From owner-announce@net.bio.net Fri Jun 11 21:57:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Laboratorio de Stress em Plantas" Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: (corrected version) WORKSHOP -Recent Advances Plant Biology, Oporto, Portugal, July 7-9 Date: 11 Jun 1999 15:57:25 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 172 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kristoff@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <7jj1gn$sso$1@khabala.ncc.up.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net WORKSHOP - RECENT ADVANCES IN PLANT BIOLOGY FROM STRESS AND OXYGEN RADICALS TO PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH AND SENESCENCE PORTO, PORTUGAL, JULY 7-9 Date : 7-9 July 1999 Site : IBMC - Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150 Porto, Portugal Language : English Fee : 15 000 PTE (75 EUR), 8 000 PTE (40 EUR) for students (includes workshop notes, coffee-breaks and lunches) Group size: 40 to 50 participants (limited to auditorium capacity) Objectives In Plant Biology, the areas of Stress, Reactive Oxygen Intermediates, Programmed Cell Death and Senescence have emerged in recent years as some of the most exciting in the field, being also highly promising in terms of applied impact. The main objective of this workshop is to draw a united picture of current knowledge in these areas and to explore the links between them, trying to find new insights. The questions and experimental problems that should and may be addressed in the near future will be discussed, pointing out the trends of future investigation. This workshop also intends to put together experienced scientists with scientists who are willing to work in these new areas, encouraging the spread of the research effort in these areas and promoting the establishment of new collaborations. Instructions to submission of abstracts One page A4 format; margins 3 cm; font Times New Roman; letter size 12; paragraph 1.5; title in capital letters and in bold;. institutions, addresses and bibliography in letter size 10. Registration The deadline for registration and abstract submission is June 11. Payment should be done until June 30, after acknowledgement of registration acceptance. Payment in PTE or EUR should be made by bank transfer to Workshop inj Plant Biology, Account nº 001001352107323000172 (Swift code – BFYBPTPL135). Students should include the signature of the head of Department with the institutional stamp in the registration form. Accomodation 1 - Seminário do Vilar Rua Arcediago Van Zeller, 50, 4050-621 Porto Tel: + 351 (0)2 6000824 Fax: + 351 (0)2 6096276 Single room: 6500 PTE (32.4 EUR) - Double room: 4500 PTE (22.5 EUR) 2 - Hotel Ipanema Porto (****) Tel: + 351 (0)2 6068061 Single room: 15100 PTE (75.3 EUR) - Double room: 8550 PTE (42.6 EUR) Preliminary Program Day one 9.00 - 9.30 Registration and Welcome 9.30 - 10.30 Programed cell death during tracheary element differentiation involves a secreted protease A. Jones 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 12.00 Programmed cell death in the hypersensitive response R.I. Pennell 12.30 Lunch 14.00 - 15.00 Programmed cell death in systemic acquired resistance R.I. Pennell 15.00 - 16.00 Personal communications 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 - 17.30 Poster Session 19.00 Social program - Porto de Honra Day two 9.30 - 10.30 The role of H2O2 in oxidative stress in plants Dirk Inze 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 12.00 How does stress inhibit cell division in plants? Dirk Inze 12.30 Lunch 14.00 - 15.00 The role of ethylene in the regulation of senescence and abcission in plants. A. Bleeker 15.00 - 16.00 Personal communications 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 - 17.30 Open Discussion. Reactive Oxygen Intermediates - a danger or a bless? Day three 9.00 - 10.00 Genetic analysis of plant life cycle using Arabidopsis as a model A. Bleeker 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break 10.30 - 11.30 Cell death and evolution P. Golstein 11.30 - 12.30 Open Discussion. Stress, plant cell death and senescence - what have they got to do with plant aging? 13.00 Farewell Lunch 14.30 Social programe - Touristic tour Invited Lecturers Alan Jones - Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, USA Anthony Bleeker - Department of Botany, Universoty of Wisconsin, USA Dirk Inze - Deparment of Genetics, University of Gent, Belgium Pierre Golstein - Centre d’Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de MArseille-Luminy, France Roger Pennell - Ceres, Inc., Malibu, USA REGISTRATION FORM Name: Address: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Submission of: oral communication _ ; poster _ ; none _ Title: Accomodation: No _ ; Yes _ 1 - _ 2 - _ From_______to_________ Date: Signature: Registration / Information IBMC, Universidade do Porto Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150 Porto, Portugal Tel.: +351 (0)2 6074900 – Fax: +351 (0)2 6099157 E-mail: plantlin@ibmc.up.pt .