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LECTURE PROGRAM
| Wednesday, September 9, 2009 |
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Lecture 1:
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14.30-15.30: Historical overview of Agrobacterium research: a feast of fundamental insights
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-17.00: Trans-kingdom transport of DNA and proteins by Type IV secretion systems |
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| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
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Lecture 3:
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14.30-15.30: Helical arrays in bacteria: An emerging architectural theme for critical bacterial processes
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-17.00: Plasmodesmata: Gatekeepers for cell-to-cell transport of developmental and defense signals in plants. |
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| Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
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Lecture 5:
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14.30-15.30: Identification of genes essential to regulate intercellular transport via plasmodesmata
15.30.-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-17.00: Pirating of plasmodesmata by plant viruses and a novel counter-defense strategy |
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| Monday, November 9, 2009 |
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Colloquium: Intra- and intercellular transport
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Programme |
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| 9.00 - 10.00 |
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Registration and coffee |
| 10.00 - 11.00 |
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Ulla Bonas, Institut für Biologie/Genetik, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, Germany
"How type III effector proteins manipulate the plant cell" |
| 11.00 - 12.00 |
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Savvas Savvides, Unit for Structural Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
"Motorizing bacterial secretion systems: Turning, Swinging, Pulling, Pushing" |
| 12.00 - 13.00 |
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Lunch |
| 13.00 - 14.00 |
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Manfred Heinlein, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
"Mechanisms involved in tobacco mosaic virus movement" |
| 14.00 - 15.00 |
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Peter Mergaert, Institut des Sciences du Végétal - CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
"Antimicrobial peptides govern terminal differentiation of endosymbiotic bacteria in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis |
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
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Coffee break |
| 15.30 - 16.30 |
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Luis Herrera-Estrella, Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Irapuato, Mexico
"Signaling during the phosphate deprivation response in Arabidopsis |
| 16.30 - 17.30 |
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Patricia Zambryski, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
"Recent insights into Agrobacterium mediated DNA transfer to plants an intercellular transport between plant cells via plasmodesmata" |
| 17.30 |
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Departure |
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