11 May 2006 
9.00 – 10.30 Session “Conservation and management of serpentine areas”
  Bear Valley in the northern California Coast Ranges: Wildflowers, grazing, and conservation
Jack Alderson, Ivana Noell

Lichens on asbestos-rich serpentinites: colonization, weathering and inactivation of chrysotile fibres
Sergio Enrico Favero-Longo, Rosanna Piervittori

Conserving Soldier's Delight, the Largest Serpentine Area in Maryland, USA
Marla McIntosh, Daniel Hochman

Local adaptation and gene flow across serpentine and non-serpentine habitats in two contrasting plant species
Jessica Wright
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.15 – 13.00 Session “Physiological ecology of serpentine plants”
  Development of Molecular and Genetic Tools to Study the Evolution of Serpentine Adaptation, Endemism and Speciation in the Streptanthoid Complex, Brassicaceae
Millie Burrell, Katherine Taylor, Robert Cantrell, Umesh Reddy, Alan Pepper

Differences in ion accumulation between Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae) populations differentially adapted to serpentine and non-serpentine soils
Kristy U. Brady, H.D. Bradshaw, Jr., David E. Salt

Physiological adaptation of an Iranian serpentine endemic plant species, Cleome heratensis (Capparaceae)
Tahmaseb Asemaneh, S. Majid Ghaderian, Alan J. M. Baker

Hyperaccumulation of nickel by two Alyssum species grown on Iranian ultramafics
S. Majid Ghaderian, Ahmad Mohtadi, A.J.M. Baker

Test of a trade-off between elemental and organic defences against herbivores in natural populations of Thlaspi caerulescens
Nausicaa Noret, Pierre Meerts, José Escarré
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.50 Session “Physiological ecology of serpentine plants”
 

Nickel hyperaccumulation in the genus Alyssum: a comparative approach to the cellular and molecular basis of metal tolerance, transport and sequestration
J. Andrew C. Smith, Robert A. Ingle, and Sam T. Mugford

Nickel storage, processing, and release in the hyperaccumulator Stackhousia tryonii: Preliminary observations from field, lab, and microscopy
Ivana Noell

Roots of Ni-hyperaccumulating and non-accumulating genotypes of Senecio coronatus differ in aspects of their cytology and elemental distribution
Jolanta Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, Alban Barnabas, Wojciech Przybylowicz

Localisation & quantification of nickel in leaf and stem tissues of Hybanthus floribundus subsp. floribundus using micro-PIXE.
Anthony Kachenko, Balwant Singh, Naveen Bhatia, Rainer Siegele

Nickel speciation in hyperaccumulating plants of New Caledonia
Nicolas Perrier, Jean Paul Ambrosi, Jérome Rose, Tanguy Jaffré, Fabrice Colin

Phytoextraction of Ni by native populations of A. murale on an ultramafic site in Albania
Aida Bani, Guillaume Echevarria, Sulejman Sulçe, Jean Louis Morel

Testing the anti-herbivory hypothesis of Ni hyperaccumulation in Alyssum pintodasilvae on Tribolium castaneum and Porcellio dilatatus
Sandra Silva, António Portugal, Susana C. Gonçalves, José P. Sousa, M. Teresa Gonçalves
16.50 – 17.10 Coffee Break
17.10 – 18.30 Poster session – Session 2