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FRIDAY, July 6

8:00 AM

6:00 PM

The Plant Cell Editorial Board Meeting

Joliet Room

8:00 AM

6:00 PM

ASPB Executive Committee Meeting

Marquette Room

12:00 AM

5:00 PM

Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project (AAGP) Meeting
- Claude dePamphilis

McCormick

6:00 PM

9:00 PM

Registration Opens

8th St. N. & S.

6:30 PM

9:30 PM

ASPB Executive Committee Dinner

Offsite

6:30 PM

9:30 PM

ASPB The Plant Cell Editorial Board Meeting

Offsite

SATURDAY, July 7

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

ASPB Membership Committee Meeting

PDR 4

7:00 AM

6:00 PM

Registration Open

8th St. N. & S.

7:00 AM

6:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

PDR 5

8:00 AM

5:00 PM

Field Trips
FT - 1 Ferns of the Indiana Dunes Region - $85.00
FT - 2 Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie - $115.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 3 Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid Site Tour - $130.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 4 The Indian Boundary Prairies - $75.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 5 The Mazon Creek Fossil Flora - $75.00

OFFSITE

8:00 AM

12:00 PM

Field Trip
FT - 6 Chicago Botanic Garden - $35.00

OFFSITE

8:00 AM

12:00 PM

The Plant Cell Editorial Board Meeting

Joliet Room

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Posters May Be Posted

Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest Hall

10:00 AM

2:00 PM

Field Trip
FT -7 Illinois Beach State Park - $50.00

OFFSITE

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

Education Forum Session: Education Forum Session - Supporting Effective Teaching and Learning

Continental A

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

Education Forum Session - Active Learning in the Classroom

Continental B

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Workshop W2 - "Smiling Faces" - A Simple Technique for Teaching Enzyme Function

Lake Huron

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Workshop W3 - Planting Science and Cultivating Mentoring

Lake Michigan

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Workshop W4 - MorphBank's New Annotation Functionality for Morphological Phylogenetics and Biological Research Collections

Lake Erie

10:00 AM

2:00 PM

Plant Physiology Editorial Board Meeting

PDR 2

11:00 AM

1:00 PM

ASPB Public Affairs Committee Meeting

PDR 6

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Undergraduate Poster Session & ASPB Section/New Member Reception
Undergraduates are encouraged to attend and display their posters. All sections of ASPB will be represented to answer questions about membership and section activities.

Grand Ballroom

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

ASPB Ambassador's Club Lunch

PDR 4

1:00 PM

3:00 PM

BSA Workshop W5 - Classroom Wonders: Wisconsin Fast Plants and C-Fern

Lake Michigan

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Education Forum Session - Along the Career Path

Stephens 1

1:00 PM

4:00 PM

Education Forum Session - BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Symposium
Part 1

Stephens 2

2:00 PM

3:00 PM

ASPB Awards Ceremony
All attendees are invited to attend this prominent annual ceremony which recognizes meritorious research and service in plant biology by the presentation of awards to deserving individuals.  Awards to be given this year are the Corresponding Membership Award, the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award, the Stephen Hales Prize, the Charles Albert Shull Award, the Martin Gibbs Medal, the Adolph E. Gude, Jr. Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award, the Early Career Award, the ASPB-Pioneer Hi-Bred International Graduate Student Prize, and, for the first time this year, the ASPB Fellows Award.

International Ballroom

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Northwest Hall Prefunction Space

2:15 PM

3:15 PM

Education Forum Session - Trees in Teaching: Versatile Tools for Learning

Stephens 3

2:15 PM

3:15 PM

Education Forum Session - Exploring Inquiry-based Instruction in Botany to Enhance Student Learning In a Differentiated Classroom

Stephens 5

2:15 PM

3:15 PM

Education Forum Session - Introducing a Problem Space Approach to Undergraduate Problem Solving: Exploring the Phylogeography of the Invasive Species Tamarix

Stephens 2

3:00 PM

4:20 PM

S01 ASPB Major Symposium - Charles Albert Shull & Stephen Hales Prize Awardees
3:00-3:40 PM S01001 Xuemei Chen - HEN1 in microRNA biogenesis and plant development
3:40-4:20 PM S01002 Ken Keegstra - Back to the Future-Xyloglucan Structure, Biosynthesis and Function

International Ballroom

3:15 PM

4:15 PM

Education Forum Session - PREP: Active Learning and Mutual Benefit

Stephens 1

3:15 PM

4:15 PM

Education Forum Session - Open Modeling and Simulation Resources for Problem Solving in Plant Biology

Stephens 2

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

SL01 Special Lecture - Education Forum Keynote Address - Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.

Continental C

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

ASPB's Perspectives of Science Leaders
Plant Biology into the 21st Century: Where to from Here?
Speaker: Dr. James Collins, Assistant Director of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation, will discuss his perspectives on where biology is today, where it is going, and how plant biology fits in that vision.

Continental B

5:45 PM

7:30 PM

Education Forum Reception & Book Signing

Northwest Hall Prefunction Space

6:00 PM

7:00 PM

ASPB Fellows Reception
Honoring this year's ASPB Fellows by invitation only.

Grand Tradition

6:00 PM

10:00 PM

ASPB Career Workshop I: Where are the Jobs
Speakers from industry (Christine Ellis, Monsanto; Katherine Krolikowski, Mendel), publishing (Nancy Eckardt, The Plant Cell; Jennifer Henry, Functional Plant Biology) academia (Robert Last, Michigan State University), science policy (Diane Jofuku Okamuro, NSF); and career guidance (Sarah Blackford, Society for Experimental Biology) will give brief presentations about opportunities in their fields and answer questions during the evening. Workshop will begin with dinner.  This event requires a pre-purchased ticket.

Williford B

6:00 PM

10:00 PM

ASPB Career Workshop II: Getting the Most Out of Your Postdoc Experience
Speakers will discuss postdoc options in industry and academia (Terry Delaney, University of Vermont); postdoc funding (Sharman O-Neill, UC Davis; Guntram Bauer, Human Frontiers Science Program); research/teaching balance (Sarah Wyatt, Ohio University; Leeann Thornton, Washington University); choosing a mentor and project (Nicole Donofrio, University of Delaware); and what are PI's looking for in a postdoc (Don Ort, University of Illinois). Workshop will begin with dinner. This event requires a pre-purchased ticket.

Williford C

7:00 PM

10:00 PM

BSA Executive Committee Dinner

OFFSITE

SUNDAY, July 8

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

ASPB Minority Affairs Committee Meeting

Joliet Room

7:00 AM

8:30 AM

Small Colleges/PUI Networking Breakfast
This event serves as an opportunity to bring people from PUIs together to network, share information on strategies for teaching and research in plant biology, and explore other opportunities.  This event requires a pre-purchased ticket.

Waldorf Room

8:30 AM

5:00 PM

ASPT Board Meeting

Marquette Room

7:30 AM

7:00 PM

Registration Open

8th St. N. & S.

7:30 AM

7:00 PM

Speaker Ready Room Open

PDR 5

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

BSA Financial Advisory Committee Meeting

PDR 6

8:00 AM

5:00 PM

Exhibitor Setup

Southwest Hall & Southeast Hall

8:00 AM

11:00 PM

Internet Café Open

Southewest Hall

8:00 AM

11:00 PM

Posters Open

Southwest, Southeast & Northeast Halls

8:00 AM

5:00 PM

Field Trips:
FT - 8 Ferns of Northeastern Illinois - $75.00
FT - 9 FENS: More than "Peat with calcareous seepage..." - $75.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 10 Warren Woods and Mud Lake Bog, Berrien County, Michigan - $85.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 11 Somme Prairie and Vestal Grove - $115.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 12 Calumet Wetlands - $160.00 - CANCELLED!
FT - 13 Flora and Ecology of the Indiana Dunes -$85.00
FT - 14 The Morton Arboretum - $85.00 - CANCELLED!

OFFSITE

8:00 AM

12:00 PM

Education Forum Session - BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Symposium Part 2

Stephens 1

8:30 AM

12:30 PM

BSA Workshop W6 - Measuring Eco-physiology of Plants from Cells to Ecosystems with Nondestructive Techniques

Lake Michigan

8:30 AM

12:30 PM

BSA Workshop W7 - Image Quiz: Teaching plant identification based on insights from cognitive psychology

Lake Huron

8:30 AM

12:30 PM

BSA Workshop W8 - Sharing scientific research with K-12 learners: expanding our outreach

Lake Ontario

8:30 AM

12:00 PM

S02 ASPB Major Symposium - "Plant Biology in sub-Saharan Africa"
8:30 - 9:00 AM Organizer: Debby Delmer, UC Davis - Overview of Plant Biology in Africa
9:00 S02001 Mande Semon - The Evolutionary History of the
African Rice Oryza glaberrima Steud
9:40 S02002 Cosmos Magorokosho - The Introduction of Maize in
Africa and Current Levels of Diversity in Zimbabwe,
Zambia and Malawi
10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 S02003 James Ogwang - Biological control of water hyacinth
in Lakes Victoria and Kyoga – Uganda
11:20 S02004 Dionne Shepherd - Diversity of maize streak virus
(MSV) and transgenic resistance to MSV in maize

International Ballroom

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

BSA Web Committee Meeting

PDR 6

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Workshop W9 - Plants in Space: Educational Opportunities in Plant Biology Using the Space Garden

Astoria Room

10:00 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Workshop W10 - Preparing Figure Files for Publication

PDR 2

10:20 AM

11:20 AM

ALL COFFEE BREAK

Grand Ballroom

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Education Committee Meeting

Joliet Room

11:00 AM

12:00 PM

BSA Membership Committee Meeting

Williford A

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

ABLS, AFS, ASPT & BSA Presidents' Luncheon

PDR 6

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

ASPB Minority Affairs Luncheon
This luncheon is sponsored by the ASPB Committee on Minority Affairs.  Dr. Tuajuanda Jordan will speak on “Will Current Legislative Policies Enhance or Impede the Progress of Underrepresented Minorities Obtaining Degrees in the Sciences?”     This event requires a pre-purchased ticket.

Waldorf Room

1:00 PM

4:00 PM

Field Trip:
FT - 15 The Field Museum and Botany Department - $25.00 (to be repeated as FT 17) PARTICIPANTS WILL WALK TO THE MUSEUM

OFFSITE

1:00 PM

3:30 PM

BSA Council Meeting

Williford A

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

BSA Workshop W1 - New BSA Teaching Innovations Short Course

Lake Michigan

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

BSA Workshop W11 - Scientific Writing and Editing

Lake Ontario

1:00 PM

3:00 PM

BSA Workshop W12 - Collections Planning and Policy for Educators and Academics

Lake Huron

1:00 PM

3:00 PM

BSA Workshop W13 - Carex Identification

Lake Erie

1:00 PM

5:00 PM

BSA Workshop W16 - The World of Plants at Your Fingertips

PDR 2

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

S03 Minority Affairs Symposium - Plants and Human Nutrition - Chair: Greg Goines
2:00 S03001 Howard Damude - Making a healthy oil even healthier: Production of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in soybean.
2:20 S03002 Marcella Gilbert - Historical Diet & Current Disease Among the Northern Plains Tribes
2:50 S03003 Raymond Rodriguez - Nutritional Genomics: Linking Food, Genomics and Human Health to Promote Global Health and Wellness
3:15 S03004 Eugenia Winston - Genetic and cultural methods to control reniform nematode in cotton

International Ballroom

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

M01 Minisymposium - Emerging Genome Technologies - Chair: Ivan Baxter
2:00 M01001 Andrea L Eveland - 3’UTR Profi ling: Resolution of Diff erential Expression by Closely-Related Transcripts and Identification of Novel Sequences
2:25 M01002 Samuel Hazen - Detecting circadian clock regulated transcription using genome tiling arrays
2:50 M01003 Ivan Baxter - Deletion and Duplication Detection in Arabidopsis using Tiling Arrays
3:15 M01004 Xu Zhang - Survey of splicing variation and allele specifi c expression in natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana using SNP-tiling array

Continental Ballroom A

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

M02 Minisymposium - Vegetative Development - Chair: Kenneth Birnbaum
2:00 M02001 Kenneth Birnbaum - A Genomic and Real Time View of Regenerating Tissue
2:25 M02002 Jeanne M. Harris - Abscisic Acid rescues the root meristem defect of M. truncatula latd mutants
2:50 M02003 Mengjuan Guo - Molecular Mechanisms for KNOX Gene Silencing by the Arabidopsis ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 Complex
3:15 M02004 M Van Lijsebettens - Growth control in plants by chromatin modifying complexes

Continental Ballroom B

2:00 PM

3:40 PM

M03 Minisymposium - Cell-to-Cell and Long Distance Signaling - Chair: Dominique Bergman
2:00 M03001 Jennifer M. Gagne - The Protein Phosphatase Type 2C Proteins, POL and PLL1 are Required for Multiple Asymmetric Cell Divisions During Plant Development
2:25 M03002 David Braun - Tie-dyed1 encodes a novel protein controlling carbohydrate accumulation in leaves
2:50 M03003 Dominique Bergmann - Accentuate the positive: interactions between opposing regulators control stomatal pattern in Arabidopsis
3:15 M03004 Karen Deak - Long Distance Signals Regulate Lateral Root Emergence in Arabidopsis thaliana

Continental Ballroom C

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

BSA Workshop W12a - Collections Planning and Policy for Educators and Academics

Lake Huron

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

BSA Workshop W13a - Carex Identification

Lake Erie

3:45 PM

4:45 PM

ALL COFFEE BREAK

Grand Ballroom

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

BSA Student and Mentor Orientation

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

BSA Under-Represented People Committee Meeting

PDR 6

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

M04 Minisymposium - Cellular Technologies - Chair: Marisa Otegui
4:10 M04001 Matthew V. Thompson - Estimating long-distance phloem behavior with sieve-element targeted, fluorescence labeled membrane proteins
4:35 M04002 Dana E Martinez - Involvement of “senescence associated vacuoles” in the degradation of chloroplast proteins in tobacco leaves
5:00 M04003 Luisa Lopez-Ochoa - Use of peptide aptamers for broad-based geminivirus disease resistance
5:25 M04004 Tzvi Tzfi ra - Toward zinc finger nucleases-mediated gene targeting in plants

International Ballroom

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

M05 Minisymposium - Abiotic Stress - Chair: Mike Hasegawa
4:10 M05001 Chan Yul Yoo - Ca2+/CaM signaling through AtGTL1 mediates drought stress adaptation
4:35 M05002 Zhanguo Xin - ESK1 Is a Novel Component of Freezing Tolerance
5:00 M05003 Adriana Katz - Salt-induced changes in the plasma membrane proteome of the halotolerant alga Dunaliella salina
5:25 M05004 Ru Zhang - Cyclic Electron Transport Protects against Moderate Heat Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

Continental Ballroom A

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

M06 Minisymposium - Rhythms - Chair: C. Robertson McClung
4:10 M06001 Katharine Hubbard - Dissection of Calcium Signalling Pathways in the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock
4:35 M06002 Sumire Fujiwara - Blue-light dependent stabilization of ZEITLUPE requires the LOV domain in Arabidopsis
5:00 M06003 Kazunari Nozue - The circadian clock and light signaling converge on PIF4 and PIF5 to control rhythmic hypocotyl growth
5:25 M06004 Michael F Covington - The circadian clock regulates auxin signaling in an organ-specific manner

Continental Ballroom B

4:10 PM

5:50 PM

M07 Minisymposium - Seed Biology - Chair: Jane Shen-Miller
4:10 M07001 S.M. de Sousa - A sorbitol dehydrogenase deficiency reduces kernel size in maize
4:35 M07002 J. Shen-Miller - Exceptional longevity of fruits of Nelumbo nucifera: heat-hardy (100oC) proteins.
5:00 M07003 Christine Andeme Ondzighi-Assoume - During Biogenesis of Nucellus Cells in Developing Seeds, Arabidopsis Protein Disulfide Isomerase 5 Traffics Together with Cysteine Proteases to Protein Storage and Lytic Vacuoles
5:25 M07004 Hardy Rolletschek - Mechanisms for oxygen sensing and balancing in naturally hypoxic crop plant seeds

Continental Ballroom C

5:00 PM

7:00 PM

TAIR/Gramene/SGN Workshop I: Gene Ontology and Plant Metabolic Databases
Workshop I will focus on describing both the Gene Ontology (GO; http://www.geneontology.org) and the Plant Ontology (PO; http://www.plantontology.org).

Williford B

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Student Worker Orientation Meeting

Marquette Room

5:00 PM

6:30 PM

BSA Grad School Reception/Career Fair

Normandie Lounge

5:00 PM

7:00 PM

American Fern Society Council Meeting

PDR 6

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

USDA Reception
All employees/colleagues of the U.S. Department of Agriculture are invited to attend.

Astoria Room