Workshop Program (updated 08-09-2015):
Thursday, September 17, 2015
08:00-09:00 Registration and refreshments
09:00-09:20 Greetings and opening remarks
* Prof. Ute Roessner, Co-chair
Advances in system biology: Model plants
Chairs: Ute Roessner and Naama Teboul
09:20-09:40 Staffan Persson, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
A mechanism for sustained biomass production during salt stress in Arabidopsis
09:40-10:00 Assaf Mosquna, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Selective activation of ABA receptors
10:00-10:20 Alex Ivakov, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chemical genetics using plants
10:20-10:40 Udi Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
DNA methylation regulates cell competency to regenerate shoot from root
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:30 John Bowman, Monash University, Australia
Evolution of land plants
11:30-11:50 Leor Eshed-Williams, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Phenotypic and transcriptome integrative analysis of shoot meristems from Arabidopsis mutants exhibiting differential phyllotactic pattern
11:50-12:10 Heather Mcfarlane, University of Melbourne, Australia
Cell wall regulation at the trans-Golgi network
12:10-12:30 Oded Pri Tal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Brachypodium distachyon as a model for agonists screen
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Poster session
Advances in system biology: Crop plants
Chairs: Assaf Mosquna and Amrita Dutta
14:30-14:50 Michael Tausz, University of Melbourne, Australia
Functional traits in dryland crops grown under elevated CO2
14:50-15:10 Hanan Sela, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Toeward wild emmer wheat genome assembly
15:10-15:30 Camilla Hill, University of Melbourne, Australia
Integration of metabolomic with genomic data for system-level studies in wheat and barley
15:30-15:50 Simon Rochfort, Biosciences Research, Australia
Metabolomic and proteomic analysis of wheat subjected to water limitation during grain fill
15:50-16:10 Boaz Negin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The evolution of ABA's roles in water use efficiency regulation- from conserved
biochemical mechanisms to stomatal regulation
16:10-16:30 Veronica Lui, University of Melbourne, Australia
Understanding salt tolerant barley using metabolomics
16:30-16:50 Open discussion
17:00-18:00 Joint Australia-Israel Agricultural Relationship
Convener & Chair: Prof. Shahal Abbo, Head of the Institute Plant Sciences & Genetics, HUJ.
Greeting:
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Mr. Grahame Leonard AM, President, Australian Friends of the Hebrew University
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Prof. Leon Mann, University of Melbourne
Brief presentation and panel discussion:
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A/Prof. Ute Roessner, University of Melbourne
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Dr. Zvi Peleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Prof. Yehoshua Saranga, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Prof. Michael Tausz, University of Melbourne
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Prof. Stephen Tyerman, University of Adelaide, Australia
18:30 Reception
Friday, September 18, 2015
Exploring wild relatives of crop plants
Chairs: Yehoshua Saranga and Veronica Lui
09:00-09:20 Shahal Abbo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Studies on wild relatives of grain legumes; implications to modern cropping systems
09:20-09:40 Guy Golan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Genetic evidence for differential selection of grain and embryo weight during wheat evolution under domestication
09:40-10:00 Gideon Grafi, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Wild emmer wheat: Life and death by endonucleases
10:00-10:20 Lianne Merchuk-Ovnat, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Introgression of QTLs from wild emmer wheat improves drought resistance of modern
wheat cultivars
10:20-10:40 Open discussion
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
New approaches for crops phenotyping
Chairs: Zvi Peleg and Daniel Sarabia
11:10-11:30 Menachem Moshelion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Can we bridge the genotype–phenotype gap in breeding for plant tolerance to abiotic stress?
11:30-11:50 Rudy Dolferus, CSIRO, Australia
Phenotyping reproductive abiotic stress tolerance in wheat
11:50-12:10 Bettina Berger, University of Adelaide, Australia
High-throughput phenotyping at The Plant Accelerator to dissect complex traits in cereals
12:10-12:30 Harkamal Walia, University of Nebraska, USA
Image-based phenomics approach for salinity tolerance in rice
12:30-12:50 Open Disscussion
12:50-14:00 Lunch
Implementing system biology in crop breeding
Chairs: Camilla Hill and Guy Golan
14:00-14:20 Zvi Peleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Environmental stress combinations elicit differential plant adaptation pathways
14:20-14:40 Sabine Tausz-Posch, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nitrogen remobilisation during the grain-filling period in wheat: How is it affected by elevated CO2?
14:40-15:00 Roi Ben David, Agricultural Research Organization-Volcani, Israel
Yield jump-off: Breeding for early vigour in wheat
15:00-15:20 Maor Matzrafi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
How herbicide temperature-dependent response can affect resistance evolution
15:20-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-16:10 Stephen Tyerman, University of Adelaide, Australia
GABA signalling modulates plant growth by directly regulating the activity of plant- specific anion transporters
16:10-16:30 Yehoshua Saranga, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
QTL introgression for improving abiotic stress resistance in crop plants
14:30-14:50 Amrita Dutta, University of Melbourne, Australia
Does overexpression of pyrophosphatase increase early seedling vigour and salinity
tolerance of barley?
16:50-17:10 Helale Bahrami, University of Melbourne, Australia
How do root traits of wheat cultivars respond to different CO2 and nitrogen supply?
17:10-17:40 Open discussion