2:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Arrival and Check-in

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:20 am

J.-P. Latgé (Paris, France)
The fungal cell wall polysaccharidome

9:20 am – 9:40 am

M. Hahn (Athens, USA)
Structural and immunological studies of pectins and hemicelluloses in plant cell walls

9:40 am – 10:00 am

F. Klis (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Dynamics of the fungal cell wall proteome

10:00 am – 10:20 am

J.P. Knox (Leeds, UK)
Dynamics and diversity of plant cell wall glycans and cell development

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 am – 11:20 am

M.-C. Ralet (Nantes, France)
Structure-function studies of pectins

11:20 am – 11:40 am

J. Arroyo (Madrid, Spain)
Cell wall remodelling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae stressed cells

11:40 am – 12:00 am

Mami Konomi (Tokyo, Japan)
Ultrastructure of Yeast cell wall revealed by electron microscopy

12:00 am – 12:20 am

V. Morris (Norwich,UK)
Atomic force microcopy to study cell wall polymer structures

12:30 am – 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm

B. Henrissat (Marseille, France)
Carbohydrate-active enzymes in fungal and plant genomes

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm

V. Bulone (Stockholm, Sweden)
(1,3)-ß-D-glucan and cellulose biosynthesis in plants and in the Oomycete Saprolegnia monoica

2:40 pm – 3:00 pm

A. Bacic (Melbourne, Australia)
Biosynthesis and regulation of cell wall ß-glucans in plants

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm

J.C. Ribas (Salamanca, Spain)
Essential functions in septum and cell wall construction of the Bgs family of (1,3)-ß-D-glucan synthase catalytic subunits from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm

Coffee break

3:50 pm – 4:10 pm

M. Pauly (Golm, Germany)
Identification and characterisation of plant cell wall mutants using a glycosylhydrolase screen

4:10 pm – 4:30 pm

C.R. Vazquez de Aldana (Salamanca, Spain)
Glycoside hydrolases and glucanosyl transferases in S. pombe

4:30 pm – 4:50 pm

S. Persson (Stanford, USA)
Discrete functional roles for cellulose synthase A (CESA) genes during pollen maturation and root development

4:50 pm – 5:10 pm

D. Mohnen (Athens, GA, USA)
Pectin synthesis

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Dinner

9:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Posters with beers

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:20 am

S. Turner (Manchester, UK)
Carbohydrate synthesis in the Arabidopsis secondary cell wall

9:20 am – 9:40 am

N.A.R. Gow (Aberdeen, UK)
The chitin skeleton of Candida albicans: biosynthesis and regulation under stress

9:40 am – 10:00 am

C. Roncero (Salamanca, Spain)
Chitin synthesis regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

10:00 am – 10:20 am

S. Fry (Edinburgh, UK)
A novel dual-radiolabelling approach to studying the competing pathways of NDP-sugar biosynthesis in vivo

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 am – 11:20 am

H. Horiuchi (Tokyo, Japan)
Functional dissection of the chitin synthase system for the growth and morphogenesis of Aspergillus nidulans

11:20 am – 11:40 am

M. Azuma (Osaka, Japan)
Characterization of yeast mutants with a defect in cell surface structure and their application to various fields

11:40 am – 12:00 am

P. Dupree (Cambridge, UK)
Golgi proteomics to study cell wall polysaccharide synthesis in plants

12:00 am – 12:20 am

G. Fincher (Adelaide, Australia)
Structure-function studies of xyloglucan transglycosylases / hydrolases

12:30 am – 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm

Y.Ohya (Tokyo, Japan)
Yeast cell cycle checkpoint that monitors cell wall synthesis

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm

C. Boone (Toronto, Canada)
A combined computational and experimental approach for a functional interaction map of yeast

2:40 pm – 3:00 pm

J.M. François (Toulouse, France)
Tools and identification of cell wall proteins-cell wall polysaccharide interactomics

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm

R. Calderone (Washington DC, USA)
The histidine kinase Chk1p and cell wall synthesis in Candida albicans

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm

Coffee break

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Talks from FEMS grantees

• C. Bermejo (Madrid, Spain)
• E. Danchin (Marseille, France)
• A. Gastebois (Paris, France)
• A. Gomez (Salamanca, Spain)
• R. Hurtado Guerrero (Dundee, Scotland, UK)
• V. Kumar (Mysore, India)
• O. Lerouxel (Versailles, France)
• E. Ragni (Milano, Italy)
• J. Romano (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
• V. Seidl (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
• A. Vos (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  

8:00 pm

Gala Dinner

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:20 am

H. Höfte (Versailles, France)
Coordination between cell wall synthesis and growth in plants

9:20 am – 9:40 am

B.G. Wasteneys (Vancouver, Canada)
The role of the cytoskeleton in cell wall deposition

9:40 am – 10:00 am

H. Fukuda (Tokyo, Japan)
Signaling involved in xylogenesis

10:00 am – 10:20 am

M. Molina (Madrid, Spain)
Cell wall salvage pathways

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 am – 11:20 am

M. Terrak (Liege, Belgium)
Bacterial cell wall biosynthesis

11:20 am – 11:40 am

H. Merzendorfer (Osnabrück, Germany)
Chitin synthesis in insects: lessons from the midgut of the tobacco hornworm

11:40 am – 12:00 am

V. Eijsink (As, Norway)
Structure-function studies of enzymes and proteins involved in chitin turnover

12:00 am – 12:20 am

N. Ohno (Tokyo, Japan)
Contribution of Dectin-1 on Immunomodulating Effect of Soluble beta-Glucan SCG in Mice

12:30 am – 2:00 pm

Lunch

FREE AFTERNOON

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Dinner

9:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Posters with beers

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:20 am

D. Poulain (Lille, France)
Structure / biological activity of ß1,2 linked mannoses and their association to a wide range of carrier molecules are under the control of a new family of mannosyl transferases

9:20 am – 9:40 am

H. Shimoi (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan)
A cell wall protein involved in cell surface hydrophobicity and foam formation of sake yeast

9:40 am – 10:00 am

D. Perlin (Newark, USA)
Antifungals blocking cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis

10:00 am – 10:20 am

S. McQueen-Mason (York, UK)
Varied functional roles for arabinans in plant cell walls

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 am – 11:20 am

S. Merino (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Biomass conversion and plant cell walls

11:20 am – 11:40 am

W. Helbert (Roscoff, France)
Heterogeneous phase biodegradation of cell wall polysaccharides: case of the carrageenan / carrageenase systems

11:40 am – 12:00 am

F. Meulewaeter (Ghent, Belgium)
Improved reactivity of cotton fiber through accumulation of cationic polymers in the fiber cell wall

12:00 am – 12:20 am

D. van Aalten (Dundee, UK)
Structure and function of chitin deacetylases

12:20 am – 12:40 pm

S. Strahl (Heidelberg, Germany)
O-Mannosylation

12: 40 am – 1:00 pm

W. Steinbach (Durham, NC, USA)
Echinocandin antifungals and other ways to inhibit ß1,3 glucan synthesis

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Lunch