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2005 MAPMBS MEETING SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11

9:00 AM Registration and Poster set-up

9:40 AM Introductions

Session I A - New Technologies in Gene Expression/Genetic Engineering
Moderator:

9:45 AM Tim Bourett, Dupont Crop Genetics Research and Development, Dupont Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE

DIGITAL IMAGING AND GENETIC ENGINEERING – A VERY POWERFUL COMBINATION FOR CELL RESEARCH

10:20 AM Vincent Klink, United States Department of Agriculture, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Bldg. 006, Beltsville, MD
ISOLATION OF GENES USING LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION (LCM) OF GLYCINE MAX (SOYBEAN) SYNCYTIA FORMED BY THE PLANT PATHOGEN HETERODERA GLYCINES, (SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE)

10:40 AM Break – Coffee, Exhibitors, Poster Set-up and Viewing

11:10 AM Paul Haynes, Bio5 Institute and Department of Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS OF EXPRESSED ORPHAN PROTEINS IN RICE

11:45 AM Pamela Green, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
ELUCIDATING THE SMALL RNA COMPONENT OF THE TRANSCRIPTOME WITH MASSIVELY PARALLEL SIGNATURE SEQUENCING (MPSS)

12:05 PM Lunch – Exhibitors and Poster Viewing

Session IIA - Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Moderator:

1:20 PM C. Jacyn Baker, USDA ARS Molecular Plant Pathology
REDOX MECHANISMS AND PLANT STRESS

1:50 PM Christopher Dardick, USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV
PLANT AND ANIMAL PATHOGEN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS SIGNAL THROUGH NON-RD KINASES

2:10 PM Pamela Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA
SIGNALING IN THE RICE XA21-MEDIATED DEFENSE RESPONSE

2:40 PM Richard Sicher, USDA-ARS Crop Systems & Global Change Lab, Beltsville, MD
EFFECTS OF ENHANCED ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ON THE URUSHIOL CONTENT OF POISON IVY LEAVES

3:00 PM Break – Exhibitors, Poster Viewing

3:30 PM Keynote Address 
Gregory B. Martin, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
MOLECULAR MIMICRY IN PLANT- PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS

Introduction: John Hammond, 

4:30 PM Close of day


FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

Session IB – New Technologies in Genomics
Moderator: June Kwak, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics,
University of Maryland

9:30 AM Pablo Rabinowicz, The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD
USING GENE ENRICHMENT TECHNIQUES TO SEQUENCE LARGE PLANT GENOMES

10:00 AM Bret Cooper, USDA-ARS Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Beltsville, MD
SHOTGUN IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS FROM RUST SPORES

10:20 AM Break – Exhibitors and Poster Viewing, Coffee

10: 50 AM Bradley J. Till, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington
HIGH-THROUGHPUT TILLING FOR FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

11:20 AM Nadim Alkharouf, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD
IDENTIFICATION OF SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE LETHAL GENES USING COMPUTATIONAL METHODS

11:40 AM Business Meeting

12:00 PM LUNCH: Exhibitors and Poster Viewing

Session IIB - Plant-Pathogen Interactions 
Moderator:

1:15 PM David M. Francis, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, OARDC, Wooster, OH
INSIGHTS INTO QUANTITATIVE DISEASE RESISTANCE THROUGH PROTEOME ANALYSIS OF THE TOMATO-CLAVIBACTER INTERACTION


1:45 PM Nigel Gapper, Produce Quality & Safety Lab, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD
INHIBITION OF ETHYLENE-INDUCED ALPHA-FARNESENE SYNTHASE GENE EXPRESSION IN d’ANJOU PEARS WITH 1-MCP DELAYS ALPHA-FARNESENE SYNTHESIS AND OXIDATION AND PREVENTS SUPERFICIAL SCALD.

2:05 PM Steve Whitham, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
REGULATION OF HOST GENE EXPRESSION IN RESPONSE TO VIRAL INFECTION


2:35 PM Closing Remarks

Take Down Posters