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8:00-9:00 a.m.
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Light Breakfast and Registration |
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9:00-9:05 a.m.
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Welcome, Dr. Richard Sayre, Organizer |
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9:05-9:10 a.m.
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Opening Remarks, Dr. Joan Herbers, Dean, College of Biological Sciences |
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9:10-9:20 a.m.
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The USP-Rutgers-OSU Consortium, Dr. Rod Sharp |
| Microbial and Plant-Microbe Systems |
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9:20-9:40 a.m
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R. Robert Tabita, Metabolic Engineering to Enhance Carbon Sequestration and Biohydrogen Production by Microorganisms. |
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9:40-10:00 a.m.
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| Li-Rong Zeng, Shaohong Qu, Alicia Bordeos, Chengwei Yang Marietta Baraoidan, Hongyan Yan, Qi Xie, Baek Hie Nahm, Hei Leung, and Guo-Liang Wang, Spl11, a Negative Regulator of Plant Cell Death and Defense, Encodes a U-Box/ARM Repeat Protein Endowed with E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity |
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10:00-10:20 a.m.
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Hemalatha Saidasan, Didier G. Schaefer, Andrija Finka, Jean-Pierre Zrÿd and Michael Lawton, Physcopathology: programmed cell death and defense responses of Physcomitrella patens |
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10:20-10:40 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
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10:40- 11:00 a.m.
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Jerome Kukor, Boris Wawrik, Gerben Zylstra, and Lee Kerkhof, Strategies for "biodiscovery" of new microbes and microbial genes as sources of potentially novel bioactive molecules |
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11:00-11:20 a.m.
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Sathish Rajamani, Max Teplitski, Dietz Bauer and Richard Sayre, Algae Secrete Compounds That Mimic Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Signals. |
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11:40-12:00 p.m.
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Joe Win, Thirumala Kanneganti, Molly Hawke, and Sophien Kamoun, Gene mining and high throughput functional assay identify Phytophthora infestans effector proteins |
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12:00-1:20 p.m.
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Lunch, Dr.Henrique Amorin, Fermentec Corporation, Brazil; THE POWER RISING FROM THE SUSTAINABLE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL |
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1:40-2:00 p.m.
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Ronaldo Bento Quaggio, Investigating the role of RNA-binding proteins in Arabidopsis. |
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2:00-2:20 p.m.
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J. Marcela Hernandez, George Heine, Niloufer G. Irani, Antje Feller, and Erich Grotewold, Combinatorial Control of Plant Gene Expression. |
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2:20-2:40 p.m.
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Craig Yendrek and James D. Metzger, Cloning of cryptochrome 1 and 2 from the long day plant Nicotiana sylvestris and the short day plant Nicotiana tabacum cv Maryland Mammoth |
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2:40-3:00 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
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3:00-3:20 p.m.
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D. P. S. Verma and M. Mahfouz, pTOR, Target of Rapamycin, a central regulator of stress signals in plants. |
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3:20-3:40 p.m.
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Rebecca S. Lamb, V.F. Irish, S. Makkena, and K. Puttaswamy, Identification of APETALA3-Binding Proteins (ABPs) and Characterization of Their Role in Flower Development |
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3:40-4:00 p.m.
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Hui Wang, Kenneth J. Buckley, Xiaojuan Yang, R. Cody Buchmann, and David M. Bisaro, Adenosine Kinase Inhibition as a Mechanism of RNA Silencing Suppression by Geminivirus AL2 and L2 Proteins. |
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4:00-4:20 p.m.
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John Price, Ashverya Laxmi, Steven K. St. Martin, and Jyan-Chyun Jang, Global transcription profiling reveals multiple sugar signal transduction mechanisms in Arabidopsis |
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4:20-4:40 p.m.
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Fred Sack, Divisions in the chorus line: Stomatal development in Arabidopsis |
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| ABRC Resources: |
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4:40-5:00 p.m.
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Randy Scholl, Emma Knee, Luz Rivero, Deborah Crist, Nataly Case, Rebecca Klasen, James Mann, Julie Miller, Garret Posey, Pamela Vivian, Zhen Zhang, Ling Zhou. Public resources of Arabidopsis thaliana in the post-genomic era. |
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| Dinner is open |
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8:40-9:20 a.m.
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Light Breakfast |
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9:20-9:40 a.m.
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Adriana P. M. Rodriguez, Marcelo C. Dornelas, Robert A. Bouchard, John J. Finer, Characterization and utilization of soybean and sugarcane SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR KINASE (SERK) gene families. |
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9:40-10:00 a.m.
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Helaine Carrer and Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo, FORESTs: Eucalyptus ESTs Genome Project |
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10:00-10:20 a.m.
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Lena Struwe, Kate Lepis, Maria Fernanda Calió, Wendy Peters, Matthew Kinkade, Adrian M. Pohlit, and Jose Pirani, Exploring evolutionary patterns in Brazilian plant biodiversity using GIS and molecular systematics |
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10:20-10:40 a.m.
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Helaine Carrer and Danila Melotto-Passarin, EVOLUTION STUDIES IN GRASSES USING THE CHLOROPLAST GENOME |
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10:40- 11:00 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
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Plant Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering
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11:00-11:20 a.m.
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Jong-Kuk Na, J.C. Jang, and J. D. Metzger, Improvement Of Drought Tolerance By Altering IP3 Level And Drought-Specific Transcription Factors |
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11:20-11:40 a.m.
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Dimuth Siritunga and Richard Sayre, The Central Role of Cyanide in Cassava (Manihot esculanta) Root Metabolism |
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11:40 -12:00 p.m.
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K.D. Bhalerao, A.B.O. Soboyejo, K.C. Ting, S.C. Lee. Concurrent science for biomolecular engineering. |
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12:00-12:20 p.m.
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Priscila L. Gratão, Georgia B. Pompeu and Ricardo A. Azevedo, Understanding Plant Antioxidative Responses to Heavy Metals and Amino Acids Metabolism: Proteomic and Enzymological Approaches |
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12:20-1:20 p.m.
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Lunch |
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1:20-1:40 p.m.
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M.B. McDONALD; J. MARCOS-FILHO; W. JIANHUA; Seed Technology Training in the Year 2004 |
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1:20-1:40 p.m.
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Joan Herbers, Announcement of joint Request for Proposals for the “New World Consortium for Life Sciences Research” |
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Afternoon
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Open for meetings with potential collaborators, shopping, etc. |
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6:00-7:30 p.m.
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Optional dinner at the Faculty Club in recognition of the 40th Anniversary of the Memorandum of Understanding between The University of Sao Paulo and The Ohio State University. Separate registration and fee are required for dinner. |
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