Invited speaker
Opening Plenary Lecture
Chair: Toru Fujiwara (The University of Tokyo)
Akihiko Nakano (The University of Tokyo/ RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan)
Understanding mechanisms of membrane traffic by live imaging
Chair and Invited Speakers
Session@I: Structural physiology of membrane transport machinery
Chair: Masayoshi Maeshima (Nagoya University, Japan)
| S1-1 | Michael G. Palmgren (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Structural insight into the regulation of plant P-type pumps |
| S1-2 | Sébastien Thomine (Institut des Sciences du Végétal CNRS, France) Moving nitrate and chloride through the vacuolar membrane with CLCs |
Session@II: Membrane trafficking and protein targeting
Chair: Karin Schumacher (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
| S2-1 | Jurgen Denecke (University of Leeds, UK) The late prevacuolar compartment, last stop before the vacuole |
| S2-2 | Takashi Ueda (The University of Tokyo) Mechanism and function of plant-unique membrane trafficking pathways |
Session III: Essential mineral transport
Chair: Toru Fujiwara (The University of Tokyo)
| S3-1 | José Feijó (Lisbon University, Portugal) Ion transporters and pollen tube growth, the parts and the whole |
| S3-2 | Yi-Fang Tsay (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Concentration and temporal dependent nitrate responses mediated by transceptor CHL1 |
Session IV: Toxic mineral transport
Chair: Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University)
| S4-1 | Leon Kochian (Cornel University, USA) Studies on the function and regulation of organic acid transporters involved in cereal aluminum tolerance |
| S4-2 | Ute Kraemer (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Alterations in membrane transport processes enabling Arabidopsis halleri to grow on heavy-metal contaminated soils |
Session V: Metabolite transport
Chair: Youngsook Lee (POSTECH, South Korea)
| S5-1 | Wolf B. Frommer (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
SWEETs, the Achilles heels of plants |
| S5-2 | Tsuyoshi Furumoto (Hiroshima University, Japan) Identification of plastidial pyruvate transporter and hypothesis of its transporting mechanism |
Session VI: Aquaporin
Chair: Katsuhiro Shiratake (Nagoya University, Japan)
| S6-1 | Per Kjellbom (Lund University, Sweden) The role of aquaporins in orchestrating cellular and organellar water homeostasis |
| S6-2 | Christophe Maurel (Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Physiology, France) Emerging functions of aquaporins in Arabidopsis |
Session VII: Stomatal movement and physiology
Chair: Sarah M. Assmann (Penn State University, USA)
| S7-1 | Ken-ichiro Shimazaki (Kyushu University, Japan) Light-induced stomatal movement and signaling |
| S7-2 | Julian I. Schroeder (University of California, San Diego, USA) Guard cell CO2 and abscisic acid signal transduction in plants |
Session VIII: Signaling network for modulating membrane transport
Chair: Sheng Luan (UC Berkeley, USA)
| S8-1 | Rainer Hedrich (Wurzburg University, Germany) Multisensory networking in guard cell |
| S8-2 | Sheng Luan (UC Berkeley, USA) Kinase-phosphatase networks for the regulation of ion channels |
Session IX: Signalling (Ca2+, solute and hormone)
Chair: Angus S. Murphy (Purdue University, USA)
| S9-1 | Edgar Spalding (Wisconsin University, USA) Calcium-conducting glutamate receptors controlling root growth and development |
| S9-2 | Markus Geisler (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) |
Session X: Membrane lipids - membrane domains and role in transporter function
Chair: Hiroyuki Ohta (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
| S10-1 |
Ikuo Nishida (Saitama University, Japan) Physiological significance of phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| S10-2 | Christoph Benning (Michigan State University, USA) Lipid transport and lipid remodeling at the chloroplast envelope membranes |
Session XI: Abiotic stress (drought, salt, pathogens), environmental homeostasis and membrane signaling
Chair: Nobuyuki Uozumi (Tohoku University, Japan)
| S11-1 | Dale Sanders (The John Innes Centre, UK) Abiotic stress and membrane signaling: critical roles for inorganic cations |
| S11-2 | Elias Bassil (University of California, Davis, USA) |
| S11-3 | Enrico Martinoia (University of Zurich, Switzerland) A Petunia ABC transporter controls a multitude of strigolactone-dependent functions. |
Session XII: Transporter study for improvement of crop yield and quality
Chair: Naoko Nishizawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
| S12-1 | Mark Tester (University of Adelaide, Australia) Understanding and engineering salinity tolerance in crop plants |
| S12-2 | Guohua Xu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China) Nitrate transporters and nitrogen use efficiency in rice |
| S12-3 | Ping Wu (Zhejiang University, China) Posttranscriptional regulation of Pi transporters and improvement of Pi-uptake efficiency in rice |
Session XIII-omics for transporter study
Chair: Tetsuro Mimura (Kobe University, Japan)
| S13-1 | Kazufumi Yazaki (Kyoto University, Japan) Cell-type specific transcriptome analysis in nodules of Lotus japonicas |
| S13-2 | Yoichiro Fukao (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Quantitative proteomics of responsive membrane proteins to nutrient deficiency |
Workshop 1: New insights into imaging
Chair: Simon Gilroy (Wisconsin University, USA)
| W1-1 | Federica Brandizzi (Michigan State University, USA) Functional and morphological integrity of the plant Golgi |
| W1-2 | David Ehrhardt (Stanford University, USA) TBA |
Workshop2: New insights into LRR-receptor kinase
Chair: Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
| W2-1 | Michael Hothorn (Max Planck Institute, Germany) The twists and turns of plant membrane signaling |
| W2-2 | Hidefumi Shinohara (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) Biochemical challenges to identify peptide hormone-LRR receptor pairs in plants |
Workshop3: The history and future of IWPMB
Chair: Matthew Gilliham (University of Adelaide, Australia)
| W3-1 | Roger Leigh (University of Adelaide, Australia) The International Workshops on Plant Membrane Biology: 1972 to the future |
| W3-2 | Matthew Gilliham (University of Adelaide, Australia) Future of IWPMB |
Special Workshop: Plant power to overcome environments (Supported by MEXT)
Chair: Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan)
| SW-1 | Yamaguchi-Shinozaki Kazuko (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Roles of abiotic stress-inducible transporters in Arabidopsis |
| SW-2 | Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan) Transporters conferring mineral stress tolerance |
| SW-3 | Toru Fujiwara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Regulation of nutrient transporters for optimum growth |
| SW-4 | Toshinori Kinoshita (Nagoya University, Japan) Regulation of stomatal opening by photoperiodic components |
| SW-5 | Keiko Sugimoto (Riken, Japan) Transcriptional control of plant cell growth |