Invited Speakers: Hans J. Bohnert, University of Arizona
John A. Browse, Washington State University
Daniel R. Bush, University of Illinois
Clint C. S. Chapple, Purdue University
Gloria M. Coruzzi, New York University
Erich Grotewold, The Ohio State University
Thomas Leustek, Rutgers University
Norio Murata, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
Basil J. Nikolau, Iowa State University
David J. Oliver, Iowa State University
David Rhodes, Purdue University
John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jen Sheen, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark Stitt, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Program:
Tentative Program
Thursday, April 22
1:00 - 4:00 Registration
2:00 - 4:00 Reception
Plenary Session I: Metabolic Interconnections
4:00 - 4:10 Welcome and Introduction
4:10 - 5:00 Gloria Coruzzi, Professor, Department of Biology, New York University, Amino acid signaling and sensing in Arabidopsis
5:00 - 5:45 Hans Bohnert, Professor, University of Arizona, Metabolic engineering in plant abiotic stress tolerance
5:45 - 7:00 Dinner
Friday, April 23
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
Plenary Session II: Metabolic Interconnections
9:00 - 9:45 Clinton Chapple, Associate Professor, Purdue University, Secondary metabolism in Arabidopsis: biochemistry and biotechnology
9:45 - 10:30 John Browse, Professor, Washington State University, Arabidopsis mutants reveal many roles for lipid metabolism in plants
Presented papers- Session I : Computational biology
10:30 - 11:00 Break with refreshments
11:00 - 12:30 Presented papers
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Basil Nikolau, Professor, Iowa State University, Molecular biology of acetyl-CoA generation and metabolism in plants
2:45 - 3:30 David Oliver, Professor, Iowa State University, Glutathione synthesis in plants: Multiple controls in response to multiple stresses
3:30-4:30 Poster session I and coffee
Plenary Session III: Metabolic Interconnections
4:30 - 5:15 Daniel Bush, Associate Professor, USDA-ARS and University of Illinois, Resource allocation and multicellular growth: Molecular analysis of plant sugar and amino acid transporters
5:15 - 6:00 Thomas Leustek, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Rutgers University, Environmental factors that regulate sulfur assimilation in plants
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner
7:30 - 9:00 Dessert Party
Saturday, April 24
8:00 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
Plenary Session IV: Regulation of Metabolism by Primary Metabolites
8:30 - 9:15 Jen Sheen, Massachusetts General Hospital, Sugar and hormonal signaling network
9:15 - 10:00 To be announced
10:00 -10:30 Break with refreshments
10:30 -12:30 Poster session II
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Presented papers- session II
Plenary Session V: Interactions between Stress and Metabolism
3:30 - 4:15 David Rhodes, Professor, Purdue University, Computer simulation of isotope labeling kinetics of metabolic networks: Uses in interpreting precursor-product relationships, fluxes and compartmentation of pools
Presented papers - Session III
Break with coffee
4:15 - 5:00 John Shanklin, Biochemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Encouraging enzymes to do what we want them to do: rational and irrational design
5:00 - 5:45 Break
5:45 - 6:30 Norio Murata, Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology,
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Metabolic feedback in the fatty-acid desaturation of membrane lipids
6:30 - 8:00 Dinner
Sunday, April 25
8:30 - 9:30 Continental breakfast
Plenary Session VI: Post genomics and Metabolic Modeling
9:30 - 9:45 Erich Grotewold, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, Plant Myb-domain proteins and metabolic diversity: Tools to engineer secondary metabolism?
9:45 -10:30 Mark Stitt, Professor, University of Heidelberg, Coordinate regulation in central metabolic pathways
10:30 -11:00 Break with refreshments
11:00 -11:45 Presented papers- session IV: Computational Biology
12:00 - 12:30 Buses leave for the airport
Registration :
Registration Deadline: March 23, 1999
Full registration: $350 if paid on or before March 23, 1999; $400 if paid after March 23, 1999
Student registration: $250 if paid on or before March 23, 1999; $300 if paid after March 23, 1999
Students may apply for travel grants: Application due February 15, 1999
Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 1999
Email for Requests and Registration: pbmb@iastate.edu