Kenneth Frame will be moving to Stanford University to start his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences.

Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics OCCBIO

University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, June 2-4, 2008

Summer Practical Workshop on Functional Genomics

Dates to be decided, Summer, 2009
Location to be decided

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, techical staff and young faculty members who do not normally gain access to such facilities, or apply these kinds of quipment and analyses to their research, are the individuals that we wish to have benefit through the educational resources presented through this Workshop.

This workshop will allow students to gain hands on experience with these protocols, run actual genomics/proteomics types of experiments, and become facile in the analysis of the data.

We will have a core resident faculty that will run modules in these disciplines and we will use the proposed funds to also invite eminent guest speakers who are experts in the different areas to interact with the students.

Gordon Conference in Plant and Metabolic Engineering

July 12 - 17, 2009
Waterville Valley Resort, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire

The associated Graduate Research Seminar has been scheduled for July 11-12, 2009 at the Waterville Valley Resort, Waterville Valley, New
Hampshire

Overview: The post-genomic era presents new opportunities for manipulating plant chemistry for improvement of plant traits such as disease and stress resistance and nutritional qualities. This conference will provide a setting for developing multidisciplinary collaborations needed to unravel the dynamic complexity of plant metabolic networks and advance basic and applied research in plant metabolic engineering. The conference will integrate recent advances in genomics, with metabolite and gene expression analyses. Research discussions will explore how biosynthetic pathways interact with regard to substrate competition and channeling, plasticity of biosynthetic enzymes, and investigate the localization, structure, and assembly of biosynthetic metabolons in native and nonnative environments. The meeting will develop new perspectives for plant transgenic research with regard to how transgene expression may influence cellular metabolism. Incorporation of spectroscopic approaches for metabolic profiling and flux analysis combined with mathematical modeling will contribute to the development of rational metabolic engineering strategies and lead to the evolvement of new tools to assess temporal and subcellular changes in metabolite pools. The conference will also highlight new technologies for pathway engineering, including use of heterologous systems, directed enzyme evolution, engineering of transcription factors and application of molecular/genetic techniques for controlling biosynthetic pathways.

The DNAProteome Conference

Recent Advances Towards Establishing the Protein-DNA Interaction Space April 20-22, 2009 – Barcelona, Spain

Gordon Conference in Plant and Metabolic Engineering

July 15 - 20 , 2007
Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire

Overview:

The post-genomic era presented new opportunities for manipulating plant chemistry for improvement of plant traits such as disease and stress resistance and nutritional qualities. This conference provided a setting for developing multidisciplinary collaborations needed to unravel the dynamic complexity of plant metabolic networks and advance basic and applied research in plant metabolic engineering. The conference integrated recent advances in genomics, with metabolite and gene expression analyses. Research discussions explored how biosynthetic pathways interact with regard to substrate competition and channeling, plasticity of biosynthetic enzymes, and investigate the localization, structure, and assembly of biosynthetic metabolons in native and nonnative environments. The meeting developed new perspectives for plant transgenic research with regard to how transgene expression may influence cellular metabolism. Incorporation of spectroscopic approaches for metabolic profiling and flux analysis combined with mathematical modeling will contribute to the development of rational metabolic engineering strategies and lead to the evolvement of new tools to assess temporal and subcellular changes in metabolite pools. The conference also highlighted new technologies for pathway engineering, including use of heterologous systems, directed enzyme evolution, engineering of transcription factors and application of molecular/genetic techniques for controlling biosynthetic pathways.

The next Cordon Research Conference will be held in 2009

Completed PhD Thesis Defenses

April - May , 2006
Ohio State University

The following lab members had PhD theses defenses in the months of April and May, 2006:

Niloufer Irani: April 26

Marcela J. Hernandes: April 28

George Heine: May 18

2003
Anusha Dias.