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Visiting Seattle

SCHEDULE - Updated 7/11/05

 

Committee Meeting


StartDate

StartTime

EndTime

Event/Item

Room

SATURDAY

 

16-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Membership Committee Meeting

301

16-Jul

8:00 AM

12:00 PM

The Plant Cell Editorial Board Meeting

302

16-Jul

9:00 AM

11:00 AM

Publications Committee Meeting

305

16-Jul

9:00 AM

9:00 PM

Registration Open

4D

16-Jul

9:00 AM

9:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

401

16-Jul

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Exhibitor & Poster Set Up

4E

16-Jul

11:00 AM

1:00 PM

Education Foundation Board Meeting

301

16-Jul

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Undergraduate Networking Poster Session

4C-2

16-Jul

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

ASPB Section Receptions/New Member & New Attendee Welcome

4C3-4

16-Jul

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

President's Opening Address & Awards Ceremony

Ballroom 6AB

16-Jul

3:00 PM

6:10 PM

Symposium I: New Approaches for Integrating Plant Genomes and Function - Organizer: Natasha Raikhel
3:00 pm - Natasha Raikhel, 2005 Stephen Hales Award winner
3:40 pm - Abstract 10001 - Gloria Coruzzi - Characterizing regulatory networks in the VirtualPlant
4:20 pm - COFFEE BREAK IN HALL OUTSIDE SYMPOSIUM
4:50 pm - Abstract 10002 - Joanne Chory - Signal integration during seedling photomorphogenesis
5:30 pm - Abstract 10003 - Philip Benfey - A systems approach to understanding transcriptional networks in the root

Ballroom 6AB

16-Jul

6:30 PM

7:30 PM

Perspectives of Science Leaders - Speaker: Richard Jefferson, 2005 ASPB Leadership in Science Public Service Award Winner

611-614

16-Jul

7:30 PM

10:00 PM

Opening Reception/Mixer in Exhibit Hall

4E

SUNDAY

 

17-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Minority Affairs Committee Meeting

309

17-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Small Colleges/PUI Networking Breakfast

602-603

17-Jul

7:00 AM

6:00 PM

Registration Open

4D

17-Jul

7:00 AM

6:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

401

17-Jul

7:00 AM

11:00 PM

Posters Open

4E

17-Jul

8:30 AM

11:40 AM

Symposium II: Photosynthesis: From Photons to Sugar - Organizer: Don Ort
8:30 am - Abstract 20001 - Robert Blankenship - The evolutionary transition from anoxygenic to oxygenic photosynthesis and how it changed the Earth
9:10 am - Abstract 20002 - Gary Brudvig - Oxygen Evolution: Intrusions into the Inner Sanctum of Photosynthesis
9:50 am - COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
10:20 am - Abstract 20003 - Christine A. Raines - Improving photosynthesis by genetic manipulation of the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle
11:00 am - Abstract 20004 - Alison Smith - Making sugar without photons: conversion of starch to sucrose in leaves in the dark

Ballroom 6AB

17-Jul

9:30 AM

6:00 PM

Exhibits Open

4E

17-Jul

12:00 PM

2:00 PM

Minority Affairs Committee Sponsored Speaker and Luncheon - Speaker: Elma Gonzalez, UCLA, Making a Career in Science: Preparation, Opportunity, Courage and a Dash of Luck

4C-4

17-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 1: Mineral Nutrition and Salinity  - Chair: David Salt
2:00 PM - 11001 - Rus, Ana M - Identification of Genetic Loci Responsible for Ionomic Phenotypes in Arabidopsis
2:20 PM - 11002 - Stern, David B. - Programmed chloroplast transcriptional repression under sulfur limitation
2:40 PM - 11003 - Yang, Haibing  - Overexpression of the vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase AVP1 enhances phosphorus uptake in Arabidopsis thaliana
3:00 PM - 11004 - Stephens, Brian W. - Functional characterization of the zinc transporter ZIP1 in Medicago truncatula using biochemical and reverse genetic approaches
3:20 PM - 11005 - Sottosanto, Jordan B. - Microarrays show influence of vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter AtNHX1 on multiple cellular processes.

615-617

17-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 2: Rhythms  - Chair: Stacey Harmer
2:00 PM - 12001 - Schultz, Thomas F. - Genetic analysis of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis
2:20 PM - 12002 - Han, Linqu  - Suppressors of ZTL overexpression identify key residues in ZTL function and suggest new loci in circadianclock function.
2:40 PM - 12003 - Harmer, Stacey L. - Circadian regulation of auxin signaling in Arabidopsis
3:00 PM - 12004 - Nozue, Kazunari  - The circadian clock provides memory of prior light exposure in Arabidopsis growth
3:20 PM - 12005 - Morre, D. James  - Biological time keeping based on an oscillatory pattern determined by the atomic structure of copper

606-607

17-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 3: Oxidative Stress and Signaling  - Chair: James Siedow
2:00 PM - 13001 - Guo, Fang-Qing  - The role of AtNOS1, a mitochondrion-localized nitric oxide synthase, in Arabidopsis leaf senescence
2:20 PM - 13002 - Bechtold, Ulrike  - Long nights and short days: A switch from antioxidant defences to protein repair in the dark in Arabidopsis thaliana
2:40 PM - 13003 - Lampard, Greg*  - Divergence and reciprocity in signaling through closely-related oxidative stress-activated MAPKs
3:00 PM - 13004 - Tien, Ming  - Plastid peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase confers resistance against multiple oxidative stress conditions in Arabidopsis
3:20 PM - 13005 - Zachgo, Sabine  - Analysis of the roxy1 mutant reveals a novel function for a plant-specific glutaredoxin during flower development

608-609

17-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 4: Reproductive Development  - Chair: Andrew G. McCubbin
2:00 PM - 14001 - McCubbin, Andrew G - Calcium dependent protein kinase and ROP GTPase signaling pathways overlap to regulate the polarity of tip-growth in pollen tubes.
2:20 PM - 14002 - Cole, Rex A - A Member of the Putative Arabidopsis Exocyst Complex facilitates Pollen Germination and Competitive Pollen Tube Growth
2:40 PM - 14003 - Palanivelu, Ravishankar  - Guidance signals that direct pollen tube entry into micropyle are species-specific and developmentally regulated
3:00 PM - 14004 - Yang, Heping  - EST sequencing from female gametophytes yields egg-specific promoters and potential signaling molecules
3:20 PM - 14005 - Grumet, Rebecca  - Modified sex expression in transgenic melon expressing the dominant mutant ethylene receptor, At-etr1-1, under the control of floral targeted promoters

612-614

17-Jul

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

Coffee Break 6th Floor

6th floor

17-Jul

4:00 PM

6:00 PM

International Affairs Committee Meeting

301

17-Jul

4:00 PM

6:00 PM

Exclusive Poster & Exhibit Session
All even number abstracts - 4:00 - 5:00 pm; all odd number abstracts - 5:00 - 6:00 pm

4E

17-Jul

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

USDA Reception

4C1

17-Jul

6:00 PM

10:00 PM

Career Workshop I – Where the Other Jobs Are?

4C3

17-Jul

6:00 PM

10:00 PM

Career Workshop II – Getting and Keeping a Job

4C4

17-Jul

7:30 PM

10:00 PM

Education Workshop - Informal Science Education: Getting across the science using art and design in an interactive, exciting way - Speakers: Rebecca Holmquist, Jon Bricker, Roger Hangarter, Emily Farrer, Margaret Corbit, Dr Jeremy Friedberg

602-603

17-Jul

7:00 PM

8:30 PM

Digital Art Workshop

606

17-Jul

7:00 PM

8:30 PM

Cellular Imaging Workshop

615-617

17-Jul

7:00 PM

8:40 PM

New Directions of Rice Research in Post-Genome Sequencing Era - Presented by the Japanese Society of Plant Physiology - Organizer: Makoto Matsuoka
7:00 pm - Abstract 60001 - Takeshi Izawa - Comparative biology of photoperiodic flowering between a short-day plant,rice and a long-day plant, Arabidopsis thaliana
7:20 pm - Abstract 60002 - Junko Kyozuka - Genetic and genomic approaches to understnad axillary meristem formation in rice
7:40 pm - Abstract 60003 - Yutaka Sato - Genes related to RNAi machinery regulate shoot formation and organization in rice.
8:00 pm - Abstract 60004 - Hiroyuki Tsuji - GAMYB plays distinct roles in aleurone and developing flower under distinct regulation system in rice
8:20 pm - Abstract 60005 - Jennifer Cooper - TILLING and Ecotilling in Rice

611-614

MONDAY

 

18-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Women in Plant Biology Committee Meeting

301

18-Jul

7:00 AM

11:00 PM

Posters Open

4E

18-Jul

8:00 AM

4:30 PM

Registration Open

4D

18-Jul

8:00 AM

4:30 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

401

18-Jul

8:30 AM

11:40 AM

Symposium III: Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression - Organizer: Vicki Chandler
8:30 am - Abstract 30001 - Susan Lolle - Evidence for non-mendelian inheritance of ancestral sequences in Arabidopsis
9:10 am - Abstract 30002 - Ueli Grossniklaus - Genomic impriting and PcG-mediated regulation during seed development
9:50 am - COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
10:20 am - Abstract 30003 - Steve Jacobsen - Genetic analysis of gene silencing in Arabidopsis
11:00 am - Abstract 30004 - Vicki Chandler - Heritable chromatin structures are established through trans-interactions between tandem repeats

Ballroom 6AB

18-Jul

9:30 AM

2:00 PM

Exhibits Open

4E

18-Jul

12:00 PM

2:00 PM

Women in Plant Biology Committee Luncheon & Speaker - Speaker: Dr. Judith Verbeke, The World According to Garth

608-609

18-Jul

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

TAIR Workshop I

602-603

18-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 5: Cytoskeleton and Cell Division  - Chair: Dan Szymanski
2:00 PM - 15001 - Chuong, Simon D. - The cytoskeleton is required for maintaining two unique patterns of organelle partitioning for C4 photosynthesis in a single cell of Chenopodiaceae species
2:20 PM - 15002 - Basu, Dipanwita  - SPIKE1 is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for ROP GTPases and may regulate the heteromeric WAVE and ARP2/3 complexes during epidermal morphogenesis
2:40 PM - 15003 - Chaboute, Marie-Edith  - Plant DNA damage response at the transcriptional, translational and cellular levels: interconnecting networks
3:00 PM - 15004 - Chen, Changbin  - The Arabidopsis ROCK-N-ROLLERS gene is required for normal crossover formation during meiosis
3:20 PM - 15005 - Sabelli, Paolo A - Features of the RB/E2F pathway in cereals: RBR1 regulates RBR3 and controls endoreduplication during maize endosperm development

606-607

18-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 6: Mechanisms of Gene Regulation  - Chair: Thomas Guilfoyle
2:00 PM - 16001 - Belostotsky, Dmitry A - The plant exosome complex: functional specialization of subunits, role in embryo / endosperm identity choice and imprinting, and novel RNA substrates
2:20 PM - 16002 - Geisler, Matt  - The in silicio laboratory test of cis-regulatory elements for biological significance in Arabidopsis.
2:40 PM - 16003 - Tiwari, Shiv B. - Analysis of Auxin Response Factor (ARF) Protein Expression
3:00 PM - 16004 - Matsui, Kyoko  - Regulation of the development of epidermal cells by functionally redundant MYB transcription factors
3:20 PM - 16005 - Wu, Keqiang  - HDA19 is involved in jasmonic acid and ethylene signaling of pathogen-response in Arabidopsis

611-612

18-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 7: Photosynthesis I  - Chair: Robert Spreitzer
2:00 PM - 17001 - Kramer, David M - The central roles of the proton circuit in maintaining and regulating photosynthesis
2:20 PM - 17002 - Miyake, Chikahiro  - Responses of Cyclic Electron Flow around PSI (CEF-PSI) to Light and CO2 in Tobacco Leaves
2:40 PM - 17003 - Mitra, Mautusi  - Chlorophyll antenna size adjustments in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii involve coordinate regulation of Tla1, CAO and Lhcb gene expression
3:00 PM - 17004 - Genkov, Todor  - Cys-65-to-Ser substitution in the Rubisco small subunit suppresses the detrimental effects on catalysis and stability that arise from a Leu-290-to-Phe substitution in the large subunit
3:20 PM - 17005 - Li, Cishan  - Species specificity of Rubisco activase is determined by two amino acids in its Sensor 2 domain

618-620

18-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 8: Cell Walls  - Chair: Herman Hofte
2:00 PM - 18001 - McCann, Maureen C. - Uncovering novel cell wall-related genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
2:20 PM - 18002 - Urbanowicz, Breeanna R - Characterization of a new class of plant endo-ß-1,4-glucanase with a cellulose binding module
2:40 PM - 18003 - Lee, eun-jeong  - Cell wall glycosyl hydrolases induced by sugar depletion in Arabidopsis
3:00 PM - 18004 - Sardar, Harjinder S - Interactions of arabinogalactan-proteins (AGPs) with molecular components of the cytoskeleton, plasma membrane and cell wall in tobacco (BY-2) cells
3:20 PM - 18005 - Hofte, Herman R. - A plasma membrane-anchored receptor kinase is involved in the coordination between cell wall synthesis and cell expansion in Arabidopsis hypocotyls

615-617

18-Jul

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

Coffee Break

Hall Outside Minis

18-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 9: Auxin  - Chair: Mark Estelle
4:10 PM - 19001 - Gaxiola, Roberto A - The H+-PPase AVP1 Is Required for Organ Development in Arabidopsis
4:30 PM - 19002 - Strader, Lucia C - Integrating auxin and abscisic acid signal transduction: ibr5 suppressors
4:50 PM - 19003 - Xu, Jian  - Altered auxin distribution in Arabidopsis roots redirects polar auxin transport through cell fate switch-dependent PIN protein expression and polarity changes
5:10 PM - 19004 - Lewis, Daniel R. - Two MDR genes with different effects on auxin transport and the control of root growth in Arabidopsis
5:30 PM - 19005 - Blakeslee, Joshua J - Cellular transport of auxin by MDR-type, ATP-binding cassette transporters of Arabidopsis thaliana

606-607

18-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 10: Plant Microbe Interactions  - Chair: Gene Nester
4:10 PM - 21001 - Kunze, Gernot  - EF-Tu and Flagellin - Two bacterial PAMPs with convergent activity in Arabidopsis
4:30 PM - 21002 - Sun, Wenxian  - Recognition specificity in the FLS2/flagellin interaction
4:50 PM - 21003 - Biemelt, Sophia  - Identification and characterization of bacterial effector molecules involved in modulation of plant primary metabolism
5:10 PM - 21004 - Kanamori, Norihito  - A nucleoporin is essential for rhizobial and fungal endosymbioses
5:30 PM - 21005 - Liu, Jinyuan  - RNA interference analysis reveals genes playing roles during the development of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

611-612

18-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 11: Starch & Sugar Mobilization  - Chair: Steve Huber
4:10 PM - 22001 - Messerli, Gaelle  - Identifying new factors involved in starch degradation in Arabidopsis leaves
4:30 PM - 22002 - Mikkelsen, Rene  - a-glucan, water dikinase (GWD) -a plastidic enzyme with redox-regulated and coordinated catalytic activity and binding affinity
4:50 PM - 22003 - Ritte, Gerhard  - Starch mobilization in chloroplasts requires two distinct glucan phosphorylating enzymes
5:10 PM - 22004 - Trukhina, Yulia O. - Putative plastidic monosaccharide transporters of Arabidopsis thaliana
5:30 PM - 22005 - Duncan, Kateri A - The third sucrose synthase in Zea mays (SUS3) is a ubiquitous protein that is phosphorylated and membrane associated

618-620

18-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 12: Heavy Metals and Phytoremediation  - Chair: Leon Kochian
4:10 PM - 23001 - Kim, Yu-Young  - Roles of AtHMA1 in Zn(II) translocation in Arabidopsis thaliana
4:30 PM - 23002 - Deniau, Antoine  - QTL mapping of cadmium and zinc hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi caerulescens
4:50 PM - 23003 - Leon, Kochian  - High resolution mapping and cloning of AltSB, a major aluminum tolerance gene in sorghum
5:10 PM - 23004 - Rugh, Clayton L. - Rhizodegradation of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons by Microbial Metabolic Expansion
5:30 PM - 23005 - Doty, Sharon L. - Enhanced metabolism of two classes of environmental pollutants by transgenic aspen.

615-617

18-Jul

7:00 PM

8:00 PM

Grantsmanship Workshop

602-603

18-Jul

8:00 PM

10:00 PM

Exclusive Poster & Exhibit Session
All odd number abstracts - 8:00 - 9:00 pm; all even number abstracts - 9:00 - 10:00 pm

4E

TUESDAY

 

19-Jul

5:00 AM

7:45 AM

Plant Runners Stampede - 5 K Fun Run
Buses will pick up at 5:00 am at the Convention Place Entrance at Pike Street and 9th Avenue

Cougar Mountain

19-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Public Affairs Committee Meeting

302

19-Jul

7:00 AM

11:00 PM

Posters Open

4E

19-Jul

8:00 AM

4:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

401

19-Jul

8:00 AM

4:00 PM

Registration Open

4D

19-Jul

8:30 AM

11:40 AM

Symposium IV: Proteolysis Controlling Plant Growth and Development - Organizer: Rick Vierstra
8:30 am - Abstract 40001 - Rick Vierstra - The Ubiquitin/26S Proteasome System: The Complex Last Chapter in the Life of Many Plant Proteins
9:10 am - Abstract 40002 - Mark Estelle - The F-boxr protein TIR1 functions as an auxin receptor in Arabidopsis
9:50 am - COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
10:20 am - Abstract 40003 - Judy Callis - Cis and Trans Domains that direct Ubiquitination
11:00 am - Abstract 40004 - Teh-hui Kao - The roles of protein degradation in self/non-self discrimination between pollen and pistil

Ballroom 6AB

19-Jul

9:30 AM

2:00 PM

Exhibits Open

4E

19-Jul

12:00 PM

2:00 PM

Executive Committee Meeting/Luncheon

602

19-Jul

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

TAIR Workshop II

611

19-Jul

2:00 PM

7:00 PM

Exhibitor Break Down

4E

19-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 13: Secondary Metabolism  - Chair: Mary Schuler & Natalia Dudareva
2:00 PM - 24001 - Ali, Shahjahan  - Arabidopsis thaliana Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase: Transcript Profiling to Functional Analysis
2:20 PM - 24002 - Hansen, Bjarne G - Indole-3-acetaldoxime, a key branching point between primary and secondary metabolism
2:40 PM - 24003 - Morant, Marc  - Functions, duplication and evolution of the CYP98 cytochrome P450 family in wheat and Arabidopsis
3:00 PM - 24004 - Dudareva, Natalia  - The regulatory role of the MEP pathway in rhythmic emission of monoterpenes and sesquitepenes in snapdragon flowers
3:20 PM - 24005 - Martin, Diane M. - Metabolomic and Functional Genomic Analyses of Mechanisms Underlying Flavor and Aroma in Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Sauvignon Berries

618-620

19-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 14: Signaling I  - Chair: Brian Ellis
2:00 PM - 25001 - Cluis, Corinne P. - Deciphering the role of AtMKK9 using gain-of-function and genomic approaches
2:20 PM - 25002 - Peng, Peng  - A Novel Docking Mechanism for A Plant GSK3 Kinase to Phosphorylate Its Substrate
2:40 PM - 25003 - Schoonheim, Peter J.  - The role of 14-3-3 proteins in ABA mediated stress signals in germinating barley seeds
3:00 PM - 25004 - Taylor, J. Philip - G-protein-coupled sugar sensing in Arabidopsis roots and hypocotyls
3:20 PM - 25005 - Kwon, Mi  - Brassinazole-resistant gulliver mutants of Arabidopsis define novel pathways in Brassinosteroid signalling cascades

606-607

19-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 15: Organelles  - Chair: Andreas Nebenfuehr
2:00 PM - 26001 - Bendich, Arnold J. - Chromosomal DNA Molecules in Chloroplasts and Mitochondria
2:20 PM - 26002 - Lorbiecke, Rene  - Functional characterization of ETCHED1, a putative elongation factor of the transcriptional apparatus of plastids
2:40 PM - 26003 - Cattolico, Rose Ann  - A chloroplast-encoded His/Asp signal transduction array in the stramenopile Heterosigma akashiwo
3:00 PM - 26004 - Zolman, Bethany K. - Characterization of the Arabidopsis pex4 mutant reveals a connection between peroxisome function and ubiquitination in plants
3:20 PM - 26005 - Nebenfuehr, Andreas  - Golgi stack integrity in BY-2 cells

608-609

 

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 16: Water Relations  - Chair: Daniel Schactman
2:00 PM - 27001 - Zhang, Ji-Yi  - Overexpression of a Medicago truncatula AP2 Transcription Factor Gene in Alfalfa Leads to Increased Cuticular Wax Accumulation and Enhanced Drought Tolerance
2:20 PM - 27002 - Barrera-Figueroa, Blanca E - Isolation of up-regulated genes in roots of a drought tolerant bean (Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Pinto Villa) under early dehydration stress and characterization of a novel group 3 LEA mRNA.
2:40 PM - 27003 - Alvarez, Sophie  - Changes of the proteome of maize xylem sap in response to water stress
3:00 PM - 27004 - Rezaei Nejad, A  - Effects of long-term exposure of stomata to high relative air humidity
3:20 PM - 27005 - Kuzma, Monika M. - Down-regulation of farnasyltransferese improves plant drought tolerance and results in yield protection

611-614

19-Jul

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

Minisymposium 17: "Omics"  - Chair: Mary Lou Guerinot
2:00 PM - 28001 - Warek, Ujwala  - The Efficacy of GeneThresher Methylation Filtering Technology in the Plant Kingdom
2:20 PM - 28002 - Till, Bradley J - Advances in TILLING technology
2:40 PM - 28003 - Alba, Rob  - Transcriptome resources for fruit molecular biology
3:00 PM - 28004 - Gong, Jiming  - Ionomics and microarray-based rapid isolation of mutant genes
3:20 PM - 28005 - Thibaud-Nissen, Francoise  - Development of Arabidopsis whole-genome arrays and their utilization for chromatin immunoprecipitation studies

615-617

19-Jul

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

Coffee Break

Outside Rooms

19-Jul

4:00 PM

6:00 PM

Plant Physiology Editorial Board Meeting

303

19-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 18: Membrane Transport  - Chair: Heven Sze
4:10 PM - 29001 - Morris, Jay  - Characterization of CAX9 from Arabidopsis, a homolog of mammalian K+ dependant Na+, Ca2+/H+ (NCKX) antiporters
4:30 PM - 29002 - Padmanaban, Senthilkumar  - Testing the role of novel cation/proton exchangers (AtCHX) in osmoregulation
4:50 PM - 29003 - Pilon, Marinus  - Copper Delivery for Photosynthesis in Plant Chloroplasts
5:10 PM - 29004 - Baxter, Ivan  - A plasma membrane H+-ATPase is required for the formation of proanthocyanidins in the seed coat endothelium of Arabidopsis thaliana
5:30 PM - 29005 - Foster, Justin J - Role of LHT and AAP amino acid transporters in nitrogen uptake by roots

618-620

19-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 19: Temperature Responses  - Chair: Charles Guy
4:10 PM - 31001 - Xin, Zhanguo  - ESK1 encodes a novel regulator of freezing tolerance
4:30 PM - 31002 - Kaplan, Fatma  - Beta-Amylase RNAi Lines Exhibit Increased Sensitivity Of Photosynthetic Electron Transport Chain To Freezing Stress
4:50 PM - 31003 - Simonovic, Ana D. - Effect of Chilling and Acclimation on the Activity of Glutamine Synthetase Isoforms in Maize Seedlings
5:10 PM - 31004 - Ullah, Hemayet  - Scaffold Protein RACK1/AtArcA Mediates Multiple Developmental and Hormonal Signal Transduction Pathways in Arabidopsis
5:30 PM - 31005 - Rensink, Willem A. - Analysis of Temperature Stress Responses in Potato, Solanum tuberosum, by Comparative and Functional Genomics Approaches

606-607

19-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 20: Education and Outreach  - Chair: Mary Williams
4:10 PM - 32001 - Lemaux, Peggy G. - Food fights in California - Educational challenges of the GMO debate
4:30 PM - 32002 - Stinemetz, Charles L - The Expansion of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Markets as a Model for Teaching Responsible Environmental Public Policy Formulation
4:50 PM - 32003 - Markelz, Nicole H. - "Outreachomics": a new approach to educational outreach
5:10 PM - 32004 - Williams, Mary E. - Incorporating TAIR resources and a genomics perspective into Molecular Biology Lab
5:30 PM - 32005 - Fleet, Christine M. - Analysis of hiring practices in biology departments of post-secondary educational institutions

615-617

19-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 21: Seed Biology  - Chair: John Harada
4:10 PM - 33001 - Josefsson, Caroline  - Hybrid incompatibility in Arabidopsis: a role for dosage-sensitive regulation of endosperm development
4:30 PM - 33002 - Braybrook, Siobhan A - Identification of Target Genes for the Transcription Factor LEAFY COTYLEDON2: Linking Somatic and Zygotic Embryogenesis
4:50 PM - 33003 - Lin, Yun  - Molecular genetics of Arabidopsis seed development and storage Product Synthesis
5:10 PM - 33004 - Bilyeu, Kristin D. - Plant breeders are from Mars and molecular biologists are from Venus
5:30 PM - 33005 - An, Yong-qiang (Charles)  - Conserved and Divergent transcriptional regulation of seed germination, and the regulatory roles of gibberellin and abscisic acid in barley germination

608-609

19-Jul

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

Minisymposium 22: Natural Variation and Evolution of Plant Development  - Chair: Cathie Martin
4:10 PM - 34001 - Chatfield, Steven P - De Novo Meristem Generation in Arabidopsis
4:30 PM - 34002 - Di Stilio, Veronica S - B class floral MADs box genes and the evolution of novel floral morphologies in Thalictrum (Ranunculaceae)
4:50 PM - 34003 - Martin, Cathie  - Morphological specialisations associated with evolution of a specialised pollination syndrome in Solanaceous plants
5:10 PM - 34004 - Van Der Knaap, Esther  - Diversity in tomato fruit form mediated by the locus sun
5:30 PM - 34005 - Wagner, Jeremiah R - The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Light Signaling Domain of a Phytochrome

611-614

19-Jul

6:30 PM

10:00 PM

Dinner & Dance
Buses will pick up at 6:30 pm at the Convention Place Entrance at Pike Street and 9th Avenue; returns will rotate to various hotels with the last bus departing at 9:40 p.m.

Seattle's Pacific Science Center

WEDNESDAY

 

20-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Education Committee Meeting

309

20-Jul

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Program Committee Meeting

302

20-Jul

7:00 AM

2:00 PM

Posters Open (remove posters by 2 pm)

4E

20-Jul

8:00 AM

12:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

401

20-Jul

8:00 AM

12:00 PM

Registration Open

4D

20-Jul

8:30 AM

10:10 AM

Minisymposium 23: Photomorphogenesis  - Chair: Thomas Brutnell
8:30 AM - 35001 - Kim, Byung-Hoon  - Early dark response in Arabidopsis thaliana
8:50 AM - 35002 - Neff, Michael M. - Activation-tagged suppressors of phyB-4 identify points of cross-talk between hormones and photomorphogenesis.
9:10 AM - 35003 - Choi, Giltsu  - PIL5, a phytochrome-interacting bHLH protein, regulates seed germination through gibberellin in Arabidopsis
9:30 AM - 35004 - Sharrock, Bob  - Heterodimerization of type II phytochromes in Arabidopsis
9:50 AM - 35005 - Brutnell, Thomas P. - PhyB control of maize seedling and plant development

619-620

20-Jul

8:30 AM

10:10 AM

Minisymposium 24: Vegetative Development  - Chair: Keiko Torii
8:30 AM - 36001 - Shapiro, Bruce E - A Computational Modeling Framework for the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem
8:50 AM - 36002 - Wu, Xuelin  - Requirement of homeobox gene STIMPY for Arabidopsis meristem growth and maintenance
9:10 AM - 36003 - Kawakatsu, Taiji  - Temporal regulation of leaf initiation in rice
9:30 AM - 36004 - Cookson, Sarah J. - Intrinsic properties of leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana
9:50 AM - 36005 - McAbee, Jessica M - ERECTA-family LRR-RLKs mediate epidermal patterning

.606-607

20-Jul

8:30 AM

10:10 AM

Minisymposium 25: Plant Pest Interactions  - Chair: Gregg Howe
8:30 AM - 37001 - Barth, Carina  - Functional characterization of the Arabidopsis myrosinase genes TGG1 and TGG2. Their roles in glucosinolate breakdown and plant-insect interactions.
8:50 AM - 37002 - Klingler, John  - Genetic mechanisms of aphid resistance in Medicago truncatula
9:10 AM - 37003 - Ballare, Carlos L - Phytochrome-mediated responses to reflected far-red radiation (FR) reduce antiherbivore defenses in Nicotiana longiflora. Saving in defense to prepare for competition?
9:30 AM - 37004 - Fowler, Jonathan H. - Leucine aminopeptidase regulates the wound response in tomato
9:50 AM - 37005 - Howe, Gregg A. - Regulation of Plant Defense by the Jasmonate Signaling Pathway

608-609

20-Jul

8:30 AM

10:10 AM

Minisymposium 26: Environmental Physiology  - Chair: Peter Minorsky
8:30 AM - 38001 - Sors, Thomas G - Investigation of the enzymes involved in selenium hyperaccumulation
8:50 AM - 38002 - Maricle, Brian R. - Respiration and oxygen transport in saltmarsh grasses in relation to elevational zonation
9:10 AM - 38003 - Chen, Charles P - Plants and tropospheric ozone. Are our model systems the correct ones?
9:30 AM - 38004 - Aldea, Mihai  - Indirect effects of biotic damage on photosynthesis in a forest understory
9:50 AM - 38005 - Minorsky, Peter V - Induced Earth Currents and Asymmetry in the Handedness of Foliar Spiral Direction of Coconut Palms

611-614

20-Jul

10:10 AM

10:40 AM

Coffee Break

Hall Outside Minis

20-Jul

10:40 AM

12:20 PM

Minisymposium 27: Signaling II  - Chair: William J. Lucas
10:40 AM - 39001 - Miura, Eriko M. - Characterization of a phloem-derived eukaryotic initiation factor 5A: A role in long-distance RNA trafficking
11:00 AM - 39002 - Sritubtim, Somrudee  - Arabidopsis MAPK kinase kinase 6 (AtMKK6) and MAP kinase 13 (AtMPK13) encode positive regulators of lateral root formation
11:20 AM - 39003 - Huffaker, Alisa  - A novel peptide signal, AtPep1, regulates pathogen defense in Arabidopsis
11:40 AM - 39004 - Juarez-Diaz, Javier Andres  - A stylar extracellular matrix thioredoxin h reduces S-RNase in Nicotiana alata
12:00 PM - 39005 - Naithani, Sushma  - Specificity determinants and alteration of recognition specificity of the Brassica self-incompatibility S-locus receptor kinase

618-620

20-Jul

10:40 AM

12:20 PM

Minisymposium 28: Photosynthesis II  - Chair: David Hanson
10:40 AM - 41001 - Rupassara, Indu S - Metabolic and Transcript Profiling of Glycine max and Arabidopsis thaliana in elevated ozone and carbon dioxide in the field.
11:00 AM - 41002 - Green, Beverley R - Genomics of non-green algae: photosynthesis, acclimation and chloroplast evolution
11:20 AM - 41003 - Ogawa, Ken'ichi  - The physiological role of glutathionylation of plastidic fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase in Arabidopsis thaliana
11:40 AM - 41004 - Naidu, Shawna L. - The exceptional low temperature tolerance of C4 photosynthesis in Miscanthus x giganteus corresponds to a lower activation energy of Rubisco
12:00 PM - 41005 - Hanson, David T - Assessing carbon concentrating mechanism function with a tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer: real-time analyses of 13CO2 and C18O16O discrimination by hornworts

606-607

20-Jul

10:40 AM

12:20 PM

Minisymposium 29: Protein Targeting  - Chair: Thomas Okita
10:40 AM - 42001 - Washida, Haruhiko  - Mis-targeting of rice a-globulin and glutelin RNAs to distinct endoplasmic reticulum subdomains disrupts ER export and transport to the storage vacuole
11:00 AM - 42002 - Rutschow, Heidi  - Comparative proteomics of a chloroplast targeting mutant in Arabidopsis thaliana
11:20 AM - 42003 - Koizumi, Nozomu  - Isolation and characterization of a bZIP transcription factor from Arabidopsis regulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response
11:40 AM - 42004 - Kang, Byung-Ho  - The Membrane Assembly Matrix, a Novel, Non-Membranous 'Organelle' that Facilitates Vesicle-Mediated Membrane Assembly and Transformation in the Endomembrane System
12:00 PM - 42005 - Lam, Sheung Kwan  - SCAMPs mediate endocytosis via prevacuolar compartments in transgenic tobacco BY-2 cells

608-609

20-Jul

10:40 AM

12:20 PM

Minisymposium 30: New and Improved Technologies  - Chair: David Ho
10:40 AM - 43001 - Zieler, Helge  - Inheritance of centromere-based mini-chromosomes in plants
11:00 AM - 43002 - Weir, Brian J - Gene transfer to plants by diverse species of bacteria
11:20 AM - 43003 - Rommens, Caius M - All-Native DNA Transformation
11:40 AM - 43004 - LaFayette, Peter R. - Arabitol dehydrogenase as a selectable marker for rice
12:00 PM - 43005 - Hong, Chwan-Yang  - Design and construction of novel promoters for controlling expression of transgenes in plants

611-614

20-Jul

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

ASPB Annual Business Meeting

611-614

20-Jul

2:00 PM

5:10 PM

Symposium V: President’s Symposium: Cellular Dynamics and Plant Growth - Organizer: Roger Hangarter
2:00 pm - Abstract 50001 - Rob McClung - An evolving view of the Arabidopsis circadian clock
2:40 pm - Abstract 50002 - Masamitsu Wada - Diversity of photoreceptors and motility systems of chloroplast movement
3:20 pm - COFFEE BREAK
3:50 pm - Abstract 50003 - Sidney Shaw - Microtubules in Motion
4:30 pm - Abstract 50004 - Simon Gilroy - Do Plants Feel? Ionic Signaling in the Arabidopsis Root.

Ballroom 6AB

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