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Pteris cretica

Irrigation of paddy rice with arsenic contaminated groundwater

Scanning electron micrograph of a section of a pinna and the corresponding EDXA dot-map of As

Photograph of land degraded with arsenic

Feeding damage on Pteris vittata fronds from either control (a) or arsenic-treated plants (b) by grasshopper Schistocerca americana nymphs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 26 June

9:00-10:15

Registration

10:15-10:25

Welcome - Andy Meharg

 

Session 1 Environment 1

Chair Henk Schat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

 

10:25–11:05

Arsenic in wetland species rhizospheres

 

Yong-Guan Zhu (Beijing, China)

   

11:05–11:45

Arsenic in aerobic rhizospheres

 

Walter Wenzel (Vienna, Austria)

 

 

11:45–12:25

The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arsenic uptake and assimilation by plants

 

 Sally Smith (Adelaide, Australia)

 

 

12:25–13.15

Lunch

 

 

13:15–13:55

Arsenic metabolism in hyperaccumulating ferns

 

David Salt (West Lafayette, USA)

 

 

13:55–14:35

Phytoremediation of arsenic

 

Steve McGrath (Rothamsted, UK)

 

 

14:35–15:15

Arsenic efflux

 

Fangjie Zhao (Rothamsted, UK)

 

 

15.15–15:45 Coffee/tea
   
15:45–16:25 Evolution and regulation of genes involved in arsenic plant metabolism
  Barry Rosen (Detroit, USA)
   
16:25–17:05 The risk from arsenic in the food-chain
  Andy Meharg (Aberdeen, UK)
   
17:05–17:45 Arsenic transport at the tonoplast
  Frans Maathius (York, UK)
   
17:45–19:30 Posters and Reception
   
20:00 Conference Dinner
   

Friday 27 June

   
8:30-8:35 Announcements – Andy Meharg

 

Session 2 Environment 2
Chair Steve McGrath (Rothamsted, UK)

 

 

8:35-9:15

Arsenate reductases

 

Henk Schat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

 

9:15-9:55

Evolutionary genetics of arsenic

 

Mark Macnair (Exeter, UK)

 

 

9:55-10:35

Ecological factors affecting arsenic assimilation by plants

 

Nick Lepp (Liverpool, UK)

 

 

10:35-11:05

Coffee/tea

 

Session 3 Technologies

Chair Andy Meharg (Aberdeen, UK)

 

 

11:05–11:45

XAS techniques in in situ arsenic speciation

 

Kirk Scheckel (Cincinnati, USA)

    

11:45–12:25

Arsenic transport studies using mutants

 

Antonio Leyva (Madrid, Spain)

   
12:25–13:25 Lunch
   

13:25–14:05

Hyphenated HPLC approaches to arsenic-thiol complexes

 

Joerg Feldmann (Aberdeen, UK)

 

 

14:05–14:45

Breeding plants for desirable traits with respect to arsenic

 

Adam Price (Aberdeen, UK)

   

14:45–15:25

Genetically modifying plants to alter metabolism

 

Om Dhankher (Amherst, USA)

   

15:25–15.55

Coffee/Tea

   

15:55–16:30

Conclusions/Discussion

    
  Symposium logo Arsenic by Sam Day. Pteris cretica (As hyperaccumulator) courtesy of Steve McGrath; Irrigation of paddy rice with arsenic contaminated groundwater courtesy of Andy Meharg; Scanning electron micrograph of a section of a pinna and the corresponding EDXA dot-map of As Lombi et al., 2002; Photograph of land degraded with arsenic courtesy of Steve McGrath; Feeding damage on Pteris vittata fronds from either control (a) or arsenic-treated plants (b) by grasshopper Schistocerca americana nymphs Rathinasabapathi et al., 2007