The Schedule

Registration 17:00 - 18:00

9.00 Welcome

9.30-10.15 Barbara De Coninck

Novel tools to unravel the molecular interaction between plants and rhizogenic agrobacteria driving hairy root formation

10.15-10.35 Lois Banta

Abscisic acid signaling and endoplasmic-reticulum stress responses have opposing impacts on transient transformation of Arabidopsis seedlings by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

10.35-10.55 Benoit Lacroix

Modulation of host-plant DNA damage response activity during Agrobacterium tumefaciens infection

Coffee Break 11.00 to 11.30

11.30-12.15 Alexandra J Weisberg

Evolution and genetic diversity of Agrobacterium and its plasmids 

LUNCH 12.20-13.50

14.00-14.45 Solange Morera

Structure and specificity of opine transporters

14.45-15.05  Céline Lavire

Agrobacterium fabrum type VI secretion system: expression and consequences for competitive plant colonisation 

15.05-15.25 Emily Knebel

Agrobacterium tumefaciens Requires a Global Stress Response for Growth in Complex Media

15.25-15.40 Denis Faure

Tn-seq highlights versatile lifestyle of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

15.40  Conference picture!!!

15.45-16.15 Coffee Break

16.15-16.35 Ephraim Aliu 

Engineering precise large-scale chromosomal deletions in Agrobacterium by crispr rna-guided integrases

16.35-16.55 Lan-Ying Lee 

CRISPR editing and Integration-free T-DNA transfer mediated by Agrobacterium VirD2 mutants

16.55-17.15 Stanton Gelvin

Myosin VIII and XI isoforms interact with Agrobacterium VirE2 protein and help direct its transport from the plasma membrane to the perinuclear region during plant transformation

17.15-17.35 Léon Otten

Extensive natural transformation in the genus Camellia, analysis and distribution of 12 cT-DNA inserts in 72 different species

17.45-19.00 Poster session

19:00 Social dinner

(Le Canapé  de Gif sur Yvette)

9.00 - 9.20 Stanton Gelvin

Transformation of Arabidopsis NHEJ mutants, and regeneration of transgenic DNA polymerase theta mutant rice plants

9.20 - 9.40 Vincent Penneti

Expanding Agrobacterium Strain Lineages for Plant Transformation

9.40-10.00 Hyeon-Je Cho 

Development of efficient marker-free soybean random and gene editing transformations using the novel bacterium Ochrobactrum haywardense h1

10.00-10.20 Clay Fuqua

Complex control of surface attachment and biofilm formation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens 

Coffee Break 10.20 to 10.50

10.50-11.10 Irina Shevyreva

Biochemical characterization of the phospholipid n-methyltransferase PmtA in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

11.10-11.30 Florian Heinrichs 

Synthesis of the headgroup-acylated phospholipid bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

11.45-12.30 Michael Gilmore

Peptidoglycan recycling mediated by an ABC transporter in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

LUNCH 12.40-14.00

14.00-14.45 Mart Krupovic

Domesticated Agrobacterium-like conjugation machinery promotes chromosomal DNA exchange in hyperthermophilic archaea