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10th
Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium
Scientific Program
Saturday, April 4, 2009, Rm 1103 Biosciences Research Building
Schedule
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| ASPB (Friday) mtg. | Sat. Program | Registration | Meeting location and Directions |
Visitor Information |
10th
Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium
Scientific Program
Schedule
| 8:30 | Coffee and pastry (outside of room Rm 1103, Biosciences Research Building) poster installation |
| 9:00 | Opening remarks and Session I (Zhongchi Liu, session chair) |
| 9:05 | Charles Delwiche (Univ. of Maryland) "The evolutionary origin of land plants: an EST view" |
| 9:30 | Todd Michael (Waksman Institute/Rutgers Univ.) "The Next Generation of Plant Genome Sequencing" |
| 9:55 | Sakiko Okumoto (Virginia Tech.) "Optical measurement of metabolite flux in living cells" |
| 10:20 | Coffee break (outside of Room 1103) and poster installation |
| 10:50 | Session II (Heven Sze, session chair) |
| 10:50 | Jianhua Zhu (Univ. of Maryland) "SOS6 encodes a cellulose synthase-like protein that is required for osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis" |
| 11:15 | Elizabeth Vierling (Univ. of Arizona/NSF) "Components and processes in the response of plants to high temperature" |
| 11:40 | Alvis Hu (Univ. of Maryland) "AtCIPK8 regulates the low-affinity phase of the primary nitrate response" |
| 12:05 | Lunch and poster viewing |
| 1:35 | Session III (Caren Chang, session chair) |
| 1:35 | Sarah Patterson (Univ. of Wisconsin/NSF) "Things Fall Apart: cell Separation in Arabidopsis" |
| 2:00 | Faten Deeb ( Univ. of Maryland ) "The role of spermidine in mRNA unmaksing during the male gamete development in Marsilea" |
| 2:25 | Jung-Yuon Lee (Delaware Biotechnology Institute) "Role of a plasmodesmal localized protein in defense response" |
| 2:50 | Break and poster viewing |
| 3:20 | Session IV (June Kwak, session chair) |
| 3:20 | Shunyuan Xiao (CBR, UMBI-Shady Grove) "The molecular basis of RPW8-mediated broad-spectrum mildew resistance" |
| 3:45 | Xiao Wang (CBR, UMBI-Shady Grove) "Tobacco mosaic virus modulates host basal defense by interacting with a NAC domain transcription factor" |
| 4:10 | Vince Klink (Mississippi State University) "Molecular signatures of resistant and susceptible reactions between the plant parasitic nematode Heterodera glycines (soybean cyst nematode) and its host, Glycine max (soybean)" |
| 4:35 | Wine and beer reception Posters (final chance to see any posters that are still up) |
| 5:00 | End of meeting. Final poster take-down. You are free to linger after that. |
| 7:35 | Sunset (You have two-and-a-half hours of daylight to enjoy cherry blossoms!) Tourist Information |
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