10 May 2006 
8.30 - 9.45 Registration
9.45 – 10.15 Opening Ceremony
10.15 - 10.45 Opening Lecture - Peridotitic rocks of the northern apennines: composition and geological significance
Enrico Pandeli
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.00 Session “Soils and microbiology”
  Soil and Vegetation Differences between Peridotite and Serpentinite
Earl B. Alexander

Availability of Ni along an ultramafic toposequence in the Vosges Mountains (France)
Guillaume Echevarria, Vanessa Chardot, Michel Gury, Stamatia Massoura, Hélène Molins, Jean Louis Morel

Chromium in Ultramafic soils from Niquelândia, Brazil
Jeremie Garnier, Cecile Quantin, Eder de Souza Martins , Thierry Becquer

Water availability and soil chemistry as predictors of plant biomass and productivity in a subhumid tropical forest in southwestern Puerto Rico
Jamie Horvath, Arthur Johnson

Degradation of high Ni biomass in soil
Scott Angle, Lan Zhang, Rufus Chaney
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.50 Session “Soils and microbiology”
 

Dissolution of Chrysotile in the rhizosphere of the Ni hyperaccumulator Leptoplax emarginata
Vanessa Chardot, Guillaume Echevarria, Cristophe Calvaruso, Marie-Pierre Turpault, Bruno Simon, Jean-Louis Morel

Nickel tolerance and accumulation by bacteria from rhizosphere of nickel hyperaccumulators in serpentine ecosystem of Andaman, India
Arundhati Pal, A. K. Paul

The Bacterial Flora of the Nickel-hyperaccumulator Plant Alyssum bertolonii Desv.
Rita Barzanti, Alessio Mengoni, Francesca Ozino, Francesca Galardi, Chiara Mastretta, Cristina Gonnelli, Roberto Gabbrielli, Marco Bazzicalupo

Diversity of Cenococcum geophilum isolates from serpentine soils of NE Portugal assessed by AFLP and Ni in vitro tolerance
Antonio Portugal, Susana Claudia Gonçalves, Maria Teresa Gonçalves, Rita Vieira, Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, Helena Freitas

Nickel-induced protein pattern modifications in a serpentine tolerant isolate of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum
Susana C. Gonçalves, Elisa Bona, M. Amélia Martins-Loução, Helena Freitas, Graziella Berta

Relationships between the mycorrhizal status and Ni-hyperaccumulation by 8 endemic plant species from New Caledonian serpentine environments
Amir Hamid, Perrier Nicolas, Collion Anne, Cigna Jerimy, Rigault Fréderic, Jaffré Tanguy

How do plants influence the bacterial diversity in soils with high nickel and chromium content?
Kornelia Smalla, Eva Schnober , Leonor Garmendia, Maria Rodriguez, Thomas Strumpf, Wilfried Pestemer, Carlos Vallin^2 *

16.50 – 17.20 Coffee Break
17.20 – 18.30 Poster Presentation - Session 1