (USA) & Heribert Hirt (Saudi Arabia) |
| 11.00 – 11.25 (+5) | Heribert Hirt (Saudi Arabia): Microbiome-induced Epigenetic Mechanism of Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants |
| 11.30 – 11.45 (+5) | Sylva Prerostova (Czech Republic): Heat Acclimation and Inhibited Cytokinin Degradation positively Affect Heat Stress Tolerance of Arabidopsis |
| 11.50 – 12.05 (+5) | Guido Domingo (Italy): Heat Stress Response in Tobacco BY-2 Cells impaired in cAMP Content |
| 12.10 – 12.25 (+5) | Sona Pandey (USA): Modulation of Heat Stress Response by Heterotrimeric G Proteins in Arabidopsis |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch + Poster Session (all numbers), Conference Photo |
| 14.00 – 15.35 | Session II: Plant Response to Temperature & Drought |
| Chairs | Martijn van Zanten (The Netherlands) & Sergey Shabala (Australia) |
| 14.00 – 14.25 (+5) | Martijn van Zanten (The Netherlands): Thermomorphogenesis Control by Histone Deacetylase 9; Optimal Plant Performance under Suboptimal Temperature Conditions |
| 14.30 – 14.50 (+5) | László Szabados (Hungary): Small paraquat Resistance Proteins (SPQ) modulate paraquat, ABA and Drought Responses in Arabidopsis |
| 14.55 – 15.10 (+5) | Katarzyna Lechowicz (Poland): Insight into Mechanisms of Drought Resistance in Lolium multiflorum/Festuca arundinacea Introgression Forms |
| 15.15 – 15.30 (+5) | Liudmyla Kozeko (Ukraine): Kinetics of HSP70 and HSP90 Expression and Drought Tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 15.35 – 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 – 17.35 | Session III: Plant Response to Salt & Osmotic Stress |
| Chairs | Sergey Shabala (Australia), Martijn van Zanten (The Netherlands) |
| 16.00 – 16.25 (+5) | Sergey Shabala (Australia): Strategies and Cost of Plant Osmotic Adjustment |
| 16.30 – 16.45 (+5) | Femke de Jong (The Netherlands): Identification of PIP2-interacting Proteins in Response to Salt- and Heat Stress |
| 16.50 – 17.00 (+5) | Simone Cantamessa (Italy): An Endophytic Bacterium improves Salt Stress Tolerance in Tomato Plants |
| 17.05 – 17.15 (+5) | Zoltan Takacs (Austria): Hot water Treatment modifies Redox Status and Phytohormone Synthesis in Apple Fruit during short-term Storage |
| 17.20 – 17.30 (+5) | Chwan-Yang Hong (Taiwan): Molecular Characterization and Subcellular Localization of Salt-inducible Lipid Transfer Proteins in Rice |
| 17.35 – 19.00 | Welcome Reception + Poster Session (all numbers) |
| 19.00 – 22.00 | Conference Dinner Party Traditional Austrian food and wine, located in one of Vienna’s famous ‘Heurigen’ Cost: 50,- EUR |
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February 22 (Saturday) |
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| 08.00 – 17.00 | Registration |
| 09.00 – 10.35 | Session IV: Plant Response to Nutrient Stress & Heavy Metals |
| Chairs | Mark Aarts (The Netherlands) & Michael Wrzaczek (Finland) |
| 09.00 – 09.25 (+5) | Mark Aarts (The Netherlands): Exploring the Genetics Underlying Arabidopsis Zn Deficiency Response |
| 09.30 – 09.50 (+5) | Gabor Feigl (Hungary): Alyssum lesbiacum Populations from Distinct Habitat show Different Nitro-Oxidative Response to Nickel Stress |
| 09.55 – 10.10 (+5) | Manon Sarthou (France): Identification of Uranium Root Absorption Pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 10.15 – 10.30 (+5) | Julian Preiner (Austria): Increased levels of phenolic compounds, polyamines and amino acids indicate potential symbiont induced reduction of tungsten (W) induced stress in glycine max |
| 10.35 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.35 | Session V: Plant Response to Oxidative- and Flooding Stress |
| Chairs | Kaisa Kajala (The Netherlands) & Michael Wrzaczek (Finland) |
| 11.00 – 11.20 (+5) | Kaisa Kajala (The Netherlands): Evolutionary Flexibility in Flooding Response Circuitry in Angiosperms |
| 11.25 – 11.45 (+5) | Michael Wrzaczek (Finland): CRK2 is involved in the Control of Salt Stress-Induced Callose Deposition |
| 11.50 – 12.10 (+5) | Julia Krasensky-Wrzaczek (Finland): Regulation of Stress Tolerance under Different Light Conditions |
| 12.15 – 12.30 (+5) | Chhandak Basu (USA): Engineering Ethylene Biosynthetic Pathway leads to Flood Tolerance in Plants |
| 12.35 – 14.00 | Lunch + Poster Session (all numbers) |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Session VI: Plant Abiotic Stress Signaling |
| Chairs | Teun Munnik (The Netherlands) & Claudia Jonak (Austria) |
| 14.00 – 14.25 (+5) | Teun Munnik (The Netherlands): Abiotic-Stress Induced Lipid Signaling |
| 14.30 – 14.55 (+5) | Claudia Jonak (Austria): Linking Salt Stress Signaling to the Chromatin |
| 15.00 – 15.10 (+5) | Mohan Sharma (India): Glucose-TOR Signaling Controls Thermotolerance/Thermomemory |
| 15.15 – 15.25 (+5) | Bruna Junqueira (Belgium): Unraveling the Role of the enigmatic Zea mays PIP1;1 aquaporin |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Session VII: Breeding & Engineering of Abiotic Stress Tolerance |
| Chairs | Claudia Jonak (Austria) & Vibha Srivastava (USA) |
| 16.00 – 16.25 (+5) | Vibha Srivastava (USA): Modulation of ERECTA for Improving Stress tolerance in Rice |
| 16.30 – 16.45 (+5) | Inês Leitão (Portugal): Effects on antioxidant Defense Mechanisms of Lettuce Plants Exposed to Contamination by Acetaminophen and Carbamazepine |
| 16.50 – 17.05 (+5) | Michal Lieberman-Lazarovich (Israel): Pollen flavonols in a Tomato high-pigment Mutant grown under Heat Stress Conditions |
| 17.10 – 17.25 (+5) | Tom Rankenberg (The Netherlands): Dying to Survive: Molecular Regulation of Senescence during Submergence and Recovery in Arabidopsis |
| 17.30 – 17.45 (+5) | Galina Shevchenko (Ukraine): Changes of Protein Expression in A. thaliana from Chernobyl Zone |
| 17.50 – 18.00 | Closing Ceremony |
