ICAR 2014

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Invited Speakers

 

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

  • Keiko Torii, University of Washington     

  • Kathy Barton, Carnegie Institution

  • Rudiger Simon, University of Dusseldorf           

Biotic Responses/Plant Defense                         

  • Sheng Yang He, Michigan State University

  • Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside

  • Xinnian Dong, Duke University               

Epigenetics/Chromatin                         

  • Christine Quietsch, University of Washington

  • Craig Pikaard, Indiana University

  • Toshiro Ito, TLL, National University of Singapore   

Hormone Signaling                        

  • Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside           

  • Joe Ecker, Salk Institute    

  • Mark Estelle, University of California, San Diego         

Synthetic Biology                            

  • June Medford, Colorado State University          

  • Poul Erik Jensen, University of Copenhagen   

  • Motoki Tominaga, RIKEN  

Translational Biology         

  • Claire Halpin, University of Dundee

  • Peggy Lemaux, University of California, Berkeley

  • Blake Meyers, University of Delaware

                                               

Concurrent Sessions

Biotechnology, Bioenergy, and Food Security  

  • Kyozuka Junko, Tokyo University

  • Wout Boerjan, University of Ghent

Biotic Responses/Plant Defense

  • Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury Laboratory

  • Darrell Desveaux, University of Toronto

Cell Biology 

  • Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia

  • Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University- St Louis

Development I (Reproduction)     

  • Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania

  • Stefanie Sprunck, University of Regensberg

Development II (vegetative)          

  • Kim Gallagher, University of Pennsylvania

  • Hirokazu Tsukaya, University of Tokyo

Emerging Topics     

  • Rainer Waadt, University of California, San Diego

  • Jianfeng Li, Harvard Medical School

Environmental Responses           

  • Katherine Denby, Warwick University

  • Jose Dinneny, Stanford University

Epigenetics/Chromatin 

  • Ian Henderson, Cambridge

  • Julie Law, Salk Institute

Metabolism/Biochemistry  

  • Clint Chapple, Purdue University

  • Dan Kliebensten, University of California, Davis

Modeling, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

  • Sarah Assmann, Penn State University

  • Siobhan Brady, University of California, Davis

Light and Plant Growth

  • Markus Schmid, Max Planck Institute- Tubingen

  • Alex Webb, Cambridge

Natural Variation, Ecology, Evolution     

  • Johanna Schmitt, University of California, Davis

  • Juliette de Meaux, University of Muenster

Novel Tools and Techniques       

  • Olivier Hamant, ENS Lyon

  • Wolfgang Busch, Gregor Mendel Institute

Plant Hormones      

  • Zhi-Yong Wang, Carnegie Institution

  • Caren Chang, University of Maryland

Signal Transduction, Signal Integration 

  • Yvon Jaillais, ENS-Lyon

  • Sorina Popescu, Boyce Thompson Institute