NIAS-COE/PROBRAIN/TOKUTEI Joint International Symposium
Plant Immunity - signalings to acquired resistance -
March 4 (Thursday) and March 5 (Friday), 2004
Tsukuba International Congress Center, Epochal Tsukuba, Middle Hall(200)

Speakers and Titles ( Alphabetical Order)
K. Akimitsu (Kagawa Univ. /TOKUTEI)
"Mechanisms of Specificity Controlling Alternaria and Citrus Interactions"
D. Cook (Univ. California, Davis, USA)
"Defining the genes involved in Nod factor perception in legumes"
S. Dinesh-Kumar (Yale Univ. USA)
"Integrated approaches to study host-pathogen interactions in plants"
X. Dong (Duke Univ. USA)
"Induction mechanism of systemic acquired resistance in plants"
M. Ishikawa (Hokkaido Univ. /TOKUTEI)
"TOM proteins: host factors involved in tobamovirus multiplication"
H. Kaku et al. (NIAS)
"Oligochitin elicitor receptor in the plasma membrane of suspension-cultured rice cells: Characterization and molecular cloning"
M. Kawaguchi (Univ. Tokyo)
"Systemic regulation of symbiosis and organ development in legumes"
T. Kawano et al. (Univ. Kitakyushu, /TOKUTEI)
"Early events in salicylic acid signal transduction: from extracellular oxidative bursts to calcium channel activation"
K. Kuchitsu (Tokyo Univ. Sci. /TOKUTEI)
"Roles of Ca2+ channels in defense signaling"
E. Minami et al. (NIAS)
"Functional analysis of elicitor-responsive genes in defense"
J. Mundy (Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark)
"MAP kinase 4, substrates and effectors in disease resistance"
Y. Ohashi (NIAS/PROBRAIN/TOKUTEI)
"Signalings of hypersensitive reaction and acquired resistance in TMV-infected tobacco plants"
H. Otani et al. (Tottori Univ. /TOKUTEI)
"Host specificity in infection of Alternaria alternata Apple pathotype: Analysis of a susceptibility-related host factor"
J. Parker (Max Plank Inst. Germany)
"Interaction dynamics of immune response regulators in Arabidopsis"
D. Scheel (Inst. Plant Biochem. Germany)
"Non-host resistance of plants against oomycete pathogens"
S. Seo et al. (NIAS/PROBRAIN)
"Terpenoid-mediated defense responses in tobacco mosaic virus-infected and wounded tobacco"
K. Shimamoto (Nara Inst. Sci. Tech.)
"Rac GTPase as a key regulator of defense signaling in rice"
T. Shiraishi et al. (Okayama Univ. /TOKUTEI)
"Signal transmission and defense in the most exterior organelle, plant cell wall"
H. Takahashi (Tohoku Univ. /TOKUTEI)
"Dissection of signaling pathways for the resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus in Arabidopsis"
J. Turner (Univ. East Anglia, England)
"Jasmonate signaling in plant defence"
H. Yoshioka, N. Doke (Nagoya Univ. /TOKUTEI)
"Molecular mechanisms of oxidative burst, a possible role in plant immunity"