PROGRAMME

Arrival of participants and Conference Registration at the Repubblica Marinara Hotel

Opening Keynote Lecture

Jurate Kumpiene (SE)
Phytostabilisation – can it improve safety of trace element contaminated soils?

Welcome Reception

Conference Registration at the Repubblica Marinara Hotel

Opening Ceremony

Session 1:
Plant Responses to Organic and Inorganic Pollutants

Chairs: Petra S. Kidd and Flavia Navari

Keynote Lecture

Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel (CH)
Plant accumulation of pollutants versus plant wellness: insoluble conundrum or key to a successful green clean-up?

Paula Alvarenga (PT)
Effect of amendments and a plant cover on the immobilization/mobilization of trace metal(loids) in a mine-contaminated soil

Peter Schroeder (DE)
Metabolism of acetaminophen (paracetamol) in plants - two independent pathways result in formation of a glutathione and a glucose conjugate

Ilaria Colzi (IT)
On the role of the cell wall in the phenomenon of copper tolerance in Silene paradoxa L.

Coffee Break

Cornelia Windhager (AT)
Varying heavy metal accumulation and tolerance of natural Salix caprea isolates correlates with genome architecture and activity

Danuta Maria Antosiewicz (PL)
Comparison of the modification of Zn/Cd tolerance and accumulation in tobacco due to the expression 35Sp::AtHMA4 and AhHMA4p::AhHMA4

Charlotte Poschenrieder (ES)
Metal defense against biotic stress; is it real?

Poster Session 1 & 2

Lunch

Session 2:
Phytotechnologies and Bioindicators

Chairs: Alan Baker and Peter Schroeder

Keynote Lecture

Bernd Markert (DE)
Pro and Cons of Bioindication and Biomonitoring for Human health and Phytotechnologies

Marina Frontasyeva (RU)
Revitalization of urban ecosystems through vascular plants: preliminary results from the BSEC-PDF project

Stanislaw Gawronski (PL)
Plants as “green liver” in urban area: perspectives and limitations of phytoremediation

Aida Bani (AL)
Developing an extensive technology for nickel phytoextraction in serpentine soils of Albania by the hyperaccumulator A. murale

Tea Break

Valérie Bert (FR)
Aided phytostabilization as a management option for contaminated dredged sediment landfill sites

Sebla Kabas (ES)
Towards landscape reclamation of a post-mined area in SE Spain – in the context of phytoremediation initiatives

Brett Robinson (NZ)
Biofortified fodder production during the phytoremediation of biosolid-amended land

Poster Session 1 - Discussion

Chair: Mike Frank Quartacci

Poster Session 2 - Discussion

Chair: Patrizia Zaccheo

Visit to coastal dunes and related environment

Lunch

Session 3:
Root-Soil Interface and Implication in Phytoremediation

Chairs: Jaco Vansgroveld and Martina Mackova

Keynote Lecture

Alexander Lux (SK)
Root structure and root architecture – consequences for metal uptake and translocation

Cristina Becerra Castro (ES)
Characterisation of the plant-microrganism-rhizosphere soil system in a Pb/Zn mining area: soil metal fractionation, plant accumulation and metal-tolerant bacteria

Carole Obeidy (FR)
Arsenic concentration, nutrient availability and solute rhizodeposits in rhizosphere solution: a comprehensive study on four plant species

Cristina Lomonte (AU)
Chelate-assisted phytoextraction of mercury in biosolid

Tea Break

Veronika Kurzawova (CZ)
Plant-microbe interaction in soil contaminated with PCBs

Aricia Evlard (BE)
In vitro effects of cadmium on ectomycorrhizal fungi growth

Mike Frank Quartacci (IT)
EDDS-enhanced phytoextraction of metals from a multiple contaminated soil: effect of dose and time of application

Poster Sessions 3 & 4

Conference Dinner

Session 4:
Soil Microrganisms and Their Role in Phyto(Bio)Remediation

Chairs: Michel Mench and Danuta Maria Antosiewicz

Keynote Lecture

Daniele Daffonchio (IT)
The plant challenge in polluted and stressed soils: do microbes play a role?

Borbala Biro (HU)
Variability of the microbial strategism and the long-term effect of heavy metals in soil-plant-microbe systems

Joke Dupae (BE)
Equipping plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPBs) with a metal resistance system: effects on metal uptake and translocation in poplar

Jitka Najmanova (CZ)
Preparation of transgenic plants harboring gsh1 and gsh2 genes for heavy metal remediation

Coffee Break

Martina Mackova (CZ)
Investigation of structural and genomic diversity of rhizospheric bacteria in a contaminated environment

Astrid Lorenz (UK)
Enhancing degradation of the explosive RDX in the rhizosphere

Nele Weyens (BE)
Endophytes cut down TCE evapotranspiration during phytoremediation in the field

Poster Sessions 3 - Discussion

Chair: Tomas Macek

Posters Session 4 - Discussion

Chair: Gianniantonio Petruzzelli

Conference Closure and Farewell Party