Keynote Lectures
Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill- Opening
Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside- Opening
Peter McCourt, University of Toronto- Closing
Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto- Closing
Plenary Sessions
Development
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Keiko Torii, University of Washington
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Kathy Barton, Carnegie Institution
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Rudiger Simon, University of Dusseldorf
Biotic Responses/Plant Defense
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Sheng Yang He, Michigan State University
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Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside
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Xinnian Dong, Duke University
Epigenetics/Chromatin
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Christine Quietsch, University of Washington
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Craig Pikaard, Indiana University
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Toshiro Ito, TLL, National University of Singapore
Hormone Signaling
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Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside
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Joe Ecker, Salk Institute
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Mark Estelle, University of California, San Diego
Synthetic Biology
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June Medford, Colorado State University
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Poul Erik Jensen, University of Copenhagen
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Motoki Tominaga, RIKEN
Translational Biology
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Claire Halpin, University of Dundee
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Peggy Lemaux, University of California, Berkeley
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Blake Meyers, University of Delaware
Concurrent Sessions
Biotechnology, Bioenergy, and Food Security
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Kyozuka Junko, Tokyo University
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Wout Boerjan, University of Ghent
Biotic Responses/Plant Defense
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Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury Laboratory
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Darrell Desveaux, University of Toronto
Cell Biology
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Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia
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Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University- St Louis
Development I (Reproduction)
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Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania
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Stefanie Sprunck, University of Regensberg
Development II (vegetative)
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Kim Gallagher, University of Pennsylvania
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Hirokazu Tsukaya, University of Tokyo
Emerging Topics
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Rainer Waadt, University of California, San Diego
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Jianfeng Li, Harvard Medical School
Environmental Responses
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Katherine Denby, Warwick University
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Jose Dinneny, Stanford University
Epigenetics/Chromatin
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Ian Henderson, Cambridge
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Julie Law, Salk Institute
Metabolism/Biochemistry
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Clint Chapple, Purdue University
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Dan Kliebensten, University of California, Davis
Modeling, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
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Sarah Assmann, Penn State University
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Siobhan Brady, University of California, Davis
Light and Plant Growth
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Markus Schmid, Max Planck Institute- Tubingen
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Alex Webb, Cambridge
Natural Variation, Ecology, Evolution
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Johanna Schmitt, University of California, Davis
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Juliette de Meaux, University of Muenster
Novel Tools and Techniques
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Olivier Hamant, ENS Lyon
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Wolfgang Busch, Gregor Mendel Institute
Plant Hormones
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Zhi-Yong Wang, Carnegie Institution
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Caren Chang, University of Maryland
Signal Transduction, Signal Integration
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Yvon Jaillais, ENS-Lyon
- Sorina Popescu, Boyce Thompson Institute