Program

Sign up for these tours as you register, please! Meeting locations will be sent only to first-come, first-serve registrants.

LICOR Facility
TBD
 
UNL Phenotyping Facility, 2 tours 3 – 3:45 pm, 4 – 4:45 pm

The Innovation Campus Greenhouse is a short drive from the conference center. You must provide your own transportation to this facility, which houses two image-based plant phenotyping systems. The greenhouse scale system can accommodate > 600 large plants and the lab scale system can accommodate multiple trays of small plants. The tour will include up close views of both systems along with a walk-through of the soil preparation, pot filling and wet lab areas. Our phenotyping systems have imaging chambers to facilitate very consistent images and utilize infrared, near infrared, florescent, hyperspectral and visible cameras. We also have facilities at the greenhouse for ground truth measurements including a drying oven for soil moisture and dry biomass along with a Licor leaf area meter.

UNL Beadle Center, 2 tours 3 – 3:45 pm, 4 – 4:45 pm
The UNL Beadle center is within easy walking distance of downtown hotels and the conference center.  It houses world-class proteomics/metabolomics and microscopy core facilities, along with an excellent greenhouse facility. The plant transformation core and many faculty of the Center for Plant Science Innovation Center are housed in Beadle, and this tour will be led by our faculty and graduate students, introducing the core facilities and the beautiful diversity rooms of the greenhouse, overflowing with plants from around the world.

Preliminary agenda

Friday, March 21st
3:00 – 5:00 pm Tours, register for these when you sign up

·       UNL Phenotyping Greenhouse

·       UNL Beadle Center and Greenhouse

·       Licor
Saturday, March 22nd
7:45 – 8:45 Registration/Check-in/Poster Set-up/Breakfast (provided)
8:45 – 9:00 Welcoming Remarks
9:05 – 10:35 Oral Session I:
9:05 – 9:25 “Physiology, ecology, and evolution of carbohydrate storage in trees” Morgan Furze, Purdue University
9:25 – 9:35 Discussion
9:35 – 9:50 Selected early career speaker 1 & discussion
9:50 – 10:05 Selected early career speaker 2 & discussion
10:05 – 10:20 Selected early career speaker 3 & discussion
10:20 – 10:35 Selected early career speaker 4 & discussion
10:35 – 10:45 Coffee/Tea break
10:45 – 12:15 Oral Session II:
10:45 – 11:05 “Elucidating regulation of photoprotection for designing more sustainable crop production.” Katarzyna Glowacka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:05 – 11:15 Discussion
11:15 – 11:30 Selected early career speaker 5 & discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Selected early career speaker 6 & discussion
11:45 – 12:00 Selected early career speaker 7 & discussion
12:00 – 12:15 Selected early career speaker 8 & discussion
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45 Panel discussion: Loving our career options beyond PI.

Seton Bachle of LiCor, Jaspinder Singh of Bayer, Jayne Jonas-Bratten of the University of Lincoln-Kearney, Didier Mena of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1:45 – 2:45 Poster Session I (Odd numbers)/Desserts
2:50 – 4:20 Oral Session III
2:50 – 3:10 “Systems Genetics of Plant Nutrient Sensing and Adaptation for Growth Regulation” Hatem Rouached, Michigan State University
3:10 – 3:20 Discussion
3:20 – 3:35 Selected early career speaker 9 & discussion
3:35 – 3:50 Selected early career speaker 10 & discussion
3:50 – 4:05 Selected early career speaker 11 & discussion
4:05 – 4:20 Selected early career speaker 12 & discussion
4:20 – 5:20 Poster session II (even numbers)/refreshments
5:30 – 5:50 “Regulation of sorghum defense against insect herbivores” Joe Louis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
5:50 – 6:00 Discussion
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner reception
6:30 – 6:45 Kent Chapman, ASPB President-Elect introduces ASPB
Sunday, March 23rd
7:00 – 8:00 Registration/Check-in/Breakfast (provided)
8:00 – 8:15 Welcome to day 2
8:00 – 9:30 Oral Session IV
8:00 – 8:20 “Cuscuta: A Parasitic Plant for Decoding Plant-to-Plant Communication” Soyon Park, University of Missouri, Columbia
8:20 – 8:30 Discussion
8:30 – 8:45 Selected early career speaker 13 & discussion
8:45 – 9:00 Selected early career speaker 14 & discussion
9:00 – 9:15 Selected early career speaker 15 & discussion
9:15 – 9:30 Selected early career speaker 16 & discussion
9:45 – 10:00 Coffee/Tea break
10:00 – 11:45 Oral Session V
10:00 – 10:15 Selected early career speaker 17 & discussion
10:15 – 10:30 Selected early career speaker 18 & discussion
10:30 – 10:45 Selected early career speaker 19 & discussion
10:45 – 11:00 Selected early career speaker 20 & discussion
11:00 – 11:20 “Making the Invisible Visible Across Genomes and Fields” James Schnable, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:20 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Awards and Announcement
11:45 – 12:05 Closing Remarks