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Friday, July 15

 

 
5:30 PM Registration Room 3110, University College
6:00 PM Get Together Room 3110, University College
7:00 PM  Dinner on your own  

 

Saturday, July 16

 

 
  Opening Plenary Session Conron Hall, University College
9:00 AM

Welcome: Matt Davison, Dean, Faculty of Science at Western University

Frédéric Marsolais and Hideki Takahashi 

 
9:15 AM Grant Maltman, Banting lecture INSULIN 100 - BANTING HOUSE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACE
9:30 AM Andrew Hanson (USA) (9:30 AM) THE MOST EXPENSIVE SULFUR ATOM IN PLANTS AND HOW SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY CAN CUT ITS COST
     
10:30 AM Coffee Break  
     
  Sulfur cycle and biotic interaction  
11:00 AM Eve-Lyn Hinckley (USA) (9:00 AM) DRIVERS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE RISE IN AGRICULTURAL SULFUR USE 
11:30 AM Ryohei Thomas Nakano (Germany) (5:30 PM) GLUCOSINOLATES MEDIATE ROOT-MICROBIOTA INTERACTIONS
12:00 PM Sorina Popescu (USA) (11:00 AM) OSCILLATORY GENE EXPRESSION IN SYSTEMIC IMMUNITY REQUIRES REDOX-RESPONSIVE THIMET OLIGOPEPTIDASES 
12:15 PM Jeffrey Waller (Canada) (1:15 PM) EVIDENCE THAT 3-DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE BIOSYNTHESIS IN RED MACROALGAE IS INITIATED USING A METHIONINE DEHYDROGENASE
12:30 PM Lunch  
     
  Sulfur metabolism and regulation I  
2:00 PM Andreas Meyer (Germany) THE ROLE OF OXIDATIVE PROTEIN FOLDING IN THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM FOR DEFENCE AGAINST REDUCTIVE STRESS AND HYPOXIC CONDITIONS
2:30 PM Luca Pedroletti (Germany) EFFICIENT GLUTAREDOXIN S15-MEDIATED [2FE-2S] TRANSFER IS ESSENTIAL FOR ACTIVITY OF MITOCHONDRIAL LIPOYL SYNTHASE
2:45 PM Jérémy Couturier (France) (8:45 PM) RHODANESE DOMAIN-CONTAINING SULFURTRANSFERASE FAMILY: A YET MYSTERIOUS COMPONENT OF SULFUR TRAFFICKING IN PLANTS
3:15 PM Damien Caubrière (France) (9:15 PM) DECIPHERING THE BIOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CYSTEINE DESULFURASE AND SULFURTRANSFERASE PROTEIN FAMILIES IN SULFUR TRAFFICKING 
3:30 PM Ruediger Hell (Germany) (9:30 PM) A NOVEL ROLE OF CYSTEINE SYNTHESIS FOR ABA FORMATION AND STOMATA CLOSURE DURING SOIL DRYING
3:45 PM Wiebke Leemhuis (Germany) AN UNEXPECTED FUNCTION OF THE HIGHLY CONSERVED SERAT3 ISOFORMS IN THE CYTOSOL OF ARABIDOPSIS
4:00 PM Coffee Break  
     
4:30 PM Rainer Hoefgen (Germany) REGULATION OF SULFATE METABOLISM BY O-ACETYLSERINE
4:45 PM Anastasia Apodiakou (Germany) FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF THE OAS CLUSTER GENES SDI1 AND SDI2
5:00 PM José María López Ramos (Germany) TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS SLIM1, RVE1 AND RVE8 REGULATE OAS CLUSTER GENES
5:15 PM Justyna Piotrowska (Poland) GENERATION OF SINGLE AND MULTIPLE ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA MUTANTS IN LSU (RESPONSE TO LOW SULFUR) GENES AND THEIR PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
5:30 PM Marcin Olszak (Poland) ANALYSIS OF THE PROMOTER REGIONS OF LSU (RESPONSE TO LOW SULFUR) GENES IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
5:45 PM Agnieszka Sirko (Poland) SELECTIVE AUTOPHAGY CARGO RECEPTOR MODULATES SULPHUR STARVATION RESPONSE IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
     
7:00 PM Dinner on your own  
     

 

Sunday, July 17

   
  Sulfur metabolism and regulation II  
8:30 AM Fang-Jie Zhao (China) (8:30 PM) MANIPULATING SULFUR METABOLISM TO ENHANCE HEAVY METAL TOLERANCE AND IMPROVE SAFETY AND NUTRITION OF RICE
9:00 AM Rachel Amir (Israel) (4:00 PM) HIGH LEVELS OF METHIONINE IN ARABIDOPSIS SEEDS RESULT IN HIGHER INFLUX OF NUTRIENTS FROM THE LEAVES TOWARD THE SEEDS
9:15 AM Takehiro Ito (Japan) (10:15 PM) Γ-GLUTAMYL PEPTIDASE 1 DEGRADES GLUTATHIONE AND PARTICIPATES IN BOTH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SULFUR METABOLISM.
9:30 AM Naoko Ohkama Ohtsu (Japan) (10:30 PM) PHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CYSTEINYLGLYCINE DEGRADING ENZYME THAT FUNCTION IN GLUTATHIONE DEGRADATION IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
9:45 AM Liu Zhang (Japan) (10:45 PM) DISRUPTION OF SULFUR DEFICIENCY-INDUCED GLUCOSINOLATES CATABOLISM AFFECTS GLUCOSNILATES DISTRIBUTION IN MATURE PLANTS
10:00 AM Coffee Break - Virtual Posters from Asia  
  Kang-Di Hu, Xiang-Jun Peng, Yu-Qi Zhao, Lin Ma, Si-Yue Wang, Gai-Fang Yao, Hua Zhang (10:00 PM) CYSTEINE DESULFHYDRASE LCD1 INTERACTS WITH IMPORTIN Α3 AND REGULATES TOMATO FRUIT RIPENING AND SENESCENCE IN TOMATO
  H.T Nguyen, A. Suyama, A. Maruyama-Nakashita (11:00 PM) ANTHOCYANIN PRODUCTION IN ARABIDOPSIS ROOTS USING THE DOWNSTREAM REGION OF SULFATE TRANSPORTER SULTR2;1
     
10:30 AM Yan Xiong (China) (10:30 PM) SULFATE-TOR SIGNALLING CONTROLS TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPROGRAMMING FOR SHOOT APEX ACTIVATION
11:00 AM Xinyuan Huang (China) (11:00 PM) LOCAL AND SYSTEMIC RESPONSE TO HETEROGENEOUS SULFATE RESUPPLY AFTER SULFUR DEFICIENCY IN RICE 
11:15 AM Karine Gallardo (France) A HOLISTIC OVERVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF SULFUR DEFICIENCY IN PEA FACING WATER STRESS
11:30 AM Fanélie Bachelet (France) (5:30 PM) ROLE OF VACUOLAR SULFATE IN NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF PEA SEEDS
11:45 AM Anna Wawrzynska (Poland) (5:45 PM) SUGAR SIGNALING IS AFFECTED BY SLIM1 DURING SULFUR DEFICIENCY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA. 
12:00 PM Lunch & Posters from Europe  
  V. MANTA, E. KAROUSIS, G. STYLIANIDIS, A.TZANAKI, D. DIMITRIADI, S.N. CHORIANOPOULOU, D.L. BOURANIS COMBINED BIOFORTIFICATION OF BROCCOLI HEADS WITH SELENIUM, CYSTEINE, AND/OR METHIONINE: A POTENTIAL APPROACH TO OVERCOME THE ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SULFUR AND SELENIUM?
  Y.E. VENTOURIS, S. KARAMANOLIS, V.G. MAGOULIANITIS, K.-G. STAMELOS, G. STYLIANIDIS, D.L. BOURANIS, S.N. CHORIANOPOULOU (6:00 PM)  EFFECT OF IRON AND GIBBERELLIN INTERPLAY ON SULFUR HOMEOSTASIS OF MAIZE
     
  Sulfur metabolism and regulation III  
2:00 PM Markus Wirtz (Germany) NOVEL LINKS BETWEEN ENERGY SENSOR KINASES AND THE ASSIMILATORY SULFUR REDUCTION PATHWAY 
2:30 PM Barbara Moffatt (Canada) THE EFFECTS OF REDUCED METHYLTHIOADENOSINE RECYCLING ARE RESPONSIVE TO INCREASED SPERMIDINE SUPPLY
3:00 PM Saeer Adeel (Canada) A GENETIC APPROACH TO DECIPHER THE IMPACT OF METHYTHIOADENOSINE ACCUMULATION ON PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND SULFUR METABOLISM
3:15 PM Frédéric Marsolais (Canada) THE CYSTEINE-RICH 11S GLOBULIN LEGUMIN FROM COMMON BEAN CONTAINS A PEPTIDE RESISTANT TO CLEAVAGE BY PEPSIN (pH ≥ 2) AND CHYMOTRYPSIN
3:30 PM Zixuan Lu (Canada) THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF NON-PROTEIN SULPHUR AMINO ACID IN SEED OF COMMON BEAN 
3:45 PM Coffee Break  
     
4:15 PM Dimitris Bouranis (Greece) TOWARDS INTEGRATED SULFUR-BASED BIOSTIMULATION AND AGRONOMIC BIOFORTIFICATION OF OLIVE TREE PRODUCTION
4:30 PM Spencer Matt (Canada) EFFECTS OF EXCESS SULFUR ON CADMIUM UPTAKE AND TRANSLOCATION IN SOYBEAN
4:45 PM Baoluo Ma (Canada) (4:45 PM) INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF NITROGEN AND SULFUR SUPPLY ON YIELD AND RELATED TRAITS OF CANOLA
5:00 PM David Mendoza-Cózatl (USA) (4:00 PM) UNDERSTANDING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS MEDIATING THE CROSSTALK BETWEEN IRON AND SULFUR NETWORKS IN PLANTS
5:30 PM Landon Swartz (USA) TRACKING DYNAMIC CHANGES OF LEAVES IN RESPONSE TO NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY USING AN OPEN-SOURCE CLOUD-BASED PHENOTYPING SYSTEM (OPEN LEAF)
5:45 PM Ann Cuypers (Belgium) SULFUR IN PLANT RESPONSES TO CADMIUM STRESS: FROM SIGNALING TO ACCLIMATION
6:00 PM Closing: Frédéric Marsolais and Hideki Takahashi   
     
7:00 PM Conference Dinner Thames Hall Atrium
     

 

Monday, July 18

   
Tentative
Niagara Falls Excursion 

Bus Trip to Wayne Gretzky Estates in the scenic destination of Niagara-on-the-Lake. 

Departing Ontario Hall at 8:35am

Arriving to Wayne Gretzky Estates at 11:30am for a 35 minute Wine, Whisky and Beer tasting. Lunch seating is reserved for us at the Whisky Bar Patio at the Wayne Gretzky Estates starting at 12:15pm. Lunch cost is on own. 

The bus will depart for Niagara Falls at 1:30pm. Explore Niagara Falls from 2pm to 4:30pm. The bus will arrive back in London at Ontario Hall at roughly 7:00pm

https://www.niagarafallstourism.com/play 

Organizing Committee

  • Frédéric Marsolais
  • Hideki Takahashi
  • Ann Cuypers
  • Karine Gallardo
  • Mario Malagoli
  • Markus Wirtz
  • Masami Hirai
  • Stanislav Kopriva
  • Xinyuan Huang