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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 10Th Sep 13th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants: Emerging Roles of ROS-RNS Interplay in Plants SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 10th Sep 17.00-17.15 Opening- Ismail Turkan, Head of POG2017 Organizing Committee 17.15- 17.30 Opening- Gary Loake, President of Plant Oxygen Group, SFFR 17.00-19.30 Session 1 Opening Lectures (Chair: Prof. Dr. G. Loake, Prof.Dr. I. Turkan ) 17.30--18.00 Tsukagoshi Hironaka, Meijo University, Japan Control of root growth by the transcription factors, which act as regulator L 01 under signal of the reactive oxygen species 18.00-18.30 Romy Schmidt, Aachen University, Germany Reactive oxygen species homeostasis and signaling during low-oxygen L 02 and flooding stress 18.30-19.00 Salma Balazadeh, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany A HO-regulated NAC transcription factor negatively controls growth and L 03 constitutes a central element of HO homeostasis 19.00-21.30 Dinner L Lecture SL Selected Talk SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 11th Sep 09.00-10.35 Session 2 ROS/RNS Sensing, Signaling and Crosstalk (Chair: Prof.Dr. F.J. Corpas, Prof.Dr. S. Shabala ) 09.00-09.30 L 04 Frank Van Breusegem, Ghent University, Belgium Mining for ROS-sensors in Plants: Towards the Sulfenome and Beyond 09.30-09.50 ST 01 Michael Liebthal, University of Bielefeld, Germany The functional link between the redox-dependent conformational switch of 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin and chloroplast redox homeostasis 09.50-10.10 ST 02 Kyoko Morimoto, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Hyper-reactive Cys Profiling in plants 10.10-10.30 ST 03 Blażej Betliński, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland AtBI-1 overexpression reduces Dark Induced Senescence in crk5 mutant of Arabidosis thaliana 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11.00-12.40 Session 3 ROS/RNS Sensing, Signaling and Crosstalk (Chair: Prof.Dr. F.Breusegem, Prof.Dr. A. Higashitani) 11.00-11.30 L 05 Jaakko Kangasjärvi, University of Helsinki, Finland ROS signalling and organelle - nucleus interactions 11.30-12.00 L 06 Stanislaw Karpinski, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland Non-photochemical quenching, PsbS and chloroplast retrograde signalling in plants 12.00-12.20 ST 04 Deirdre McLachlan, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Specificity of ROS signalling in Guard Cells 12.20-12.40 ST 05 Thomas Roach, University of Innsbruck, Austria High light-induced HO production modulates light use efficiency in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 12.40-13.40 Lunch L Lecture SL Selected Talk SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 11th Sep 13.40-14.50 Session 4 ROS/RNS in Biotic Interactions (Chair: Prof.Dr. J. Kangasjärvi, Prof.Dr.J. Borroso ) 13.40-14.10 L 07 Gary Loake, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Control of plant immune function through S-nitrosylation 14.10-14.30 ST 06 Melike Bor, Ege University, Turkey More than oxidative burst; ROS is an active player of defence in biotic stress 14.30-14.50 ST 07 Divykriti Chopra, University of Bonn, Germany Nematode infection redirects hormonal homeostasis via Rboh-mediated ROS to facilitate their parasitism of host roots 14.50-15.20 Coffee Break 15.20-16.50 Session 5 ROS/RNS in Abiotic Stress (Chair: Prof.Dr. K.J. Dietz, Prof.Dr. S. Unyayar) 15.20-15.50 L 08 Laura De Gara, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy Redox homeostasis in rice varieties having different sensitivity to salt stress 15.50-16.10 ST 08 Sergey Shabala, University of Tasmania, Australia ROS in sensing and signalling salt stress in plant roots 16.10-16.30 ST 09 Vadim Demidchik, Belarusian State University, Belarus Ion channels play the role of sensors for reactive oxygen in plants 16.30-16.50 ST 10 Rengin Ozgur Uzilday, Ege University, Turkey Relationship between endoplasmic reticulum stress and cellular redox in Arabidopsis thaliana 16.50-18.00 Poster Session 01 18.15- 20.00 Welcome Coctail in Pigeon Island (Güvercinada) 18.15- 20.00 Dinner L Lecture SL Selected Talk SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 12th Sep 09.00-10.40 Session 6 ROS/RNS in Abiotic Stress (Chair: Prof. Dr. S. Karpinski, Assoc. Prof.Dr. V. Fotopoulos) 09.00-09.30 L 09 Karl J Dietz, University of Bielefeld, Germany Redox regulation in abiotic stress acclimation: A role for AN1/A20-domain proteins 09.30-10.00 L 10 Ismail Turkan, Ege University, Turkey Comparative redox regulation during transition from C to C photosyn- thesis 09.30-10.00 ST 11 Barbara Kramna, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic Antioxidant system response induced by exogenous strigolactone GR24 during phosphate deficiency 10.20-10.40 ST 12 Ceyhun Kayihan, Baskent University, Turkey Insight into biochemical, transcriptional and post-transcriptional regula- tions of glutathione metabolism, jasmonate- and ethylene-related transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to toxic boron 10.40-11.10 Coffee Break 11.10-12.20 Session 7 ROS/RNS in Abiotic Stress (Chair: Prof.Dr. S. S. Kwak, Prof.Dr. A. Kadıoglu ) 11.10-11.40 L 11 Francisco J Corpas, CSIC, Spain Nitro-oxidative metabolism during pepper fruit ripening 11.40-12.00 ST 13 Atsushi Higashitani, Tohoku University, Japan High-temperature induced autophagy in microsporogenesis 12.00-12.20 ST 14 Aysin Guzel Deger, Mersin University, Turkey Physiological and proteomic analysis of cyclitol-mediated drought stress alleviation in barley as depending on time 12.30-13.30 Lunch L Lecture SL Selected Talk SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 12th Sep 13.30-15.00 Session 8 Emerging Technologies and Topics in ROS/RNS Research (Chair: Prof.Dr. J. Durner, Prof.Dr. L. De Gara) 13.30-14.00 L 12 Sang Soo Kwak, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology KRIBB, Korea Orange protein has a role in carotenoid homeostasis to adapt environ- mental stress in sweetpotato 14.00-14.20 ST 15 Vasileios Fotopoulos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Priming plants with NOSH-aspirin towards protection against drought: from concept to intellectual property 14.20-14.40 ST 16 Turgay Cakmak, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey Sulfur deprivation induced oxidative stress triggers biofuel feedstock production by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 14.40- 15.00 ST 17 Sultan Gulce Iz, Ege University, Turkey Cytoprotective effect of a functional anti-pollutant blend of plant extracts through reducing BaP induced intracellular oxidative stress 15.00-15.30 Coffee Break 15.30-.17.40 Session 9 Involvement of ROS/RNS in Plant Growth and Metobolisms (Chair: Prof.Dr. C. Foyer, Prof.Dr. J. Hidema) 15.30-16.00 L 13 Jörg Durner, Technical University of Munich, Germany Nitric oxide production in plants – where do we stand 16.00-16.20 ST 18 Elizabeth Vierling, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase Regulation and Role in Female Gameto- phyte Development 16.20-16.40 ST 19 Maciej Bernacki, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY 1 (EDS1) affects development, photosynthesis and hormonal homeostasis in hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L. × tremuloides) 16.40-17.00 ST 20 Jose Abraham Trujillo Hernandez, Université Perpignan Via Domitia, France Redox control of the root architecture by glutathione in Arabidopsis thaliana L Lecture SL Selected Talk SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 12th Sep 17.00-17.20 ST 21 Okkes Atici, Ataturk University, Turkey Some plant signaling compounds alleviate methylglyoxal stress by increasing the glyoxalase pathway enzymes in germinating maize (Zea mays L.) seeds 17.40-19.30 Poster Session 02 20.00 Gala Dinner L Lecture SL Selected Talk SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 13th Sep 09.00-10.30 Session 10 ROS/RNS Sensing, Signaling and Crosstalk (Chair: Prof.Dr. E. Vierling, Prof.Dr. V. Demichik) 09.00-09.30 L 14 Christine Foyer, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Redox changes during the cell cycle in the embryonic root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana 09.30-09.50 ST 22 Md. Sanaullah Biswas Sanaullah, Tottori University, Japan Oxidative stress-derived reactive oxylipin carbonyls promote the degradation of AUX/IAA protein to enhance the auxin signaling for lateral root formation in Arabidopsis thaliana 09.50-10.10 ST 23 Pavel Kerchev, Ghent University, Belgium Lost and found. Functional analysis of human selenoprotein H homologs in Arabidopsis. 10.10-10.30 ST 24 Wilena Telman, University of Bielefeld, Germany The chloroplast 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin and its interaction partners link redox-, protein- and thiol-homeostasis 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11.00-12.00 POG Steering Committee and Turkish Plant Physiology Society Joint Meeting 12.30- 13.30 Lunch 13.30- 18.00 Social Activity a. Trip to Dilek Peninsula National Park, b. Trip to Ephesus L Lecture SL Selected Talk.
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