2013 03 01 Pollen RCN Meeting

Ravi Palanivelu, Jeff Harper, Pollen RCN Steering Committee

Ravi Palanivelu, tel: 520.235.2761

Alice Cheung

Martha Narro, Andrew Predoehl, Naim Matasci, Shannon Oliver, Matt Bomhoff

March 1-3, 2013

Residence Inn Tucson Airport
2660 E Medina Rd
Tucson, AZ
tel: 520.294.5522

http://pollennetwork.org

here

7:00 - 8:20 PM

DINNER (catered by Sapphire Catering in Residence Inn)

8:20 - 8:30 PM

Ravi Palanivelu, University of Arizona: Introductory Remarks

8:30 - 8:50 PM

Mark Johnson, Brown University: Molecular Dialogues Between Pollen and Pistil

8:50 - 9:10 PM

Andrew McCubbin, Washington State University: Unraveling CDPK functions and pathways in pollen tube growth

9:10 - 9:30 PM

Matina Donaldson-Matasci, University of Arizona: The role of ecology and communication in pollen foraging by honey bees

7:00 - 8:20 AM

COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST at Residence Inn

8:30 - 8:40 AM

Jeff Harper, University of Nevada, Reno: Introductory Remarks

8:40 - 9:00 AM

Sheila McCormick, Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA: RNA-seq analysis of pollen gene expression

9:00 - 9:20 AM

Steve Goff, Director, iPlant Collaborative and Martha Narro, Sr Project Coordinator, iPlant Collaborative: iPlant overview, Data Store, Discovery Environment

9:20 - 9:30 AM

   Martha Narro, Senior Project Coordinator, iPlant Collaborative: Bisque

9:30 - 9:40 AM

   Naim Matasci, iPlant Collaborative: Atmosphere

9:40 - 9:50 AM

   Matt Bomhoff, University of Arizona: CoGe (note: slides are in Keynote)

9:50 - 10:00 AM

   iPlant Presenters: Questions and Discussion

10:00 - 10:20 AM

Poster Session /  Coffee Break 

10:20 - 10:40 AM

Salika Dunatunga, University of Arizona: Pollen tube tracker – A module to automatically track multiple, overlapping pollen tube trajectories

10:40 - 11:00 AM

Ann Loraine, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Visual analysis of high-throughput sequencing data with Integrated Genome Browser

11:00 - 12:00 NOON

Poster session / Booth Demonstrations by presenters in the previous session  (Tutorials: PollenTubeTracker in Bisque, RNAseq in Discovery Environment)

12:00 - 1:00 PM

LUNCH (catered by Sapphire Catering in Residence Inn)

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Poster Session / Discussion / Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:20 PM

Ravi Palanivelu, University of Arizona: Characterization of an Arabidopsis mutant defective in pollen tube elongation

4:20 - 4:40 PM

Chris Staiger, Purdue University: Regulation of actin dynamics

4:40 - 5:00 PM

Teagen Quilichini, University of British Columbia: Investigating pollen wall trafficking and assembly in Arabidopsis thaliana.

5:00 - 5:20 PM

Poster Session / Discussion

5:20 - 5:40 PM

Liliana Elizabeth Garcia Valencia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México: NaSIPP is a pollen protein specific
of self-incompatible Nicotiana species, which interacts with NaStEP, a stigmatic protein essential to pollen rejection

5:40 - 6:00 PM

Alejandro Tovar-Mendez, University of Missouri, Columbia: Reconstructing an interspecific reproductive barrier in tomato with S-RNase and HT-proteins

6:00 - 7:00 PM

DINNER (catered by Sapphire Catering in Residence Inn)

7:00 - 7:20 PM

Anna Edlund, LaFeyette University: Performance variations between pollen tubes

7:20 - 7:40 PM

Anna Dobritsa, University of Chicago: Walls and gates: Genetics of exine and aperture formation in Arabidopsis pollen

7:40 - 8:00 PM

Anke Reinders, University of Minnesota: Identification of amino acids important for substrate specificity in sucrose transporters using gene shuffling

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Poster Session / Open Discussion, BYB

7:00 - 8:10 AM

COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST by Residence Inn

8:10 - 8:30 AM

Luis Cárdenas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México: Reactive oxygen species in root hair cells and pollen tubes,
expression of Hyper as a new ROS sensitive molecular probe

8:30 - 8:50 AM

Pedro T. Lima, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal: Pumping and plugging in Arabidopsis pollen tubes

9:10 - 9:30 AM

Rob Swanson, Valparaiso University: The genetics of post pollination nonrandom mating

8:50 - 9:10 AM

Guang-Yuh Jauh, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology
Academia Sinica, Taiwan: Profiling of Translatomes of in vivo-grown Pollen Tubes Reveals Genes with Roles in Micropylar Guidance During Pollination

9:30 - 9:50 AM

Jeff Harper, University of Nevada, Reno: Pollen – a model for insights into Ca2+ signaling and membrane dynamics