82th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Biology
Symposium Schedule
Saturday April 28, 2018 |
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| Time | Activities | Location |
| 11:30-11:00 | Registration | ILC 1st floor Foyer |
| 12:45-1:00 | Welcome- Om Parkash Dhankher and
Prof. John McCarthy, Provost, UMass Amherst |
ILC Lecture Hall room N151 |
| 1:00-1:45 | 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 room N151 |
| 1:45-2:30 | Randy Allen, OSU, Ardmore, OK
Translational research on abiotic stress tolerance and fiber development in cotton |
ILC Lecture Hall room N151 |
| 2:30-3:00 | Coffee Break | Integrated Learning Center 1st floor Foyer |
| 3:00-3:45 | 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 |
| 3:45-4:30 | Kristi Snell, Yield10 BioScience, Woburn MA
Technologies for increasing plant yield and oil content: The Yield10 Bioscience Platform |
Marriott Room at Campus Center 11th floor |
| 4:30-4:45 | Walk to Poster session | Marriott Room at Campus Center 11th floor |
| 4:45-6:45 | Poster set up, Poster session and Reception | Marriott Room at Campus Center 11th floor |
| 4:45-5:45 Even Poster number | ||
| 5:45-6:45 Odd Poster number | ||
| 7:00-9:00 | Banquet and Entertainment | Amherst room, Campus Center 10th Floor |
| 8:30-9:15 | NEASPB Executive Committee meeting | Amherst room, Campus Center 10th 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, Postoc, 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 | Kirk MacKinnon, MS student, UMass Amherst
Exploring Diurnal Rhythmic Gene Expression in Brachypodium distachyon |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:15-9:30 | Kwanghee Lee, Postdoc, UConn, Storrs
The Aurora kinases function in vascular development in Arabidopsis |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:30- 9:45 | Jeeyon Jeong, Assistant Prof. Amherst College
Mitochondrial Ferropotin and Iron Homeostasis in Plants |
ILC room N151 |
| 9:45-10:05 | NEASPB Business meeting
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ILC room N151 |
| 10:05- 10:30 | Coffee Break
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ILC room N151 |
| 10:30-10:45 | Sandra Zolj, Graduate student, Boston University
The Arabidopsis alf3-1 Mutation Causes Autoimmunity in the Root and Identifies a TIR Domain Protein |
ILC room N151 |
| 10:45-11:00 | Rania El-tanbouly, Graduate Student, UConn Storrs
Elucidation of Involvement of Jasmonate in Shade Response of Perennial Ryegrass. |
ILC room N151 |
| 11:00-11:15 | 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 |
| 11:15-11:30 | 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 |
| 11:30-11:45 | TBD | ILC room N151 |
| 11:45-12:00 | TBD | ILC room N151 |
| 12:00-12:15 | ASPB Student Ambassador program information
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ILC room N151 |
| 12:15-12:30 | Best Presentation and Poster Awards
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ILC room N151 |
| 12:30 PM | Adjourn | ILC room N151 |