Insects, pathogens, and plant reprogramming: from effector molecules to ecology
Hôtel de Ville
Place Jean Jaurès
37000 TOURS
France
Presentation
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Convenors :
- Professor Marion Harris , LE STUDIUM® RESEARCH FELLOW
on sabbatical leave from North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND - USA, in residence at IRBI (Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte – UMR 7261 – CNRS/University François Rabelais of Tours) - Tours, France. - Doctor David Giron, CNRS Research Director
IRBI (Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte – UMR 7261 – CNRS/University François Rabelais of Tours) - Tours, France
Introduction:
The world’s rapidly expanding populations have created a sense of urgency regarding global agricultural output, which needs to expand by at least 70% by the year 2050. Plants will provide a significant proportion of the world’s food supply. This international conference focuses on a group of plant enemies that have an unique style of attack. Instead of simply removing plant tissue, survival, growth and reproduction are enhanced by manipulating the plant to create specialized nutritional resources. This attack strategy can have serious consequences for both natural and agro-ecosystems. Mechanisms of reprogramming host plants remain largely unknown but clearly involve secreted effectors that are applied during attack. Options for defense against reprogrammers include effector-triggered immunity. Historically the phylogenetically diverse plant enemies that reprogram plants have been studied by different groups. This interdisciplinary meeting will bring together the complementary strengths of key international laboratories to discuss advances in our understanding of the enemies that reprogram plants and their associated symbionts, the options that plants have for their defense, and the evolutionary potential of enemies to adapt to plant defense.
Main topics of the conference:
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Enemy attack: identity and function of effectors produced by insects, nematodes, and pathogens
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Plant responses: phytohormone signalling, nutrient mobilization, cellular reorganization, and defence
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Ecological consequences of reprogramming plants and cascading effects in the ecosystem
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Contributions of microbial symbionts to plant-reprogrammer interactions
Practical informations:
- Deadline for registration: 4/09/2015
- Confirmation of selected applications: 11/09/2015
- Deadline for payment: 18/09/2015
- Dates of the conference: 5-7 October 2015
- Location: Hôtel de Ville, 37000 Tours – France
- Lodging: Hotel lists communicated upon registration
- Language: English
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Posters:
Participants are required to submit their application with an abstract (electronic format only –pdf files) of no more than 2000 characters (including spaces) by 4/09/2015. The abstracts will be published in the conference booklet and in digital proceedings (USB flash-drive).
Thank you for sending the title and your abstract together with your affiliation and contact details to registration@lestudium-ias.fr before 4/09/2015.
Documents
Confirmed Speakers:
- Dr Pierre Abad
Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, Sophia Antipolis, France - Dr Heidi Appel
University of Missouri/Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, United States of America - Dr Jérôme Casas
CNRS─University François-Rabelais de Tours/ Institute of Research on Insect Biology, France - Dr G. Wilson Fernandes
Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais/Institute of Biological Sciences, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Dr Saskia Hogenhout
John Innes Centre/Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Norwich, United Kingdom - Dr Elisabeth Huguet
CNRS─University François-Rabelais de Tours/ Institute of Research on Insect Biology, France - Dr Moshe Inbar
University of Haifa/Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Haifa, Israel - Dr Sophien Kamoun
The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom - Dr Paul Nabity
Washington State University/Department of Entomology, Pullman, United States of America - Dr Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
INRA/ Unité de recherche Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France - Dr Issei Ohshima
Kyoto Prefectural University/Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto, Japan - Dr Sylvain Pincebourde
CNRS─University François-Rabelais de Tours/ Institute of Research on Insect Biology, France - Dr Mauricio Quesada Avendano
Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas (CIECO) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. - Dr Jack Schultz
University of Missouri/Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, United States of America - Dr Jean-Christophe Simon
Institute for Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection, Rennes, France - Dr Graham Stone
The University of Edinburgh/Department of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Dr Jeff Stuart
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America - Dr Akiko Sugio
Institute for Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection, Rennes, France - Dr Noah Whiteman
University of Arizona/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States of America
Programme
5 OCTOBER 2015
Enemy attack: identity and function of effectors produced by insects, nematodes, and pathogens
11h30 Registration/Welcome Lunch
13h00 Official opening
Scientific director of LE STUDIUM, Pr Nicola Fazzalari
Pr Marion Harris & Dr David Giron
13h30 Dr Pierre Abad
Root knot Nematode effectors and modulation of plant cell machineryz
14h00 Dr Akiko Sugio
Plant-aphid-symbiont interactions: what are the factors maintaining their association?
14h30 Pr Sophien Kamoun
Pathogen Effectors as Probes to Study Plant Processes
15h00 Coffee break
15h30 Pr Saskia Hogenhout
Multitasking, how single bacterial virulence proteins modulate plant development and attract insect vectors
16h00 Pr Jeff Stuart
The Hessian fly as a model for the discovery of effector-encoding Avr genes in insects
16h30 Pr Elisabeth Huguet
Unraveling candidate effectors expressed by plant manipulating insects
17h00 Poster session / Wine & Cheese
18.30 LE STUDIUM LECTURE
Dr David Giron
Insectes & Plantes: le secret de la jeunesse éternelle
20h00 Dinner
6 OCTOBER 2015
Plant responses: phytohormone signalling, nutrient mobilization, cellular reorganization, and defence
08h30 Opening
08h45 Pr Moshe Inbar
Host plant manipulation by gall-forming aphids: from functional ecology to mechanisms
09h15 Dr David Giron
Converging strategies in plant-manipulating insects: insect-induced effects on plants and possible mechanisms used by leaf-miners to manipulate their host-plant.
09h45 Coffee break
10h30 Dr Geraldo Wilson Fernandes
Biochemical and physiological mechanisms underlying plant responses to gall induction
11h00 Pr Marion Harris
Gall Midges and Grasses: What We Hope to Know Someday
11h30 Pr Graham Stone
Dissecting an extended phenotype: candidate genes for gall induction and formation by an oak cynipid gallwasp and its host
12h00 Poster / Lunch
14h00 Pr Jack Schultz
Darwin’s Peach: A molecular basis of insect gall development
14h30 Dr Paul Nabity
Genomic basis of insect-induced phenotypes within the Phylloxeridae
15h00 Coffee break
15h30 Pr Heidi Appel
Early plant responses to insect herbivores
16h00 Dr Noah Whiteman
Genomics studies reveal that plants use metabolic, apparency and defense traits as strategies to mitigate herbivores
16h30 Panel discussion: fundings, next meeting, …
18h00 End of day 2
19h00 Departure for gala dinner
19h30 Gala dinner
7 OCTOBER 2015
Ecological consequences of reprogramming plants and cascading effects in the ecosystem
08h30 Opening
08h45 Dr Sylvain Pincebourde
Physical and physiological reprogramming of plants by insects: consequences in a changing climate
09h15 Dr Issey Ohshima
From Juglandaceae to Ericaceae: the genetic background of host shifting between distantly related host plants in a leaf mining moth Acrocercops transecta (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
09h45 Coffee break
10h30 Dr Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Evolution of the tripartite association between leaf-mining moths, Wolbachia, and their host plants.
11h00 Dr Mauricio Quesada
Beetles as physical and biochemical ecosystem engineers: ecological and molecular evidence of trophic upgrading and consequences of branch removal to hosts
11h30 Jérôme Casas & Jean-Christophe Simon
Summing up - General discussion
12h30 Take away lunch
14h00 End of conference
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