Mid Atlantic Section
ASPB Annual Spring Meeting
April 3 (Friday), 2009 9:00AM-5:30PM
2242 HJ Patterson Hall and 1103 Bioscience Research Bldg.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
PROGRAM
8:30 2nd floor, H.J. Patterson Hall -- breakfast and registration
8:55 - 10:40 2242 H.J. Patterson Hall - platform presentations
| 8:55 |
Welcome and opening remarks (Steve Mount, Univ. Maryland) |
| 9:00 |
Session I (Janet Slovin, USDA/ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Station, session chair) |
| 9:00 |
Wenming Wang (Postdoc, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI)
"Natural Mutation-Guided Transgenic Analysis Reveals the Critical Sites in RPW8.2 for Activation of Cell Death and Resistance"
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| 9:20 |
Heba Ibrahim (Graduate student, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; USDA Beltsville)
"Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing of A Plant Parasitic-Root Knot-Nematode In Soybean"
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| 9:40 |
Minh Bui (Graduate student, Univ. Maryland)
"Molecular connection between mucilage secretion and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 10:00 |
David Puthoff (Frostburg State University)
"Three wheat genes with anti-insect properties expressed in tomato" |
| 10:20 |
Kristine M. Badin (Undergraduate, The College of New Jersey)
"Rice CYP734A proteins expressed in Arabidopsis inactivate brassinosteroid hormones" |
10:40 Bioscience Research Building, ground floor - posters
12:00 - 1:00 1103 Bioscience Research Bldg. Key Note speaker:
Dr. Ursula Goodenough
Washington University in St. Louis
" Basal sexual strategies:
Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes"
1:00 - 2:00 Bioscience Research Building, ground floor - lunch and posters
2:00 - 5:00 2242 H.J. Patterson Hall - platform presentations
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Session II (JIanhua Zhu, Univ. Maryland, session chair) |
| 2:00 |
Angelika Stammler (Graduate student, Ohio University)
"The role of class 1 KNOX genes in reproductive development of Eschscholzia californica (Papaveraceae)" |
| 2:20 |
Courtney Hollender (Gradaute student, Univ. Maryland)
"Regulation of SPATULA by SEU/LUG co-repressors in flower and gynoecium development"
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| 2:40 |
Yongxian Lu (Gradaute student, Univ. Maryland)
"Cation/proton transporters are key players in pollen tube guidance"
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| 3:00 |
Coffee break and posters - outside of 2242 HJP |
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| 3:30 |
Session III (Leeann Thornton, College of New Jersey, session chair) |
| 3:30 |
Salil Chanroj (Gradaute student, Univ. Maryland)
"Localization and activities of distinct cation/H+ exchangers suggest roles in K+ and pH homeostasis through different membrane traffic patterns" |
| 3:50 |
John Marafino (Undergraduate student, James Madison University)
"Nuclear ß-amylases in Arabidopsis – protein localization, knockout mutants, and sequence analysis" |
| 4:10 |
Corine van der Weele (Postdoc., Univ. Maryland)
"A novel RRM domain protein affects male gametogenesis in Marsilea vestita"
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| 4:40 |
ASPB business meeting and announcement of Marsho Awards |
| 5:00 |
Meeting ends. Dinner on your own! (Tourist Information) |
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| Plant biologists in the Mid-Atlantic
region are invited to participate and attend this meeting.
Plant biologists, especially undergraduate and graduate
students and postdocs, are encouraged to present their work in 20 min
oral presentations. Please submit a one page abstract when registering
for the meeting in order to be considered for oral presentation.
Registration
is required (deadline March 20 )
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
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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 |
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Poster presentations
1. Conny Bartholmes (Undergraduate student) and Stefan Gleissberg
Ohio University
Effects of EcYab1 and EcYab2 on developmental processes in the basal eudicot Eschscholzia californica. 2. Janine Bernardo (Undergraduate student), Katie Parisio (Undergraduate student), Kelly Salmon, and Leeann Thornton
The College of New Jersey
Elucidation of the expression patterns and biochemical function of CYP72A cytochrome P450 enzymes in Arabidopsis thaliana
3. Anandi Bhattacharya (Graduate student) and Stefan Gleissberg
Ohio University
Establishing an Agrobacterium mediated transformation protocol for Eschscholzia californica to study leaf dissection.
4. Weier Cui (Graduate student) and Jung-Youn Lee
Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
Characterization of PDLP5, a Plasmodesmata-Associated Protein Involved in Plant Defense Pathways
5. Oriane Hidalgo (Postdoc) and Stefan Gleissberg
Ohio University
Papaveraceae s.l., an outstanding model lineage for studying flower and inflorescence evolution.
6. Mark Massak (Undergraduate student), Kristine Badin, and Leeann Thornton
The College of New Jersey
Structural and functional analysis of rice CYP734A proteins
7. Shilpa Nargund (Graduate student) and Ganesh Sriram
Univ. Maryland
Study of interaction between carbon and nitrogen metabolism by mapping metabolic fluxes in bioenergy crops.
8. David Valenta (Undergraduate student), Christie E. Williams and David P. Puthoff
Frostburg State University
The Transformation of Micro-Tom Tomatoes with Hessian Fly Responsive Genes
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