Thursday 21st of August 2008
Program
PROGRAM
24th Symposium in Plant Biology
“Gene silencing: the biology of small RNAs and the epigenome”
Organizers: Jian-Kang Zhu, Shou-Wei Ding, and Xuemei Chen,
University of California, Riverside
Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, California
January 18-20, 2007
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2007 |
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| 9 am-6 pm | Registration in West Foyer of Riverside Convention Center |
Session I – Small RNA biogenesis and action mechanisms |
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| CHAIR: Donald A. Cooksey, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California-Riverside | |
| 1:00-1:10 pm | Welcoming remarks: Jian-Kang Zhu, Donald Cooksey |
| 1:10-1:40 pm | David Baulcombe Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre Title: Argonaute Proteins: Effectors in Multiple Silencing Pathways |
| 1:40-2:10 pm | David Bartel Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: MicroRNAs |
| 2:10-2:40 pm | Speakers (2) selected from those submitting abstracts: |
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Bernard Carroll, The University of Queensland Title: Long-Distance RNAi Signaling in Arabidopsis Yijun Qi, National Institute of Biological Sciences Title: A Complex System Of Small RNAs in the Unicellular Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
| 2:40-3:00 pm | [Break] |
| CHAIR: Hailing Jin, Plant Pathology Department, University of California-Riverside | |
| 3:00-3:30 pm | James Carrington Center for Genome Research & Biocomputing, Oregon State University Title: Genome-Wide Analysis of Small RNA-directed Pathways in Arabidopsis |
| 3:30-4:00 pm | Xuemei Chen Botany & Plant Sciences Department, University of California-Riverside Title: Pol IVa Suppresses HEN1-mediated MicroRNA Methylation |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Richard Jorgensen Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona Title: Evolutionary and Functional of the Epigenome: A Paragenetic Perspective on the Role of RNA Silencing in the Biology of Plants |
| 4:30-5:00 pm | Craig Pikaard Biology Department, Washington University Title: RNA Polymerase IV and Nuclear siRNA Biogenesis |
| 5:00-5:30 pm | Herve Vaucheret Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Centre INRA de Versailles Title: Genetic Dissection of Small RNA Pathways in Arabidopsis |
| 5:30-6:00 pm | Olivier Voinnet Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Title: Defensive Small RNA Pathways and their Interference and Usurpation by Plant Pathogens |
| 6:00-7:30 pm | Opening Reception: Galleria/Atrio Room, Mission Inn Hotel |
| 7:30-9:30 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 , 2007 |
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Session II – Small RNA function and development |
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| CHAIR: Patricia Springer, Botany & Plant Sciences Department, University of California-Riverside | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Scott Poethig Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania Title: Regulation of Vegetative Phase Change in Arabidopsis by miRNAs and Trans-Acting siRNA's |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Detlef Weigel Department of Molecular Biology, Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology Tubingen, Germany Title: Specificity and Developmental Roles of Plant MicroRNAs |
| 9:30-10:00 am | Kathy Barton Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Institution of Washington Title: Small RNAs and the Regulation of Polar Leaf Development and Meristem Formation |
| 10:00-10:20 am | [Break] |
| CHAIR: Harley Smith, Botany & Plant Sciences Department, University of California-Riverside | |
| 10:20-10:50 am | Jennifer Fletcher USDA Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA Title: Regulation of Arabidopsis Meristem and Leaf Development by miR166 |
| 10:50-11:10 am | Christian Haudenschild Solexa, Inc. Title: High Throughput-Low Cost- Small RNA Profiling Using a Next Generation Sequencer Based on Sequencing by Synthesis |
| 11:10-11:40 am | Speakers (2) selected from those submitting abstracts: |
11:10-11:25 am |
Adam Vivian-Smith, Leiden University Title: Rescue of Dicer-like1 Mutant Lethality and Pleiotropy by Second Site Mutations in the Parthenocarpy Gene FWF/ARF8 Tomasz Poprawka, John Innes Centre Title: War of Polarities - A Role of Antisense RNA in the Patterning of Leaf Primordia |
| 11:40-11:45 am | Mona D. Lee Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP) UC Discovery Grant Program |
| 11:45 am-2:00 pm | Lunch and Poster Session |
Session III – Small RNA function in stress and other physiological processes |
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| CHAIR: Ray Bressan, Center for Plant Stress Physiology, Purdue University | |
| 2:00-2:30 pm | Vicki Vance Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina Title: HC-Pro Suppression of RNA Silencing: Mechanistic Studies |
| 2:30-3:00 pm | Shou-Wei Ding Plant Pathology Department, University of California-Riverside Title: Mechanisms of Induction and Suppression of Antiviral Silencing in Plants and Animals |
| 3:00-3:30 pm | Speakers (3) selected from those submitting abstracts: |
3:00-3:15 pm |
Hailing Jin, University of California-Riverside Title: Pathogen-inducible Endogenous siRNAs in Plant Immunity Jin-Biao Ma, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Title: Structural Basis for siRNA Recognition by Viral Suppressor 2b from Tomato Aspermy Virus Lionel Navarro, Institut de Biology Moleculaire des Plantes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Title: Epigenetic Control of the Arabidopsis Immune Response through Specific cis-acting siRNA Species |
| 3:40-4:00 pm | [Break] |
| CHAIR: Julia Bailey-Serres, Botany & Plant Sciences Department, University of California-Riverside | |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Jian-Kang Zhu Botany & Plant Sciences Department, University of California-Riverside Title: Stress-regulated siRNAs and miRNAs |
| 4:30-5:00 pm | Pamela Green Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware Title: Analysis of the Small RNAs of Arabidopsis and Rice |
| 5:00-5:30 pm | Nina Federoff Biology Department, Penn State University Title: Studies on the Role of the HYL1 Protein in miRNA Process |
| 5:30-8:00 pm | Dinner on own |
| 8:00-10:00 pm | Poster Session |
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2007 |
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Session IV – Transcriptional silencing and DNA methylation |
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| CHAIR: Mary Clutter, Former Asst. Director for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Vicki Chandler Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona Title: Tandem Repeats Mediate Heritable Chromatin Changes through an RNA-directed Mechanism |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Marjori Matzke Gregory Mendel Institute of Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences Title: RNA-directed DNA Methylation: A Versatile Pathway for Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Plants |
| 9:30-10:00 am | Jerzy Paszkowski Laboratory of Plant Genetics, University of Geneva Title: Regulatory Loops Driven by DNA Methylation |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Speakers (2) selected from those submitting abstracts: |
10:00-10:15 am |
Vaniyambadi Sridha, University of Geneva Title: Requirement of a Deubiquitination Enzyme in siRNA-directed DNA Methylation and Heterochromatic Silencing in Arabidopsis Vibha Srivastava , University of Arkansas Title: Exon Methylation Leads to Transcriptional Silencing of Phytochrome A (phyA) Gene |
| 10:30-10:50 am | [Break] |
| CHAIR: Zhenbiao Yang, Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California-Riverside | |
| 10:50-11:20 am | Steve Jacobsen Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California-Los Angeles Title: DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis |
| 11:20-11:50 am | Judith Bender Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Johns Hopkins University Title: Histone Methyltransferases that Control DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis |
| 11:50 am-12:20 pm | Eric Richards Department of Biology, Washington University Title: Natural Epigenetic Variation |
| 12:30-2:00 pm | Lunch and poster session |
Session V – Transcriptional silencing and histone modifications |
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| CHAIR: Natasha Raikhel, Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California-Riverside | |
| 2:00-2:30 pm | Robert Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Title: Small RNA, Chromosome Organization and Epigenetic Regulation in Arabidopsis and Fission Yeast |
| 2:30-3:00 pm | Rick Amasino Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Title: Vernalization: Remembering Winter with an Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Switch |
| 3:00-3:30 pm | Caroline Dean Cell and Developmental Biology Department, John Innes Center Title: Linking RNA Processing, RNAi and Chromatin in FLC Regulation |
| 3:30-4:00 pm | Speakers (2) selected from those submitting abstracts |
3:30-3:45 pm |
Assaf Zemach,The Weizmann Institute of Science Title: AtMBD7 Contains Four Chromatin-binding Motifs and Could Directly Compact Chromatin through Binding to Multiple Methylated-CpG Sites Elizabeth Dennis , CSIRO Division of Plant Industry Title: Polycomb Complexes - Different Components and Associations for Different Roles |
| 4:00-4:20 pm | [Break] |
| CHAIR: Frank Sauer, Biochemistry Department, University of California-Riverside | |
| 4:20-4:50 pm | Zhizhong Gong College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University Title: Transcriptional Gene Silencing Spreading in Arabidopsis |
| 4:50-5:20 pm | Steven Henikoff Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Title: DNA Methylation Clusters in Arabidopsis Genes |
| 5:20-5:50 pm | Danesh Moazed Department of Cell Biology, Harvard University Title: RNAi and Heterochromatin Assembly |
| 7:00-10:00pm | Closing Banquet: Grand Ballroom Foyer, Marriott Hotel |