| TENTATIVE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
| 8:00 - 16:00 |
Arrival, registration (hotel "Rossiya")
|
| 16:30 - 18:30 |
OPENING CEREMONY AND GREETINGS |
| Keynote lecture |
Alfred Puehler (Germany) |
Genomics, Ecology and
Evolution of Sinorhizobium meliloti, a Soil
microorganism Fixing Nitrogen in Symbiosis with Alfalfa |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Welcome Party |
| |
| June
26, Tuesday |
MEETING
OF EVOLUTIONARY CONSORTIUM
|
| 9:00 - 11:40 |
Sitting 1. Adaptive Co-evolution of Plants and Microorganisms
Chair: Alfred Puehler |
| 9:00 – 9:10
|
Chairpersons’ remarks |
|
| 9:10 - 9:50 |
Anne-Liisa Laine
(Finland) |
Teacher
|
Measuring local adaptations in natural
plant-pathogen
interactions |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Sari
Timonen (Finland) |
Teacher
|
Co-adaptation of archaea, bacteria, fungi
and plants in the Mycorrhizosphere |
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
Jan
Stenlid (Sweden) |
Teacher
|
Induced reactions in the interactions
between
conifer roots and root infecting basidiomycetes |
| 12:00-13:50 |
Sitting 2. Microbial Impacts
on Plant Genomes
Chair: Guenter Adam |
| 12:00 – 12:10 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
| 12:10 - 12:50 |
Jari
Valkonen
(Finland) |
Teacher
|
Evolution of plant viruses |
| 13:00 - 13:40 |
Tatiana
Matveeva
(Russia) |
Teacher
|
The evolutionary potential of
horizontal gene transfer from Agrobacterium
to plants |
| 15:00-18:30 |
Sitting 3. Lessons from
Legume-Rhizobia Model
Chair: Jari Valkonen |
| 15:00 – 15:10 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
|
| 15:10 - 15:50 |
Kristina Lindstroem (Finland)
Evgeny Andronov (Russia) |
Teacher
Teacher
|
Chronos, Chairos and co-evolution
in Rhizobium -legume symbiosis |
| 16:00 - 16:40 |
Isabelle Olivieri (France) |
Teacher
|
Models for evolution of speciation
in microbe-plant symbiosis |
| 16:50 - 17:30 |
Gilles
Bena (France) |
Teacher
|
Horizontal gene transfer, homologous
recombination and selection drive the evolution of the nitrogen-fixing
symbionts of Medicago species |
| 17:40 - 18:20 |
Nikolai Provorov (Russia) |
Teacher
|
Interplay of molecular and population
mechanisms in evolution of beneficial symbioses |
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
General Discussion
Presentation of Research Consortium working on Evolution of
Plant-Microbe Interactions; discussion of Declaration |
| |
| June
27, Wednesday |
POSTGRADUATE
COURSES: First day
|
| 8:45 - 9:00 |
Opening of the Postgraduate
Courses and Chairpersons’
remarks |
9:00-11:50 |
Sitting 1. Signaling and
Specificity
Chair: Igor Tikhonovich |
| 9:10 - 10:00 |
Rene Geurts
(The Netherlands) |
Invited Lecturer
|
Evolution of Rhizobium
Nod factor signaling |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Elena Dolgikh (Russia) |
Teacher
|
Signal exchange between legume
plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria as a tool to control the
specificity and efficiency of symbiosis |
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Lyudmila Antonyuk (Russia) |
Teacher
|
Plant lectins as signals for rhizobacteria:
novel view about well-known proteins |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Discussion
& Students’ short talks:
Tollot M. (France) Genes encoding transcription factors
in Glomus
intraradices and their expression at the appressoria
stage of
arbuscular mycorrhiza interactions
Ovchinnikova E.S. (Russia) The pea (Pisum sativum) mutants
defective
in arbuscular mycorrhiza development selection by
using EMS-mutagenesis |
| 12:10-14:20 |
Sitting 2. Host Symbiotic
Genes
Chair: Anne-Liisa Laine |
| 12:10 - 12:20 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
| 12:20 – 13:10 |
Igor Tikhonovich (Russia) |
Teacher
|
Molecular basis of the plant-microbe
parallel variation and symbiotic co-evolution |
| 13:20 – 13:50 |
Niels Sandal (Denmark) |
Teacher
|
Map based cloning of symbiotic
genes in Lotus japonicus including genes responsible for a
spontaneous nodulation phenotype |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Discussion & Students’short
talks:
Zhukov V.A. (Russia) Cloning pea symbiotic genes: approaches
and
prospects
Kulaeva O.A. (Russia) Study of horizontal gene transfer from
agrobacteria to some Solanaceae species |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Lidia Nagubnova
Applera International, Inc., Moscow Rep. Office
MicroSeq®
Microbial Identification System |
| 16:00-18:10 |
Sitting 3. Ecology and
Applications
Chair: Sigute Kuusiene |
16:00 - 16:10 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
| 16:10 - 16:50 |
Evgeny
Andronov (Russia) |
Teacher
|
Ecological potential of bacterial genome variability
– a space of boundless opportunities? |
| 17:00 - 17:40 |
Vladimir Chebotar
(Russia) |
Teacher
|
Technology approaches for development of bioinoculants
production and application |
| 17:50 - 18:10 |
Discussion
& Students’short talks:
Belova V.S. (Russia) Comparative genomics of Sinorhizobium
meliloti /
S.
medicae isolates native to gene centers of alfalfa
Kuznetsova E.V. (Russia) Effect of pea (Pisum sativum)
gene PsSym36 on Glomus intraradices gene expression |
| 18:10-20:00 |
Poster session # 1.
Molecular
Research in Root-Microbe Symbioses |
| |
| June
28, Thursday |
POSTGRADUATE
COURSES : Second day
|
| 9:00-11:50 |
Sitting 4. Pathogens and
Biocontrol
Chair: Rene Geurts |
| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
| 9:10 - 10:00 |
Guenter
Adam
(Germany) |
Teacher
|
What role plays “Quorum sensing” for pathogenicity
of plant pathogenic bacteria and how could this be exploited
for plant protection? |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Sigute
Kuusiene
(Lithuania) |
Teacher
|
Red roots of hybrid aspen shoots
in vitro could be a marker for endobacterium disease in tissue
culture |
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Aleksandra
Obrepalska-
Steplowska
(Poland) |
Teacher
|
Biocontrol of plant-parasitic nematodes by
microorganisms |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Discussion & Students’short
talks:
Slawiak M. (Poland) Use of padlock probes for detection
of pectinolytic Pectobacterium carotovorum and Dickeya
isolates
Grantina L. (Latvia) Analysis of forest soil fungal
communities
using biochemical methods and molecular biology
methods |
| 12:10-14:20 |
Sitting 5. Rhizospheric
Events
Chair: Sari Timonen |
|
| 12:10 - 12:20 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
| 12:20 - 13:00 |
Sylwia
Jafra (Poland) |
Teacher
|
Study of environmental risk analysis
of the introduction of Ochrobactrum sp. A44
strain into the rhizosphere, its stability over a growth season
and its influence on the plant growth |
| 13:10 - 13:50 |
Dmitry Bazhanov (Belarus) |
Teacher
|
Nitrogen-fixing rhizospheric Burkholderia:
properties, ecology and application in agriculture |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Discussion & Students’short
talks:
Boyko A.S. (Russia) Structural and functional peculiarities
of the
LPS of A. brasilense SR55 at the early stages of wheat-
root
colonization
Malfanova N. (Russia) Isolation and characterization
of beneficial
endophytic
bacteria from temperate region plants. |
| 16:00-18:10 |
Sitting 6. Development
and Regulation
Chair: Nikolai Provorov |
|
| 16:00 - 16:10 |
Chairpersons’ remarks |
| 16:10 - 17:00 |
Erik
Limpens (The Netherlands
|
Lecturer |
Symbiosome formation |
| 17:10 - 17:40 |
Alex
Borisov (Russia) |
Teacher
|
Tripartite symbiotic system of
pea (Pisum sativum L.): applications in sustainable agriculture |
| 17:50 - 18:10 |
Discussion & Students’short
talks :
Juozaityte R. (Lithuania) Effects of ozone on two different
morphotypes
peas (Pisum sativum) and it interaction with root
microbe
systems
Nowaczyk K. (Poland) The analysis of Globodera artemisiae
genes for
rRNA and cytochrome oxidase and their usefulness for
detection |
| 18:10-20:00 |
Poster session # 2.
Microbes in Sustainable Agriculture |
| |
| June
29, Friday - June 30, Saturday |
LABORATORY
TRAININGS
Analysis of the efficiency and specificity in the
root-microbe
symbioses
|
1.
Visits to two field sites in the St.-Petersburg area (prepared
in advance) for collecting the plants (goats ‘ rue and soybeans)
for analysis of the symbiotic activity. |
2.
Measuring nitrogenase activity (acetylene reduction assay;
gas chromatography) and N accumulation (Kijltek Auto system)
as well as nodulation scores and biomass yields. |
3.
Demonstration of the contrast phenotypes of symbiotic mutants
(pea) followed by microscopy (as it was done at Kaunas in
2005 maybe plus analysis of AM mycorrhization). |
4.
Evaluation of symbiotic specificity using the models of
Nod factors activities on different pea genotypes. |
| |
| July
1, Sunday |
| 11:00
- 12:00 Exam |
| 12:00
- 14:00 Closing lectures: |
Ben Lugtenberg
(The Netherlands) |
An Introduction to Rhizosphere
Microbiology |
| Gabriele Berg (Austria) |
Endophytes in plants: diversity,
function and biotechnological potential |
| 14:00 -
14:30 Closing Ceremony |
| After 14:30
Departures |
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