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Saturday, April 22
7:00 – 8:00 Registration/Check-in (Location: outside North Central)
7:00 – 8:00 Poster Set-up (Location: Cardinal and Gold)
7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast (Location: North Central)
7:25 – 7:50 ASPB Get to Know You Bingo Game (Location: North Central)
7:50 – 8:00 ASPB Ambassador Remarks
8:00 – 10:00 Oral Session I: Genome-wide analyses and networks (T1-T6) – North Central
8:00 – 8:05 Welcoming Remarks, Gustavo Machintosh (ASPB President)
8:05 – 8:35 Featured Speaker: Dr. Justin Walley (Iowa State University), Unraveling Brassinosteroid and Target of Rapamycin Complex Signaling Pathways in Plants through Integrative Network Analysis of Multi-omic Data
8:35 – 8:50 Eli Hartung, Are Perennial Grass Ecotypes Locally Matched To Their Soil Microbes Across the Midwest Precipitation Gradient?
8:50 – 9:05 Huan Chen, Archaeological Bolivian maize genomes suggest diversity is associated with Inca cultural expansion and environmental variation in South America
9:05 – 9:20 Ella So-Eun Kim, Functional Characterization of novel small ORFs in Arabidopsis ABA response
9:20 – 9:35 Kithmee de Silva, Deciphering transcriptional regulators regulating photosynthesis in response to nitrogen and light availability in Arabidopsis thaliana
9:35 – 9:50 Bruna Montes Luz, Identification of soybean small secreted peptides involved in the regulation of symbiosis
9:50 – 10:05 Lauren Sichterman, Glycome profiling of cotton fiber cell wall polysaccharides to determine the molecular factors contributing to fiber quality
10:00 – 11:00 Poster Session I (Even Numbers)/Refreshments – Cardinal and Gold
11:00 – 1:00 Oral Session II: Signaling and Development (T7-T12) – North Central
11:00 – 11:30 Featured Speaker Dr. Ruthie Angelovici (University of Missouri), Uncovering the genetic and metabolic bases of seed amino acid composition using a multiomics integration approach
11:30 – 11:45 Dae Kwan Ko, An IRE1-proteasome system signaling cohort controls cell fate determination in unresolved proteotoxic stress of the plant ER
11:45 – 12:00 Damilola Olatunji, The Class VIII myosin ATM1 is required for root apical meristem function
12:00-12:15 Craig Cowling, Roles of auxin transporter PILS6 in maize growth and development
12:15 – 12:30 Brian Zebosi, bds1 and bds2 function redundantly to regulate inflorescence and shoot architecture in maize via brassinosteroid biosynthesis
12:30-12:45 Kaitlin Higgins, Mdr1 demethylase and the intersection between the epigenome, genomic imprinting, and transposable elements in maize endosperm
12:45-1:00 Bilal Ahmad, Divergence of nuclear localization mechanism in HD-Zip IV family
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch – North Central (switch posters – Cardinal and Gold)
2:00 – 3:00 How to Cultivate a Successful Career in Plant Biology: Insights from Experts
- Margaret Woodhouse – PhD (Computational Biologist, MaizeGDB, USDA)
- Christopher Zalewski – MPA, PhD (Vice President of Operations/Founder, Front Range Biosciences)
- Carina Collins – PhD (Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Research, Marian University)
- Bruna Montes Luz – PhD candidate (University of Missouri)
3:00 – 4:30 Oral Session III: Methods and Advances (T13-T18) – North Central
3:00-3:15 Feng Zhang, Efficient protein tagging and cis-regulatory element engineering via precise and directional targeted insertion in plants
3:15-3:30 Matrika Bhattarai, Developing an in vitro GT array (i-GTray) platform for high throughput enzyme activity testing of glycosyltransferases
3:30-3:45 Stephen Deslauriers, High-resolution imaging: a system for undergraduate research studying Arabidopsis development
3:45-4:00 Zhongpeng Li, Plasmodesmata-located proteins regulate the plasmodesmal function at specific cell interfaces
4:00-4:15 Cailin Smith, Thylakoid-Inner Envelope Membrane Contact Sites Facilitate Photosynthetic Membrane Synthesis
4:15-4:30 Ashley Henry, Uncovering the genetic controls of the Arabidopsis thaliana root growth zone and its response to gravity
4:30 – 5:30 Poster Session II (Odd Numbers)/Appetizers – Cardinal and Gold
5:30 – 6:30 Keynote Speaker Dr. Diane Bassham (Iowa State University) – North Central
Dinner on your own
Sunday, April 23
7:00 – 8:00 Registration/Check-in/Breakfast
8:00 – 10:00 Oral Session IV: Metabolism (T19-T24) – North Central
8:00 – 8:30 Featured Speaker: Dr. Sharon Kessler (Purdue University)
8:30-8:45 Conor Raymond, Duplication and co-option of fatty acid biosynthesis potentiates plant chemical diversity
8:45-9:00 Xingqi Huang, Peroxisomal heterodimeric enzyme responsible for benzaldehyde biosynthesis in plants
9:00-9:15 Ryan Patrick, Dynamic histone acetylation coordinates temporal biosynthesis and emission of floral volatiles in petunia
9:15-9:30 Liza Gautam, Improving pennycress glucosinolate, seed size, and seed oil domestication traits.
9:30-9:45 Chen Zhang, Two evolutionarily duplicated domains individually and posttranscriptionally control SWEET expression for phloem transport
9:45-10:00 William Thives Santos, Engineering Plants Resistant to Defensive Non-Proteogenic Amino Acids
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15 Oral Session V: Stress and Defense (T25-T30) – North Central
10:15 – 10:45 Featured Speaker Dr. Cory Hirsch (University of Minnesota)
10:45-11:00 Yosef Fichman, HPCA1 is required for systemic reactive oxygen species and calcium cell-to-cell signaling and plant acclimation to stress
11:00-11:15 Ranjita Sinha, Differential regulation of flower and pod transpiration during abiotic stress combination in an annual plant
11:15-11:30 Heena Puri, Temporal transcriptomic profiling elucidates sorghum defense mechanisms against sugarcane aphids
11:30-11:45 Martin Alcantar, Novel function of the CBL-CIPK Network in Plant Immunity
11:45-12:00 Dandan Zhang, Understanding the roles of soybean aphid effectors in soybean and soybean aphid interaction
12:00-12:15 Katie Horton, Chasing a molecular chimera; AvrRps4 effector family expanded via bioinformatics and new bacterial assays for lettuce
12:15 – 12:30 Awards & Announcements (meeting adjourn) – North Central