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Monday, September 12, 2016
| Time | Event | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Welcome coffee - Welcome coffee | |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Welcome by the I2BC director (Auditorium) - Thierry Meinnel | |
| 14:10 - 14:15 | Meeting opening (Auditorium) - Denis Faure, head of the local and scientific committees | |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Introduction (Auditorium) | |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | › Agrobacterium, a bacterium full of surprises - Paul Hooykaas, Leiden University | |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Agrobacterium biofilm and regulation networks (Auditorium) - Franz Narberhaus | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | › Regulation of the motile-to-sessile switch in Agrobacterium tumefaciens - Clay FUQUA, Department of Biology, Indiana University, | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | › Transcriptome analysis revealed that a quorum sensing system regulates the transfer of the At megaplasmid in Agrobacterium tumefaciens - Yves Dessaux, Institut for integrative biology of the cell | |
| 15:50 - 16:35 | Oral presentation of selected posters (Auditorium) | |
| 16:35 - 17:50 | Coffee and Poster session - In the Hall | |
| 17:50 - 18:40 | Agrobacterium biofilm and regulation networks (Auditorium) - Clay Fuqua | |
| 17:50 - 18:20 | › Small RNAs and RNA chaperones in Agrobacterium tumefaciens - Franz Narberhaus, Ruhr University Bochum | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › A regulatory RNA from Ti plasmid coordinates expression of chromosomal operons involved in motility and attachment - Benjamin Diel, Ecologie microbienne, Microbiologie, adaptation et pathogénie | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Buffet (Salle Automne) |
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
| Time | Event | |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Virulence, molecular and cellular processes (Auditorium) - Eliora Ron | |
| 09:50 - 10:20 | › Known plant DNA repair and recombination pathways are not important for T-DNA integration - Stanton Gelvin, Department of Biological Sciences [West Lafayette], Purdue University | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › A phospholipid-methylating enzyme with membrane-deforming ability in Agrobacterium tumefaciens - Meriyem Aktas, Department of Microbial Biology, Faculty of Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break (Hall) | |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Virulence, molecular and cellular processes (Auditorium) - Stan Gelvin | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | › Coping with high temperature: unique regulation in A. tumefaciens - Eliora Z. RON, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechology, MIGAL | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | › A key pyranose-2-phosphate motif is responsible for both antibiotic import and quorum-sensing regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens - solange morera, Institut for integrative biology of the cell | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Buffet (Salle Automne) | |
| 13:40 - 15:00 | Plant response and defense (Salle Automne) - Xavier Nesme | |
| 13:40 - 14:10 | › The interplay between Agrobacterium and the host plant – From the perspective of the host - Rosalia DEEKEN, Julius - von - Sachs Institute of biosciences, Botany 1, Department of Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Wuerzburg | |
| 14:10 - 14:40 | › Roles of MAP Kinase Signaling in Plant-Microbe Interactions - Heribert HIRT, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Paris - Saclay Institute of Plant Sciences | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | › VIP1 and its family members are not important for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation - Lan-Ying Lee, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University | |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Oral presentation of selected posters (Auditorium) | |
| 15:45 - 17:00 | Coffee and Poster session - In the Hall | |
| 17:00 - 17:50 | Agrobacterium Ecology (Auditorium) - Denis Faure | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | › Specific Associations of Agrobacterium vitis and grapevines - Thomas BURR, Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Geneva NY, | |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | › Genomic potential of a new genospecies of oligotrophic Agrobacterium strain isolated from deep within Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico - Michael Savka, Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology | |
| 17:50 - 18:40 | Agrobacterium Ecology (Auditorium) - Tom Burr | |
| 17:50 - 18:20 | › Opine-niche construction and plasmid Ti transfer - Denis FAURE, institut for integrative biology of the cell | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › Characterization of a MarR repressor involved in Agrobacterium fitness in planta - Celine LAVIRE, Ecologie Microbienne | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Buffet (Salle Automne) |
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:10 | Genome biology, taxonomy and evolution (Auditorium) - Rosalia Deeken | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | › The great Agrobacterium bestiary and its hidden ecological adaptations. - Xavier Nesme, Ecologie Microbienne | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | › New insights into the taxonomy of agrobacteria - Nemanja Kuzmanović, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Agriculture | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | › Characterization of the Agrobacterium plasmids by next-generation sequencing - NESRINE NABI, Laboratoire de Génétique, Biodiversité et Valorisation des Bio-ressources | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break (Hall) | |
| 10:40 - 12:15 | Interkingdom gene transfer, biotechnologies (Auditorium) - Leon Otten | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | › T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plant cells - Ann DEPICKER, VIB, UGent | |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | › Towards engineering Agrobacterium for protein transfer - Kirankumar MYSORE, Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, Ardmore, OK 73401 | |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | › Location and Timing of T-DNA Integration Events Identified Using a Next Generation Sequencing Strategy - Theodore Muth, City University of New York - Brooklyn College | |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | › Optimized binary vector design and molecular event characterization increase the efficiency of transformation and consistency of gene expression in corn and sorghum - ANAND AJITH, DuPont Pioneer | |
| 12:15 - 13:50 | Buffet (Salle Automne) | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Interkingdom gene transfer, biotechnologies (Auditorium) - Ann Depicker | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | › Structure and functional analysis of cT-DNAs in the genus Nicotiana - Leon OTTEN, Department of Cell Biology, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | › Visualization of virulence protein translocation from Agrobacterium to yeast and plant cells - M.Reza Roushan, Institute of Biology, Leiden University | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | › Investigating the transcriptomic response of E. adhaerens during the colonization of A. thaliana root tissues - Evelyn Zuniga, The Agriculture and Food Development Authority | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | › An ancient event of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) from Agrobacterium into sweetpotato and its wild relatives. - Dora Quispe-Huamanquispe, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Ghent University | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Closure - End and departure |
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