MONDAY 26th JANUARY

9:15 – 9:30 Registration 9:30-9:50 Giorgio M. Giacometti, IVSLA School Director Welcome Addresses Franco Gambale, Scientific Director Presentation of the program Session “Experimental techniques applied to ion transport in plants” Chair: Franco Gambale

9:50 - 10:50 Ulrich Schurr, Germany An integrated approach to the quantification of dynamics of growth and transport

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Helene Barbier-Brygoo, France Proteomics for ion transport in plants - Lunch - 15:00 – 16:00 Franco Gambale Eectrophysiology: a precious tool for investigating ion channels

Session “Plant transporters” Chair: Helene Barbier-Brygoo

16:10 – 17:10 Doris Rentsch, Switzerland Transport of aminoacids and peptides

TUESDAY 27th JANUARY

9:20 - 10:20 Enrico Martinoia, Switzerland ABC transporters

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 – 11:50 Alexis De Angeli, Italy The anion NO3-/H+ antiporter in Arabidopsis thaliana vacuoles Session “Ion transport in plant vacuoles I” Chair: Alessandro Vitale 12:00 – 13:00 Dale Sanders, U.K Vacuolar cation transport

- Lunch - 15:00 – 17:30 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY 28th JANUARY

Session “Ion transport in plant vacuoles II” Chair: Dirk Becker

9:20 – 10:20 Enrico Martinoia, Switzerland Vacuolar anion transport

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break 10:50 – 11:50 Nobuyuki Uozumi, Japan Characterization of vacuolar channels in heterologous expression systems 12:00 – 13:00 Rainer Hedrich, Germany Regulation of vacuolar ion channels via protein-protein interaction

- Lunch - - Afternoon free

THURSDAY 29th JANUARY

Session: “Primordial ion channels” Chair: Martin Fellner 9:20 – 10:20 Anna Moroni, Italy Viral encoded channels

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break 10:50 – 11:50 Ildikò Szabò, Italy Cyanobacterial channels Session “Ion transport regulation” Chair: Dale Sanders

12:00 – 13:00 Martin Fellner, Czech Republic Mechanisms of auxin action

- Lunch - 15:20 – 16:20 Alessandro Vitale, Italy Protein targeting in plants

Session “Active transporters in plant cells” Chair: Dale Sanders 16:30 – 17:30 * Michael Gjedde Palmgren, Denmark Recent progresses on the plasma membrane proton pump

FRIDAY 30th JANUARY

Special session “Training opportunities in Europe” Chair: Giorgio Giacometti

9:20 – 10:20 Nicoletta Palazzo, Italy Opportunities for training and research in Europe

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break 10:50 – 11:50 Special lecture Chair: Franco Gambale Alberto Diaspro, Italy Perspectives in fluorescence microscopy applied to biological specimens

12:00 – 13:00 *(If needed this session may be postponed to Friday 30th)

Scientific Committee Giovanni Felice Azzone, IVSLA and University of Padua Armando Carpaneto, Institut of Biophysics, CNR, Genova Giovanni Giacometti, IVSLA and University of Padua Scientific coordinator of the School Franco Gambale Institute of Biophysics, CNR, Via De Marini 6, 16149 – Genova, Italy Director of the School Giorgio M. Giacometti Department of Biology University of Padua, Italy Via U. Bassi, 58/B, 35121 Padua Italy Lecturers & Chairs Dirk Becker Julius-von-Sachs-Institut Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie & Biophysik Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2, 97082 Wuerzburg, Germany Hélène Barbier-Brygoo Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 GIF-SUR-YVETTE Cedex France Armando Carpaneto Institute of Biophysics, CNR Via De Marini 6, 16149 – Genova, Italy Alexis De Angeli Institute of Biophysics, CNR Via De Marini 6, 16149 – Genova, Italy Alberto Diaspro University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Italy Martin Fellner Palacky University Olomouc, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics Slechtitelu 11 Olomouc-Holice, 783 71 Czech Republic Rainer Hedrich Julius-von-Sachs-Institut Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie & Biophysik Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 2, 97082 Wuerzburg, Germany

Enrico Martinoia Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Universität Zürich Zollikerstrasse 107 (roomP1), CH-8008 Zürich Switzerland Anna Moroni Department of Biology, University of Milan Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano

Nicoletta Palazzo CNR-INFM �International Promotion, Corso Perrone 24 - 16152 - GENOVA, ITALY

Michael Gjedde Palmgren Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease—PUMPKIN, Danish National Research Foundation, Århus and Copenhagen, Denmark

Doris Rentsch University of Bern Institute of Plant Sciences Altenbergrain 21 CH-3013 Bern

Dale Sanders Biology Dept, Area 6 University of York P.O. Box 373 York YO10 5YW England Ildikò Szabò Department of Biology University of Padua, Via U. Bassi, 58/B, 35121 Padua Italy

Ulrich Schurr Institute ICG-3: Phytosphere, Research Center Juelich GmbH, 52425 Juelich, Germany

Nobuyuki Uozumi Department of Biomolecular Engineering Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University Aobayama 6-6-07, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

Alessandro Vitale Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, CNR Via Bassini 15, 20133 Milan, Italy

XIII International School for Pure and Applied Biophysics

Electrogenic transport

in plant cells and organelles

26-30 January 2009 Palazzo Franchetti, Venice (Italy)

PROGRAMME

Supported by the RTN-Project VaTEP, European Community´s Human Potential Programme, contract HPRN-CT-2006-035833, by the Italian National Research Council, Istituto di Biofisica CNR, Fondazione di Venezia and Nikon Italia