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PRoGRAm<br />

Sunday 27 November 2011<br />

14:00 - 17:00 Registration Desk Open<br />

17:30 - 19:30 Welcome Reception – Cicerello’s Fishing Boat Harbour Fremantle<br />

monday 28 November 2011<br />

08:00 - 17:00 Registration desk open<br />

09:00 - 10:30 coNfeReNce oPeN<strong>IN</strong>G ceRemoNY Chair: Graham O’Hara & Michael Dilworth, Room: Sirius<br />

10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea<br />

convenor Welcome Graham o’Hara, Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Australia<br />

Welcome to country Marie Taylor<br />

opening Address Peter roberts, Chair Western Panel, GRDC<br />

contemporary challenges for<br />

Symbiotic <strong>Nitrogen</strong> fixation<br />

John Howieson, Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Australia<br />

11:00 - 12:30 PleNARY SeSSIoN Chair: Bill Newton, Room: Sirius<br />

11:00 - 11:30 allan Downie<br />

John Innes Centre, UK<br />

11:30 - 12:00 luis M. rubio<br />

Universidad Politecnica De Madrid, Spain<br />

12:00 - 12:30 Giles oldroyd<br />

John Innes Centre, UK<br />

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch – Atrium<br />

Characterisation of a legume pectate lyase required for initiation and growth<br />

of infection threads during nodule infection by rhizobia<br />

Changes in nif gene expression profiles during nitrogenase biogenesis<br />

Establishing beneficial interactions with the symbiosis signalling pathway<br />

13:30 - 15:00 PleNARY SeSSIoN Chair: Allan Downie, Room: Sirius<br />

13:30 - 14:00 Ken Giller<br />

Wageningen University, The Netherlands<br />

N2Africa – Putting <strong>Nitrogen</strong> <strong>Fixation</strong> to work for smallholder farmers in Africa<br />

14:00 - 14:30 Jens Stougaard<br />

Aarhus University, Denmark<br />

Nod factor perception, signal transduction and the role of LysM type receptors<br />

14:30 - 15:00 Kristina lindström<br />

University of Helsinki, Finland<br />

Rhizobium taxonomy and diversity – Is there anything more to learn?<br />

15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea<br />

15:30 - 16:50 coNcURReNT SeSSIoN 1:<br />

coNcURReNT SeSSIoN 2:<br />

coNcURReNT SeSSIoN 3:<br />

field Applications I<br />

function & control of <strong>Nitrogen</strong>ase Taxonomy & evolution<br />

Chair David Herridge Michael Dilworth Kristina Lindström<br />

Room Sirius Pleiades Orion<br />

15:30 - 15:50 neil Ballard<br />

Bill newton<br />

nikolay Provorov<br />

Global Pasture Consultants, Australia<br />

Virginia Polytechnic Institute &<br />

All-Russia Research Institute For<br />

Application of Western Australian<br />

State University, USA<br />

Agricultural Microbiology, Russia<br />

legume and Rhizobium technologies Carbon monoxide adducts<br />

Mathematical simulation of<br />

in the developing world –<br />

of Azotobacter vinelandii<br />

evolutionary events in the<br />

a practitioner’s perspective<br />

Mo-nitrogenase<br />

N2-fixing plant-microbe symbioses<br />

15:50 - 16:10 raj Malik<br />

Stefan nordlund<br />

rene Guerts<br />

Department of Agriculture & Food<br />

Stockholm University, Sweden<br />

Wageningen University, The Netherlands<br />

Western Australia, Australia<br />

Regulation of <strong>Nitrogen</strong>ase activity in Parasponia to unravel genetic<br />

Impact of break crops on wheat Rhodospirillum rubrum – an interplay constraints underlying Rhizobium<br />

productivity in Western Australia of PII proteins, DRAT, DRAG and symbiosis<br />

cropping<br />

membrane sequestration<br />

16:10 - 16:30 Felipe Burgos<br />

Svetlana Yurgel<br />

Jelena Jalovaja<br />

Centre For Rhizobium Studies,<br />

Washington State University, USA<br />

Moscow Institute of Physics &<br />

Murdoch University, Australia<br />

GlnD and symbiosis: Control beyond<br />

Technology, Russia<br />

Use of remote sensing to assess the the nitrogen stress response?<br />

Comparative-genomic reconstruction<br />

symbiotic performance of Rhizobium<br />

of the NifA regulon evolution in<br />

leguminosarum var. vicieae strains<br />

and field pea<br />

alphaproteobacteria<br />

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