FF21 Annual Plant Biology Symposium

WHEN: Friday, April 14, 2017, 8:30am-4:30pm
WHERE: NSB (Natural Science Building) Auditorium 1205

Please join us for a 1-day Symposium on plant biology. Morning refreshments and lunch will be served. Registration is free.

AGENDA
View/download the symposium agenda here

SPEAKERS:

• Chentao Lin, UC Los Angeles
• How cryptochromes work? - from CRY photochemistry to CRY-regulated proteome
• Devin Coleman-Derr, UC Berkeley
  Stress and the microbiome
• Katie (Katayoon) Dehesh, UC Riverside
• Choreography of stress-specific retrograde signaling network
• Siobhan Brady, UC Davis
• Regulation of plant development in response to a changing environment
• Hong Qiao, University of Texas at Austin
• Molecular mechanisms of interplay between ethylene signaling and chromatin regulation in Arabidopsis
• Joe Ecker, Salk Institute
• (Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape
• Alisa Huffaker, UC San Diego
• Identifying new components of the maize immune response through profiling of biotic stress-induced changes in phosphoproteome and metabolism
• Eric Schmelz, UC San Diego
• Connecting phenotypes with genotypes: Metabolite-based genome-wide association studies (mGWAS) enable the large scale annotation of genes controlling maize specialized metabolism

WHEN: Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 8AM
WHERE:Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego

This year’s Symposium will present the latest research in genetics, synthetic biology, engineering, social science, policy, and biomanufacturing in photosynthetic organisms, to address the issues at the center of the Food | Water | Energy nexus. The Symposium will be followed by a special plant biology symposium in honor of Joanne Chory at the Salk Institute on March 11. For more information, please visit our event website here.

SPEAKERS

• Margaret McCormick, Matrix Genetics (Keynote)
• Unlocking the Potential of Cyanobacteria for Energy and Nutrition: Opportunities and Challenges
• Tryg Lundquist, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• Wastewater Recycling and Biofuel Production with Algal Raceways
• Rep. Scott Peters (CA-52), Congressional Algae Caucus - Co-Founder and Co-Chair
• The Role of Congress in Algal Research and Commercialization
• Sarah Smith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Algal genomes and product potential
• Len Smith, Heliae
• Sustainable Nutrition from Algae
• Krishna Niyogi, UC Berkeley
• Algal photosynthesis and genetics
• Millier Tran, Triton Algae Innovations 
• Progression of Chlamydomonas reinhardttifrom a model organism to an industrial recombinant protein producing host
• Joseph Ostrand, UC San Diego 
• Developing synthetic promoters for C. reinhardtii protein production
• Susan Golden, UC San Diego
• Uncovering genetic controls for complex behaviors using RB-TnSeq
• Robert Pomeroy, UC San Diego
• Might as well go surfing: Biomass utilization in a world where oil is $30/barrel
• Fonna Forman, UC San Diego
• 'Bending the Curve' and Closing the Gap: Participatory climate action in disadvantaged communities
• David Victor, UC San Diego
• Can we really meet our climate change goals?

Graduate Student and Postdoc Talks

• Tamar Azoulay-Shemer, UC San Diego
• Plant transpiration and [CO2]: The role of guard-cell photosynthesis and leaf starch-biosynthesis in stomatal turgor production and in CO2-induced stomatal closing
• Ryan Simkovsky, UC San Diego
• Mass spectrometry-based detection of pond infestations

POSTER SESSION

Congratulations to the top poster winners sponsored by Millipore Sigma!

• Keini Dressano
• Frank Fields
• Roger’s Community Gardens
• Jesse Traller

Poster Titles:

• Identifying novel regulators of maize herbivore-associated volatile terpene biosynthesis through phosphoproteomic profiling
• Alisa Huffaker, Philipp Weckwerth, Elly Poretsky, Andrew Sher, Zhouxin Shen, Steven Briggs
• A Novel Broad Spectrum Extraction Method for the Simultaneous Isolation and Detection of Defense-related Metabolites and Phytohormones
• Chan, Joshua; Christensen, Shawn; Luu, An; Ding, Yezhang; Schmelz, Eric
• New Insights On The Genetics, Biochemistry, Diversity And Function Of Maize Defenses
• Ding, Yezhang; Chan, Josh; Huffaker; Alisa; Schmelz, Eric
• Characterization of downstream Pep signaling components: importance of a Pep-responsive RNA recognition motif (RRM)-containing protein
• Dressano, Keini; Huffaker, Alisa
• Induced foliar volatile production in response to the herbivore elicitor N-linolenoyl L-glutamine maps to a single QTL in maize
• Elly Poretsky, Philipp Weckwerth, Eric Schmelz, Alisa Huffaker
• More than a model: High-yield growth of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for commercial production
• Fields, Frank
• Closing the Loop - All Under One Roof
• Roger's Community Garden
• Genome and methylome of the oleaginous diatom Cyclotella cryptica reveal genetic flexibility toward a high lipid phenotype
• Traller, Jesse