iPlanta 2018 Poznań, Poland
DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14TH, 2018
8:00 –Registration
9:00 Welcome – Satellite meeting: RNAi Research in Poland
9:15 Satellite meeting: RNAi Research in Poland
Chairman: Andrzej Pacak
| AUTHORS | ORAL Presentation | |
| Szymon Swieżewski | MAKING SENSE OF ANTISENSE | 15 min |
| Robert Malinowski | CHEMICALLY INDUCIBLE GENE SILENCING FOR PRECISE UNDERSTANDING OF PLANT DEVELOPMENT | 15 min |
| Mateusz Bajczyk | A ROLE OF CROSSTALK BETWEEN THE NEXT COMPLEX AND SERRATE IN DEGRADATION OF MIRNA PRECURSOR FRAGMENTS | 15 min |
| Susheel Sagar Bhat | m6A MARK AND ITS WRITER m6A MRNA ADENOSINE METHYLASE (MTA) AFFECT miRNA BIOGENESIS IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA | 15 min |
10:30 – Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00 Satellite meeting: RNAi Research in Poland
Chairman: Andrzej Pacak
| AUTHORS | ORAL Presentation | |
| Paweł Sega | GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF SMALL RNAS LEVEL CHANGES IN BARLEY ROOTS AND SHOOTS DURING PHOSPHATE STARVATION | 15 min |
| Aleksandra Smoczyńska | IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL BARLEY miRNAS AND THEIR TARGETS RESPONSIVE TO DROUGTH | 15 min |
| Aleksandra Grabowska | ARE BARLEY microRNA PRECURSORS FROM mIR444 FAMILY ASSOCIATED WITH RIBOSOMES? | 15 min |
| Iwona Morkunas | THE EFFECT OF LEAD AND A. PISUM ON EXPRESSION LEVELS OF PHENYLALANINE AMMONIALYASE AND CHALCONE SYNTHASE GENES IN PEA SEEDLINGS | 15 min |
11:30 Registration 2nd iPLANTA Conference
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Opening 2nd iPLANTA Conference
14:00 International Invited Lecture
Chairman: Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska
| ANDRZEJ WIERZBICKI | MECHANISMS OF RNA-DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION | 45 min |
14:45 Open session 1 – RNAi Technology
Chairman: Michel Ravelonandro
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| Y.ZHAO, J.SUN, L.SWEVERS | VIRAL-LIKE PARTICLES BASED ON CYTOPLASMIC POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS FOR DELIVERY OF DSRNA IN INSECTS | 15 min |
| U. MANSKE, A. DIETZ-PFEILSTETTER | COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METHODS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RNA SILENCING IN PLANTS | 15 min |
| W.ORCZYK, Y.YANUSHEVSKA, J. GROSZYK, W.M. KARŁOWSKI, A.ZIELEZIŃSKI, A. NADOLSKA-ORCZYK | THE RNAi APPROACH TO STUDY BRASSINOSTEROID REGULATOR ENCODING GENES IN BARLEY | 15 min |
| A.STEPIEN, T.GULANICZ, M.BAJCZYK, D. SMOLINSKI, Z.SZWEYKOWSKA-KULINSKA, A.JARMOLOWSKI | THE ROLE OF THE U1 SNRNP PROTEIN, PRP40, IN PLANT MIRNA BIOGENESIS | 15 min |
15:45-16:45 Coffee break
16:15 Open session 2 – RNAi Technology
Chairman: Guy Smagghe
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| A. KOCH, L. HOEFLE, E. SECIC, S. ZANINI, K.H. KOGEL | SMALL RNA EFFECTORS IN HIGS AND SIGS APPROACHES | 30 min |
| A. NADOLSKA-ORCZYK, S. GASPARIS, W. ORCZYK | EFFECTIVNESS OF THE ARTIFICIAL MICRORNA- AND SIRNA-BASED SPECIFIC GENE SILENCING OF AGRONOMICALLY IMPORTANT GENES, AND SI-RNA-MEDIATED IMPROVEMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY IN CEREALS | 15 min |
| M.RAVELONANDRO, P. BRIARD, R. SCORZA | THE Mi AND Mi-SiRNA APPROACH TO CONTROL PLUM POX VIRUS GENOME IN PLUMS | 15 min |
| M. PETEK, K. Gruden | TESTING THE ACTIVITY OF DOUBLE-STRANDED RNAS AGAINST COLORADO POTATO BEETLE | 15 min |
| JR PARREIRA, P FEVEREIRO, SS ARAÚJO | MODULATING SEED DEVELOPMENT IN COMMON BEAN (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS): AN APPROACH TO ENHANCE SEED QUALITY? | 15 min |
17:45 General Discussion
18:00 Poster Session + Cheese, wine and pierogi party
DAY 2 – THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15TH, 2018
9:00 Open session 3 – RNAi Technology
Chairman: Wacław Orczyk
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| Y. Fei, T. Nyiko, A. Molnar | DECIPHERING THE MOLECULAR POSTCODES IN EPIGENETIC GENE SILENCING | 30 min |
| A.SULKOWSKA, A.AUBER, D.SILHAVY, J.KUFEL, I.WAWER | NEW PROTEIN FACTORS INVOLVED IN PLANT NMD | 15 min |
| INES WYRSCH, THOMAS BOLLER, MANFRED HEINLEIN, ANNETTE NIEHL | PLAYERS AND MECHANISMS IN ANTIVIRAL PATTERN‐TRIGGERED IMMUNITY IN PLANTS | 15 min |
| F. NEGRINI, M. CHATTERJEE, T. ZHANG, M.F. MAD ATARI, K. O’GRADY, B. MEZZETTI, E.BARALDI AND K.FOLTA | ASSESSING SILENCING EFFECTIVENESS AND SPECIFICITY AMONG RAPID ALKALINIZATION FACTOR (RALF) FAMILY GENES FOR Fragaria vesca RNAi PLANTS | 15 min |
| E. KAFKAS, M. ZARIFIKHOSROSHAHI, H. TOPCU, M.A.GUNDESLİ, N. ÇOBAN, M.GUNEY, H. PAIZILA, H.KARCI, S.KEFAYATI, S. KAFKAS | EXPRESSION OF CANDIDATE GENES RESPONSIBLE FOR BUD ABSCISSION IN PISTACHIO | 15 min |
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 Open session – 4 RNAi Applications issues
Chairman: Hely Häggman
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| H.D. JONES, J. MARTINEZ-FORTUN, D.W. PHILLIPS | SPEAKING UP FOR SILENCED GENES: CAUGHT IN THE CROSS TALK BETWEEN RNAI AND EDITING | 30 min |
| A. ALBURQUERQUE, C. PETRI, L. FAIZE, L. BURGOS | SILENCING OF AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS ONCOGENES WITH A SHORT-LENGTH SINGLE CHIMERICAL TRANSGENE INDUCES RESISTANCE TO CROWN GALL DISEASE IN PLUM BUT NOT IN APRICOT | 15 min |
| P.P. SOSOI, M.C. ICHIM | USE OF RNAI TOOLS TO INCREASE BARLEY’S RESISTANCE TO BIOTIC STRESS | 15 min |
| G. RAKLEOVA, L. PETROVA, A. ATANASSOV, I. PANTCHEV | RNA INTERFERENCE AND GENE EDITING – COMPLEMENTING OR MERGING IN ACTION | 15 min |
12:30 Discussion
Conference group photo
13:00 Lunch
14:00 International Invited Lecture
Chairman: Huw Jones
| Qiang Cai, Lulu Qiao, Ming Wang, Baoye He, Arne Weiberg, Hailing Jin (University California, Riverside) | CROSS KINGDOM RNAI AND SPRAY-INDUCED GENE SILENCING FOR CROP PROTECTION | 45 min |
14:45 Open session 5 – RNAi Applications
Chairman: Huw Jones
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| P. WIECZOREK, M. TAUBE, Z. SZWEYKOWSKA-KULIŃSKA, A. JARMOŁOWSKI, M. KOZAK | SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING STUDY OF THE OLIGOMERIC STATE AND DIMER STRUCTURE OF THE SERRATE194-579 PROTEIN IN SOLUTION – A KEY PLAYER IN THE PROCESS OF miRNA BIOGENESIS IN ARABIDOPSIS | 15 min |
| Jana Schuck, Selma Gago-Zachert, Marie Knoblich, Torsten Gursinsky and Sven-Erik Behrens | IDENTIFICATION OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SMALL RNAs FOR ANTIVIRAL PLANT PROTECTION | 15 min |
| Lidia Jiménez, Delphine M. Pott, Elsa Martínez-Ferri, Alisdair Fernie, Jose G. Vallarino, Sonia Osorio | THE BALANCE BETWEEN FUMARATE AND MALATE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN PLANT DEVELOPMENT AND POSTHARVEST QUALITY IN TOMATO FRUIT. | 15 min |
15:30 -16:00 Coffee break
16:00 Open session 6 – Biosafety issues
Chairman: Antje Dietz-Pfeilstetter
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| W.SCHENKEL | THE CURRENT REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT FOR RNAI PLANTS IN THE EU | 30 min |
| A. Gathmann | CHALLENGES FOR THE AUTHORISATION OF SPRAYABLE RNAI BASED PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS | 15 min |
| A. DIETZ-PFEILSTETTER, S. ARPAIA | BIOSAFETY ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT RNAi APPLICATIONS: CASE STUDY OF INSECT RESISTANT MON 87411 MAIZE | 15 min |
| O. Christiaens, S. Arpaia, I. Urru, K. Kostov, T. Djambazova, M. Reddy Joga, G. Smagghe and J. Sweet | LITERATURE REVIEW OF BASELINE INFORMATION ON RNAi THAT COULD SUPPORT THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF RNAi-BASED GM PLANTS | 15 min |
| HARRY A. KUIPER, GIJS A. KLETER AND ESTHER J. KOK | DESIGNING FOOD SAFETY ASSESSMENT APPROACHES FOR RNAI –MODIFIED PLANTS AND DERIVED PRODUCTS | 15 min |
17:45 Open session 7 STMS
Chairman: Jorge Paiva
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| TUMBAS ŠAPONJAC V., PETEK M., PAIVA J.A.P. | ONE YEAR OF SHORT TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSION IN THE FRAME OF THE COST ACTION 15223: DEVELOPING SYNERGIES, COMPETENCES AND SKILLS OM RNAI | 15 min |
18:00General Discussion and Closure
18:30 Social Dinner
DAY 3- FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16TH, 2018
8:30 Open session 7 – SOCIO ECONOMIC IMPACT AND COMMUNICATION
Chairman: Dario Frisio and Hilde-Gunn Opsahl Sorteber
| AUTHORS | ORAL PRESENTATION | |
| MATINA TSALAVOUTA | STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND IMPACT: WHY AND HOW | 30 min |
| K. GREENOP, E. FERRI | AN EVENT TO UNITE EUROPEAN POLICY MAKERS ON THE VALUE OF RNA SILENCING | 15 min |
| JOOST DESSEIN | ‘THE GM-DEBATE IS NOT A GM-DEBATE. REFLECTIONS ON THE GM-DEBATE IN EUROPE FROM A SOCIAL SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE. | 15 min |
| D.G. FRISIO, V. VENTURA | EXPLORING THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RNAi/NBTs APPLICATIONS IN PLANT THROUGH FIELD TRIALS DATA | 15 min |
| L.CASELLA, P.CASTAGNO, E.A.MUSA, A.ATANASSI, C.MINOIA | DESPITE NUMEROUS EFFORTS DONE IN THE LAST DECADES TO CONTROL RICE BLAST, THIS FUNGUS REMAINS THE BIGGEST ISSUE FOR EUROPEAN RICE CULTIVATION. COULD RNAI TECHNOLOGY BE A HOPE? | 15 min |
| A.PASCALE | FROM PINOCCHIO TO MASTERSCHEF. FROM HUNGER TO ABUNDANCE. THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN A FEW FAMILY PHOTOS | 15 min |
10:15 Discussion
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 CLOSED SESSION- iPlanta MC meeting
iPlanta MC meeting (only iPlanta MC members) to discuss future program and Communication strategy (WG leaders to present plans) including workshops, training schools, conferences. Discussion of STSMs.
14:00 Closure