VI Annual Meeting of the Plant Genetics and Biotechnology Network
Di Fabiana Alfieri In Non categorizzato Il 26 Aprile 2017
Plant microbiomes: new tools for crop improvement
Università della Tuscia, Vitorchiano (VT), June 20-23/ 2017
Tuesday, 20th June
13.00 – 13.45 Registration of participants
13.45 – 14.00 Opening remarks
14.00-14.50 CIB Lecture (to be confirmed)
- Session I: Symbiogenesis and holobionts
15.00-15.45 What we have learned from the human microbiome (Simone Guglielmetti, Università di Milano, I)
15.45- 16.30 Secondary metabolites involved in plant – beneficial microbe-pathogen- interactions (Francesco Vinale, CNR- Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Portici, I)
16.30- 17.15 Beneficial role of microbes in plant-insect interaction (Ana Pineda, Wageningen University, NL)
17.15-17.45 General discussion
19.30 Dinner
Wednesday, 21st June
- Session II: The plant microbiomes
9.00-9.45 Defining the host control of the rhizosphere bacterial microbiota (Davide Bulgarelli, University of Dundee, UK)
9.45-10.30 Plant associated microbiomes (Alessio Mengoni, Università di Firenze, I)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.45 Plant Innate Immunity and plant microbiota (Giulia De Lorenzo, Università di Roma 1, Italy)
11.45 -12.15 General discussion
13.00 Lunch
- Session III: Contribution of microbiomes to plant life
15-15.45 Root microbiota in plant productivity (Philip Pole University of Oxford, UK)
15.45-16.30 How can we modify the plant microbiomes? (Brigitte Mitter, Austrian Institute of Technology, A)
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00- 17.45 Insects as metaorganisms (Francesco Pennacchio, Università di Napoli, I)
17.45-18-30 Bacteria feeding and protecting plants (Roberto Defez, CNR- Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse, Napoli, I)
18.30- 19.00 General discussion
19.30 Dinner
Thursday, 22nd June
- Session IV: Microbiota and sustainable agriculture
9.00-9.45 Microbiome and plant breeding (Gabriele Berg, Graz University of Technology, A)
9.45-10.30 How plant domestication impact on rhizosphere microbiome (Viviane Cordovez, Netherlands Institute of Ecology)
10.30-11.00 General discussion
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15 CIB lecture: Endogenosymbiosis and evolution of plant diversity (Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Tomsk State University, Russia to be confirmed)
- Session V: Attendees presentations
12.15- 13.15 four presentations
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Tour and free dinner
Friday, 23rd June
9.00-9.45 Signaling in the rhizosphere (Vittorio Venturi, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, I)
- Session V: Attendees presentations
9.45 -11.00 five presentations
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 two presentations
12.00-12.30 General discussion
13.00 Lunch
- Session VI: microbiota and bio-industry
14.30-15.15 Exploitation of environmental microbial biodiversity for industrial utilization (Marina Basaglia, Università di Padova, I)
15.15 – 16.00 Microbial biodiversity for agricultural and environmental sustainability (Valeria Ventorino, Università di Napoli, I)
16.00-16.30 General discussion
16.30- 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 -19.00 Test for attendees and course evaluation
19.30 Dinner