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Welcome to the 14th Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium.
The 14th Annual Plant Biology Minisymposium will be held on Thursday May 23rd at University of Maryland at College Park (approximately 8:30 am - 5:00 pm). All plant Biologists are invited to join us for this one-day meeting (faculty, students, postdoctoral and visiting fellows and anyone else with an interest). The speakers this year include many junior scientists who are breaking new ground with innovative techniques and approaches.
We encourage you to participate and submit abstracts for a poster presentation. Approximately six abstracts will be selected for a brief (3-5 min.) poster talk during the oral sessions. Opportunities for interactions and net-working are particularly facilitated in a meeting of this size.
| Mark Running | | Univ. Louisville | | Turning Moss Into Algae: Prenylation Mutants of Physcomitrella patens |
| Wendy Peer | | Univ. Maryland | | Flavonoids, auxin and redox homeostasis |
| Libo Shan | | Texas A & M | | Differential regulation of plant immunity and development by a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 |
| Bing Yang | | Iowa State | | TAL effectors: from pathogenesis to genome editing |
| Ping He | | Texas A & M | | Ca2+-dependent protein kinases in plant effector-triggered immunity |
| Jianhua Zhu | | Univ. Maryland | | Insights into how plants deal with temperature extremes |
| Amy Litt | | NSF | | Comparative gene function in dry and fleshy fruit development in Solanaceae |
| Jose Pruneda-Paz | | UC San Diego | | Uncovering transcriptional circuits in Arabidopsis by functional genomics |
| Chris Dardick | | USDA ARS W. Virginia | | A Next-Gen mapping strategy to decipher the molecular and genetic basis for architectural variations in peach trees |
| Terri Long | | NC State | | Nutrient homeostasis in plants |
| Chunying Kang | | Univ. Maryland | | Genome-scale transcriptomic insights into early stage fruit development in woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca |
Organizers:
Heven Sze (co-chair of the organizing commitee)
Caren Chang (co-chair of the organizing commitee)
June Kwak
Zhongchi Liu
Hua Lu
Steve Mount
Shunyuan Xiao
Jianhua Zhu
Sponsors:
Institute for Biosciences and Biotechnology Research
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland
Percival Scientific
BIOLINE
Bio-Rad
Integrated DNA Technologies
Macherey-Nagel, Inc.
RAININ Pipetting 360°
The Scale People, Inc.
WorldWide Medical Products, Inc.
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