Program

15:00 - 16:00   Registration

16:00 - 17:00   Keynote I
                           Sascha Martens, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna
                           Mechanisms of Selective Autophagy

17:00 - 19:00   Welcome Reception

19:00 - 19:30   Poster Preview I

19:30 - 21:00   Poster Session I

Session 1 - E3 ligases
09:00 - 09:30   Lior Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel
                           From hormone signaling to rehydration responses: regulatory roles of F-box proteins

09:30 - 10:00   Vicente Rubio, National Center of Biotechnology - CSIC, Spain
                           Hormone-mediated disassembly and inactivation of a plant E3 ubiquitin ligase complex

10:00 - 10:15   Daniel Gibbs, University of Birmingham, UK
                           NOT4 E3 ligases modulate TOR signalling to regulate co-translational protein quality control in plants

10:15 - 10:30   Dior Kelley, Iowa State University, US
                           Leveraging ubiquitinome data to examine transcription factor stability states and predict E3-substrate interactions

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break

Session 2 - N-end rule pathway
11:00 - 11:30   Mike Holdsworth, University of Nottingham, UK
                           The role of the N-degron pathways in plant growth and environmental response

11:30 - 12:00   Frederica Theodoulou, Rothamsted Research Institute, UK
                           Modelling and mapping protein abundance from multi-omic data

12:00 - 12:30   Francesco Licausi, Oxford University, UK
                           H₂O₂-dependent inhibition of ERFVIIs’ sulfinylation enables Arabidopsis to cope with reoxygenation

12:30 - 13:00   Poster Preview II

13:00 - 14:00   Lunch

Session 3 - Autophagy I
14:00 - 14:30   Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
                           Membrane remodeling during endosomal sorting

14:30 - 15:00   Caiji Gao, South China Normal University, China
                           Roles of Canonical and Non-canonical Autophagy in Plant Abiotic Stress Management

15:00 - 15:30   Suayb Üstün, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
                           How to cope with toxic relationships - understanding proteotoxicity during plant stress responses

15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break

Session 4 - Proteostasis I
16:00 - 16:30   Marion Clavel, Max Planck Instiute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
                           Too much of a good thing? How selective autophagy controls plant immunity.

16:30 - 17:00   Marco Trujillo, University of Aachen, Germany
                           Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes – Defining Ubiquitin Signalling and proteome shape  

17:30 - 17:15   Peng Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
                           Proteostasis control of chlorophyll metabolism in land plants

17:15 - 17:30   Markus Wirtz, Heidelberg University, Germany
                           Control of proteostasis and protein aggregation by the ribosome-associated Nα-terminal acetyltransferase complex A

17:30 - 19:00   Dinner

19:00 - 21:00   Poster Sesssion II

Session 5 - Ubiquitin signaling
09:00 - 09:30   Steven Spoel, University of Edinburgh, UK
                           Ubiquitin chains as physical platforms for cell signalling and immunity

09:30 - 10:00   Beatriz Orosa-Puente, University of Edinburgh, UK & CIQUS - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
                           Unravelling plant-pathogen interactomes: A Modelling Odyssey into Ubiquitin Targeting

10:00 - 10:30   Pascal Genschik, CNRS Strasbourg, France
                           Role of the Arabidopsis F-box protein FBL17 in cell cycle control and DNA damage response

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break

Session 6 - Stress signaling and specificity
11:00 - 11:30   Ari Sadanandom, Durham University, UK
                          Generating the SUMO Cell Atlas in Arabidopsis- understanding a PTM coding system in cell signalling

11:30 - 12:00   Maria Lois, CRAC-Barcelona, Spain
                           The role of SUMO in stress and development

12:00 - 12:15   Borja Belda Palazón, IBMCP Valencia, Spain
                           TOR Inhibition Enhances Autophagic Flux and Immune Response in Tomato Plants Against PSTVd Infection

12:15 - 12:30   Sheng Luan, University of California, Berkeley, USA
                           Nutrient status regulates protein stability in plants

ERC Info Session
12:30 - 13:00   Mariam Benjdia, Research Programme Agent, ERC
                           Coordinator of the Cell Biology, Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration panel (LS3)

13:00 - 14:00   Lunch

Session 7 - Autophagy II
14:00 - 14:30   Masonori Izumi, RIKEN, Japan
                           Intracelluar dynamics of macroautophagy for leaf chloroplasts

14:30 - 15:00   Diane Bassham, Iowa State University, USA
                           Role of autophagy in heat stress responses in maize

15:00 - 15:30   Amelie Bernard, CNRS-Bordeaux, France
                          Lipid/protein interplay in membrane formation and remodeling during plant autophagy

15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break

Session 8 - Cellular Quality Control
16:00 - 16:30   Byung-Ho Kang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
                           Voltage-gated anion channels are involved in the selective autophagic removal of depolarized
                              mitochondria in Arabidopsis

16:30 - 17:00   Pablo Pulido, Center for National Biotechnology, Spain
                           Chloroplast retrograde signalling unleashed upon CLP protease disruption

17:00 - 17:15   Simon Michaeli, Volcani Institute - ARO, Israel
                           Tomato Ripening Uncovers the Regulation of Ethylene by Autophagy

17:15 - 17:30   Eleazar Rodriguez, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
                           Clearance EIN3 water Revival: Autophagy regulation of EIN3 during developmental and submergence responses

17:45                 Bus transfer to Dinner location

18:30 - 21:30   Conference Dinner at Heurigen 'Fuhrgassl-Huber'
                           partially sponsored by the City of Vienna
                           

Session 9 - Membrane trafficking
09:00 - 09:30   Alyona Minina, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
                          The Evolution of the ATG4 Protease Role in Autophagy

09:30 - 10:00   Erika Isono, University of Konstanz, Germany
                           Function of ESCRT proteins in autophagy

10:00 - 10:30   Liwen Jiang, Chineses University of Hong Kong, China
                          Membrane Trafficking, Organelle Biogenesis and Protein Homeostasis in Plants 

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break

Session 10 - Proteostasis II
11:00 - 11:30   Christin Naumann, Instiute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany
                           Hide and Seek: Exploring the Role of Autophagy in Root Phosphate Sensing

11:30 - 12:00   Richard Strasser, BOKU Vienna, Austria
                           Elusive steps in glycan-dependent ERAD of soluble misfolded glycoproteins

12:00 - 12:30   Tomáš Werner, University of Graz, Austria
                           Understanding the role of ER-associated degradation in regulating cytokinin responses

12:30 - 12:45   Richard Vierstra, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
                           Proteasomes Accumulate in the Plant Apoplast Where They Participate in Microbe-Associated   
                              Molecular Pattern (MAMP)-Triggered Pathogen Defense

12:45 - 13:00   Evan Forsythe, Oregon State University, USA
                           A functional module of coevolving proteins reveals novel components and cross-compartment
                             connectivity in plant proteostasis systems

13:00 - 14:00   Lunch

14:00 - 15:00   Keynote II
                           Anne Bertolotti, MRC-LMB, UK
                          Therapeutic manipulations of proteostasis: From the bench to the clinic and back

15:00 - 15:30   Award ceremony & closing remarks