Opening Lecture - Enrico Coen: "Development of shape in plants".

Session 1: "Plant structure and development"

Organizer: Beata Zagórska-Marek

• Cris Kuhlemeier: "Quantitative approaches to plant development".
• David Holloway: "Pattern selection in plants: coupling chemical dynamics to surface growth in 3D".
• Joanna Szymanowska-Pułka: "Does a developing lateral root in Arabidopsis thaliana obey the growth tensor rules?".
• Welcome Party.

Keynote lecture - Jonathan D.G. Jones: "New approaches to understanding and manipulating pathogen virulence and host resistance". Lecture sponsored by Biochemical Society.

Session 2: "Plant - Microbial Interactions"

Organizers: Jacek Hennig, Katarzyna Turnau

• Kari Saikkonen: "Dissecting grass-endophyte literature".
• Dierk Scheel: "Plant-microbe interaction in the rhizosphere - a metabolomic approach".
• Magdalena Wiśniewska: "Relationships between arbuscular mycorrhiza development, NtEXPA5 expression and microtubules rearrangement in Nicotiana tabacum L. mycorrhized roots.
• Michał Jasiński: "Full-size ABC transporters from the ABCG subfamily in Medicago truncatula".
• Mirosław Sobczak: "Development of syncytia induced by potato cyst nematode in roots of transgenic plants with silenced expression of susceptibility genes".
• Sabina Zuzga: "Specific phosphorylation of conserved eukaryotic protein SGT1 is an essential element of plant pathogen defense".

Session 3: "Mitochondria and chloroplasts in cell metabolism"

Organizers: Grzegorz Jackowski, Anna Rychter

• Christine H. Foyer: "Relationships between mitochondrial respiratory pathways and photosynthesis in the control of plant growth and defence".
• Allan Rasmusson: "Mitochondrial control of cellular redox".
• Roberto Bassi: "On the mechanism of regulation of excess energy dissipation in Plant Photosystem II".
• Olga Avercheva: "Photophosphorylation and CF1-ATPase activity in Brassica chinensis L. plants grown under light-emitting diodes and different light intensity".
• Anthony Gandin: "Alternative respiratory pathway: A way to reduce imbalance between source and sink activity in the sink-limited plant Erythronium americanum".
• Marek Szklarczyk: "Searching for molecular factors associated with homeotic male sterility caused by the Brassica nigra cytoplasm in cauliflower".

Session 4: "Stress tolerance in plants"

Organizer: Zbigniew Miszalski

• Jane Parker: "Regulation of plant resistance to host-adapted pathogens".
• Philip M. Mullineaux: "Finding regulatory genes at the interface between abiotic and biotic stress".
• Karin Krupinska: "Control of plant senescence and stress responses by chloroplasts - involvement of dual- targeted Whirly1".
• Stanisław Karpiński: "Evidence for light wavelength-specific systemic photoelectrical signalling and cellular light memory in Arabidopsis thaliana".
• Pierre Dizengremel: "Implication of metabolic-dependent changes on reducing power in the determination of ozone risk threshold for higher plants".
• Geert Potters: "Stress-induced morphogenic responses in plants: plants deal with stress in their own time".
• Kinga Kłodawska: "Effect of temperature on carotenoid content and composition in cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803".
• Ewa Niewiadomska: "Hydrogen peroxide generation in leaf veins".

Session 5: "Structural and functional organization of plant genome"

Organizers: Artur Jarmołowski, Andrzej K. Kononowicz

• Ingo Schubert: "Interphase chromosome organization and its dynamics in plants".
• Manuel Echeverria: "Characterisation of AtNUFIP, a novel gene controlling the biogenesis of small nucleolar RNAs, sheds new light on RNA methylation and its impact on plant development".
• John W. S. Brown: "Regulation of plant gene expression by alternative splicing".
• Daniel Kierzkowski: "Protein-protein interactions within cap-binding complex (CBC) and with pri-miRNA processing machinery components in living Arabidopsis thaliana cells.
• Konstantin V. Kiselev: "Stability, nucleotide sequences and expression of the rolC and nptII genes in 15-years old cell cultures of Panax ginseng".
• Bożena Kolano: "Cytogenetic analysis of Chenopodium album aggregate".

Session 6: "Mutants in developmental and metabolic studies"

Organizers: Iwona Ciereszko, Iwona Szarejko

• Soren K. Rasmussen: "Biosynthesis and accumulation of inositol phosphates in developing seeds".
• Andris Druka: "Exploiting induced variation to dissect yield related traits in barley".
• Hermann Bauwe: "Mutants in photorespiration research".
• Hanna Jańska: "Toward the functions of plant mitochondrial proteases using reverse genetic approach".
• Mirosław Kwaśniewski: "Global analysis of root hair morphogenesis transcriptome using wild type/root hair mutant system in barley".
• Dorota Kwiatkowska : "How organ boundaries are formed: a case of cuc2 cuc3 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana".

Session 7: "Secondary metabolites as pharmaceutics and nutraceutics"

Organizer: Ewa Łojkowska

• Fredric Bourgaud: "Functional characterization of new P450s involved in plant furanocoumarins biosynthesis, and possible applications in a metabolic engineering approach".
• Grzegorz Węgrzyn: "Genistein a natural isoflavone with a potential for treatment of genetic diseases".
• Anna Staszków: "New isoflavone glycoconjugates identified in Mexican lupine species".
• Irina Tanasienko: "Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation of barley (Hordeum vulgare) by human lactoferrin gene.
• Anna Ihnatowicz: "Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana as a tool for identifying differentially expressed genes involved in the elicitation process of pharmacologically active plant secondary metabolites".

Session 8: "Plant membranes"

Organizers: Kazimierz Strzałka, Kazimierz Trębacz

• Rainer Hedrich: "Stomatal control of plant water status".
• Nava Moran: "Regulation of channels by phosphoinositides in the plasma membrane".
• Wiesław I. Gruszecki: "Light-driven molecular regulation mechanisms in LHCII".
• Susann Schaller: "Influence of thylakoid lipids on the de-epoxidation of violaxanthin associated with the photosystem II light-harvesting complex (LHCII)".
• Anna Smirnova: "Spatiotemporal changes of membrane potential during pollen activation and tube growth".
• Małgorzata Lange: "A possible role of CsNAR2 in nitrate uptake in cucumber (Cucumis sativus)".
• 19.00 - Conference Dinner.

Keynote lecture - Ottoline Leyser: "Long range signalling in the control of shoot branching". Lecture sponsored by Biochemical Society.

Session 9: "Integrating plant functions via signaling molecules - molecular mechanisms"

Organizers: Halina Gabryś, Przemysław Wojtaszek

• Gwyneth C. Ingram: "Signalling in epidermal growth control".
• Viktor Żarsky: "Small GTPases effectors in plant cell morphogenesis".
• Ewa Krzywińska: "SnRK2’s cellular partners: identification and characterization".
• Przemysław Malec: "COP1 complex and COP9 signalosome (CSN) regulate the chlorophyll biosynthesis in Arabidopsis".
• Jon Hughes: "Phytochrome 3D structures and functions".
• Steven Neill: "Nitric oxide and hydrogen peroxide signalling".

Closing Ceremony.

Presentations of Sponsoring Companies:

22.09.09:

• PRECOPTIC. Wojciech Staniszewski: "Confocal imaging of living objects".
• LOT-ORIEL. Andreas Bergner, Agnieszka Kowalczyk: "Innovation & new standards for life science".

23.09.09

• MP BIOCHEMICALS. Miodrag Micic: "New solutions for tissue processing".
• APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS. Denes Szilassy: "SOLiD3 Plus: A highly sensitive and accurate hypothesis-free approach in global transcriptome and genome analysis - an NGS technology accessible to any lab".

Accompanying Persons Programme:

All registered accompanying persons are invited to participate in following tours (costs included in the registration fee, conference badges obligatory):

• Sightseeing of the Jagiellonian University Museum ( Collegium Maius; guided tour in English). Collegium Maius, situated at the corner of St.Anna and Jagiellońska Streets, is the oldest university edifice in Poland.
• Sightseeing of the Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Royal Cathedral (guided tour in English).
• The Old City of Kraków walking tour (Wawel Hill, The Royal Route - Kanonicza and Grodzka Streets, Main Market Square, Collegium Maius courtyard).