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LVI SIGA Annual Congress

Perugia,  17-20 September 2012

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Scientific Programme


MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th
13:00 - 15:00 Registration and poster display
15:00 - 16:00 Opening ceremony
Welcome address by Academic and Local Authorities

Official Opening
Blanco A., President of SIGA - Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics
16:00 – 19:30 Session 1 – Plant reproduction for crop improvement
                   (in collaboration with COST Action FA0903)
Chairpersons: Albertini E., Sharbel T.F.
16:00 – 16:30 Invited Lecture
Koltunow A.
Unravelling apomixis: asexual seed formation for agricultural crop improvement
16:30 – 16:45 Cremona G., Aiese Cigliano R., Termolino P., Paparo R., Consiglio M.F., Conicella C.
Histone hyperacetilation affects recombination in Arabidopsis male meiosis
16:45 – 17:00 Albertini E., Marconi G., Conner J., Galla G., Masiero S., Sharbel T.F., Colombo L., Barcaccia G., Ozias-Akins P., Falcinelli M.
Differential expression in sexual and apomictic genotypes of three model species strengthens a crucial role of apostart in the formation of seeds by apomixis
17:00 – 17:30 Invited Lecture
Lawit S.
Dupont Pioneer's paths towards self-reproducing hybrids
17:30 – 18:30 Coffee break & Poster presentation
(Session 1 and Session 2)
18:30 – 19:00 Invited Lecture
Mercier R.
FANCM limits meiotic crossover
19:00 – 19:30 General Discussion
20:00 Welcome cocktail

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th
08:30 – 12:30 Parallel Session 1 (Cont) – Plant reproduction for crop improvement (cont.)
                                                   (in collaboration with COST Action FA0903)
Chairpersons: Koltunow A., Mazzucato A.
08:30 – 09:00 Invited Lecture
Sharbel T.F.
Evolutionary approaches to deciphering the functional switch from sexual to asexual (apomictic) reproduction in natural plant populations
09:00 – 09:30 Invited Lecture
Bouzayen M.
ARF and Aux/IAA proteins in the developmental transition leading to fruit set in tomato
09:30 – 09:45 Galla G., Sharbel T.F., Barcaccia G.
De novo sequencing and annotation of the Hypericum perforatum flower transcriptome
09:45 – 10:00 Mascheretti I., Rossi V.
The role of the chromatin remodelling factor nfc102 in the maize flowering pathway
10:00 – 11:30 Coffee break & Poster presentation
(Session 3)
  11:30 – 11:45 Mizzotti C., Mendes M.A., Caporali E., Schnittger A., Kater M.M., Battaglia R., Colombo L.
Maternal control of fertilization and seed development
11:45 – 12:00 Cecchetti V., Petrocelli V., Falasca G., Altamura M.M., Costantino P., Cardarelli M.
Auxin and jasmonic acid interaction in the control of late stamen development in Arabidopsis thaliana
12:00 – 12:30 General Discussion
 
08:30 – 12:30 Parallel Session 2 – New insight into plant transgenic world
Chairpersons: Allavena A., Filippone E.
08:30 – 09:00 Invited Lecture
Daniell H.
Recent advances in chloroplast genetic engineering for non-food applications
09:00 – 09:15 Rosellini D., Ferradini N., Nicolia A., Veronesi F.
Selectable marker genes: innovations for the next generation of genetically modified crops
09:15 – 09:30 Avesani L., Merlin M., Gecchele E., Falorni A., Pezzotti M.
Perspectives for autoimmune diabetes prevention using plants
09:30 – 09:45 Pompa A., De Marchis F., Paciotti S., Persichetti E., Bellucci M.
Use of tobacco plants as bioreactors for the production of human enzymes
09:45 – 10:00 Egidi E., Janni M., Sestili F., Ceriotti A., D’Ovidio R., Lafiandra D., Kasarda D.D., Vensel W.H., Masci S.
Production of wheat transgenic plants to unravel the mechanism of the maturation process of LMW-GS
10:00 – 11:30 Coffee break & Poster presentation
(Session 3)
  11:30 – 11:45 Moscetti I., Tundo S., Janni M., Sella L., Gazzetti K., Giardina T., Favaron F., D’Ovidio R.
Overexpression of the xylanase inhibitor TAXI-III reduces Fusarium head blight symptoms in durum wheat
11:45 – 12:00 Coppola M., Conesa A., Corrado G., Rao R.
PPIs network of transgenic tomato plants constitutively expressing prosystemin
12:00 – 12:30 General Discussion
 
12:30 – 13:00 SIGA Young Researcher Awards - 2012
Chairpersons: Blanco A., Filippone E.
12:30 – 12:45 "Francesco D'Amato" Award for Agricultural Genetics
Guerra D.
Identification of a protein network interacting with TdRF1, a wheat RING ubiquitin ligase with a protective role against cellular dehydration
12:45 – 13:00 "Francesco Sala" Award for Plant Breeding
Pinosio S.
Large-scale detection of rare variants via pooled multiplexed next-generation sequencing: towards next generation Ecotilling
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 17:00 Session 3 – New routes to biodiversity
Chairpersons: Baldoni L., Pecchioni N.
14:30 – 15:00 Invited Lecture
Springer N.M.
Genomic and epigenomic variation among maize inbreds
15:00 – 15:15 Bulgarelli D., Rott M., Schlaeppi K., Ver Loren Van Theemat E., Schulze-Lefert P.
Revealing the structure and assembly cues for Arabidopsis root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota
15:15 – 15:30 Venturini L., Ferrarini A., Zenoni S., Tornielli G.B., Fasoli M., Buson G., Tononi P., Zago E., Zamperin G., Minio A., Pezzotti M., Delledonne M.
De novo assembly of transcriptome for improvement of reference annotation and identification of varietal diversity
15:30 – 15:45 Acquadro A., Scaglione D., Portis E., Lai Z., Knapp S.J., Rieseberg L., Lanteri S.
Next-Generation Sequencing in Cynara cardunculus: transcriptome analysis and SNP discovery across domestic and wild taxa
15:45 – 16:00 Biagetti E., Ferrarini A., Benazzo A., Bellucci E., Bitocchi E., Giardini A., Minio A., Rau D., Rodriguez M., Attene G., Bertorelle G., Delledonne M., Nanni L., Papa R.
Tagging the signature of domestication in the common bean using RNA-Seq genotyping
16:00 – 16:15 Palombieri S., Botticella E., Sestili F., Massi A., Mantovani P., Bovina R., Lafiandra D.
Optimization of a durum wheat TILLING platform to improve grain yield and quality
16:15 – 16:30 Ercolano M.R., Ferriello F., Sacco A., D’Alessandro R., Minio A., Venturini L., Ferrarini A., Barone A., Delledonne M., Frusciante L.
Tomato 'San Marzano' and 'Vesuviano' secrets revealed by genome sequencing
16:30 – 17:00 General Discussion
17:00 – 18:30 Coffee break & Poster presentation
(Session 4 and Session 6)
18:30 – 20:30 SIGA General Assembly

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th
08:30 – 10:30 Session 4 – Heterosis and QTLs: theory and practice
Chairpersons: Barcaccia G., Frascaroli E.
08:30 – 09:00 Invited Lecture
Zamir D.
Where have all the QTL gone?
09:00 – 09:15 Pea G., Pè M.E., Landi P., Frascaroli E.
Toward the fine mapping of a heterotic locus in mais
09:15 – 09:30 Rey N.A., Saccardo F., Pagnotta M.A.
Assessment of the genetic stability in globe artichoke hybrids and evaluation of their parents by means of SSR molecular markers
09:30 – 09:45 Graziani M., Maccaferri M., Salvi S., Paux E., Feuillet C., Sanguineti M.C., Massi A., Tuberosa R.
Progress in the positional cloning of QYld.idw-3B, a major QTL for grain yield in durum wheat
09:45 – 10:00 Giuliano G., Frusciante L., Valle G.
Tomato QTL breeding: leads from the genome sequence
10:00 – 10:30 General Discussion
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee break & Poster presentation
(from poster 7.01 to poster 7.20)
11:30 – 13:00 Session 5 – Plant synthetic biology
Chairpersons: Faccioli P., Giuliano G.
11:30 – 12:00 Invited Lecture
di Bernardo D.
Synthetic Biology: a perspective from mammals
12:00 – 12:15 Di Salle P., Colantuono C., Gallo C., Traini A., Frusciante L., Chiusano M.L.
Modeling molecular pathways based on gene expression and social network analyses: an example from Arabidopsis thaliana
12:15 – 12:30 Colaiacovo M., Marchisio M.A., Stelling J., Caselle M., Faccioli P.
miRNA-mediated regulatory circuits in peach: computational identification and dynamic simulation with a synthetic biology approach
12:30 – 13:00 General Discussion
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 – 17:00 Session 6 – Functional Foods
                       (in collaboration with INRAN)
Chairpersons: Cardi T., Morelli G.
15:00 – 15:30 Invited Lecture
Ferguson L.R.
Functional foods to reduce inflammation
15:30 – 15:45 Ficco D.B.M., De Vita P., Luciani A., Vincentini O., Pettoello-Mantovani M., Silano M., Maiuri L., Cattivelli L.
A decapeptide from Ω-secalin prevents the pathogenic inflammatory immune response of celiac disease
15:45 – 16:00 Baima S., Maldini M., Natella F., Giusti A., Scaccini C., Morelli G.
Improvement of broccoli sprouts nutritional value through manipulation of growth conditions
16:00 – 16:15 Lago C., Landoni M., Doria E., Nielsen E., Pilu R.
Constitution and study of a novel functional food: purple popcorn
16:15 – 16:30 Stanca A.M., Tumino G., Baronchelli M., Pagani D., Reggiani F., Morcia C., Finocchiaro F., Ferrari B., Gianinetti A., Terzi V., Rizza F., Dimberg L., Germeier C.
Genetic analysis of functional compounds in small grain cereals
16:30 – 17:00 General Discussion
17:00 – 18:30 Coffee break & Poster presentation
(from poster 7.21 to poster 7.62)
18:30 Poster removal
19:30 Social event: concert  (Basilica S. Pietro)
20:00 Social dinner & SIGA Poster Presentation Awards (Facoltà di Agraria)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
09:00 – 11:00 Symposium "Genomics of Quantitative Traits: from QTL to genes"
Chairpersons: Blanco A., Tuberosa R.
  Invited Lectures
09:00 – 09:30 Yu J.
Association mapping of genetic resources: achievement and future perspectives
09:30 – 10:00 Pecchioni N.
Adaptation to environment in diploid barley: from quantitatively inherited traits to QTLs and genes?
10:00 – 10:30 Grando M.S.
From a major QTL for monoterpene content in grape berries to functional validation of positional candidate gene VvDXS
10:30 – 11:00 Salse J.
Paleogenomics in plants: modeling of ancestors for modern species improvement
11:00 – 11:30 Closing ceremony
Blanco A., President of SIGA - Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics