Induction and suppression of RNA silencing: insights from plant viral infections
Program
All talks are held in the Kochav HaYam Hall
SUNDAY, March 14, 2010
Arriving to Dan Panorama Hotel, Eilat
17:00 Get together, refreshments
18:00 Welcome by the Organizers
18:10 Dr. Edo Chalutz, Head of BARD Foundation
BARD operation and achievements
18:40 Cocktail reception
MONDAY, March 15, 2010
Morning Session (8:30 12:20)
Chairperson: Amit Gal-On
8:30 9:00
Herman Scholthof, Texas A&M University, USA
Tombusvirus-plant interactions: RISCy business
9:10 9:40
Henryk Hanokh Czosnek, Hebrew University, Israel
Discovering networks sustaining resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) by silencing genes preferentially expressed in resistant vs susceptible tomato lines
9:50 10:20 Coffee Break
10:20 10:50
Steve Lommel, North Carolina State University, USA
The Red clover necrotic mosaic virus movement protein revealed as a second suppressor of RNA silencing using a new RNA silencing suppression reporter assay
11:00 11:30
Guido Sessa, Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL
A virus-induced gene silencing approach to dissect MAP kinase cascades associated with plant immunity
11:40 12:10
Tzachi Arazi, ARO The Volcani Center, ISRAEL
Effects of spatial and temporal silencing suppression on tomato development
12:20 13:00 Short lunch in-house
13:15 15:15 Underwater observatory
Afternoon Session (17:00 19:00)
17:00 17:30
Alexander Vainstein, Hebrew University, Israel
Reverse genetics of floral scent: application of Tobacco rattle virus-based gene silencing in Petunia
17:40 18:10
Misha Pooggin, University of Basel, Switzerland
Massive production of 21, 22 and 24 nt small RNAs from the cauliflower mosaic pararetrovirus leader region does not restrict viral infection
18:20 18:50
KarenBeth Scholthof, Texas A&M University, USA
Growing invisible things: Francis O. Holmes and a biological assay for Tobacco mosaic virus
TUESDAY, March 16, 2010
Morning Session (9:00 12:10)
Chairperson: Valerian Dolja
9:00 9:30
Claude Fauquet, ILTAB - Danforth Center, USA
Intimate relationships between geminiviruses and their satellites and the host gene silencing system
Chaim Cedar, Hebrew University, ISRAEL
Silence of the genes
KEYNOTE LECTURE
10:30 11:00 Coffee Break
Genetic dissection of small RNA directed regulation in Arabidopsis
Allison Mallory, INRA, France
Endogenous suppressors of small RNA-directed regulation
12:10 13:40 Lunch
Afternoon Session (13:40 17:20)
Chairperson: Henryk Hanokh Czosnek
13:40 14:10
Yuri Dorokhov, Moscow State University, Russia
Methanol is a volatile signal of plant immunity and intra- and intercellular communication
14:20 14:50
Vicki Vance, University of South Carolina, USA
Two plant viral suppressors of silencing require the ethylene-inducible host transcription factor RAV2 to block RNA silencing
15:00 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 16:00
Gideon Grafi, Ben-Gurion University, ISRAEL
Merging plant response to stress with dedifferentiation
16:10 16:40
Shou-Wei Ding, University of California, Riverside, USA
Viral secondary siRNAs in antiviral silencing
16:50 17:20
Vitaly Citovsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Chromatin-modifying co-repressor complexes in plants
19:30 Gala dinner
WEDNESDAY, March 17, 2010
Chairperson: Claude Fauquet
9:00 9:30
Ilan Sela, Hebrew University, Israel
A T7-derived nuclear silencing and using the universal vector IL-60 for silencing
9:40 10:10
Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, Yale University, USA
Emerging perspectives on the antiviral innate immune response
10:20 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 11:20
Valerian Dolja, Oregon State University, USA
Myosin-dependent dynamics of the plant cell interior
11:30 12:00
Amit Gal-On, ARO The Volcani Center, ISRAEL
Accumulation of viral-small RNA, micro-RNAs and their targets following ZYMV infection of cucurbits
12:10 12:30
Yedidya Gafni, ARO The Volcani Center, ISRAEL
Suppression of gene silencing in Tomato yellow leaf curl virus-Israel
12:40 12:55 Concluding remarks by the organizers
13:00 14:30 Lunch
Departure