Climate, Osmolytes, Metabolic Engineering and Osmotic Stress |
Discussion Leader:
Anne Johnson-Flanagan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
Keynote Speaker:
Andrew Hanson, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
"DMSP Biosynthesis: An Adaptation to Stress with Global Fallout" |
Model Systems: What They Can Tell Us |
Discussion Leader:
Michael Thomashow, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
Masayori Inouye, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
"Cold Shock Response in E. coli" |
Norio Murata, National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji, Japan
"Cyanobacteria: A Model System to Study Acclimation and Tolerance to Temperature Stress" |
Christine Pfund, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
"Yeast As a Model Organism for the Study of Heat Shock Protein Functions" |
Gary Warren, Imperial College, London, UK
"Bridging the Gap Between Genetics and Molecular Biology of Freezing Tolerance in Arabidopsis" |
Environment, Developmental Processes and Stress |
Discussion Leader:
Kay Walker-Simmons, USDA-ARS, Pullman, Washington, USA |
Tony Gendall, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
"Molecular Genetic Analysis of the Vernalization Response in Arabidopsis" |
Gabor Galiba, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Agricultural Research Institute, Martonvasar, Hungary
"Mapping the Genes Regulating Vernalization Requirement, Frost Tolerance and Carbohydrate Accumulation During Cold Acclimation in Wheat" |
Susan Lurie, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel
"Heat Induced Tolerance to Chilling Injury" |
Fritz Schoeffl, Lehrstuhl Algemeine Genetik, Universität Tübingen, Germany
"Aspects of Environmental and Developmental Regulation of the Heat Shock Response" |
Closing the Gap in Signal Transduction from Stress Perception to Response |
Discussion Leader:
Kazuo Shinozaki, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tsukuba, Japan |
Suzanne Abrams, Plant Biotechnology Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
"Persistent Analogs of ABA - Tools for Studying Germination and Stress Tolerance" |
Jian-Kang Zhu, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
"Arabidopsis Mutants Defective in Low Temperature Signal Transduction" |
Yan Wu, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
"Elucidation of the ABA Signal Transduction Pathway" |
Janet Braam, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
"Regulation and Function of the Stress-Induced TCH Genes of Arabidopsis" |
Laszlo Vigh, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
"The Role of Membrane Physical State in Temperature Perception and Signaling" |
Transcriptional and Translational Control of Stress Responses |
Discussion Leader:
Lutz Nover, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany |
Klaus-Dieter Scharf, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
"The Tomato Hsf System: Characterization of Functional States of HsfA1 and HsfA2" |
Eva Czarnecka-Verner, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
"Plant Heat Shock Transcription Factors: Duality in Form and Function" |
Daniel Gallie, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
"The Functions of Heat Shock Proteins and Thermal Stress in Regulating Translation and the RNA Degradatory Apparatus" |
Eric Stockinger, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
"Arabidopsis CBF Transcriptional Activators and their Role in Cold-Regulated Gene Expression" |
Molecular Chaperones |
Discussion Leader:
Elizabeth Vierling, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
Jan Miernyk, USDA-ARS, Peoria, Illinois, USA
"Three Musketeers; The Stress70 Molecular Chaperone Machine" |
Elizabeth Fontes, Bioagro, Universidad Federal de Vicosa, Brazil
"ER Stress Response: The Biological Role for a BiP Gene Family in Plants" |
Pierre Goloubinoff, Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
"The Role of Small Heat-Shock Proteins as Part of a Multi-Chaperone Network that Protects and Reactivates Heat-Denatured Proteins In Vitro and In Vivo" |
Elizabeth Vierling, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
"Function of Molecular Chaperones in Plant Stress" |
Tim Close, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
"Dehydrins as Molecular Chaperones?" |
Highlights from the Poster Session |
Discussion Leader:
Thomas Sharkey, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
Six early career scientists will be selected during the conference from the poster presentations to give 10 minute talks of their work. |
Biochemistry, Metabolism and Physiology in Response to Stress |
Discussion Leader:
Peter Steponkus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
Steven J. Crafts-Brandner, USDA-ARS, Western Cotton Research Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
"Relationship Between High Temperature Inhibition of Photosynthesis and Rubisco Activase" |
Norm Huner, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
"Energy Balance and Cold Acclimation" |
Mark Stitt, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
"Carbon Metabolism During Cold Acclimation in Potato Tubers and Arabidopsis Leaves: Identification of Sites for Regulation, Evaluation by Reversed Genetics, and Analysis of Signaling Mechanisms" |
Heribert Hirt, University of Vienna, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Vienna, Austria
"Multiple Protein Kinase Pathways Are Involved in Mediating Cold Stress in Plants" |
Leslie Wanner, Institute of Biology, University of Tromsø, Ås, Norway
"Soluble Sugar Accumulation During Cold Acclimation: Necessary But Not Sufficient for Hardiness" |
Climate, Temperature Stress and Ecophysiology |
Discussion Leader:
Marilyn Ball, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
Keynote Speaker:
Joe Berry, Carnegie Institution of Washington and Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
"Stress Physiology of Forests and Fields: Integrating Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance into Models of Ecosystems, and the Significance of Stress Tolerance for Understanding Global Productivity" |