IN INOCULANTS Nodulaid - 17th International Nitrogen Fixation ...
IN INOCULANTS Nodulaid - 17th International Nitrogen Fixation ...
IN INOCULANTS Nodulaid - 17th International Nitrogen Fixation ...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
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 />
10