Functional Genomics Consortium &
50 Anniversary of the Department of Biochemistry
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SPRING SYMPOSIUM
K-State Student Union Big 12 Room
Wednesday, March 9 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday, March 10 from 8:30 am to 12:00 noon
Register at http://www.k-state.edu/functionalgenomics/spring.html
Meals available if you register by March 1 (at no charge for KSU pre-registrants)
Wednesday, March 9, 7:30-8:30 am: Breakfast in Flint Hills Room. Late registration open.
8:30-8:35 am: Welcome, Big 12 Room
8:35-9:20 am: Mike Sussman
Professor of Biochemistry and Director of
the Biotechnology Center,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Untargeted and targeted quantitative
analysis of the Arabidopsis
phosphorylome using tandem mass
spectrometry”
9:20-10:05 am: Greg Heffron
Associate in Biological Chemistry
and Molecular Pharmacology and
Director, Bio-molecular NMR
Facility, Harvard Medical School
“Metabolomics of cell-based
systems”
10:05-10:30 am: Coffee Break, Flint Hills Room
10:30-11:15 am: Congcong Ma
Senior Staff Scientist, Molecular Biology
Department, Life Technologies
“Advances in DNA sequencing
technologies”
11:15 a-12:00 p: Robert Hanzlik
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry,
University of Kansas, Lawrence
“Reactive metabolite target
proteins: Proteomics and
beyond”
12:00 noon-1:30 pm: Lunch in Flint Hills Room
1:30-2:15 pm: Kent Chapman
Professor of Biochemistry and Director of
the Center for Plant Lipid Research,
University of North Texas
“Lipid accumulation in vegetative tissues
of plants”
2:40-3:05 pm: Djanaguiraman
Maduraimuthu
Research Associate in Agronomy,
Kansas State University
“Effect of high temperature stress on
pollen viability: Role of phospholipids?”
2:15-2:40 pm: Loretta Johnson
Associate Professor of Biology,
Kansas State University
“Phenotypic divergence of
cuticle chemistry, leaf
morphology and ecophysiology
of big bluestem and sand
bluestem: A model system for
the study of plant adaptation”
3:05-3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30-4:15 pm: Carlito Lebrilla
Professor, Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Davis
“The role of glycosylation in health”
4:15-5:00 pm: Mike Kanost
University Distinguished Professor
and Head,
Department of Biochemistry,
Kansas State University
“Functional genomics of
proteins in the exoskeleton of a
beetle, Tribolium castaneum”
Thursday, March 10, 7:30-8:30 am: Breakfast in Flint Hills Room
8:30-9:15 am: Lloyd Sumner
Associate Professor
of Biological Mass Spectrometry,
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
“Metabolomics and integrated functional
genomics reveal novel information
related to legume
secondary metabolism”
9:15-10:00 am: Adrian Salic
Assistant Professor of Cell
Biology, Harvard Medical School
“Chemical tools to image
biological molecules in cells
and in tissues”
10:00-10:30 am: Coffee Break, Flint Hills Room
10:30-11:15 am: Lee Zou
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer
Center, Harvard Medical School
“Sensing and signaling DNA damage by
the checkpoint pathways”
11:15 a-12:00 p: Harold Trick
Professor of Plant Pathology,
Kansas State University
“Biotic stress protection in
soybean and wheat using hostderived RNAi”