Preliminary ASPB Northeast Section Meeting Schedule
Saturday, April 20, 2024
10:30am Registration opens at 148 Stocking Hall / Conference Center
12:00pm Welcome and Introductions (Miguel Pineros and Georg Jander)
12:10pm Doreen Ware
Keynote Speaker: Plant Genomes: understanding their past and managing their future
1:00pm Shuyao Kong
Tradeoff Between Speed and Robustness in Primordium Initiation Mediated by Auxin-CUC1 Interaction
1:15pm Maria Babar
Exploring Graft Incompatibility Markers in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)
1:30pm Lauren Cole-Osborn
The CaMV 35S Promoter Can Activate Heterologous Promoters Even on Separate Co-Expressed Plasmids, Introducing Potential Artifacts into Reporter Assays in Plants
1:45pm Erin Rehnig
ASPB Ambassador presentation (Erin Rehnig, erehrig@fitchburgstate.edu)
| 2:00 – 2:30 pm Coffee break – BINGO – Networking
(Audrey Fahey, fahey@cshl.edu and Janeen Braynen, braynen@cshl.edu) |
2:30pm Yogita Singh
CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of Silicon/Arsenic Transporter Genes to Reduce Arsenic Contents in Rice to Ensure Food Safety
2:45pm Yang Liu
Deciphering the Role of Redox-Responsive and Calcium-Binding Proteins BAP on Plant Immunity and Chilling Tolerance
3:00pm Serena Fan
Unravelling the Interplay within ASAP complex’s Role in RNA Regulations in Arabidopsis thaliana
3:15pm Sombir Rao
The moonlighting function of a Nudix domain-containing protein in carotenoid biosynthesis and metabolon assembly
3:30pm Seren Villwock
Carotenoid-carbohydrate crosstalk: evidence for genetic and physiological interactions in storage tissues across crop species
3:45pm Harper Lowrey
CFH1 Conservation Sheds Light on Functionally Essential Amino Acids
4:00 pm Josephine LoRicco
Electron Tomography of Streptophyte Algae: Insights into the Subcellular Components that were Critical for Terrestrialization and Land Plant Evolution
4:15pm Klaas van Wijk
Organization and functions of the intra-chloroplast proteolysis network and discovery of the chloroplast N-degron pathway
| POSTER SESSION
4:30pm – 5:30pm ODD NUMBERS 5:30pm – 6:30pm EVEN NUMBERS |
| DINNER
6:30pm – 8:30pm |
Sunday, April 21, 2024
9:00am Ed Buckler
Keynote Speaker: From Climate Change to AI: Improving Agriculture by Learning from Global Biological Diversity
9:50am Leeann Thornton (ASPB, President)
10:00am Ju-Chen Chia
The role of Arabidopsis Oligopeptide Transporter 3 (AtOPT3) in shoot-to-root copper signaling and copper-iron crosstalk
10:15am Simon Malcomber
Update from the NSF deputy assistant director: Helping plant science bloom!
| 10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break |
11:00am Boaz Negin
Catechol acetylglucose: A novel benzoxazinoid-regulated defensive metabolite in maize
11:15am Gabriella Ballestas
Development of Molecular Markers for Discrimination Between Cynanchum wilfordii and Its Close Relatives
11:30am Greg Gregory
Determining the Diurnal Cues Regulating CELLULOSE SYNTHASE A8 Expression in Brachypodium distachyon
11:45am Bahman Khahani
A Gene Regulatory Network for Secondary Wall Biosynthesis in the Leaf Nodal Roots of Brachypodium distachyon
12:00pm Shiqi Zhang
Quantitative imaging of Pi using FRET sensors in B. distachyon roots reveals diverse Pi distribution and fluctuation during AM symbiosis
12:15pm Subhash Minocha
NE-ASBP secretary/treasurer report, awards
12:30pm Tours of Cornell facilities
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
Boyce Thompson Institute automated phenotyping facility
Botanic Garden
*Sign up at the registration desk