| Wednesday, August 6 | ||
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2:00-5:00 pm |
Registration, Volstorff Ballroom, Student Union | |
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2:15-5:00 pm |
Mixer & Poster setup, Gallery Student Union | |
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6:00-6:45 am |
Keynote Address: Robert Burris, University of Wisconsin, (emeritus) "Retrospective on Biological Nitrogen Fixation" South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner and Tribute to Robert Burris, South Dakota Art Museum Hosted by South Dakota State University President, Dr. Peggy Miller |
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| Thursday, August 7 | ||
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7:00-8:00 am |
Breakfast at Volstorff Ballroom, Student Union | |
| First Session: Abiotic/Biotic Stress | ||
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7:50 am |
Announcements in Volstorff | |
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8:00-8:40 am |
Tuan-Hua David Ho* Washington University |
"LEA Proteins: role in stress tolerance" |
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8:40-9:20 am |
Hans J. Bohnert University of Illinois |
"Expression Profiles and Signaling Networks During Abiotic Stress: The Function of Noise" |
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9:20-9:40 am |
Carina Knorpp Swedish University |
"Mitochondrial Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase and its Interaction Partners: Identification and Consequences" |
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9:40-10:00 am |
Coffee break | |
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10:00-10:40 am |
Charles L. Guy University of Florida |
"Plants As Poilkilotherms: The Challenge of Temperature Extremes for Mesophiles" |
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10:40-11:20 am |
Shauna Sommerville Carnegie Institution |
"Microarray Analysis of Plant Pathogen Interactions" |
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11:30-12:30 pm |
Lunch at "JACK's PLACE" Student Union | |
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12:30- 12:55pm |
Dessert and Poster Session in Gallery Lounge; Undergraduates' Posters Judged. | |
| Second Session: Development | ||
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1:00- 1:40 pm |
Elliot Meyerowitz* Caltech |
"Genetic, Genomic, and Photonic Approaches to Plant Development" |
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1:40-2:20 pm |
Edgar Spalding University of Wisconsin |
"Control of Hypocotyl Growth by Blue Light: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms" |
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2:20-2:40 pm |
David P. Horvath USDA-ARS-Fargo |
"Physiology, Genomics, and Molecular Biology of Dormancy and Bud Growth in Leafy Spurge" |
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2:40-3:00 pm |
Coffee Break | |
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3:00-3:40 pm |
Donna E. Fernandez University of Wisconsin |
"From Embryos to Ageing: a MADS Connection" |
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3:40-4:20 pm |
Julie M. Stone University of Nebraska |
"Programmed Cell Death in Plant Development Characterization of a Transcriptional Regulator" |
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4:20-5:40 pm |
Poster Session & Mixer, Gallery Student Union; Post-doctoral Fellows' Posters Judged. | |
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6:00-7:00 pm |
2003 Burris Lecture - Michael A. Hall, University of Wales: "Figs, Flowers and Leaf Fall: The Gaseous Hormone Ethylene" South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner - on your own | |
| Friday, August 8 | ||
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7:00-7:50 am |
Breakfast in Volstorff Ballroom | |
| Third Session: Metabolism | ||
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8:00-8:40 am |
Douglas D. Randall * University of Missouri |
"The Complexity of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complexes" |
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8:40-9:20 am |
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University |
"Building a Quantitative Model of Metabolic Fluxes During Oilseed Metabolism" |
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9:20-9:40 am |
Jill Stevenson-Paulik HHMI, Duke University |
"Modification of Inositol Phosphate Metabolism To Generate Low-Phytate Plants" |
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9:40-10:00 am |
Coffee Break | |
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10:00-10:40 am |
Thomas D. Sharkey University of Wisconsin |
"Using Genetic Resources to Study Transitory Starch Breakdown" |
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10:40-11:20 am |
Carroll P. Vance University of Minnesota |
"Genomic Approaches to Improving Nitrogen Fixation and Phosphorus Acquisition in Legumes" |
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11:30-12:30 pm |
Picnic Lunch at McCory Gardens | |
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12:30-1:30 pm |
Poster session in Gallery Lounge; Graduate Students' Posters Judged. | |
| Fourth Session: Signal Transduction: | ||
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1:40-2:20 pm |
Michael A. Hall* University of Wales |
"Ethylene Signaling Networks" |
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2:20-3:00 pm |
Sarah M. Assmann Penn State University |
"New Transducers of Abscisic Acid Signaling in Guard Cells" |
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3:00-3:20 pm |
Patrick Krysan University of Wisconsin | "New Reverse-genetic Tools for Studying Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis" |
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3:20-3:40 pm |
Coffee Break | |
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3:40-4:20 pm |
Jeffery F. Harper The Scripps Research Institute |
"Coding and Decoding Calcium Signals in Plants" |
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4:20-5:00 pm |
Wendy F. Boss North Carolina State University |
"Lipid-mediated Signaling Identifying Selective Targets for Altering Plant Responses to Stress" |
| Final Session | ||
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5:00-5:20 pm |
Fedora Sutton South Dakota State University |
"Integration Statement" |
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5:20-5:30 pm |
Machi Dilworth NSF |
" A perspective on funding of Plant Biology" |
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5:30-6:20 pm |
Panel Discussion | " Systems Biology, what is it and are we ready?" |
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6:20- 6:40 pm |
Poster session ; Posters taken down | |
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7:00-8:00 pm |
Social hour with the Jazz Quartet, Brookings Inn, Ballroom | |
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8:00 pm |
Banquet ( Brookings Inn, Ballroom); Poster Prizes Awarded. | |
| Saturday, August 9 | ||
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All Day |
Post Conference Activities | |