2013 03 01 Pollen RCN Meeting
Organizers | Ravi Palanivelu, Jeff Harper, Pollen RCN Steering Committee |
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Local Point of Contact | Ravi Palanivelu, tel: 520.235.2761 |
Pollen RCN PI | |
Trainers | Martha Narro, Andrew Predoehl, Naim Matasci, Shannon Oliver, Matt Bomhoff |
Date | March 1-3, 2013 |
Location | Residence Inn Tucson Airport |
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Program & Abstracts |
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Program (All Sessions at Residence Inn)
Time | Speaker: Topic |
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Friday, March 1, 2013 | Session I |
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 |
Saturday, March 2, 3013 | Session II |
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: |
9:20 - 9:30 AM | Martha Narro, Senior Project Coordinator, iPlant Collaborative: |
9:30 - 9:40 AM | Naim Matasci, iPlant Collaborative: |
9:40 - 9:50 AM | Matt Bomhoff, University of Arizona: (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: , ) |
12:00 - 1:00 PM | LUNCH (catered by Sapphire Catering in Residence Inn) |
1:00 - 3:30 PM | FREE TIME - Group visit to Saguaro National Park East and hike |
| Session III |
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 |
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) |
| Session IV |
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 |
Sunday, March 3, 2013 | Session V |
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, |
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 |
9:30 - 9:50 AM | Jeff Harper, University of Nevada, Reno: Pollen – a model for insights into Ca2+ signaling and membrane dynamics |