IPMB2012 Scientific Program
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IPMB2012 Scientific Program No Speaker Remarks Ottoline Leyser CPL I The regulation of shoot branching and its plasticity Cambridge Univ., UK Joe Ecker Untangling hormone signaling networks for plant growth Salk Inst., USA and defense CPL II Jeff Dangl, in absentia Functions of the Arabidopsis effector targeted protein CPL (Presented by Eui-Hwan III Chung), RIN4 in both tiers of the plant immune system (Presented in Symposium 40) Univ. of N. Carolina, USA No Speaker Topic/Title Detlef Weigel Origin and consequences of genetic and epigenetic MPI, Germany variation in Arabidopsis thaliana David Baulcombe Transgressive gene expression in interspecific hybrids Cambridge Univ., UK due to epigenetics and RNA silencing PL I PL II June Medford PL III TBA Colorado State Univ.,, USA Jen Sheen PL IV Signaling in stem cells and meristems Harvard Univ., USA Gloria Coruzzi Plant systems biology: From predictive network NYU, USA modeling to trait evolution PL V Jiayang Li Molecular basis and application of rice plant Chinese Acad. Sci., China architectures PL VI Ko Shimamoto PL VII Structure and function of florigen NAIST, Japan Hong-Gil Nam PL VIII Network structure and function in plants POSTECH, Korea No Symposium Topic, Title and Speaker Chair/Co-Chair Toward the in silico Plant Introductory remarks Ben Scheres, Wageningen Univ., The Netherlands TBA Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Univ. of Calgary, Canada TBA Nick Monk, Sheffield Univ., UK Mechanism of synchronized flowering: roles of S1 nutrient dynamics and transportation Ben Scheres, Chair Hong-Gil Nam, Co-Chair Akiko Satake, Hokkaido Univ., Japan Multiscale modelling reveals the interplay between gene regulatory network topology and tissue geometry in lateral root emergence Alistair Middleton, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany TBA Veronica Grieneisen/Stan Marée, Univ. of Norwich, UK S2 Synthetic Biology in Plant June Medford, Chair Re-designing plants for useful purposes June Medford, Colorado State Univ., USA Synthetic gene circuits (TBA) Chris Voigt, MIT, USA Metabolic engineering of plants (TBA) Mitsushiro Itaya, Keio Univ., Japan TBA Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea Emerging Issues in Plant Biology: Genome-Wide Association Mapping S3 Bin Han, Chair TBA Bin Han, Chinese Acad. Sci., China Systems Biology I Molecular networks regulating leaf growth Dirk Inze, Univ. of Gent, Belgium Genome-scale gene networks: Google for plant science? Insuk Lee, Yonsei Univ., Korea Network inference reveals key regulators of S4 Arabidopsis stress response Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Chair Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Univ. of Warwick, UK Cell specific networks regulating root development Miriam Gifford, Univ. of Warwick, UK Systems analysis of Arabidopsis root developmental processes Darren Wells, Univ. of Nottingham, UK Systems Biology II S5 Doris Wagner, Chair Establishment of dorsoventra patterning in Arabidopsis lateral organs Marcus Heisler, EMBL/Heidelberg, Germany Insight into biological function from genomewide binding studies of the LEAFY transcription factor Doris Wagner, Univ. of Penn., USA Morphogenesis at the shoot apex: the making of a flower Jan Traas, INRA, France Global analysis of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase substrates and functions in multiple tissues of Arabidopsis Brian Gregory, Univ. of Penn., USA Decoding network structures and their characteristics using modeling Daehee Hwang, POSTECH, Korea Genetic Variation Within and Between Species Studying the genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis Magnus Nordborg, Gregor Mendel Inst., Austria Epigenetic regulation of rice grain productivity Motoyuki Ashikari, Nagoya Univ., Japan Genome informed developmental analyses in tomato S6 Neelima Sinha, UC Davis, USA Detlef Weigel, Chair Magnus Nordborg, Co-Chair Comparative and population genomics in the Brassicaceae Stephen Wright, Univ. of Toronto, Canada TBA To be chosen from the Abstracts S7 Plant Genome Engineering Z. Jeffrey Chen, Chair RNA silencing in interspecific hybrids and non hybrid Chung-Mo Park, Co-Chair plants David C. Baulcombe, Cambridge Univ., UK Small RNA regulation of morphological diversity in plant polyploids and interploidy hybrids Z. Jeffrey Chen, UT-Austin, USA Hybrid genome engineering Qifa Zhang, Huazhong Agri. Univ., China Genomic and artificial siPEPs as repressors of transcription factors Chung-Mo Park, SNU, Korea Chromatin remodeling and engineering of duplicate genes Misook Ha, Samsung Adv. Inst. Tech., Korea Metagenomics Functional metagenome mining for prompting plant systemic defense Choong-Min Ryu, KRIBB, Korea The Arabidopsis root miccrobiome Davide Bulgarelli, MPI, Germany The rhizosphere microbiome S8 Chris Bowler, Chair Rodrigo Mendes, Brazilian Agri. Res. Corp, Brazil Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis of kimchi, the Korean traditional fermented food Che Ok Jeon, Chung-Ang Univ., Korea The ocean plankton metagenome Chris Bowler, Inst. Biologie de l'Ecole Norm. Super., France Choong-Min Ryu, Co-Chair Molecular and Genome Evolution Current NGS application in plant genomes research Xu Xun, Beijing Genomics Inst., China Marchantia and the evolution of land plants John Bowman, Monash Univ., Australia The utility of RNA-Seq in studying germ cell S9 specification and arsenic tolerance in fern Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Chair gametophytes Jo Ann Banks, Purdue Univ., USA Carnivorous plant genome Mitsuyasu Hasebe, NIBB, Japan TBA Genomic Stability Cell-type specific response to DNA damage Anne Britt, UC Davis, USA The role of CDKB2 in the response to DNA damage differs in Arabidopsis and rice Masaki Endo, NIAS, Japan Aluminum dependent root growth inhibition is an active process mediated by cell cycle checkpoints Anne B. Britt, Chair S10 Seichi Toki, Co-Chair Paul Larson, UC Riverside, USA Centromere differences induce genome catastrophe during zygotic mitosis Ravi Maruthachalam, UC Davis, USA Plant responses to telomere dysfunction and chromosome breakage Charles White, Universite Blaise-Pascal, France Epigenomics Genomic analysis of DNA methylation and chromatin Daniel Zilberman, Univ. of Calif., USA More than scaffolds, histone variants regulate chromatinactivities in plants Frederic Berger, TLL, Singapore S11 Chromatin dynamics and cell fate specification Daniel Zilberman, Chair Rodger Deal, Emory Univ., USA Chromatin organization in Arabidopsis Lars Hennig, Uppsala Univ., Sweden Chromatin modification and organization in Arabidopsis Xiaoyu Zhang, Univ.of Georgia, USA Epigenetics I: Epigenomic Organisation and Genome Function Dynamic regulation of histone methylation in higher plants Xiaofeng Cao, Chinese Acad. Sci., China Modular structure of DEMETER 5-methylcytosine glycosylase for active DNA demethylation Jin Hoe Huh, SNU, Korea S12 Epigenetic control of cell fate by Polycomb-group proteins Daniel Schubert, Univ. of Duesseldorf, Germany Nucleosome dynamics in transcription and DNA repair in higher plants Wen-Hui Shen, IBMP-CNRS, France Epigenetic control of meiotic crossover frequency Xiao Feng Cao, Chair Jin Hoe Huh, Co-Chair Ian Henderson, Cambridge Univ., UK Epigenetics II: Non-coding RNA, Gene Silencing Non-coding RNAs in flowering time control Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre, UK Coordinated regulation of floral transition by protein and long noncoding RNA components Sibum Sung, UT Austin, USA S13 Non-coding RNAs in root developmental plasticity Caroline Dean, Chair Martin Crespi, CNRS/Gif, France Epigenetic regulation of genome integrity Jerzy Paszkowski, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland New players in the Arabidopsis miRNA pathway Yijun Qi, NIBS, China Vesicle Trafficking Plant exocytosis: pathways, mechanisms and functions Liwen Jiang, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China Endocytic regulation of BR signaling Jenny Russinova, Ghent Univ., Belgium Regulation of membrane trafficking by a variety of S14 Liwen Jiang, Chair GTPases Aki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan TBA Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, Kyoto Univ., Japan Biogenesis and dynamics of the Golgi apparatus Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes Univ., UK Receptor-mediated vacuolar sorting in plant cells Peter Pimpl, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany Aki Nakano, Co-Chair Endosymbiotic Organellar Biology Protein targeting to chloroplast outer envelope membranes Inhwan Hwang, POSTECH, Korea Genome barriers between mitochondria and nuclei exemplified by cytoplasmic male sterility/fertility restoration in rice Kinya Toriyama, Tohoku Univ., Japan S15 Regulation of the protein import machinery of Inhwan Hwang, Chair James Whelan, Co-Chair chloroplasts R. Paul Jarvis, Univ. of Leicester, UK Identification of regulators of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins James Whelan, Univ. of W. Australia, Australia Protein targeting to chloroplasts and its relationship to plastid biogenesis Danny Schnell, Univ. of Mass., USA Plant Channels and Transporters: New Discoveries A family of cation transporters diversified to support vegetative and reproductive success in land plants Heven Sze, Univ. of Maryland, USA S16 A petunia ABC transporter controls strigolactone-dependent symbiotic signaling and branching Enrico Martinoia, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland How does transceptor CHL1 detect the concentration Youngsook Lee, Chair Heven Sze, Co-Chair and temporal changes of external nitrate? Yi-Fang Tsay, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Signaling with ions: merging genetics with biophysics on the pollen tube system José A. Feijó, Inst. Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal ABC transporters which transport lipidic molecules Youngsook Lee, POSTECH, Korea Cell Cycle and Plant Growth DNA ploidy control during root developmentLieven De Veylder, VIB, Belgium Negative regulators of APC/C as determinants of ploidy levels Masaki Ito, Nagoya Univ., Japan Masaaki Umeda, Chair S17 TBA Lieven De Veylder, Co-Chair Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid, GMI, Austria Towards the network architecture of cell cycle control in plants Arp Schnittger, IBMP-CNRS, France Hormonal control of the cell cycle Masaaki Umeda, NAIST, Japan Plant Cytoskeletons Organization of cortical microtubule arrays in Arabidopsis Takashi Hashimoto, NIST, Japan Takashi Hashimoto, Chair S18 Microtubule reorganization during plant cytokinesis Bo Liu, UC Davis, USA Secondary cell wall patterning by the microtubule-associated protein MIDD1 Chris Staiger, Co-Chair Yoshihisa Oda, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Turning over tracks: Stochastic dynamics of the cortical actin array in epidermal cells Chris Staiger, Purdue Univ., USA Control of actin cytoskeleton organization and gene expression by the evolutionarily conserved two LIM domain proteins Clement Thomas, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg Plasmodesmal and Vascular-Based Signaling Introductory overview Bill Lucas, UC Davis, USA Plasmodesmal signaling and its regulation Jae-Yean Kim, GSNU, Korea Symplasmic signaling during root morphogenesis Yrjo Helariutta, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland S19 The role of plasmodesmata in innate immunity William J. Lucas, Chair Jae-Yean Kim, Co-Chair Jung-Youn Lee, Univ. of Delaware, USA Long-distance trafficking of macromolecules regulates auxin-mediated developmental processes Shmulik Wolf, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel Long distance call from phosphorus Tzyy-Jen Chiou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Reproductive Organ Development I: Genetic and Epigenetic Aspects of Seed Development MAP Kinase regulation of embryonic polarity in Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Chair Arabidopsis. Tetsu Kinoshita, Co-Chair S20 Wolfgang Lukowitz, Univ. of Georgia, USA Regulation of aleurone cell fate in maize endosperm Phil Becraft, Iowa State University, USA Control of genomic imprinting by a FACT histone chaperone Tetsu Kinoshita, NAIST, Japan Transcriptional networks during Arabidopsis seed development Bob Goldberg, UCLA, USA Maternal control of seed development- Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Univ. of Warwick, UK Reproductive Organ Development II: Flower Development Regulation of meristem fate and spikelet development in rice Hiroyuki Hirano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan The rice AGAMOUS Subfamily: “Old” genes…..New stories Martin Kater, Univ. Studi di Milano, Italy S21 The WOX13 homeobox gene promotes replum Jose Luis Riechmann, Chair Toshiro Ito, Co-Chair formation in Arabidopsis Soraya Pelaz, CRAG, Spain Competitive action of the homeotic protein AGAMOUS in floral meristems Toshiro Ito, Temasek Life Sci. Lab, Singapore Gene regulatory networks in Arabidopsis flower development Jose Luis Riechmann, CRAG, Spain Control of Flowering George Coupland, Chair Seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants Ji-Hoon Ahn, Co-Chair S22 George Coupland, MPI, Germany A MADS box protein complex mediates ambient temperature signaling to control flowering time in Arabidopsis Ji-Hoon Ahn, Korea Univ., Korea Role of the TEMPRANILLO genes in floral transition Soraya Pelaz, CRAG, Spain Regulation of flowering time and life cycle adaptation in sugar beet Ove Nilsson, Umea Plant Sci. Center, Sweden An essential regulator required for florigen transport Hao Yu, Temesek Lab., Singapore Circadian Rhythms Network analysis of the circadian regulation of signaling Alex Webb, Cambridge Univ., UK A molecular connection between the circadian clock and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis Woe-Yeon Kim, GNSU, Korea Genetic architecture of circadian clock function in S23 Brassica rapa David Somers, Chair Woeyeon Kim, Co-Chair C. Robertson McClung, Dartmouth College, USA Functional analysis of novel circadian components in Arabidopsis Xiaodong Xu, Hebei Normal Univ., China Transcriptional and post-transcriptional circadian complexes David Somers, Ohio State Univ./POSTECH, USA/Korea Ubiquitin Pathway in Plant Development and Signaling Proteomic analyses of plant ubiquitylation Richard D. Vierstra, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA When protein degradation meets RNA silencing Pascal Genshik, IBMP, France ERAD in plant stress and hormone signaling Qi Xie, Chinese Acad. Sci., China S24 Regulation of ABA-mediated drought stress Judy Callis, Chair Qi Xie, Co-Chair responses by RING and U-box E3 ubiquitin ligases in Arabidopsis Woo Taek Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea Role of ubiquitin E3 in amino acid homeostasis and environmental stress Judy Callis, UC Davis, USA Plant Senescence Transcriptional networks that regulate plant senescence Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Univ. of Warwick, UK Dissecting gene regulatory networks controlling plant senescence Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany S25 Regulation of ageing in Arabidopsis Paul Dijkwel, Massey Univ., New Zealand The action of hydrogen peroxide as signalling molecule in leaf senescence. Ulrike Zentgraf, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany Dual targeted Whirly protein have functions in Arabidopsis senescence and cell death Pyung Ok Lim, Chair Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Co-Chair Ying Miao, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany Autophagy in Plants Degradation of the endoplasmic reticlum by autophagy during ER stress Diane Bassham, Iowa State Univ., USA Autophagy pathways in tobacco BY-2 cells and their roles Yuji Moriyasu, Saitama Univ., Japan S26 Autophagy in Magnaporthe oryzae, rice blast fungus Diane C. Bassham, Chair Fu-Cheng Lin, Zhejiang Univ., China Arabidopsis TSPO: a porphyrins scavenger through the autophagic pathway? Henri Batoko, Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Belgium Autophagy of chloroplasts during leaf senescence Hiroyuki Ishida, Tohoku Univ., Japan Photosynthesis I: Systems Approaches Leaf mitochondria and photosynthesis Per Gardeström, Umeå Univ., Sweden Evolution of the molecular mechanisms regulating photosynthetic light use efficiency Roberto Bassi, Verona Univ., Italy S27 Supercomplexes in photosynthesis Jun Minagawa, Hokkaido Univ., Japan Cyclic electron flow: new structural components and regulation Toshiharu Shikanai, Kyushu Univ., Japan Regulatory circuits providing dynamics and acclimation of thylakoid protein complexes Dario Leister, Chair Per Gardeström, Co-Chair Eva-Mari Aro, Univ. of Turku, Finland Photosynthesis II: Emerging Issues Photosynthesis: novel regulatory proteins Dario Leister, Univ. of Munich, Germany Learning the language of the chloroplast: insights into retrograde signalling Barry Pogson, Australian Natl. Univ., Australia S28 Towards a molecular blueprint of C4 photosynthesis Per Gardeström, Chair Dario Leister, Co-Chair Andreas Weber, Heinrich-Heine Univ., Germany Modelling of photosynthetic metabolism John Morgan, Purdue Univ., USA Structure and function of PSII Miwa Sugiura, Ehime Univ., Japan Plant Photobiology of Blue Light Responses Blue light signaling in stomatal guard cells Kenichiro Shimazaki, Kyushu Univ., Japan Phototropin function in chloroplast movement Masamitsu Wada, Kyushu Univ., Japan The signaling mechanism of Arabidopsis S29 Masamitsu Wada, Chair cryptochromes Chentao Lin, UCLA, USA Chentao Lin, Co-Chair Blue-light dependent FKF1 function in photoperiodic flowering Takato Imaizumi, Univ. of Washington, USA How does phot1 signal in phototropism Mannie Liscum, Univ. of Missouri, USA S30 Photoperception: Early Events in Phytochrome J. Clark Lagarias, Chair Signaling Akira Nagatani, Co-Chair Evolution of light perception by phytobilin-based photosensors J. Clark Lagarias, UC Davis, USA The modular structure of phytochrome A Akira Nagatani, Kyoto Univ., Japan Cytosolic phytochrome signaling Giltsu Choi, KAIST, Korea Phytochrome A signaling: Networking is everything Andreas Hiltbrunner, Tuebingen Univ., Germany The function of photobodies in phytochrome signaling Meng Chen, Duke Univ., USA Photoreceptor Structure/Function Atomic perspectives of phytochrome photoactivation and signaling Richard Vierstra, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA Photoreceptor structures, mechanism, and protein design Keith Moffatt, Univ. of Chicago, USA S31 Diversity of cyanobacteriochromes and photoresponses in cyanobacteria Richard D. Vierstra, Chair Seong Hee Bhoo, Co-Chair Masahiko Ikeuchi, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan UV-B perception and signaling in Arabidopsis Roman Ulm, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland New structures of Structural & functional evolution of class II photolyases Lars-Oliver Essen, Philipps Univ., Germany S32 Photoperception: Downstream Signaling Peter Quail, Chair Integration of light signaling with other plant developmental and environmental cues Xing Wang Deng, Yale Univ., USA Phytochrome interacting factors 4 and 5 regulate growth by controlling auxin signaling Christian Fankhauser, Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland Turning up the heat Karen Halliday, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Kiss and kill: Understanding the biochemical mechanisms of phytochrome-mediated degradation of PIFs Enamul Huq, UT Austin, USA Dissecting phytochrome signaling and transcriptional networks Peter Quail, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, USA Shoot Apical Meristems and Leaf Development New pathways regulating shoot meristem stem cells Thomas Laux, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany Leaf programs governed by AN3: cell proliferation, leaf identity and dorsoventrality Hirokazu Tsukaya, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan S33 Discovering new players in shoot meristem signaling network—the power of different model systems David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Lab., USA TBA To be chosen from Abstracts TBA To be chosen from Abstracts Hirokazu Tsukaya, Chair Thomas Laux, Co-Chair Plant Stem Cells: Root Development Jasmonate-auxin interplays in regulating root growth Chuanyou Li , Chinese Acad. Sci., China The Outs and Ins of Protein Movement Kim Gallagher, Univ. of Penn., USA Brassinosteroid signaling with cellular resolution S34 Ana I. Cano-Delgado, CSIC-IRTA-UAB, Spain Post-embryonic root growth program interwoven by Tom Beeckman, Chair Ji-Young Lee, Co-Chair microRNAs and cytokinin Ji-Young Lee, Boyce Thompson Inst., USA Positional control on stem cell activity for root branching Tom Beeckman, Univ. of Gent, Belgium Rice I: Developmental Biology Control of Cell Death, a lesson from rice anther development Dabing Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China Control of shoot branching in rice Junko Kyozuka, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Transcriptome analysis to dissect early anther S35 development in rice Ki-Hong Jung, Kyunghee Univ., Korea Kinesin-mediated GA boisynthesis regulates cell elongation in rice Kang Chong, Chinese Acad. Sci., China Establishment of adaxial-abaxial polarity in spikelet development in rice Taiyo Toriba, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Dabing Zhang, Chair Lo-Hong Jung, Co-Chair Rice II: Biotic and Abiotic Stress Response and Tolerance in Rice Gene pyramiding enhances resistance to blast in rice Shuichi Fukuoka, NIAS, Japan Rice Pi5-mediated resistance to Magnaporthe oryzae Jong-Seong Jeon, Kyughee Univ., Korea S36 A domestication-selected retrotransposon with global Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, epigenetic regulation in rice Chair Zuhua He, Chinese Acad. Sci., China Jong-Seong Jeon, Co-Chair Deepwater rice obtained internode elongation ability to escape from water stress Motoyuki Ashikari, Nagoya Univ., Japan Regulatory networks of gene expression in response to abiotic stress in rice Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Hormone Signaling I Auxin biosynthesis and its regulation Jose Alonso, N. Carolina State Univ., USA Context-specific role of ausin during leaf vascular tissue initiation: why the source matters Franck Ditengou, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany Differential integration of co-receptor systems for Jiri Friml, Chair auxin perception Hyung-Taeg Cho, Co-Chair S37 Luz Irina Calderón Villalobos, IPB-Leibniz Inst. Plant Biochem., Germany A new auxin signaling mechanism based on the old ABP1 Zhenbiao Yang, Univ. of Calif. Riverside, USA An auxin response gradient coordinates cell-type specific maturation in the root Kenneth Birnbaum, NYU, USA Hormone Signaling II Structural insights into perception of brassinosteroid by its receptor Jijie Chai, Tsinghua Univ., China A novel brassinosteroid signaling pathway and plant development S38 Jijie Chai, Chair Xuelu Wang, Fudan Univ., China Control of Arabidopsis de-etiolation by the coordinated action of plant hormones and light Hongwei Guo, Peking Univ., China TBA To be chosen from Abstracts Hormone Signaling III: Novel Aspects of Cytokinin Action The evolutionary conserved cytokinin yield module Thomas Schmülling, Free Univ. of Berlin, Germany Cytokinin pathways and direct targets regulating Medicago truncatula symbiotic nodule development Florian Frugier, CNRS, France Ildoo Hwang, Chair S39 Regulation of plant development via fine control of cytokinin activity Hitoshi Sakakibara, RIKEN, Japan Cytokinin-auxin interplay in the regulation of lateral root organogenesis Eva Benkova,VIB, Belgium Novel mechanisms involved in regulating cytokinin Thomas Schumülling, Co-Chair homeostasis Tomas Werner, Free Univ. of Berlin, Germany The roles of cytokinins in plant adaptation to drought and salt stresses Son Tran, RIKEN, Japan Biotic Stress I: Detect and Defend - How Plants Resist Microbial Attack Host range choice and host immunosuppression by white rusts and downy mildews Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab., UK Role of chitin signaling in plant defense Gary Stacey, Univ. of Missouri, USA A novel transcriptional switch in plant immunity Ken Shirasu, RIKEN, Japan S40 Dissecting signal transduction pathways downstream Kyung-Hee Paek, Chair Jonathan Jones, Co-Chair of receptor-like kinases using a suppressor screen of bir1-1 Yuelin Zhang, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada Functions of the Arabidopsis effector targeted protein RIN4 in both tiers of the plant immune system (Presented as CPL III by Jeff Dangl) Eui-Hwan Chung, Univ. of N. Carolina, USA Biotic Stress II: Pathogen Role of effectors in Leptosphaeria maculans, the fungus that causes blackleg of canola S41 Barbara Howlett, Chair Barbara Howlett, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia Virulence factors acquired by horizontal transfer in the cereal crown rot fungal pathogen Fusarium pseudograminearum Donald Gardiner, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia Role of plant defensins in combatting fungal pathogens of plants Marilyn Anderson, La Trobe Inst. Mol. Sci. & Hexima, Australia A novel metabolite signals from plastid to nucleus to alter plant responses to stress Katayoon Dehesh, UC Davis, USA TBA To be chosen from Abstracts Abiotic Stress I: Ion Transport and Vesicular Trafficking/Protein Targeting Lessons from yeast and mammalian NHE: Linking trafficking to neurological disease Rajini Rao, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA Nutrient transport regulated through protein trafficking: cases of boron transporters Toru Fujiwara, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan S42 Intracellular NHX antiporters control pH and Ion homeostasis and regulate vesicular trafficking and protein processing Elias Bassil, UC Davis, USA SYP121 (SYR1/PEN1) interactions at the focal point of channel-mediated network in transport and cell volume control Christopher Grefen, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Eduardo Blumwald, Chair Toru Fujiwara, Co-Chair Auxin movement in postphotomorphogenic seedlings Angus Murphy, Purdue Univ., USA Abiotic Stress II: Cold and Heat Genetic analysis of heat tolerance Elizabeth Vierling, Univ. of Mass., USA Role of the negative regulators on the control of heat stress response in plants Masaru Ohme-Takagi, NIAIST, Japan Cold stress signaling: new insights into plant S43 responses to low temperatures Shuhua Yang, China Agri. Univ., China Zhizhong Gong, Chair Sang Yeol Lee, Co-Chair Functional role of a molecular chaperone against heat shock and cold shock stresses Sang Yeol Lee, GSNU, Korea ABA-mediated H2O2 signaling in stomatal movement and root growth control Zhizhong Gong, China Agri. Univ., China Plant Response to Climate Changes The opportunity to improve wheat performance in low-yielded environments Peter Langridge, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia Tolerance to abiotic stresses for rice in coastal saline Dave Mackill, Chair S44 areas Abdelbagi Ismail, Co-Chair Abdelbagi Ismail, IRRI, Philippines A paradigm shift towards low-nitrifying agricultural production systems - Role of BNI (biological nitrification inhibition) function in plants G.V. Subbarao, JIRCAS, Japan Identifying mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance in cultivated and wild Oryza species Brian Atwell, Macquarie Univ., Australia Control of abiotic stress signaling by disease response pathways Tae Houn Kim, Duksong Women's Univ., Korea Plant Secondary Metabolism A transcriptomic/metabolomic approach to biochemical pathways in non-model systems Toni M. Kutchan, Danforth Plant Science Center, USA The carotenoid biosynthesis pathway in plants: More enzymes and new routes of interactions with plant metabolism Joseph Hirschberg, Hebrew Univ.of Jerusalem, Israel Metabolomic and cellular characterisation of S45 isoprenoids in Solanaceae: Engineering of high-value Joseph Hirschberg, Chair Donghern Kim, Co-Chair secondary metabolites. Paul Fraser, Royal Holloway Univ. of London, UK The highways and byways of biologically active monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in specialized plant cells Vincenzo De Luca, Brock Univ., Canada TBA Sunhwah Ha, Korea Plant Architecture Genetic control of Rice inflorescence development Jiayang Li, Chair S46 Junko Kyozuka, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan TBA Junko Kyozuka, Co-Chair Angus S. Murphy, Purdue Univ., USA MKK7-involved mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades play important roles in plant architecture and defense Yonghong Wang, Chinese Acad. Sci., China TBA Christine Beveridge, Univ. of Queensland, Australia TBA To be chosen from Abstracts New Breeding Technologies for Food Security Increasing world food supply: Prospects Perry Gustafson, Univ. of Missouri, USA Genomics-assisted breeding in legumes: Opportunities and obligations for food security in legumes Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT, India Genomic Selection in Plants: Empirical results and S47 implications for breeding programs Peter Langridge, Chair Mark Sorells, Cornell Univ., USA Merging mutagenesis and genomics for improvement of horticultural crops Daryl Somers, Vinelands Res. Innovation Centre, Canada Application of genomics to rice breeding: a case study using tolerance to anaerobic germination Endang Septiningsih, IRRI, Phillipines Functional Genomics in Grass S48 Gynheung An, Chair Functional genomics approach to identify flowering time pathways in rice Gynheung An, Kyunghee Univ., Korea TBA Tom Brutnell, Danforth Plant Sci. Center, USA Rice functional genomics for identification of pathways that regulate grain size Su-May Yu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Population genomics and methylomics of wild and cultivated rice Wen Wang, Chinese Acad. Sci., China Plant Genomic Resources Structure and evolution of the Brassica rapa genome Jeong-Hwan Mun, RDA, Korea Genomic resources for mungbean crop Suk-Ha Lee, SNU, Korea Genomic researches on foxtail millet; towards genome S49 assisted breeding Suk-Ha Lee, Chair Erik Legg, Co-Chair Xin Liu, Beijing Genomics Inst., China The genome sequence of hot pepper Doil Choi, SNU, Korea Genomics for predictive breeding Erik Legg, Syngenta Seeds, USA Primary Metabolites and Plant Biotechnology TBA Sam Zeeman, ETH, Switzerland S50 Lothar Willmitzer, Chair Redirecting primary metabolism to enhance the energy density of biofuel crops Christoph Benning, MSU, USA Data-driven modeling of central carbon metabolism in plants: Bridging the temporal and spatial scales Zoran Nikoloski, MPI Golm, Germany REDOX Metabolism of Mitochondria in Arabidopsis thaliana Harvey Millar, Univ. of W. Australia, Australia New components in photorespiration identified by systems approaches Andreas Weber, Univ. of Duesseldorf, Germany Molecular Breeding Precision genome editing with engineered nucleases Jin Soo Kim, SNU, Korea Genetics and Genomics of Lettuce-Pathogen Yongpyo Lim, Chair S51 Interactions Molly Jahn, Co-Chair Richard Michelmore, Univ. of Calif., USA Beyond sequencing project of Brassica rapa Yong Pyo Lim, Chungnam National Univ., Korea TBA Plant Biopharming Prospects and challenges of plant made pharmaceuticals Julian Ma, St. George’s Univ. of London, UK N-Glycosylation engineering in plants Moonsik Yang, Chair S52 Richard Strasser, Univ. of Natural Resources & Life Sci., Austria Rice-based mucosal vaccine "MucoRice" Hiroshi Kiyono, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan TBA Julian Ma, Co-Chair Kisung Ko, Wonkwang Univ., Korea Development of plant-based oral vaccine for fish Taejung Kim, Korea Biofeedstock Biotechnology Transgenic algae: Two nails in Malthus's Coffin - Feed and fuel Jonathan Gressel, Weizmann Inst. Sci., Israel Modifying lignocellulosics for easier digestibility Andy Pereira, Univ. of Arkansas, USA Genetic engineering vegetable oil pathways for S53 industrial uses Jonathan Gressel, Chair Soo-Chul Park, Co-Chair Hyun-Uk Kim, NAAS, Korea New concepts on increasing sunlight-to-biofuels efficiency John Golbeck, Penn. State Univ., USA TBA To be chosen from the abstracts Biofuel Crops and Processing The quest for sustainable domestic bioenergy and bioproducts from woody biomass: From transcriptomics to chemistry Norman Lewis, Washington State Univ., USA S54 A fundamental model for genetic modification of plant cell walls in bioenergy crops Liangcai Peng, Huazhong Agri. Univ., China Optimizing crop and process for biofuel production from lignocellulosics William Hitz, Industrial Biosciences, DuPont, USA Edgar Cahoon, Chair TAG, you're it! Understanding algal TAG metabolism Sabeeha Merchant, UCLA, USA Transcriptome changes associated with oil accumulation in the mesocarp of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) Vincent Arondel, Univ. of Bordeaux, France Plant Biotechnology for Human Nutrition Genetics and breeding of low phytic acid and phosphorus plants Victor Raboy, USDA, USA Unravelling vitamin E biosynthesis for enhanced antioxidant content of crop plants S55 Edgar Cahoon, Univ. of Nebraska, USA David C. Sands, Chair Strategies for elevating human nutrition as a goal of plant breeding David Sands, Montana State Univ., USA Protein digestability, trypsin inhibitors and other antinutrients in plants Speaker (TBA) Tree Genomics and Biotechnology Aspen genomics and biotechnology Stefan Jansson, Univ. of Umeå, Sweden Lignin modification Stefan Jansson, Chair S56 Wout Boerjan, Univ. of Gent, Belgium Taku Demura, Co-Chair Spruce genomics Nat Street, Univ. of Umeå, Sweden Insect defense Jörg Bohlmann, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada Eucalyptus genomics Zander Myrburg, Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa Xylem development Kyung-Hwan Han, MSU, USA Topic Organizers WS I: Rural Development Agency-Sponsored Workshop on Plant TBA Biotechnology WSII : Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Research TBA Andrea Brautigam, Univ. of Duesseldorf, Germany TBA Andrea Brautigam, Chair Korbinian Schneeberger, MPI, Germany TBA Eric Schranz, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands WSIII : Issues Between Lip and Sip: Taking Abiotic Stress Tolerant Transgenic Crops to Field Taking abiotic stress tolerant transgenic crops to fields: Introductory overview Anil Grover, Univ. of Delhi, India In-field evaluation of abiotic stress tolerant transgenic plants Ju-Kon Kim, Myongji Univ., Korea High-value genes: Marker-assisted breeding for tolerance of submergence and other abiotic stresses Sigrid Heuer, IRRI, Philippines Transgenic traits as a critical element of stress tolerant crop Anil Grover, Chair systems Thomas Ruff, Monsanto, USA Intergeneric gene manipulation in cereals for abiotic stress tolerance J. Perry Gustafson, Univ. of Missouri, USA WSIV (KSPB Workshop) : The Global Plant Council Forum: A Plant Science Perspective on Major Global Issues An Introduction to the Global Plant Council Plant stress biology, possibilities for mitigating the effect of climate change on crop productivity Mel Oliver, ARS/USDA, USA The Digital Seed Bank—Capturing crop diversity for sustainable food security Melvin J. Oliver, Chair Wilhelm Gruissem, ETH, Switzerland Choon-Hwan Lee, Co-Chair Plant biomass development for bioenergy production: fuel versus food? Ildoo Hwang, POSTECH, Korea Impact of plant biotechnology on agriculture in China Zhihong Xu, China Agriculture in the Neotropics: Challenges in a changing environment Gustavo Habermann, UNESP, Brazil WSV : Bioinformatics for Plant Biotechnology (Joint Japan-Korea Plant Biotech Workshop) Coexpression analysis of microarray transcriptome profiling of Suk Yun Kwon, Chair rice, brassica, arabidopsis Hiroshi Ezura, Co-Chair Baek Hie Nahm, Myongji Univ., Korea Network-based systems genetics for dissecting complex crop traits Insuk Lee, Yonsei Univ., Korea NGS applications to genome biology Ik-Young Choi, SNU, Korea De novo assembly of eukaryote genomes Namshin Kim, KRIBB., Korea Comparative analysis of transcriptomes in fruit development Sung-Hwan Jo, SEEDERS Inc., Korea Tissue-specific gene function analysis of Capsicum annuum using network biology Cheol-Goo Hur, KRIBB, Korea Genome sequencing of Korean melon Suk-Yoon Kwon, KRIBB, Korea Analysis of genes for enzymes involved in anthocyanin synthesis. Yoshihiro Ozeki, Tokyo Univ., Japan Genetics and biochemistry of plant metabolite Toshio Aoki, Nihon Univ., Japan Genome sequence analysis and database construction of rice and related cereals Takeshi Itoh, NIAS, Japan Coexpression analysis of microarray and next-generation sequencing transcriptome of plants Yoshiyuki Ogata, RIKEN, Japan Plant genome-phenome analysis and integrated genome annotation database Eli Kaminuma, National Inst. Genetics Japan Arabidopsis promoter analysis Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Gifu Univ., Japan Integrated omics analysis and web-database construction in crops Kentaro Yano, Meiji Univ., Japan Genome sequencing of Micro-Tom and other tomatoes Koh Aoki, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan
