Iwate University-Tohoku University Joint International Symposium

GONRYOU KAIKAN (Tohoku University Medical School, Aoba-ku, Sendai, TEL: 022-227-2721)

Schedule
Tuesday, 9-August

1. 13:00-13:30 Matsuo Uemura (Iwate University)
      Opening Talk

Session I: Response to temperature and environmental stresses
2. 13:30-14:20 Kikukatsu Ito (Iwate University)
      Heat production and temperature regulation in skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus

3. 14:20-15:20 Michael Schlappi (Biology Department, Marquette University)
      Lipid transfer proteins may have a protective role during low temperature stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

4. 15:20-15:50 Coffee Break

5. 15:50-16:40 Jun Hidema (Tohoku University)
      Ultraviolet-B radiation (UVB) stress: mechanisms of UVB resistance in rice plant

6. 16:40-17:30 Hideyuki Takahashi (Tohoku University)
      Plant responses to microgravity: spaceflight experiments for the study of plant growth regulation

7. 17:30-17:50 Discussion
      Discussion leader: Atsushi Higashitani (Tohoku University)

Wednesday, 10-August

Session II: Intercellular communication and Biosystem
1. 9:00-9:50 Kinya Toriyama (Tohoku University)
      Cytoplasmic male sterility in rice

2. 9:50-10:40 Masao Watanabe (Iwate University, Tohoku University)
      Molecular mechanism of self/non-self recognition in Brassica self-incompatibility

3. 10:40-11:30 Hideki Takahashi (Tohoku University)
      Host genes and signaling pathways conferring hypersensitive resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus in Arabidopsis thaliana

4. 11:30-11:50 Tomoyuki Yamaya (Tohoku University)
      Closing Remarks

III. Poster session
5. 13:30-14:40 Short talk (7 presenters selected from abstracts)

6. 14:40-17:00 Poster session

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