Thurgood Marshal Library conference room
Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
PROGRAM
8:30 -- breakfast and registration 8:50 -- Welcome to Bowie State University
Dr. George Acquaah, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
introduced by George Ude, Bowie State University
9:00-- Platform presentations
SESSION 1 Biotic Stress -- Steve Mount, session chair
9:00
Wenming Wang
Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI
"Functional Diversification between RPW8.1 and RPW8.2, Two Homologous Disease Resistance Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana thaliana"
9:20
Guan-Feng Wang
Dept. Biol. Sci., Univ. Maryland Baltimore Co.
"The salicylic acid regulatory gene WIN3 is required for resistance to Botrytis cinerea and flowering time control in Arabidopsis"
9:40
Kayla Pennerman
Dept. Biology, Salisbury Univ., Salisbury, MD
"Cuscuta transmission and secondary infection of Fusarium wilt"
10:00
Adriana Telias
Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, Univ. Maryland
"The impact of agricultural practices on bacterial phyllosphere ecology and food safety"
10:20
Heba Ibrahim
USDA Plant Sciences Institute and Genetics Dept., Cairo University
"Analysis of gene expression in soybean roots in response to root knot nematode using microarray and KEGG pathways "
10:40 -- coffee break
SESSION 2 Genomics -- Jianhua Zhu, session chair
11:00-- Invited Speaker
Dr. Ann Loraine University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"Integrated Genome Browser and DAS2:
Free tools for sharing and exploring genome-scale data sets."
11:30
Elena Albrecht
KeyGene Inc., Rockville, MD
"Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Capsicum baccatum Genetic Resources "
11:50
Courtney Hollender
Dept. Cell Biol. Mol. Genetics, Univ. Maryland
"Strawberry: A new model for studying flower and fruit development"
12:10 -- Lunch
1:10-- SESSION 3 Cell Biology and Development -- Caren Chang, session chair
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Dominique Bergmann Stanford University
"Approaching the whole of the hole:
multi-scale approaches to plant stomata"
2:10
Ruiqiang Chen
Dept. Cell Biol. Mol. Genetics, Univ. Maryland
"Proteomic analysis of ethylene hormone signaling in Arabidopsis "
2:30
Paja Sijacic
Dept. Cell Biol. Mol. Genetics, Univ. Maryland
"TSO1 coordinates cell proliferation and differentiation in Arabidopsis flower development"
2:50
Weier Cui
Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE
"Identification of a novel KAM1/MUR3 allele that affects CKL6 subcellular localization"
3:10 -- Break and poster session
Participants are invited to explore the Bowie State campus.
SESSION 4 Metabolism and fruit properties -- Ben Matthews, session chair
3:50
Chuck Davis
Dept. Biology, Salisbury Univ., Salisbury, MD
"Effects of nitrogen availability on lipid production in Neochloris oleoabundans"
4:10
Kevin Fedkenheuer
Dept. Biology, James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA
"Expression and Characterization of Arabidopsis beta-Amylase9"
4:30
Elizabeth Steidle
Dept. Biology, James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA
"Investigation of the Role of Arabidopsis beta-Amylase9 in Starch Metabolism"
4:50
Qiang Xu
National Key Lab of Crop Genetic improvement, Huazhong Ag. Univ., Wuhan 430070, China
"Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms in controlling red-flesh trait in a sweet orange mutant"
5:10
Songqing Ye
Dep. Horticultural Sci. & Microbial and Plant Genomics Inst., Univ. Minnesota; Genetic Improvement of Fruit and Vegetables, USDA/ARS; Dept. Cell Biol. Mol. Genetics, Univ. Maryland
"Fruit protein with a novel post-translational indole-acyl modification from strawberry"
POSTERS
Beatrice Akers
Undergraduate Program, Department of Biology, Howard University
"Role of Arabidopsis RACK1 Proteins on the Oxidative Stress Signaling pathways
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Jiayue Feng
Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI
"Functional Analyses of the Broad-Spectrum Resistance Protein RPW8.2 in Heterologous Genetic Backgrounds"
Herman Fennell
Graduate Program, Department of Biology, Howard University
"Rice scaffold protein- Receptor for Activated C Kinase 1 (RACK1) mediated signaling pathways "
Nabanita Kundu
Graduate Program, Department of Biology, Howard University
"Post-Translation modifications based dimerization of RACK1 proteins in Arabidopsis "
Xianfeng Ma
Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI
"Screening and Characterization of Arabidopsis Mutants Defective in RPW8.2's Targeting to the Extra-Haustorial Membrane Induced by Powdery Mildew "
Samantha Mainiero
Dept. Biology, James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA
"Identification of a bipartite nuclear localization signal in a catalytically inactive beta-amylase (BAM8) from Arabidopsis"
Yingqiang Wen
Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI
"Basal Resistance Mechanisms Revealed by Golovinomyces cichoracearum UMSG1, A Poorly Adapted Powdery Mildew Pathogen in Arabidopsis "
All plant biologists in the Mid-Atlantic
region are invited to participate and attend this meeting.
Registration
Everyone should register.
Regular member: $25.00 (pay at door-cash or check)
Student or postdoc: $10.00 (free for those who present their work at the meeting) Undergraduate presenters will receive a $50 travel award
The MAS-ASPB will be
held in conjunction with:
ASPB's Minority Affairs Committee professional development workshop for students and faculty from Minority Serving Institutions in the mid-Atlantic region. Thursday, March 25. Contact Crispin Taylor at ASPB ( ctaylor@aspb.org )if you'd like more information about this workshop.
The minisymposium is free to all
but registration is also required
MAS-ASPB Spring Meeting
Organizers
Steve Mount, Chair of MAS-ASPB, smount [at] umd.edu 301-405-6934
Les Erickson, Secretary-Treasurer, flerickson [at] salisbury.edu
Robert P. Donaldson, MAS-ASPB Section Representative, robdon [at] gwu.edu,
(202) 994-6094
To get to Bowie State University take 295 (the Baltimore Washington Parkway) to the MD-197 exit. Take MD-197 (Laurel-Bowie Road) 5.2 miles east to Bowie State University. Turn left into the campus. Take a right at the stop sign, onto Jericho Park Rd. and then left onto Loop Road. Park in the main parking lot and find your way to the library (Google maps).
