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Friday 21 st October, 2011
Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Moderators: Thierry Marcel and Luis Mur
9:00 am Key Speaker: Dr. Luis Mur, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Title: Exploiting Brachypodium distachyon biodiversity to establish sources of resistance
to abiotic and biotic stress.
9:40 Mica Erica, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Assessing the role of smallRNAs in leaf cell identity and growth reprogramming during
drought stress in Brachypodium distachyon
10 :00 Marie Dufresne, Université Paris-Sud 11, France
Use of the pathosystem Brachypodium distachyon / Fusarium graminearum to
investigate the detoxification mechanisms of mycotoxins by plants.
10:20 Gerhard Adam, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Functional characterization of Brachypodium UDP-glucosyltransferases
10:40 Aoife O’ Driscoll, University College Dublin, Ireland
The Mycosphaerella graminicola-Brachypodium distachyon interaction: a new model
pathosystem to study Septoria tritici blotch disease of wheat
11:00 pm Coffee and ‘viennoiseries’
11:40 Key Speaker: Dr. David Garvin, USDA-ARS, United-States
Title: Brachypodium as a model for unraveling stem rust resistance.
12:20 Thierry Marcel, INRA (BIOGER-CPP), France
Brachypodium distachyon, a model grass to study plant-pathogen interactions
12:40 Nicola Pecchioni, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
QTLs for resistance to the leaf rust Puccinia brachypodii in the model grass
Brachypodium distachyon
1:00 pm Lunch at INRA Score Services
2:20 Antje Bluemke, University of Hamburg, Germany
Brachypodium distachyon: an excellent model for Fusarium graminearum infection in
wheat
Plant Development, Metabolism and Physiology
Moderator: Arp Schnittger
2:40 Fabienne Guillon, INRA (BIA), France
Brachypodium distachyon grain: development-associated changes in morphology and
storage accumulation
3:00 Virginia González de la Calle, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
The transcription factor BdDOF24 interacts with BdGAMYB and regulates the cathepsin
B-like gene during Brachypodium seed germination
3:20 Pierre Delaplace, University of Liège, Belgium
Rhizobacterial volatile organic compounds modulate biomass production and root
architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. and Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P.
Beauv.
3:40 John Doonan, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Using Natural And Induced Variation In Brachypodium To Study Grain Development
4:00 pm Coffee Break
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