82th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Biology
NEASPB-2018 Symposium Program Booklet
Saturday April 28, 2018 |
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| Time | Activities | Location |
| 11:00-11:30 | Registration | ILC 1st floor Foyer |
| 1:00-1:15 | Welcome- Om Parkash Dhankher and
Prof. John McCarthy, Provost, UMass Amherst |
ILC Lecture Hall room N151 |
| 1:15-2:00 | Prof. Danny Schnell, MSU East Lansing, MI
A Systems Level Analysis to Understand the Control of the Metabolic and Genetic Networks Controlling Seed Oil Production Using the Model Oilseed Crop Plant, Camelina sativa |
ILC Lecture Hall N151 |
| 2:00-2:45 | Randy Allen, OSU, Ardmore, OK
Translational research on abiotic stress tolerance and fiber development in cotton |
ILC Lecture Hall N151 |
| 2:45-3:15 | Coffee Break | ILC 1st floor Foyer |
| 3:15-4:00 | Subhash Minocha, UNH, Durham, NH
Living with high putrescine: Metabolic Engineering of the Interacting Pathway of Glu-Orn-Arg-Pro-polyamines and GABA
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ILC Lecture Hall room N151 |
| 4:00-4:45 | Kristi Snell, Yield10 BioScience, Woburn MA
Technologies for increasing plant yield and oil content: The Yield10 Bioscience Platform |
Marriott Room, Campus Center 11th floor |
| 4:45-5:00 | Walk to Poster session and Poster set up | Amherst Room, Campus Center 10th floor |
| 5:00-7:00 | Poster session and Reception | Amherst Room, Campus Center 10th floor |
| 5:00-6:00 Even Poster number | ||
| 6:00-7:00 Odd Poster number | ||
| 7:30-9:30 | Banquet and Entertainment | Marriott Room, Campus Center 11th floor |
| 8:45-9:30 | NEASPB Executive Committee meeting | Marriott Room, Campus Center 11th floor |
Sunday April 29, 2018 |
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| 7:30-8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | ILC 1st floor Foyer |
| Oral Presentations | ||
| 8:30-8:45 | Srinivasan Krishnan, Postdoc, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell
Structure-Function Studies on Plant Membrane Proteins involved in Key Agronomic Traits by Center for Research On Plant TransporterS (CROPS) |
ILC room N151 |
| 8:45-9:00 | Heng-Hsuan Chu, Postdoc, Dartmouth College, NH
A Point Mutation of Arabidopsis Vacuolar-Iron-Transporter1-Like-5 Protein Confers Iron Deficiency Tolerance and Improves Iron Accumulation in Seeds |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:00-9:15 | Minsoo Kim, Postdoc, UMass Amherst
MTERF18/SHOT1 Protein Is Involved in Mitochondrial Nucleoid Organization by Binding Directly to the Mitochondrial DNA and ATAD3 Proteins in Arabidopsis |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:15-9:30 | Kwanghee Lee, Postdoc, UConn, Storrs
The a Aurora kinases function in vascular development in Arabidopsis |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:30- 9:45 | Arielle Chaves, Research Technician, University of Rhode Island
CESA Domains Conferring Class Specific Function in Physcomitrella patens |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:45-10:00 | Annett Richter, Postdoc, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell
Indole-3-Glycerolphosphate, a Possible Branchpoint of Secondary Defense Compounds from the Tryptophan Biosynthetic Pathway in Zea Mays. |
ILC room N151 |
| 10:00-10:20 | NEASPB Business meeting
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ILC room N151 |
| 10:20- 10:45 | Coffee Break | ILC room N151 |
| 10:45-11:00 | ASPB Student Ambassador program information | ILC room N151 |
| 11:00-11:15 | Sanda Zolj, Graduate student, Boston University
The Arabidopsis alf3-1 Mutation Causes Autoimmunity in the Root and Identifies a TIR Domain Protein |
ILC room N151 |
| 11:15-11:30 | Rania El-tanbouly, Graduate Student, UConn Storrs
Elucidation of Involvement of Jasmonate in Shade Response of Perennial Ryegrass. |
ILC room N151 |
| 11:30-11:45 | Kirk MacKinnon, graduate student, UMass Amherst
Exploring Diurnal Rhythmic Gene Expression in Brachypodium distachyon |
ILC room N151 |
| 11:45-12:00 | Roshani Budhathoki, Undergraduate student, Eastern Connecticut State University
Characterization of a Novel chicken foot-like nodules (cfn) Mutant Defective in Root Architecture and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Model Legume Plant Medicago truncatula |
ILC room N151 |
| 12:00- 12:15 | Jeeyon Jeong, Assistant Prof., Amherst College
Mitochondrial Ferropotin and Iron Homeostasis in Plants
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ILC room N151 |
| 12:15- 12:30 | Sibongile Mafu, Assistant Prof., UMass Amherst
Discovery of a new diterpenoid pathway involved stress response in maize |
ILC room N151 |
| 12:30-12:45 | Best Presentation and Poster Awards
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ILC room N151 |
| 12:45 PM | Closing Remarks and Adjourn |