Keystone Symposia | Scientific Conferences on Biomedical and Life Science Topics

Plant Innate Immunity (X2)

Organizer(s): Jonathan D.G. Jones and Jane Glazebrook
February 10 - 15, 2008
Keystone Resort · Keystone, Colorado
Abstract Deadline: October 11, 2007
Late Abstract Deadline: November 9, 2007
Scholarship Deadline: October 11, 2007
Early Registration Deadline: December 11, 2007

Supported by the Director's Fund

Joint meeting: Plant Hormones and Signaling (X1)
NOTE: Registration for meeting allows attendance at joint meeting (pending space availability).

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Summary of Meeting
Plant disease is an important selective agent in nature and causes economic losses in crops. Plants, like animals, activate defense upon perception of conserved microbial molecules. Successful pathogens introduce diverse effector molecules into host cells that suppress these defenses and render the plant susceptible. Plant resistance proteins activate defense upon recognition of effector molecules. This modern synthesis raises new questions. What molecular mechanisms are involved in these two kinds of microbial recognition by plants, and what cross talk exists between them? Also, what are the targets of the constellation of microbial effector molecules, and do bacterial, fungal and oomycete effectors share targets? The selected speakers will all address aspects of these questions. A further important question is the interplay between defense signaling and other signaling pathways, both locally and systemically; this question will be explored in a joint day of talks shared with a parallel meeting entitled “Plant Hormones and Signaling”.

Sunday, February 10
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Longs Peak Foyer
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Longs Peak Foyer
7:30 - 8:30 PM	Keynote Address	Quandary Peak
	* Jonathan D.G. Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory Welcome and Introduction
	Brian J. Staskawicz, University of California, Berkeley Pathogen Effector Proteins in Plant Innate Immunity: A Historical Perspective Leading to the Development of Genomic Approaches to Elucidate Function
Monday, February 11
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grays Peak 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 AM	PAMP-Triggered Immunity	Quandary Peak
	* Thorsten Nürnberger, University of Tübingen Signal Perception in Arabidopsis Innate Immunity
	Shauna C. Somerville, University of California at Berkeley The Plant Cell: The First Line of Defense
	Silke Robatzek, Sainsbury Laboratory Subcellular Dynamics of Pattern Recognition Receptors in Plant Immunity

	Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury Laboratory Genetic Analysis of PAMP-Triggered Immunity in Arabidopsis
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Longs Peak Foyer
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Grays Peak 1-3
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Grays Peak 1-3
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop 1: Natural Variation in Immunity and Virulence	Quandary Peak
	* David S. Guttman, University of Toronto Natural Variation Underlying Host-specific Virulence
	Justin O. Borevitz, University of Chicago Biotic and Abiotic Ecological Forces Shape Genomic Diversity in Arabidopsis Thaliana
	Eric Kemen, Sainsbury Laboratory Identification of Novel Effectors from Albugo Candida using Solexa cDNA Sequencing Techniques
	Darrell Desveaux, University of Toronto Chemical Genomic Investigation of the Arabidopsis Thaliana-Pseudomonas Syringae Pathosystem
	Keehoon Sohn, Sainsbury Laboratory A Pseudomonas Syringae pv. Phaseolicola Effector Protein, AvrB4, Suppresses the Hypersensitive Response Triggered by AvrRps4 in Arabidopsis
	Mahmut Tör, University of Warwick Towards Cloning of the Arabidopsis Resistance Gene RHPC1 that Recognize a ‘Cryptic’ Avirulence Gene in H. Parasitica
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Longs Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Effectors (1)	Quandary Peak
	* Gregory B. Martin, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Type III Effector AvrPtoB Uses Multiple Mechanisms To Promote Bacterial Virulence
	Sheng Yang He, Michigan State University Suppression of Plant Innate Immunity by Pseudomonas syringae Virulence Effectors
	Ulla Bonas, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg How Xanthomonas Type III Effectors Manipulate the Plant
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grays Peak 1-3
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1	Grays Peak 1-3
Tuesday, February 12
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grays Peak 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Effectors (2)	Quandary Peak
	* Mary Beth Mudgett, Stanford University Xanthomonas XopD SUMO Protease is a DNA-Binding Protein that Represses Plant Gene Transcription Delaying Onset of Senescence in Infected Leaves
	Jean T. Greenberg, University of Chicago Discerning the Roles of Bacterial Effectors of Plant Pathogens
	James Beynon, Warwick University The Effectors of Hyaloperonospora Parasitica
	Regina Kahmann, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology The Effectors of Ustilago Maydis
	Lionel Navarro, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP) Short Talk: Suppression of the microRNA Pathway by Bacterial Effector Proteins
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Longs Peak Foyer
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Grays Peak 1-3
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Grays Peak 1-3
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop 2: Pathogen Genomics	Quandary Peak
	* Sophien Kamoun, Sainsbury Laboratory Genome-Wide Catalogs of Oomycete Effectors: From Structure to Function
	John M. McDowell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Characterizing Conserved Effector Proteins from Hyaloperonospora Parasitica
	Georgina Fabro, Sainsbury Laboratory Unravelling the Hyaloperonospora Parasitica Effectors Complement Functions
	Ryohei Terauchi, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center Genome Sequencing of Magnaporthe Oryzae Isolate Ina168 Reveals Candidate Avirulence Genes
	Saskia A. Hogenhout, John Innes Centre Genome-Wide Analyses Reveal Phytoplasma Effector Proteins that Manipulate Plant Physiology
	Tom Tytgat, Wageningen University Identification and Characterization of the SPRYSEC-Gene Family as Effectors in Globodera Rostochiensis Plant-Parasitism
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Longs Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Innate Immunity in Animals	Quandary Peak


	Jenny P. Ting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Novel Mammalian NLR/CATERPILLER Proteins that Control Cells Death and Anti-Viral Responses
	Jean-Marc Reichhart, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire The Drosophila Immune Response, Latest News
	* Frederick M. Ausubel, Massachusetts General Hospital Innate Immunity in C. elegans
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grays Peak 1-3
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2	Grays Peak 1-3
Wednesday, February 13
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grays Peak 1-3
8:00 - 11:15 AM	Networks in Defense and Hormone Signaling (Joint)	Longs/Quandary
	Corné M.J. Pieterse, Utrecht University Cross-Talk between Salicylic Acid and Jasmonic Acid Signaling
	* Jane Glazebrook, University of Minnesota Bridging Gaps in Network Models of Plant Defense Signaling
	John A. Browse, Washington State University JAZ Repressor Proteins Control Jasmonate Signaling
	Xinnian Dong, Duke University Biochemical, Genetic, and Genomic Dissection of NPR1-Mediated Defense Signaling Pathway
	Christina E.M. Dixelius, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet Short Talk: Impact of ABA and Auxin in Plant Defence to Leptosphaeria Maculans
	Hironori Kaminaka, Tottori University Short Talk: Involvement of Auxin Transcriptional Repressor Aux/IAAs on the Regulation of Programmed Cell Death via Direct Interaction with LSD1 in Arabidopsis Thaliana
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Longs Peak Foyer
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Grays Peak 1-3
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Grays Peak 1-3
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Longs Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	MicroRNAs, Growth Control and Disease (Joint)	Longs/Quandary

	Bonnie Bartel, Rice University Insights into Auxin Signaling through Analysis of Genetic Modifiers of the Arabidopsis ibr5 Phosphatase Mutant
	* Jonathan D.G. Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory Auxin and Gibberellin Signaling in Plant/Pathogen Interactions
	Kirsten Bomblies, Max Planck Institut When Good Genes Behave Badly: Autoimmunity as a Mechanism for Hybrid Incompatibility in Plants
	Keiko Sugimoto, RIKEN Short Talk: BIN4, a Novel Component of the Plant DNA Topoisomerase VI Complex, is Required for Endoreduplication in Arabidopsis
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grays Peak 1-3
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3	Grays Peak 1-3
Thursday, February 14
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Grays Peak 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Resistance Protein Function I	Quandary Peak
	* Paul M. Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Molecular Links between R Protein-Triggered and MAMP-Mediated Immunity
	Frank Takken, University of Amsterdam Role of Nucleotide Binding for R Protein Function
	Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, Yale University Driving Innate Immunity: ‘R’ We There Yet?
	Jane Parker, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research TIR-NB-LRR Immune Receptor Signaling through EDS1
	Peter Moffett, Boyce Thompson Institute Short Talk: Novel Insights into the Initiation of Signaling, and Execution of Anti-Viral Resistance, by NB-LRR Disease Resistance Proteins
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Longs Peak Foyer
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Longs Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Resistance Protein Function II	Quandary Peak
	John P. Rathjen, Australian National University Role of Tomato Prf in Immunity
	Peter N. Dodds, CSIRO Plant Industry Recognition of Rust Effectors in Flax
	* Jeffery L. Dangl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bacterial Type III Effectors, Host Cellular Targets, and NB-LRR Activation
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Grays Peak 1-3
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Grays Peak 1-3
Friday, February 15
	Departure

*Session Chair †Speaker invited, not yet responded.