Observe that the program is still prone to changes.
10.00-16.30 Bus transportation from Umeå (arrival)
16.30-18.00 Registration
16.30 Coffee
18.00-18.15 Welcome
18.15-19.30 Dinner
19.30-20.15 Keynote speaker: Chris Overall University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Traveling to the ends of the proteome world. Positional N-terminal and C-terminal proteomics deciphers protein terminal and proteolytic posttranslational modifications in complex proteomes in vivo.
20.15-21.00 Keynote speaker: Peter Bozhkov Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
When the core apoptotic machinery is missing. How do plant cells die?
09.00-09.45 Keynote speaker: Renier van der Hoorn Max Planck Inst. for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Activity profiling of plant proteases: mining for differential activities and pathogen-derived inhibitors
09.45-10.15 Coffee
Session 1: Organellar Proteases
Chairman: Christiane Funk
10.15-11.00 Keynote speaker: Zach Adam Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The thylakoid Deg1 protease - from discovery and initial characterization to structure and function
11.00-11.30 Iwona Adamska University of Konstanz,Germany
DEG proteases and their role in the protein quality control in cell subcompartments
11.30-11.50 Grzegorz Jackowski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Novel physiological functions of chloroplast protease AtDeg5
12.00-15.00 Lunch and Hemavan sightseeing
Session 1 (continues) Organellar Proteases
15.00-15.30 Elzbieta Glaser Stockholm University, Sweden
The organellar peptidasome, PreP: a journey from Arabidopsis to Alzheimer’s disease
15.30-16.00 Hanna Janska University of Wroclaw, Poland
FtsH peptidases in plant mitochondrial homeostasis and cell signaling
16.00-16.30 Coffee
Chairman: Elzbieta Glaser
16.30-17.00 Adrian Clarke Gothenburg University, Sweden
New insights into the chloroplast Clp protease in higher plants
17.00-17.20 Stamatis Rigas Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Complexity of Arabidopsis thaliana Lon1 protease dual targeting to chloroplasts and mitochondria by differential usage of two in-frame AUGs
17.20-17.40 Cory Solheim University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Proteomic and metabolomic characterization of lon1 mutans shows specific molecular responses to protease deficit in Arabidopsis mitochondria
17.40-18.00 Short break
18.00-18.20 Catherine de Vitry CNRS/UPMC, IBPC, Paris, France
FtsH1 protease is a main house-keeper of photosynthetic complexes
18.20-18.40 Xuan Tam Lam Umeå University, Sweden
The distinct functions of Deg proteases in cyanobacterial protein quality control
18.40-19.00 Frida Ståhlberg University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Investigating the interaction specificity between chaperone and proteolytic components of the main Clp protease in cyanobacteria and plants
19.00-20.00 Dinner
20.00- Poster session with wine and snacks
Session 2: Metacaspases and Caspase-like activities
Chairman: Hannele Tuominen
09.00-09.45 Keynote speaker: Frank van Breusegem VIB, Ghent University, Belgium
Emerging roles for Arabidopsis metacaspases.
09.45-10.15 Patrick Gallois University of Manchester, UK
Caspase3-like proteases and plant PCD
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.15 Andrey Vartapetian Moscow State University, Russia
Phytaspase, a plant PCD promoting subtilisin-like protease with caspase specificity
11.15-11.35 Liana Tsiatsiani VIB, Ghent University, Belgium
Unravelling the function of Arabidopsis metacaspases using protease degradomics
11.35-11.55 Amaia Zulet Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Metacaspase and caspase like-activities in pea plants following herbicide treatments that inhibit amino acid biosynthesis
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-17.00 Afternoon Skiing
Session 3: Subtilases
Chairman Laszlo Bako
17.00-17.45 Keynote speaker: Andreas Schaller University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Plant Subtilases-Structure and Function
17.45-18.15 Anna Tan-Wilson State University of New York, Binghamton,USA
Subtilases in Early Seedling Growth
18.15-18.35 Marta Derba-Maceluh UPSC, The Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Functional analysis of a subtilase from Arabidopsis thaliana
18.35-18.55 Vicente Ramírez Universidad Polytécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Involvement and coordinated activation of two Arabidopsis subtilases in plant immunity
19.00-20.00 Dinner
20.00- Poster session
Session 4: Proteases in senescence and cell death
Chairman: Edouard Pesquet
09.00-09.30 Robert Fluhr Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Serpin control of stress-motivated protease processes
09.30-10.00 Christine Gietl Technical University of Munich, Germany
Programmed cell death in Ricinus and Arabidopsis: Function of KDEL-peptidases in development.
10.00-10.20 Arunika Gunawardena Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Lace plant: a novel model system to study developmental programmed cell death
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.20 Stefan Jansson Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden
Regulation of senescence in trees
11.20-11.40 Dani Eshel The Volcani Center, ARO, Israel
Abiotic stresses that alter dormancy and apical dominance phases in potato tubers induce programmed cell death in their apical meristem
11.40-12.00 Elena Minina Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Metacaspase-dependent developmental cell death in plants requires AuTophaGy genes
12.00-13.30 Lunch
Session 5: Proteases in plant growth and development
Chairman: Stefan Jansson
13.30-14.00 Wendy Ann Peer Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
The role of aminopeptidase M1 in root development
14.00-14.20 Jos H. M. Schippers Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
RPA1, a NAC transcription factor that regulates the expression of the 26S proteasome and its impact on plant development
14.20-14.40 Giada Marino Umeå University, Sweden
Characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana matrix metalloprotease family
14.40-15.00 Coffee
Session 6: proteases in other processes
Chairman: Jakob Prestele
15.00-15.45 Keynote speaker: Philip A. Rea University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Phytochelatin synthase: of a protease a peptide polymerase made
15.45-16.05 Melissa Scranton University of California, Riverside, USA
The dueling roles of the tomato leucine aminopeptidases: exopeptidases or molecular chaperones
16.05-16.25 Thomas H. Roberts Macquarie University North Ryde, Sydney, Australia
Structure, mechanism and inhibitory specificity of the serpin family of protease inhibitors in plants
16.25-16.40 A short break
16.40-17.00 Pitter F. Huesgen University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Positional proteomics approaches for protease characterisation & the N-terminome of a diatom
17.00-17.20 Isabel Díaz Centro de Biotecnología y Genomica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Cysteine-proteases and cystatins from barley: molecular and functional characterization in housekeeping and defence processes
17.20-17.40 Lukas Mach University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Degradation of recombinant monoclonal antibodies by plant cysteine proteinases
17.40-18.00 Lone Baekgaard Novozymes, Bagsvaerd, Denmark
Characterization of proteins, peptides and amino acids in malt beer and 100% un-malted barley beer as a measure of preotease activities during brewing
18.00-19.00 Poster session
19.00- Conference Dinner
Session 6: Proteases in xylem and cell wall formation
Chairman: Ewa Mellerowicz
09.00-09.45 Keynote speaker: Eric Beers Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg,USA
Involvement of cysteine proteases XCP1 and XCP2 in tracheary element differentiation
09.45-10.15 Jérôme Pelloux Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Regulation of pectin methylesterases (PMEs) in Arabidopsis: a role for subtilases?
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.15 Edouard Pesquet Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Proteases during xylem-vessel maturation.
11.15-11.35 Benjamin Bollhöner Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Functional characterisation of METACASPASE9 in xylem development
11.35-11.45 Conference closure
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-15.00 Session 5 Poster session
14.55- Coffee to go
15.30 Bus transport (arrival to Umeå 21.40)
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