PROGRAMME
SATURDAY June 12
14.45-18.00
Registration
Mounting of posters
18.15-18.30
Opening of the Workshop
Gian Paolo Accotto
INTRODUCTORY LECTURES
Chair: Gian Paolo Accotto
18.30-19.10
RNA conformational shifts control translation and replication
of Turnip crinkle virus (O1)
Anne E. Simon
19.10-19.50
Defense, counter-defense and counter-counter-defense: a never
ending tale of RNA silencing (O2)
Olivier Voinnet
20.30
Dinner
22.00-23.00
Mounting of posters
SUNDAY June 13
SESSION: REPLICATION AND TRANSLATION
Chair: K. Andrew White
8.30
Tombusvirus recruitment of the host translational machinery via
the 3’UTR (O3)
K. Andrew White
8.55
Viroid replication: recent insights on the enzymes and ribozymes
involved (O4)
Ricardo Flores
9.20
Geminivirus infection and plant cell cycle controls (O5)
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin
9.45
Host factors required for plant susceptibility to viruses: targets to
improve plant resistance to viruses (O6)
Carole Caranta
10.10
Post-translational modifications of TYMV polymerase
and their role(s) in viral replication (O7)
Isabelle Jupin
10.45-11.15
Coffe break
11.15-12.15
Four short talks (15 min each)
Specific Interaction with Viral RNA Reveals a Novel Role of Hsp90
in the Initiation of Plant Virus Replication (P3)
Y.W. Huang
Quantitation of Potato virus A gene expression under various
conditions gives new insights into the regulation of viral translation
and replication (P4)
K. Mäkinen
The Cauliflower mosaic virus reinitiation factor TAV controls the
TOR signalling pathway (P8)
L. Ryabova
Viral-induced systemic necrosis in plants involves both
programmed cell death and the inhibition of viral multiplication,
which are regulated by independent pathways (P40)
M. Hashimoto
12.30-14.00
Lunch (buffet)
14.00-15.30
Poster session (P1-P20) Presenters standing near their poster
SESSION: PLANT RESPONSE (part I)
Chair: Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar
15.30
Emerging perspectives on the antiviral innate immune response
(O8)
Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar
15.55
Massive production of small RNAs from a non-coding region as a
decoy strategy of Cauliflower mosaic virus to counteract gene
silencing (O9)
Mikhail M. Pooggin
16.20
RNA silencing suppressors and potyviral infections: a complex tale
(O10)
Juan A. García
16.45-17.15
Coffee break
17.15
Multiple effects of silencing the RDR1 gene of tobacco (O11)
Peter Palukaitis
17.40
Toward understanding the mechanisms of tobamovirus replication
complex formation (O12)
Masayuki Ishikawa
18.15
Bus leaving for the Visit to the Fortress of Fenestrelle
20.30
Dinner in the Fortress, with music entertainment
MONDAY June 14
SESSION: PLANT RESPONSE (part II)
Chair: Jari P.T. Valkonen
8.45
Viral Class 1 RNase III enzymes as suppressors of RNA silencing
(O13)
Jari P.T. Valkonen
9.10
The role of TYLCV V2 in suppression of RNA silencing (O14)
Yedidya Gafni
9.35
Mechanisms of argonaute targeting viral suppressors of RNA
silencing (O15)
Jozsef Burgyan
10.00
Viral secondary siRNAs in antiviral silencing (O16)
Shou-Wei Ding
10.25
Organ-specific transcriptional response in tomato systemically
infected by Tomato spotted wilt virus (O17)
Gian Paolo Accotto
11.00-11-30
Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Six short talks (15 min each)
A new potyvirus virulence determinant: the CI C-terminus
modulates pathogenicity of Lettuce mosaic virus in lettuce (P18)
S. German-Retana
Virus-derived small RNAs and their potential to control the
outcome of plant-virus interactions (P23)
C. Llave
Plant virus mediated induction of miR168 is associated with
repression of ARGONAUTE1 accumulation (P19)
Zoltan Havelda
Structural and functional analysis of viral siRNAs (P30)
G. Szittya
Role of C2 during Geminivirus infection: effect on the CSN and
the SCF complexes (P36)
R. Lozano-Duran
RNA silencing in plant-viroid interactions: insights from deep
sequencing of the small RNAs from plants infected by nuclear- and
chloroplast-replicating viroids (P17)
Francesco Di Serio
13.15-14.45
Lunch (buffet)
SESSION: VIRUS / VECTOR INTERACTIONS
Chair: Juan José López-Moya
15.00
Vector transmission mechanisms in two genera of the family
Potyviridae: differences between potyviruses and ipomoviruses
(O18)
Juan José López-Moya
15.25
How can a plant virus “sense” the feeding of its insect vector on the
infected plant and immediately relocate within the cell and
increase its chances of acquisition? (O19)
Stéphane Blanc
15.50
Microarray-based analysis of interactions between Tomato yellow
leaf curl virus and its vector the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (O20)
Henryk Czosnek
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-17.30
Two short talks (15 min each)
What’s new in polerovirus transmission ? (P43)
V. Brault
Facilitation of Bemisia tabaci transmission of Tomato yellow leaf
curl virus by a single symbiotic bacterium (P44)
M. Ghanim
17.40-18.20
EMBO Science & Society Lecture: Communicating science: people
and biology, hopes, expectations and fears
Silvia Rosa-Brusin
18.30
Poster session (P21-P42) Presenters standing near their poster
20.30
Dinner
22.00
Presentation of the next EMBO Workshop
Tasting of local food and spirits, also for sale
TUESDAY June 15
SESSION: MOVEMENT AND TRAFFICKING
Chair: Andrew J. Maule
8.45
Plasmodesmata - Gateways to local and systemic virus infection
(O21)
Andrew J. Maule
9.10
The cell nucleus and plant virus movement (O22)
Michael Taliansky
9.35
Structural and functional insights into tubule-guided virus
movement (O23)
Christophe Ritzenthaler
10.00
Couple-skating Abutilon mosaic virus movement proteins (O24)
Holger Jeske
10.25
Phloem tropism of poleroviruses does not hinge only upon Dicerlike activity (O25)
Véronique Ziegler-Graff
11.00-11-30
Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Poster session (P43-P66) Presenters standing near their poster
13.00
Lunch (buffet)
14.30
Departure from Pracatinat to Torino: visit to the town centre and dinner
22.00
Bus departure from Torino to Pracatinat
WEDNESDAY June 16
SESSION: RECOMBINATION AND EVOLUTION
Chair: Fernando García-Arenal
8.30
Mechanisms and genetic regulation of plant tolerance to virus
infection (O26)
Fernando García-Arenal
8.55
Adaptation process of Rice yellow mottle virus to two alleles of the
eIF(iso)4G-mediated rice resistance (O27)
Denis Fargette
9.20
Variability and evolution rate of plant viruses with a singlestranded DNA genome (O28)
Bruno Gronenborn
9.45
A systems biology approach to dissect the roles of host proteins
in tombusvirus RNA replication (O29)
Peter D. Nagy
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Six short talks (15 min each)
The cytosolic nucleoprotein of the plant-infecting bunyavirus
Tomato spotted wilt is able to recruit ER-resident proteins to ER
export sites (P50)
Richard Kormelink
The intra- and intercellular movement of Melon necrotic spot virus
(MNSV) depends on an active secretory pathway (P51)
Vicente Pallas
Genetic and functional characterization of the RTM-mediated
resistance (P52)
Frédéric Revers
Biological and cellular evaluation of the association of the
movement protein of Tobacco mosaic virus to biological
membranes (P53)
Jesús A. Sánchez-Navarro
Nuclear and chloroplastic viroids replicate with different mutation
rates (P59)
Selma Gago
VPg and HCpro: central players in potyvirus-host interactions
(P29)
Minna-Liisa Rajamäki
13.00
Lunch (buffet)
14.00
Departure of shuttle buses for Torino (airport and city centre)