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ICAR 2014 Abstracts (PDF)
| Date/Session Time/Location | Keynote Lectures | Presenter | |
| Monday July 28, 6-7:30 pm, Chan Centre | Understanding plant-microbe interactions: Plant immune system function and the rhizosphere microbiome | Jeff Dangl, UNC Chapel Hill, USA | |
| Monday July 28, 6-7:30 pm, Chan Centre | Understanding small RNAs – from Arabidopsis to crops and humans | Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside, USA | |
| Friday Aug. 1, 11 am-12:30 pm, Chan Centre | Arabidopsis and Plant Hormones: The evolution of the revolution | Peter McCourt, University of Toronto, Canada | |
| Friday Aug. 1, 11 am-12:30 pm, Chan Centre | From phenotypes to pathways: global exploration of cellular networks using yeast functional genomics | Brenda Andrews. University of Toronto, Canada | |
| Date/Session Time/Location | Plenary Sessions | Presenter | |
| Tuesday July 29, 8:30-10 am, Chan Centre | Epigenetics, Chromatin Session | ||
| Session Chair: Blake Meyers, University of Delaware, USA | |||
| Epigenetic Inheritance of silent locus identity | Craig Pikaard, Indiana University, USA | ||
| Polycomb-mediated regulation of floral stem cells | Toshiro Ito, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore | ||
| Mapping and dynamics of regulatory DNA and transcription factor networks in A. thaliana | Christine Queitsch, University of Washington, USA | ||
| Tuesday July 29, 10:30 am-12 pm, Chan Centre | Plant Defense, Immunity, Host-Microbe Session | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Xin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Bacterial pathogenesis as a probe of Arabidopsis biology | Sheng Yang He, Michigan State University, USA | ||
| Fungal Small RNAs Suppress Plant Immunity by Hijacking Host RNAi Machinery | Hailing Jin, UC Riverside, USA | ||
| Plant defense: A balancing act through the immune signal salicylic acid | Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA | ||
| Wednesday July 30, 8:30-10 am, Chan Centre | Hormone Signaling Session | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA | |||
| Agrichemical Control of Drought Tolerance using Engineered ABA Receptors | Sean Cutler, UC Riverside, USA | ||
| Regulatory Networks Controlling Hormone-Mediated Growth | Joe Ecker, Salk Institute, USA | ||
| Auxin Perception and Response in Arabidopsis and Moss | Mark Estelle, UC San Diego, USA | ||
| Wednesday July 30, 10:30 am-12 pm Chan Centre | Translational Biology Session | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Santokh Singh, University of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Using Insights from Basic Research and Arabidopsis to Develop Improved Wheat Varieties | Peggy Lemaux, UC Berkeley, USA | ||
| Spinning straw into gold – translating fundamental lignin research into application | Claire Halpin, University of Dundee, UK | ||
| Phased, secondary siRNAs in plants | Blake Meyers, University of Delaware, USA | ||
| Thursday July 31, 8:30 am-10 am, Chan Centre | Development Session | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, USA | |||
| Stomatal Patterning: Communication, Fate, and Decision making | Keiko Torii, University of Washington, USA | ||
| Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in meristems | Rudiger Simon, University of Dusseldorf, Germany | ||
| Overlap between developmental patterning pathways and abiotic stress response pathways | Kathy Barton, Carnegie Instutution, USA | ||
| Friday Aug. 1, 9 am-10:30 am, Chan Centre | Synthetic Biology Session | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Keiko Torii, University of Washington, USA | |||
| Molecular mechanism and physiological function of cytoplasmic streaming | Motoki Tominaga, RIKEN, Japan | ||
| Plant Synthetic biology | June Medford, Colorado State University, USA | ||
| Synthetic biology in photosynthetic organisms: Redirecting reducing power | Poul Erik Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| Date/Session Time/Location | Concurrent Sessions | ||
| Abstract # (if selected from abstracts; Note: all will be renumbered at ICAR) | *Please note that these are original abstract numbers assigned upon submission to the online database. Abstracts will be assigned a new number in the program in order to group them by session theme (old # will be listed as well) |
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| Tuesday July 29, 1:30 pm-3 pm, Chan Centre | Biotic Responses/ Plant Defense | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury, UK | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Xin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling | Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury, UK | ||
| Type III Effectors and the Plant Immune Response | Darrell Desveaux, University of Toronto, Canada | ||
| 40 | Patterns and Receptors in Plant Innate Immunity | Thorsten Nuernberger, ZMBP, University of Tuebingen, Germany | |
| 209 | Using plant pathogen effectors as evolved probes to understand the plant immune system | Marc Nishimura, UNC Chapel Hill, USA | |
| 193 | Two redundant protein kinases act downstream of PAMP receptors to regulate activation of MAP kinases and SA synthesis in Arabidopsis | Yuelin Zhang, University of British Columbia, Canada | |
| 135 | Acetylation of alternative N-terminal methionines oppositely controls the stability of a plant immune receptor | Fang Xu, University of British Columbia, Canada | |
| 208 | 2 min Oral Poster: Salicylic acid mediated defence is fine-tuned through the interplay of calmodulin-binding proteins and calmodulin-like proteins in Arabidopsis | William Truman, University of Minnesota, USA | |
| 214 | 2 min Oral Poster: Decreased abundance of type III-inducing signals in Arabidopsis mkp1 enhances resistance to Pseudomonas syringae | Jeffrey Anderson, University of Missouri, USA | |
| Tuesday July 29, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A101 Buchanan | Light and Plant Growth | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Markus Schmid, Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University, USA | ||
| Integration of flowering time signals in Arabidopsis thaliana | Markus Schmid, Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany | ||
| Entrainment of Arabidopsis circadian oscillators by sugars | Alex Webb, Cambridge University, UK | ||
| 25 | FRS12 and 7 are transcriptional repressors involved in the regulation of circadian growth in Arabidopsis thaliana | Andres Ritter, VIB / Ghent University, Belgium | |
| 56 | Ribosome Abundance and Protein Turnover are Negatively Linked to Biomass Accumulation in Arabidopsis in a Stable Diurnal Growth Regime | Hirofumi Ishihara, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany | |
| 168 | MMF1 regulates the photoperiodic control of hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana | Dmitri Nusinow, Danforth Plant Science Center, USA | |
| 258 | A MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) Mechanism Attenuates Light Signaling in Arabidopsis | Weimin Ni, UC Berkeley, USA | |
| 177 | 2 min Oral Poster: Interactions between the photoperiodic flowering pathway and the thermosensory pathway in Arabidopsis | Virginia Fernandez, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany | |
| 81 | 2 min Oral Poster: Low Energy Stress Response in Arabidopsis thaliana: the SnRK1-bZIP Transcription Factor connection | Lorenzo Pedrotti, University of Wuerzburg, Germany | |
| Tuesday July 29, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A201 Buchanan | Modeling, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Terri Long, NCSU, USA | ||
| Xylem Cell Development and Differentiation in Plant Roots | Siobhan Brady, UC Davis, USA | ||
| Omics responses to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis | Sarah Assmann, Pennsylvania State University, USA | ||
| 122 | Modeling stem cell networks to identify key regulators of plant growth | Ross Sozzani, NCSU, USA | |
| 264 | A proteomic strategy for global analysis of protein complex composition and localization in Arabidopsis leaves | Uma Aryal, Purdue University, USA | |
| 225 | NetExCorr: A Pipeline to Rank Gene Prevalence in Tissue-Specific Responses to Stresses within Arabidopsis in-vitro Meta-Network | Christophe Liseron-Monfils, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA | |
| 136 | Knowledge-based bioinformatic analyses of microarrays predict that epigenetic regulator AS1-AS2 controls cell division through ETTIN in leaf adaxial-abaxial patterning | Hiro Takahashi, Chiba University, Japan | |
| 268 | 2 min Oral Poster: An organ boundary-enriched gene regulatory network uncovers regulatory hierarchies underlying axillary meristem initiation | Caihuan Tian, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| 429 | 2 min Oral Poster: Gramene: A Resource for Comparative Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics | Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University, USA | |
| Tuesday July 29, 3:30 pm-5 pm, Chan Centre | Cell Biology | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Wolf Frommer, Carnegie Institution, USA | ||
| Smarty Plants: Using Mechanosensitive Ion Channels to Sense and Respond to Mechanical Force | Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis, USA | ||
| Microtubule-mediated control of auxin polar transport and brassinoteroid signalling | Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia, Canada | ||
| 20 | The role of a mitochondrial membrane-bound ubiquitin protease in mitochondrial dynamics in Arabidopsis | Jianping Hu, Michigan State University, USA | |
| 41 | Tubulin phosphorylation by NIMA-related kinases is involved in cell growth and division | Hiroyasu Motose, Okayama University, Japan | |
| 48 | Proteomic analysis reveals a framework in endomembrane compartments associated with immunity | William Heard, The Sainsbury Lab, UK | |
| 190 | Domain-specific lignification of Arabidopsis protoxylem is mediated by laccase-catalyzed deposition | Mathias Schuetz, University of British Columbia, Canada | |
| 91 | 2 min Oral Poster: IMPAIRED TRAFFIC TO TONOPLAST5 (ITT5) encodes a novel protein of unknown function involved in vacuole bulb formation | Marcela Rojas-Pierce, North Carolina State University, USA | |
| 26 | 2 min Oral Poster: A novel PVC-localized protein FREE1 is essential for vacuolar protein transport and vacuole biogenesis in Arabidopsis | Caiji Gao, Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin | |
| Tuesday July 29, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A101 Buchanan | Plant Hormones | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Caren Chang, University of Maryland, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Sean Cutler, UC Riverside, USA | ||
| Regulation of the central regulator EIN2 in ethylene hormone signaling in Arabidopsis | Caren Chang, University of Maryland, USA | ||
| Friends on surface, foes underground – the complicated relationship between brassinosteroid and auxin | Zhi-Yong Wang, Carnegie Instutution, USA | ||
| 99 | A meso-scale ABA interactome reveals a dynamic signaling landscape in Arabidopsis | Shelley Lumba, University of Toronto, Canada | |
| 127 | Recapitulation of the auxin response pathway in yeast | Edith Pierre-Jerome, University of Washington, USA | |
| 199 | SAUR proteins inhibit PP2C.D family phosphatases to control plant cell expansion | Bill Gray, University of Minnesota, USA | |
| 57 | Identification and characterization of the polarly-localized TRANSPORTER OF IBA1 | Lucia Strader, Washington University in St Louis, USA | |
| 155 | 2 min Oral Poster: Can abscisic acid bind to and directly regulate ion channels? | Amanda Ooi, KAUST, Saudi Arabia | |
| 219 | 2 min Oral Poster: To Grow or not to Grow: Hormonal Regulation of Fitness Trade-offs in Arabidopsis | Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA | |
| Tuesday July 29, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A201 Buchanan | Epigenetics/ Chromatin | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Julie Law, Salk Institute, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Craig Pikaard, Purdue University, USA | ||
| Polymerase IV occupancy at RNA-directed DNA methylation sites requires SHH1 | Julie Law, Salk Institute, USA | ||
| Epigenetic control of meiotic crossover hotspots in Arabidopsis | Ian Henderson, Cambridge University, UK | ||
| 212 | Histone Modifications and Histone Code in Brassinosteroid Regulated Gene Expression | Yanhai Yin, Iowa State University, USA | |
| 84 | Epi-genomic analyses of stem cells in Arabidopsis thaliana | Yu Fu, Heinrich Heine University, Germany | |
| 377 | A chromatin switch underlies flower primordium initiation downstream of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 5/MONOPTEROS | Miin-Feng Wu, University of Pennsylvania , USA | |
| 106 | NTR1 is involved in splicing check-points formation and RNA Pol II pausing at alternative splicing sites in Arabidopsis | Jakub Dolata, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland | |
| 181 | 2 min Oral Poster: Natural Variation in Arabidopsis ATFH5 Expression Indicates an Adaptive Role for Polycomb Regulation of the Seed Endosperm | Jonathan Fitz Gerald, Rhodes College, USA | |
| 253 | 2 min Oral Poster: Redox regulation of histone deacetylases | Alexander Mengel, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Germany | |
| Thursday July 31, 10:30 am-12 pm, Chan Centre | Development I (reproduction) | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Kathy Barton, Carnegie Institution, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Kathy Barton, Carnegie Institution, USA | ||
| Gibberellin acts positively then negatively to control onset of flower formation in Arabidopsis | Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania, USA | ||
| Gamete activation during double fertilization | Stefanie Sprunck, University of Regensberg, Germany | ||
| 31 | Maternal temperature history activates Flowering Locus T in fruits to control progeny dormancy according to time of year | Steven Penfield, University of Exeter/ John Innes Centre, UK | |
| 87 | Regulation of Arabidopsis flower development by AIL/PLT transcription factors | Beth Krizek, University of South Carolina, USA | |
| 180 | Non-equivalent contributions of maternal and paternal genomes to early plant embryogenesis | Stewart Gillmor, Langebio-CINVESTAV, Mexico | |
| 230 | Egg cell number and cell type differentiation are dependent on cytokinin in the Arabidopsis female gametophyte | Xiaoya Song, UC Davis, USA | |
| 159 | 2 min Oral Poster: Different mechanisms underlie the regulation of floral transition by a pair of highly related but non-redundant Ubiquitin E3 ligase genes | Nabil Elrouby, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA | |
| 462 | 2 min Oral Poster: The developmental consequences of metabolic inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis | Maye Saechao, University of Waterloo, Canada | |
| Thursday July 31, 10:30 am-12 pm, A101 Buchanan | Novel Tools and Techniques | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Session Overview Speaker: Geoff Wasteneys, University of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Quantitative tools to understand the mechanics of morphogenesis | Olivier Hamant, ENS Lyon, France | ||
| Annals of Botany Lecture: Dissecting Quantitative Regulation of Root Growth Using Large-Scale Phenotyping and Systems Genetics | Wolfgang Busch, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria | ||
| 23 | Unraveling cell proliferation control in plants through functional interactomics: from cells to tissues. | Jelle Van Leene, VIB/ University of Ghent, Belgium | |
| 95 | Gamma-ray imaging system for studying heavy metal transport in plants | Kaisa Kajala, UC Davis, USA | |
| 120 | Inverting E3 Ligase Function in the Circadian Clock Using a Decoy Strategy | Joshua Gendron, Yale University, USA | |
| 220 | Advances in crossover localization and QTL mapping using high-throughput sequencing | Beth Rowan, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany | |
| 192 | 2 min Oral Poster: Mn-euvering manganese | Amanda Socha, Dartmouth College, USA | |
| 166 | 2 min Oral Poster: Protein-ligand Interaction Exploration Based On Proteome-wide Tertiary Structure Prediction and Further in vitro Validation | Michael Dong, University of Toronto, Canada | |
| Thursday July 31, 10:30 am-12 pm, A102 Buchanan | Biotechnology/ Food Security/ Bioenergy | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Carl Douglas, University of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Claire Halpin, University of Dundee, UK | ||
| Arabidopsis as a model to identify genes to overcome biomass recalcitrance for biofuels | Wout Boerjan, University of Ghent, Belgium | ||
| Meristem activity, Inflorescence form and yield of rice | Kyozuka Junko, Tokyo University, Japan | ||
| 239 | Directed Minichromosome Engineering via Haploid Induction. Ek Han Tan, Ravi Maruthachalam and Luca Comai. | Ek Han Tan, UC Davis, USA | |
| 183 | Analysis of Leaf Proteome to Determine Possible Cross-Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Soybean Cultivars. Ramesh Katam, Raja Reddy Kambham, Shardendu K Singh and Nitya S Murty. | Ramesh Katam, Florida A&M University, USA | |
| 97 | Global Marketing Software Connecting Local Foods Socially. Rajnish Khanna, Robert Muller, Lynn Monica, John Allen, Pamela Ronald, Harold McGee, Winslow Briggs and Wolf B Frommer. | Rajnish Khanna, Global Food Scholar, USA | |
| 131 | A rapid method for translating molecular tools for crop species | Mily Ron, UC Davis, USA | |
| 165 | 4 min Oral Poster: A novel density-based screen for mutants with altered seed oil. Gillian Dean, Lin Shi, Martine Devic, Thomas Roscoe, Hui Chen Wu, Mark Smith, George Haughn and Ljerka Kunst. | Gillian Dean, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | |
| Thursday July 31, 1:30 pm-3 pm, Chan Centre | Environmental Responses | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Jose Dinneny, Stanford University, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Katherine Denby, University of Warwick, UK | ||
| Gene Regulatory Networks Mediating Arabidopsis Responses to Environmental Stress | Katherine Denby, University of Warwick, UK | ||
| Understanding the transcriptional regulation of the salt-stress response one cis-element at a time | Jose Dinneny, Stanford University, USA | ||
| 65 | GI (GIGANTEA), a missing link between flowering and stress adaptation | Dae-Jin Yun, Gyeongsang National University, Korea | |
| 80 | Characterization of the oxygen sensing mechanism in plants | Monika Kosmacz, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany | |
| 110 | Regulatory network models of drought responses in Arabidopsis thaliana | Ulrike Bechtold, University of Essex, UK | |
| 151 | Genetic Engineering of Abiotic Stress Resposne and Plant Growth in Arabidopsis | Yuriko Osakabe, RIKEN CSRS, Japan | |
| 34 | 2 min Oral Poster: Arabidopsis HPS10/ALS3 interacts with AtSTAR1 in tonoplasts to serve as a signaling hub for responses to P deficiency and Al toxicity | Dong Liu, Tsinghua University, China | |
| 267 | 2 min Oral Poster: Asymmetric Unproductive Alternative Splicing Mediates Responses of the Central Circadian Oscillator to Environmental Stresses and Pathogen Infection | Sergei Filichkin, Oregon State University, USA | |
| Thursday July 31, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A101 Buchanan | Metabolism/Biochemistry | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Juergen Ehlting, University of Victoria, Canada | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Juergen Ehlting, University of Victoria, Canada | ||
| Transcriptional feedback mechanisms that impact lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis | Clint Chapple, Purdue University, USA | ||
| The topsy-turvy world of metabolic regulation | Dan Kliebenstein, UC Davis, USA | ||
| 83 | Stress-responsive aldehyde dehydrogenase 3H1: Identification of amino acid residues critical for cofactor specificity and thiol regulation | Naim Stiti, Bonn University, Germany | |
| 14 | The metabolic target of pyrophosphate, a mysterious player in plant metabolism, identified | Ali Ferjani, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan | |
| 236 | Unsaturation of Very-Long-Chain Ceramides Protects Plant from Hypoxia in Arabidopsis | Shi Xiao, Sun Yat-sen University, China | |
| 145 | An intermediate cleavage peptidase modifies enzyme N-termini, alters protein stability and influences serine metabolism in Arabidopsis mitochondria | Shaobai Huang, The University of Western Australia, Australia | |
| 71 | 2 min Oral Poster: The Arabidopsis Mediator subunit MED16 regulates iron homeostasis by associating with EIN3/EIL1 through subunit MED25 | Yan Yang, Peking University, China | |
| 242 | 2 min Oral Poster: A selective inhibitor of jasmonate signaling targets the adenylate-forming enzyme JAR1 in Arabidopsis thaliana | Erich Kombrink, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany | |
| Thursday July 31, 1:30 pm-3 pm, A201 Buchanan | Emerging Topics | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Rainer Waadt, UC San Diego, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Rainer Waadt, UC San Diego, USA | ||
| Targeted manipulation of gene activity in plants via CRISPR/Cas toolkit | Jianfeng Li, Harvard Medical School, USA | ||
| Genetically-encoded reporters for the visualization of abscisic acid distribution and concentration changes in Arabidopsis | Rainer Waadt, UC San Diego, USA | ||
| 32 | Roles of AtExo70E2 in exocyst recruitment, EXPO biogenesis and function, and plant growth and development | Yu Ding, Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin | |
| 132 | Keeping it similar: Interaction of HSP90 and miRNAs in the buffering of phenotypic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana | Tzitziki Lemus Vergara, University of Washington, USA | |
| 157 | Is trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P) a general signal gating developmental transitions? | Vanessa Wahl, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany | |
| 224 | The Role of mRNA Alternative Polyadenylation in Root Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis | Q. Quinn Li, Xiamen University, China; and Miami University USA | |
| 58 | 4 min Oral Poster: Effects of aspirin and its metabolite on Arabidopsis thaliana | Catherine Chan, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA | |
| Thursday July 31, 3:30 pm-5 pm, Chan Centre | Development II (vegetative) | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Kim Gallagher, University of Pennsylvania, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Dominique Bergmann, Stanford, USA | ||
| Symplastic regulation of root patterning | Kim Gallagher, University of Pennsylvania, USA | ||
| What factors determine the positioning of meristematic zones in leaves? | Hirokazu Tsukaya, University of Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 16 | The execution of developmental programs in all epidermal cell types are restrained by PPi overaccumulation | Shizuka Gunji, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan | |
| 93 | Irreversible fate commitment upon exit from stem-cell-like divisions in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage requires a FAMA and RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED module. | Juliana L Matos, Stanford University, USA | |
| 172 | Threshold dependent transcriptional discrimination and stem cell homeostasis. | G. Venugopala Reddy, UC Riverside, USA | |
| 182 | NIN-Like Protein 7 (NLP7) Modulates Border-Like Cell Adhesion to Protect the Columella Root Cap in Arabidopsis | Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Purdue University, USA | |
| 254 | 2 min Oral Poster: Natural variation of an A-type ARR quantitatively tunes cytokinin dependent cell size determination in the root | Radka Slovak, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria | |
| 54 | 2 min Oral Poster: Transcriptional regulation of organ growth under limiting conditions | Bart Rymen, RIKEN CSRS, Japan | |
| Thursday July 31, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A101 Buchanan | Signal Transduction, Signal Integration | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Sorina Popescu, Boyce Thompson Institute, USA | |||
| Session Overview Speaker | Mark Estelle, UC San Diego, USA | ||
| Early signaling in plant stress response | Sorina Popescu, Boyce Thompson Institute, USA | ||
| Molecular mechanisms underlying the dynamics of the plant steroid receptor activation | Yvon Jaillais, ENS-Lyon, France | ||
| 162 | Regulation of low oxygen signaling in plants | Francesco Licausi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy | |
| 114 | A receptor-like protein links cell wall surveillance with brassinosteroid signaling | Sebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 15 | Phosphorylation of a bZIP transcription factor triggers metabolic reprogramming in acclimation to low energy stress | Markus Teige, University of Vienna, Austria | |
| 300 | The role of Integrin-Linked Kinase 1 in perception and control of ionic signals during biotic and abiotic stress | Elizabeth Brauer, Cornell University, USA | |
| 49 | 2 min Oral Poster: Molecular basis for AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR protein interaction and the control of auxin response repression | David Korasick, Washington University in St. Louis, USA | |
| 200 | 2 min Oral Poster: Inhibition of Developmental and Stress-Induced Leaf Senescence by Cytokinin Response Factor 6 | Paul Zwack, Auburn University, USA | |
| Thursday July 31, 3:30 pm-5 pm, A201 Buchanan | Natural Variation, Ecology, Evolution | Presenter | |
| Session Chair: Keith Adams, University of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Session Overview Speaker: | Keith Adams, University of British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Signatures of polygenic adaptation in the Arabidopsis genus | Juliette Le Meaux, University of Muenster, Germany | ||
| Predicting evolutionary dynamics of seasonal adaptation to novel climates in Arabidopsis thaliana | Johanna Schmitt, UC Davis, USA | ||
| 147 | Natural variation of a gene network regulating trichome patterning | Benjamin Jaegle, University of Cologne, Germany | |
| 160 | Global genetic heterogeneity for flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana | Arthur Korte, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria | |
| 28 | Genetic basis of natural variation in heat-stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana: A genome wide association study | Johanna Molenaar, Wageningen University, Netherlands | |
| 241 | The origin of the plant hormone ethylene predates the colonization of land | Bram Van de Poel, University of Maryland, USA | |
| 115 | 2 min Oral Poster: An evolutionary perspective on plant epidermal patterning | Divykriti Chopra, Biocenter, Cologne University, Germany | |
| 139 | 2 min Oral Poster: Recovering a triplet expansion in the wild: Repeat expansion and phenotypic variation in Irish populations of Arabidopsis thaliana | Amanda Tabib, Monash University, Australia |
