South Dakota
Plant Physiology/Plant Biochemistry Symposium

Program

Wednesday, August 6

2:00-5:00 pm

Registration, Volstorff Ballroom, Student Union

2:15-5:00 pm

Mixer & Poster setup,  Gallery Student Union

6:00-6:45 am

Keynote Address: Robert Burris, University of Wisconsin, (emeritus)
"Retrospective on Biological Nitrogen Fixation" South Dakota Art Museum Auditorium

7:00 pm

Dinner and Tribute to Robert Burris, South Dakota Art Museum
Hosted by South Dakota State University President, Dr. Peggy Miller
Thursday, August 7

7:00-8:00 am

Breakfast at Volstorff Ballroom, Student Union
First Session: Abiotic/Biotic Stress

7:50 am

Announcements in Volstorff  

8:00-8:40 am

Tuan-Hua David Ho*
Washington University
"LEA Proteins: role in stress tolerance"

8:40-9:20 am

Hans J. Bohnert
University of Illinois
"Expression Profiles and Signaling Networks
During Abiotic Stress: The Function of Noise"

9:20-9:40 am

Carina Knorpp
Swedish University  
"Mitochondrial Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase and its Interaction Partners:  Identification and Consequences"

9:40-10:00 am

Coffee break  

10:00-10:40 am

Charles L. Guy
University of Florida
"Plants As Poilkilotherms: The Challenge of Temperature Extremes for Mesophiles"                                             

10:40-11:20 am

Shauna Sommerville
Carnegie Institution
 "Microarray Analysis of Plant Pathogen Interactions"   

11:30-12:30 pm

Lunch at "JACK's PLACE" Student Union  

12:30- 12:55pm

Dessert and Poster Session in Gallery Lounge; Undergraduates' Posters Judged.
Second Session: Development

1:00- 1:40 pm

Elliot Meyerowitz*
Caltech
"Genetic, Genomic, and Photonic Approaches
to Plant Development"

1:40-2:20 pm

Edgar Spalding
University of Wisconsin
"Control of Hypocotyl Growth by Blue Light: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms"

2:20-2:40 pm

David P. Horvath
USDA-ARS-Fargo
"Physiology, Genomics, and Molecular Biology of Dormancy and Bud Growth in Leafy Spurge"

2:40-3:00 pm

Coffee Break  

3:00-3:40 pm

Donna E. Fernandez
University of Wisconsin
"From Embryos to Ageing: a MADS Connection"

3:40-4:20 pm

Julie M. Stone
University of Nebraska
"Programmed Cell Death in Plant Development Characterization of a Transcriptional Regulator"

4:20-5:40 pm

Poster Session & Mixer, Gallery Student Union;  Post-doctoral Fellows' Posters Judged.

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

7:00 pm

Dinner - on your own  
Friday, August 8

7:00-7:50 am

Breakfast in Volstorff Ballroom  
Third Session: Metabolism

8:00-8:40 am

Douglas D. Randall *
University of Missouri
"The Complexity of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complexes"

8:40-9:20 am

John B. Ohlrogge
Michigan State University
"Building a Quantitative Model of Metabolic Fluxes During Oilseed Metabolism"

9:20-9:40 am

Jill Stevenson-Paulik       
HHMI, Duke University
"Modification of Inositol Phosphate Metabolism To Generate Low-Phytate Plants"

9:40-10:00 am

Coffee Break  

10:00-10:40 am

Thomas D. Sharkey
University of Wisconsin
"Using Genetic Resources to Study Transitory Starch Breakdown"

10:40-11:20 am

Carroll P. Vance
University of Minnesota
"Genomic Approaches to Improving Nitrogen Fixation
and Phosphorus Acquisition in Legumes"

11:30-12:30 pm

Picnic Lunch at McCory Gardens  

12:30-1:30 pm

Poster session in Gallery Lounge; Graduate Students' Posters Judged.
Fourth Session: Signal Transduction:

1:40-2:20 pm

Michael A. Hall*
University of Wales
"Ethylene Signaling Networks"

2:20-3:00 pm

Sarah M. Assmann
Penn State University
"New Transducers of Abscisic Acid Signaling in Guard Cells"

3:00-3:20 pm

Patrick Krysan          University of Wisconsin "New Reverse-genetic Tools for Studying Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis"

3:20-3:40 pm

Coffee Break  

3:40-4:20 pm

Jeffery F. Harper
The Scripps Research Institute
"Coding and Decoding Calcium Signals in Plants"                                      

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

5:00-5:20 pm

Fedora Sutton
South Dakota State University
"Integration Statement"

5:20-5:30 pm

Machi Dilworth                                       
NSF
" A perspective on funding of Plant Biology"

5:30-6:20 pm

Panel Discussion " Systems Biology, what is it and are we ready?"

6:20- 6:40 pm

Poster session ; Posters taken down

7:00-8:00 pm

Social hour with the Jazz Quartet, Brookings Inn, Ballroom

8:00 pm

Banquet ( Brookings Inn, Ballroom); Poster Prizes Awarded.
Saturday, August 9

All Day

Post Conference Activities
* indicates Session Leaders