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| 13th Plant Biology Symposium University of Maryland, March 31, 2012 |
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13th
Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium
Scientific Program
Saturday, March 31, Rm 1103 Biosciences Research Building
| 8:30 | Coffee and pastry (outside of room Rm 1103, Biosciences Research Building) poster installation |
| 9:00 | Opening remarks and Session I (Jianhua Zhu, organizer) |
| 9:05 |
Eva Collakova (Dept. of Plant Pathology, Physiology, & Weed Science, Virginia Tech) "Are we ready for genome-scale modeling in plants?" |
| 9:25 |
Bret Cooper (Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville) "Nuclear proteomic changes linked to soybean rust resistance" |
| 9:45 |
Zongrang Liu (Appalachian Fruit Research Station, USDA-ARS in West Virginia) "Small RNAs-mediated gene regulatory networks in plants" |
| 10:05 | Coffee break (outside of Room 1103) and poster installation |
| 10:50 | Session II (Steve Mount, session chair) |
| 10:50 |
Juan Dong (Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University) "Making things different: cell polarity and asymmetric division in plants" |
| 11:10 |
Art Hunt (Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky) "The polyadenylation complex links cellular signaling with plant growth and development" |
| 11:30 |
Ying Gu (Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University) "CSI1, bridging between CESA complexes and cortical microtubules, is required for efficient cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 11:50 | Lunch and poster viewing |
| 13:40 | Session III (Shunyaun Xiao, session chair) |
| 13:40 |
Boris Vinatzer (Dept. of Plant Pathology, Physiology, & Weed Science, Virginia Tech) " Perception of bacterial flagellin by plants: some answers, many questions" |
| 14:00 |
Hisashi Koiwa (Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University) "Function of Arabidopsis RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain phosphatase-like 1 in iron deficiency response" |
| 14:20 |
Hua Lu (Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County) "Circadian control of innate immunity by CCA1 and LHY in Arabidopsis" |
| 14:40 | Break and poster viewing |
| 15:10 | Session IV (Zhongchi Liu, session chair) |
| 15:10 |
Chun-Ming Liu (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) " Functional dissection of CLE peptides in Arabidopsis " |
| 15:30 |
Walter Gassmann (Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri) "The yin and yang of effector-triggered immunity: the negative regulator SRFR1 interacts with the effector target EDS1" |
| 15:50 |
Ganesh Sriram (Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland) "A map of carbon traffic in a photosynthetic diatom" |
| 16:10 | Wine and beer reception Posters |
| 19:31 | Sunset (You have over two hours of daylight to enjoy spring in DC!) Tourist Information |