Workshop - Intracellular Communication in Plants

EMBO workshop

Intercellular Communication in Plant Development and Disease

This workshop is organised under the auspices of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and a number of other sponsors. At the workshop 24 internationally recognised speakers originating from 10 countries will interact with 120 selected participants about the latest discoveries in their field. The workshop is organised by USIAS Fellow 2012 Manfred Heinlein. Among the speakers is USIAS visiting fellow Professor Pat Zambryski from the University of California in Berkeley. 

Plants are sessile organisms that need to respond to changing environments during development. As a result they have evolved unique signalling mechanisms through plasmodesmata that allow rapid communication between different parts of the plant. Communication through plasmodesmata involves the trafficking of informational macromolecules such as transcription factors, gene transcripts, and small RNAs. Moreover, viral pathogens exploit these cell wall channels for intercellular and systemic spread, which often results in serious crop diseases. The EMBO workshop will bring together scientists working on plasmodesmata structure and regulation, plant development, defense signaling, gene silencing, and virus movement.

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