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BSPP2011: The Impact of Bioactive Small Molecules in Plant Pathology
15th December 2011 - 16th December 2011
President: George Salmond
We have lined up an exciting list of speakers who will address the topics of how microbes use small molecules in their assault on plant hosts, how plants retaliate with their own molecular arsenal, and how small bioactive molecules may be identified and exploited in disease control.
We encourage contributions from student and early career plant pathologists. The P.H. Gregory Prize will be awarded at the meeting for the best presentation made by a post-graduate or early career postdoctoral speaker, and the J. Colhoun Poster Prize will be awarded to the best poster from a post-graduate student. This year the P.H. Gregory Prize and J. Colhoun competitions will be held on 15 December, the day prior to presentations from invited speakers. A special registration rate for post-graduate members of the society is available to encourage the widest possible involvement.
Registration and accomodation costs
BSPP members – £110
BSPP student members – FREE
Non-members – £170
Student non-members – £80
Day registration only – £40-110 (depending on day and BSPP membership)
Accommodation at Clare College 15 Dec – £73
Accommodation at Clare College 16 Dec – £73
BSPP Presidential Dinner – £45
For student members of BSPP, there is a reduced rate available for the Presidential Dinner, at £30.
Provisonal Programme
| 15th December – Garrett Lecture & Student Competitions | |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch & Registration |
| 14.00-14.05 | Welcome & Introduction – G. Salmond |
| 14.05-14.45 | The Garrett Memorial Lecture – Stephen Farrand (Illinois, USA) “Rhizosphere wars: a tale of three plasmids“ |
| 14.50-17.15 | PH Gregory Prize (oral) Competition |
| 17.30-19.00 | Poster Competition Session (networking, drinks and nibbles) |
| 19.30- | Society Dinner in the Great Hall, Clare College |
| 16th December – Main Symposium | |
| 09.00-09.50 | Keynote Lecture – Gary Strobel (Montana, USA) “The biological and biotechnical promise of endophytes” |
| 09.50-10.20 | Joyce Loper (USA) “Genomics-guided discovery of traits in biological control strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens“ |
| 10.20-10.50 | Robert Cichewicz (Oklahoma, USA) “Fungal natural products in the modern age – new prospects and promises” |
| COFFEE | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Murray Grant (Exeter, UK) “Towards understanding bacterial effector mediated metabolic reconfiguration during disease development” |
| 11.45-12.15 | Gillian Turgeon (Cornell, USA) “Comparative genomics, distribution, and functional analysis of fungal genes associated with secondary metabolite production” |
| LUNCH | |
| 13.45-14.15 | Alan Slusarenko (Aachen, Germany) “How does the garlic phytoanticipin ‘allicin’ kill cells?” |
| 14.15-14.45 | Monika Hofte (Belgium) “Role of cyclic lipopeptides produced by Pseudomonas spp. in pathogenicity and biocontrol” |
| 14.45-15.10 | Leo Eberl (Zurich, Switzerland) “Bacterial cell-to-cell chemical communication in the rhizosphere” |
| TEA | |
| 15.35-16.05 | Max Dow (Cork, Ireland) “Cyclic di-GMP as a second messenger linking cell-cell signalling to virulence in Xanthomonas campestris“ |
| 16.05-16.35 | Robert Dudler (Zurich, Switzerland) “Biology of syringolin A, a Pseudomonas virulence factor that inhibits the eukaryotic proteasome” |
| 16.35-17.05 | Presidential address G. Salmond (Cambridge, UK) |
| Final comments & Close of meeting / Networking & Free evening in Cambridge | |
| 17th December | |
| Breakfast & Depart | |
