NIAS-COE International Symposium

“Plant Metabolism: Molecular Mechanisms and Engineering”

Program updated on October 21, 2002

Tuesday, November 19

 8:50    Registration

 9:55    Mitsue Miyao-Tokutomi (NIAS/COE)

            Opening remarks

Session 1: Primary metabolism in leaves    Session chair: A. Makino

                                                                                    Session vice-chair: R.T. Furbank

10:00   Amane Makino (Tohoku Univ.)

            Introduction

                                                                                    Chair: A. Makino

10:05   Peter Palenchar (New York Univ., USA)

            Genomic approaches to C:N sensing in plants

10:45   Alison M. Smith (John Innes Centre, UK)

            Starch degradation

                                                                                    Chair: T. Yamaya

11:25   Mitsutaka Taniguchi (Nagoya Univ.)

            Identifying and characterizing plastidic malate transporters in C₃ and C₄ plants

11:55   Ulf-Ingo Flügge (Univ. Köln, Germany)

            Plastids and transporters

12:35   Lunch

                                                                                    Chair: R.T. Furbank

13:45   Mitsue Miyao-Tokutomi (NIAS)

            Overproduction of C₄ enzymes in transgenic rice: A biotechnological approach to alter C₃ photosynthesis

14:20   Shigeru Shigeoka (Kinki Univ.)

            Improving photosynthesis and growth by cyanobacterial enzyme in the Calvin cycle

14:55   Discussion

15:10   Coffee / Tea

Session 2: Translocation                              Session chair: H. Usuda

                                                                                    Session vice-chair: U. Sonnewald

15:30   Hideaki Usuda (Teikyo Univ.)

            Introduction

15:35   Norbert Sauer (Univ. Erlangen, Germany)

            Carbohydrate partitioning by transporters and plasmodesmata

16:15   Robert T. Furbank (CSIRO, Australia)

            Sucrose import and metabolism in seeds of crop plants

16:55   Tomoyuki Yamaya (Tohoku Univ.)

            Nitrogen utilization in rice: Genetic manipulation, knock-out mutants, and QTL analysis

17:35   Discussion

18:00   Reception at Tsukuba Sansui-Tei

Wednesday, November 20

Session 3: Metabolism in sink organs                   Session chair: Y. Nakamura

                                                                                                Session vice-chair: A.M. Smith

 9:00    Yasunori Nakamura (Akita Pref. Univ.)

            Introduction

 9:10    Hans Weber (Inst. Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Res., Germany)

            Differentiation of legume cotyledons

 9:50    Fumio Takaiwa (NIAS)

            Development of the production system of foreign proteins using rice seed

10:25   Coffee / Tea

10:50   Uwe Sonnewald (Inst. Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Res., Germany)

            Carbon partitioning during plant development: Characterization and manipulation

11:30   Junji Yamaguchi (Hokkaido Univ.)

            Transport and signal network for carbohydrates and nitrogen compounds in rice

12:05   Discussion

12:20   Lunch

Session 4: Secondary metabolism               Session chair: T. Hashimoto

13:30   Takashi Hashimoto (NAIST)

            Introduction

13:40   Vincenzo De Luca (Brock Univ., Canada)

            The chemistry and biochemistry of cell-type specific factories for indole alkaloid biosynthesis

14:20   Fumihiko Sato (Kyoto Univ.)

            Metabolic engineering of isoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis

15:00   Kazuki Saito (Chiba Univ.)

            Molecular regulation of anthocyanin biosynthesis and accumulation with Perilla frutescens as a model plant

15:40   Discussion

15:55   Closing

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