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| ASPB (Friday) mtg. | Sat. Program | Registration | Saturday Meeting Location & Directions |
U.M. Visitor Information |
11th
Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium
Scientific Program
Schedule (Please register if you haven't already!)
| 8:30 | Coffee and pastry (outside of room Rm 1103, Biosciences Research Building) poster installation |
| 9:00 | Opening remarks (Shunyuan Xiao, organizer) |
| 9:05 | Session I (Steve Mount, session chair) |
| 9:05 | Don Nuss (University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute) " Mycoviruses at the fungus-plant interface: New insights into regulation of the antiviral RNA silencing response and its role in RNA virus recombination" |
| 9:30 | Michael Axtell (Pennsylvania State University) "Arabidopsis lyrata small RNAs: transient miRNA and siRNA loci within the Arabidopsis genus" |
| 9:55 | Steve Howell (National Science Foundation) "Stress management by the ER in plants" |
| 10:20 | Coffee break (outside of Room 1103) and poster installation |
| 10:50 | Session II (Jianhua Zhu, session chair) |
| 10:50 | Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University) "Signaling complexity in stomatal development" |
| 11:15 | Erik Nielsen (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) " Mechanisms that regulate polarized expansion in tip-growing plant cells" |
| 11:40 | Ann Loraine (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) "Effects of water deprivation stress on RNA splicing patterns in Arabidopsis" |
| 12:05 | Lunch and poster viewing |
| 1:35 | Session III (Shunyuan Xiao, session chair) |
| 1:35 | Jane Silverthorne (National Science Foundation) "What's New at NSF? " |
| 2:00 | Binyu Zhao (Virginia Tech) "A bacterial type III effector with ATPase activity suppresses the basal defense responses in Arabidopsis plants" |
| 2:25 | Nicole Donofrio (University of Delaware) "Genes involved in reactive oxygen species production, sensing and tolerance in the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae" |
| 2:50 | Break and poster viewing |
| 3:20 | Session IV (June Kwak, session chair) |
| 3:20 | Anne Deslattes Mays (KeyGene Inc.) "The plant innate immunity response as revealed through Arabidopsis abiotic stress experiments" |
| 3:45 | Guillaume Pilot (Virginia Tech) "Control of amino acid export by Glutamine Dumper proteins in Arabidopsis" |
| 4:05 | Tom Jack (National Science Foundation) "Molecular and genetic analysis of petal growth in Arabidopsis" |
| 4:30 | Gary Coleman (University of Maryland, College Park) "Poplar nitrogen cycling and storage in relation to sustainable biomass production" |
| 4:55 | Wine and beer reception Posters (final chance to see any posters that are still up) |
| 5:30 | End of meeting. Final poster take-down. You are free to linger after that. |
| 7:27 | Sunset (You have two hours of daylight to enjoy cherry blossoms!) Tourist Information |
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