| Wednesday, September 26 |
| 12:00 pm | Registration, Poster Set-up, and Vendor Show |
| 2:00 pm | Jim Carrington, Ph.D., The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
"Opening Remarks" |
| 2:15 pm | Sarah O’Connor, Ph.D., The John Innes Centre
"Understanding and engineering alkaloid biosynthesis" |
| 3:00 pm | June Medford, Ph.D., Colorado State University
"Synthetic signal transduction and synthetic design of traits for human needs" |
| 3:45 pm | Break, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 4:15 pm | Christina Smolke, Ph.D., Stanford University
"Molecular tools for probing and manipulating biological pathways" |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Viewing for Posters 1 - 24, Mixer, and Vendor Show |
| 6:00 pm | Mixer |
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| Thursday, September 27 |
| 8:30 am | Coffee, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 9:00 am | Pamela Silver, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
"Designing biological systems for health and sustainability" |
| 9:45 am | Kristala Jones Prather, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Teaching an old bacterium new tricks" |
| 10:30 am | Break, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 11:00 am | Michelle Chang, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
"Constructing synthetic pathways for production of advanced biofuels" |
| 11:30 am | Doug Allen, Ph.D., USDA-ARS/DDPSC
"Extending isotope-labeling based metabolic flux analysis in plant tissues" |
| 12:00 pm | Maciek Antoniewicz, Ph.D., University of Delaware
"Metabolism in motion: Towards dynamic 13C-metabolic flux analysis" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch on Miller Terrace |
| 1:30 pm | Jeff Bennetzen, Ph.D., University of Georgia
"Analysis of plant genetic determinants of associated microbial composition"
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| 2:15 pm | Insuk Lee, Ph.D., Yonsei University, Korea
"Network-assisted dissection of the stress response system in plants" |
| 3:00 pm | Break, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 3:30 pm | Molly Megraw, Ph.D., Oregon State University
"Promoter architecture in plant model systems" |
| 4:00 pm | Julius Lucks, Ph.D., Cornell University
"Chimeric RNA regulators for engineering gene networks" |
| 4:30 pm | Chad Myers, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
"Systems-level insights from large-scale analysis of genetic interactions in yeast" |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Viewing for Posters 25 - 48, Mixer, and Vendor Show |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner on Miller Terrace |
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| Friday, September 28 |
| 8:30 am | Coffee, Poster Viewing, and Vendor Show |
| 9:00 am | Monsanto Lecture presented by
Philip Benfey, Ph.D., Duke University
"Development rooted in emergent properties of regulatory networks" |
| 9:45 am | A.J. Marian Walhout, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
"Gene regulatory networks" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Michael Brent, Ph.D., Washington University in Saint Louis
"Mapping functional transcription factor networks" |
| 11:30 am | Ken Birnbaum, Ph.D., New York University
"Global analysis of single cells in Arabidopsis development" |
| 12:00 pm | Dmitri Nusinow, Ph.D., Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
"Daily growth control by the circadian clock" |
| 12:30 pm | Doug Allen, Ph.D., USDA-ARS/DDPSC, and Todd Mockler, Ph.D., DDPSC
"Poster Awards and Closing Remarks" |