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Plant Cell Walls (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Emerging Challenges for the Next Generation of Plant Cell Wall Researchers

August 4 - 5, 2012
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Plant Cell Walls is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

New technologies are providing additional perspectives of plant cell wall biology across a rapidly growing number of species, highlighting a myriad of architectures, compositions, and functions in both "conventional" and specialized cell walls. This meeting will focus on addressing the knowledge gaps and technical challenges raised by such diversity, as well as our need to understand the underlying processes for critical applications such as crop improvement and bioenergy resource development.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Plant Cell Walls" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmPlant cell wall research: the big picture
Discussion Leader: Seth De Bolt (University of Kentucky)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmKen Keegstra (Michigan State University)
"Biosynthesis of plant cell walls - Where have we been and where we are going?"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pmDiscussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmExpanding our toolbox: emerging techniques for cell wall analysis
Discussion Leader: Debra Mohnen (CCRC, University of Georgia)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmAlex Tsai (University of Toronto)
"Compositional Analysis and Imaging of Arabidopsis thaliana Mutants Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmValerie Cornuault (University of Leeds)
"Isolation of rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) oligosaccharides for monoclonal antibody production and antibody use as detection tools for novel chromatographic analyses of RG-I diversity"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmPurbasha Sarkar (University of California, Berkeley)
"Electron tomography as a tool to study plant cell wall architecture at molecular resolution"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmJonatan Fangel (University of Copenhagen)
"An integrated omics approach for investigating cell wall diversity and evolution"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amNew insights into plant cell wall development
Discussion Leader: David Domozych (Skidmore College)
9:00 am - 9:20 amYves Verhertbruggen (Joint Bioenergy Institute)
"Developmental occurrence of cell wall polysaccharides along Arabidopsis thaliana stem"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amBradley Dotson (University of California, Berkeley)
"A Trichome Glass House: Insights into Cell Wall Architecture and Biosynthesis through the Functional Definition of Tricome Birefringence1"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:20 amBerit Ebert (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
"Nucleotide sugar transporter as regulators of cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
10:20 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amYoichiro Watanabe (University of British Columbia)
"Loss of efficient post-Golgi trafficking in echidna mutants results in distinct mistargeting of cell wall polysaccharides and proteins"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmSpecialized cell walls: looking beyond cellulose
Discussion Leader: Seth De Bolt (University of Kentucky)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pmRachel Mertz (Cornell University)
"The molecular genetic dissection of bundle sheath suberization in maize and Setaria viridis"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pmDiscussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pmRebecca Smith (University of British Columbia)
"Good Neighbours: The Co-operative Model during Lignification"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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