Confocal Microscopy

• Confocal Microscopy Workshop - S. Samardakiewicz
• Chris Hawes: "Fluorescent proteins and live cell imaging in plants".
• Jerzy Dobrucki: "Confocal microscopy: capabilities, limitations, typical technical problems".
• Maria Wędzony: "Immunolocalisation techniques in plant tissues".
• Dariusz J. Smoliński: "Preparation of plant material for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis. Observation of FISH by using confocal microscopy".
• Jerzy Dobrucki: "New confocal microscopes and their analytical capabilities".

• PSEPB Main Board Meeting
• PSEPB General Assembly
• Opening Ceremony
• Welcome Dinner

Session 1: Plant cell biology

Organizers: H. Gabryś, J. Małuszyńska

• Plenary Lecture - Dieter Volkmann: "Vesicular membrane recycling: basic mechanism for gravisensing?"
• Jerzy Paszkowski: "DNA methylation and regulation of transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis".
• Maria Kwiatkowska: "Plasmodesmata structure and role in cell communication as well as their changes in development of antheridia of Chara species".
• Reinhold Herrmann: "The eukaryotic genome: patchwork of a complex phylogenetic puzzle".
• Oral presentation - W. Krzeszowiec: "Myosins respond to blue light".

Session 2: Mechanisms of growth and development

Organizer: B. Zagórska-Marek

• Plenary Lecture - Keith Lindsey: "Polarity in Arabidopsis embryogenesis and seedling development".
• Edyta Gola: "Towards understanding morphogenetic mechanisms of early land plants".
• Soazig Guyomarch: "Auxin and phyllotaxis".
• Ewa Mellerowicz: "Remodelling pectin in differentiating wood cells".
• Beata Zagórska-Marek: "Tubulin cytoskeleton in differentiating cambial cells".
• Oral presentation - M. Sujkowska: "Localization of expansin-like protein in the apoplast of effective and ineffective pea root nodules".

Session 3: Energetics of plant cell

Organizers: A. Rychter, K. Strzałka

• Plenary Lecture - Christine Foyer: "Redox homeostasis and antioxidants: Roles for ascorbate and glutathione in plant growth and defence responses".
• Per Gardeström: "Contribution of mitochondria to the energetics of leaf cells".
• Jim Barber: "Structure of Photosystem II and its implications".
• Grzegorz Jackowski: "Chloroplast proteases as the chloroplast protein quality and turnover control system".
• Oral presentation - A. Świda: "Inhibition of A. castellanii uncoupling protein activity by GTP depends on the redox state of quinine".

Session 4: MicroRNA functions

Organizers: A. Jarmołowski, M. Figlerowicz

• Plenary Lecture - Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska: "Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs in eukaryots".
• Józef Bujarski: "New insights towards the mechanisms of replication and recombination of RNA viruses by using the brome mosaic bromovirus model system".
• Maria Barciszewska-Pacak: "Brome mosaic virus (BMV) and barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) – based vectors: application in gene silencing in plants".
• S. Świeżewski: "The role of RNA in flc regulation".
• Oral presentation - A. Żmieńko: "Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in narrow-leafed lupin investigated with differential screening and cDNA arrays".
• Oral presentation - J. Podkowiński: "Analysis of Lupinus angustifolius genes activated during symbiotic nitrogen fixation with suppression subtraction hybridization and cDNA arrays".
• Oral presentation - A. Urbanowicz: "A new subgenomic RNA of brome mosaic virus".

• Conference Dinner

Session 5: Functional genomics

Organizers: J. Sadowski, W. Karłowski

• Plenary Lecture - Piotr Zielenkiewicz: "Evolutionary analysis of eukaryotic interactome".
• Paweł Herzyk: "Simplex est sigillum veritatis - towards better understanding of biological processes underlying simple functional genomics experiment".
• Bernd Müller-Rober: "Genes and genomics in transcription factor function search".
• Dirk Steinhauser: "CELLULAR INVENTORY: A joint initiative of the Comprehensive Systems-Biology Database (CSB.DB), the Golm Metabolite Database (GMD) and MapMan".
• P. Armengaud: "Transcriptional profiling to unravel (JA-mediated) potassium signalling and adaptation responses".
• Oral presentation - A. Ludwików: "An insight into the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptional profile changes initiated by ozone and drought".
• Oral presentation - M. Łuczak: "Modulators of protein glycosytation and secretion change the pattern of wall (glycol)proteins and affect the functioning of plant cell walls".
• Oral presentation - A. Kulma: "Metabolic profile and transgen stability evaluation".

Session 6: Mechanisms of stress tolerance

Organizers: A. Tukiendorf, Z. Miszalski

• Plenary Lecture - Stanisław Karpiński: "On the role of excess excitation energy in regulation of plant defence responses; Holistic analysis of plants’ stress signalling network".
• Paweł Sowiński: "Thermophilic plants at sub-optimal temperatures. Is the tolerance possible?"
• Jacek Hennig: "Plant-microbe-interactions – a unique type of the stress".
• Elżbieta Kuźniak: "The ascorbate - and glutathione-dependent redox systems in controlling oxidative stress in plants".
• Małgorzata Wójcik: "Molecular bases of heavy metal tolerance in plants".
• Oral presentation - M. Kopyra: "Effects of nitric oxide in cadmium treated soybean cell suspension".

• Closing Ceremony and Poster Awards.

Session 7: Biotechnology

Organizers: J. Rybczyński, J. Szopa

• Peter Dörmann: "Biotechnological strategies to alter lipid and vitamin composition in chloroplasts of higher plants".
• Peter Geigenberger: "Signals and mechanisms regulating carbon storage in plants and biotechnological applications for crop improvement".
• Malcolm J. Hawkesford: "Improving plant sulfur nutrition: from sulfate transporters to the transcriptome" .
• Oral presentation - Ewa Łojkowska: "Cytotoxic activity of secondary metabolites from Drosera, Ruta and Salvia plants".
• Oral presentation - Jolanta Kamińska: "Using yeast two-hybrid system for identification of the proteins interacting with the product of a novel plant gene induced by sulphur deficiency stress".