| 3:00
PM |
Opening Remarks |
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William Danforth,
Chairman |
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Roger N. Beachy,
President |
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Donald Danforth Plant
Science Center |
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| Keynote
Addresses |
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4:00 PM |
Wolf Frommer
(Stanford University) - Measuring metabolic
impedance for identifying metabolic control networks |
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5:00
PM |
John Walker
(University of Missouri) - Signaling networks
controlling abscission |
| 6:00
PM |
Mixer (Upper
Atrium) |
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| Thursday,
September 24, 2009 |
| I.
Signaling Networks (Chair: Sarah Assmann) |
| 8:30
AM |
Sarah Assmann (Penn
State University) - Systems biology of the guard
cell transcriptome |
| 9:15
AM |
Weixiong Zhang
(Washington University in St. Louis) -
Transcriptome analysis for identification of
stress-inducible microRNAs in plants |
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10:00 AM |
Short talk - Rob Alba
(Monsanto) - Transcriptome
network analysis of ripening tomato fruit suggests
cross-talk between developmental and environmental
regulatory elements |
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10:15 AM |
Break (Lower
Atrium)
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10:30 AM |
Joanne Chory
(The Salk Institute) - How plants know when to
grow and when not to grow
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11:15 AM |
Michael Sussman
(University of Wisconsin) - Squeezing secrets
out of nature with mass spectrometry |
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12:00 AM |
Short talk - Zhe (Jenny)
Zhang (University of Missouri) - Plasma
membrane-enriched proteomics: a label-free
quantitation method and its application in studying
maize primary root elongation zone-specific plasma
membrane proteome |
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12:15 PM |
Lunch (Upper
Atrium)
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| II.
Signaling During Development (Chair: Daniel
Szymanski) |
| 1:00
PM |
Daniel Szymanski
(Purdue University) - The intersection
of ROP signaling, protein trafficking, and the actin
cytoskeleton during epidermal cell shape control
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| 1:45
PM |
Shuqun Zhang
(University of Missouri) - MAPK signaling in
plants: from defense to development
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| 2:30
PM |
Short talk - Sophie Alvarez
(Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) - Changes in
protein phosphorylation and protein abundance in a drought
sensitive rice MAP Kinase mutant using a gel-based
proteomics approach
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| 2:45
PM |
Poster Session (Lower
Atrium) |
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| III. Metabolite
and Nutrient Sensing (Chair: Sam Wang) |
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3:45
PM |
Xuemin Sam Wang
(University of Missouri, St. Louis and Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center) - Lipid
signaling: connecting stress/nutrient sensing to
cellular/physiological responses |
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4:30
PM |
Lon Kaufman
(University of Illinois, Chicago) - Mitigating stress
responses in soybean and Arabidopsis: G protein
regulation of phenylanine synthesis and the
quercetin cycle |
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5:15
PM |
Daniel Schachtman
(Monsanto and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) - Nutrient sensing in plants |
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6:00
PM |
Short talk -
Ivan Baxter (USDA-ARS/Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center) - Yeast Ionomics:
probing the effects of sub-cellular processes on
elemental accumulation in a single celled organism |
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6:15 PM |
Dinner (Upper
atrium) |
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| Friday,
September 25, 2009 |
| IV.
Plant Hormone Signaling (Chair: Peter McCourt) |
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8:30
AM |
Peter McCourt
(University of Toronto) - Chemical genetic and
system biology approaches to understanding hormone
signaling |
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9:15
AM |
Caren Chang
(University of Maryland) - Ethylene signaling
components and cellular mechanisms |
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10:00
AM |
Short talk -
Nathan Miller (University of
Wisconsin-Madison) - Phenotyping using image
processing technologies |
| 10:15
AM |
Break (Upper
Atrium) |
| 10:30
AM |
Tuan-hua David Ho
(Washington University in St. Louis) - Signaling
of GA/ABA antagonism in cereals |
| 11:15
AM |
Rujin Chen
(Noble Foundation) - Auxin signaling, transport
and plant development
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| 12:00
PM |
Short talk -
Gabriele Monshausen (University of
Wisconsin-Madison) - Auxin, Ca2+ and
pH in gravitropic signal transmission of Arabidopsis
roots
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| 12:15
PM |
Closing Remarks
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| 12:30
PM |
Departure |
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