Saturday, 14.05.2011
15:00 - 17:00 Registration
17:00 - 18:00 Reception
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 19:40 Opening
19:40 - 21:10 Session I: Mitochondrial evolution Chair: Ian Small
19:40 - 20:05 Bill Martin: Mitochondria and the energetics of genome complexity
20:05 - 20:30 Franz Lang: Eukaryotic origins - a mitochondrial and bacterial perspective
20:30 - 20:55 Volker Knoop: Plant mitochondrial peculiarities evolving in the earliest vascular plant lineages
20:55 - 21:10 Daniel Sloan: Mutator mitochondria exhibit rapid evolution of genomic obesity in flowering plants
Sunday, 15.05.2011
09:00 - 10:30 Session II: Organellar genomes Chair: Tom Börner
09:00 - 09:25 Sally Mackenzie: Double strand break repair drives mitochondrial genome evolution in plants
09:25 - 09:45 Jose Gualberto: Recombination in the stability, repair and evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes
09:45 - 10:00 Emilia Cincu: Impaired chloroplast and mitochondrial functions affect the abundance of mitochondrial genomes in Arabidopsis and tobacco
10:00 - 10:15 Ying-Thi Xu: MSh1 is a multi-functional protein in plants that alters mitochondrial and plastid properties and response to high light
10:15 - 10:30 Pascal Touzet: Structural and content diversity of mitochondrial genome in gynodioecious beet: a comparative genomic analysis
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session III: Transcription & RNA processing Chair: Linda Bonen
11:00 - 11:25 Thomas Börner: Promoter recognition by phage-type polymerases
11:25 - 11:45 Philippe Giegé: Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins with RNase P activity
11:45 - 12:00 Mamoru Sugita: The moss PPR-DYW proteins are required for RNA editing and RNA splicing of mitochondrial transcripts
12:00 - 12:15 Catherine Colas des Francs-Small: WTF9 is a mitochondrial splicing mutant affected in CytC biogenesis
12:15 - 12:30 Christian Jonietz: Identification of RPF3, a mitochondrial RNA 5' processing factor
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:30 Session IV: Mitochondrial metabolism & signalling Chair: Christoph Peterhänsel
15:00 - 15:25 James Whelan: Defining the regulatory context of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins: forward and reverse genetic approaches
15:25 - 15:50 Veronica Maurino: Degradation of methylglyoxal and lysine is linked to the TCA cycle and the electron transport chain through mitochondrial D-2-hydroacid dehydrogenases
15:50 - 16:15 Hanna Janska: Regulation of bi-genomic biogenesis of the oxidative phosphorylation system in response to a defect in assembly of mitoribosomes
16:15 - 16:30 Iris Finkemeyer: Does lysine acetylation play a role in the regulation of mitochondrial energy metabolism?
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 Poster session I (even poster numbers)
19:00 Dinner
Monday, 16.05.2011
09:00 - 10:30 Session V: Respiration Chair: Harvey Millar
09:00 - 09:25 Daniel Gonzalez: Arabidopsis homologues of mitochondrial copper chaperones SCO1, COX17 and COX19: More than COX assembly factors
09:25 - 09:45 Markus Schwarzländer: Pulsing mitochondria: the dynamics of membrane potential
09:45 - 10:00 Janneke Balk: The role of the Fe-S protein IND(L) in
complex I assembly and additional mitochondrial functions
10:00 - 10:15 Etienne Meyer: Composition and assembly of the membrane arm of Arabidopsis Complex I
10:15 - 10:30 Peter Schertl: L-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase forms part of three distinct complexes in Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondria
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session VI: Alternative respiration & ROS Chair: Ian Max Møller
11:00 - 11:25 Allan Rasmusson: Regulation of cellular pyridine nucleotide redox levels by alternative respiratory pathways
11:25 - 11:50 Tony Moore: The crystal structure of the cyanide-insensitive alternative oxidase at 2.6 Å
11:50 - 12:15 Santiago Ramirez: Regulation of respiration: a role for alternative (metabolic) pathways
12:15 - 12:30 Adriano Nunes-Nesi: Alternative electron donors linking lysine catabolism to the mitochondrial electron transport chain of Arabidopsis
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:25 Session VII: CMS & fertility restoration Chair: Sally Mackenzie
15:00 - 15:25 Françoise Budar: Cytoplasmic diversity and nucleo-cytoplasmic co-adaptation in A. thaliana
15:25 - 15:45 Sota Fujii: Diversifying selection of restorer-like genes reveal a conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes throughout angiosperm history
15:45 - 16:05 Rita Groß-Hardt: Mitochondrial dysfunction in the gametic central cell extends the lifespan of adjacent accessory cells
16:05 - 16:25 Xiaodong Yang: Mitochondrial retrograde regulating nuclear genes expression is probably via ATP-dependent pathway in cytoplasmic male-sterile Brassica juncea
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 Poster session II (odd poster numbers)
19:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Classical concert at the historical church in Mansbach
Tuesday, 17.05.2011
09:00 - 10:30 Session VIII: Mitochondrial stress response Chair: Lee Sweetlove
09:00 - 09:25 Harvey Millar: The key role of Complex II derived reactive oxygen species in influencing plant stress gene regulation and defence
09:25 - 09:50 Ian Max Møller: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and retrograde stress signalling from mitochondria and chloroplasts
09:50 - 10:10 Nicolas Taylor: Chemical and environmental stresses do alter mitochondrial respiratory complex abundance
10:10 - 10:30 Elke Ströher: Knockdown of mitochondrial-located Glutaredoxin S15 reveals a role in tolerance to ETC inhibition and arsenic toxicity
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:35 Session IX: RNA editing Chair: Jose Gualberto
11:00 - 11:25 Ian Small: Species-specific and organelle-specific features of RNA editing in plants
11:25 - 11:45 Mizuki Takenaka: PPR proteins network as site specific recognition factors in plant mitochondria
11:45 - 12:05 Stephane Bentolila: Natural variation in Arabidopsis leads to the identification of two PPR-DYW proteins involved in mitochondrial editing
12:05 - 12:20 Mareike Rüdinger: Early evolution of RNA editing and the DYW-type PPR proteins: the model plant Physcomitrella, the related moss Funaria and the heterolobosean protist Naegleria
12:20 - 12:35 Frank Kempken: Clues for RNA editing from in organello and RNA-binding assays
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 19:00 Excursions
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 18.05.2011
09:00 - 10:30 Session X: Mitochondria & chloroplasts Chair: Allan Rasmusson
09:00 - 09:25 Hermann Bauwe: Photorespiration: efficient, essential and enigmatic
09:25 - 09:50 Christoph Peterhänsel: An alternative mitochondrial glycolate oxidation pathway contributes to photorespiration in higher plants
09:50 - 10:10 Patrick Finnegan: Mitochondrial lipoamide dehydrogenase is a primary target for arsenic toxicity in plants
10:10 - 10:30 Bernhard Grimm: Do exist two parallel pathways of heme biosynthesis in plants?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session XI: Mitochondrial structure, biogenesis & transport Chair: James Whelan
11:00 - 11:25 Elzbieta Glaser: Organellar targeting peptides - sorting and proteolysis
11:25 - 11:50 David Logan: The dynamic plant chondriome: do mitochondrial fusion, fission and positioning underpin cell health?
11:50 - 12:15 Laurence Maréchal-Drouard: A protein shuttle to address nucleic acids into mitochondria
12:15 - 12:30 Monica Murcha: The accumulation of TIM17:23 and complex I in mitochondria are reciprocally regulated in mitochondria from Arabidopsis thaliana
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:30 Session XII: Mitochondrial response to environment Chair: Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti
15:00 - 15:25 David Macherel: Mitochondria and bioenergetics of anhydrobiosis
15:25 - 15:45 Miquel Ribas-Carbo: Environment and in vivo mitochondrial electron partitioning
15:45 - 16:00 Hardy Rolletschek: Seed-specific elevation of non-symbiotic hemoglobin AtHb1: beneficial effects and underlying molecular networks in Arabidopsis thaliana
16:00 - 16:15 Abir U. Igamberdiev: Reactions of plant cytochrome c oxidase with nitrite and nitric oxide and their importance in adaptation to low oxygen
16:15 - 16:30 Brian Mooney: Comparing the mitochondrial proteomes of maize hybrids exhibiting different levels of heterosis
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 Closing discussion:
17:00 - 17:30 Christian Schmitz-Linneweber
17:30 - 19:00 Open discussion
19:00 Conference Dinner