2021 Joint MA-ASPB / University of Maryland
Plant Virtual Symposium
Venue: Zoom platform
Time: May 27 (Thursday) and May 28 (Friday), 2021
| Day One | Thursday, May 27, 2021 | ||
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome (Hua Lu) | ||
| 9:05 – 9:55 | Keynote Address I
Doris Wagner |
University of Pennsylvania |
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| (Re)programming Cell fate and function in response to developmental and environmental cues | |||
| 9:55 – 10:00 | Break (5 min) | ||
| 10:00-12:00 | Session I: Regulation of Plant Growth and Development
(Session Chair: Zhongchi Liu) |
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| 10:00-10:25 | Guillaume Pilot | Virginia Tech | |
| An amino acid transporter plays a regulatory role in amino acid homeostasis in plants: evidence for a new transceptor? | |||
| 10:25-10:50 | Macarena Farcuh | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Sugar metabolism reprogramming during ripening of a climacteric fruit and its non-climacteric mutant | |||
| 10:50-11:15 | Song Li | Virginia Tech | |
| Selecting candidate regulatory genes using machine learning and multi-omics data integration | |||
| 11:15-12:25 | Custodio Nunes | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Bioelectrical signals in pollen tubes: a beacon for apical morphogenesis and chemotropism? | |||
| 11:25-11:35 | Lu Wang | Rutgers University | |
| Connected function of PRAF and GNOM in membrane trafficking controls intrinsic cell polarity in plants | |||
| 11:35-11:45 | Madison Plunkert | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Characterization of a vegetative tissue-specific regulator of anthocyanin coloration in diploid strawberry | |||
| 11:45-12:00 | Michael Mishkind | NSF | |
| Current funding opportunities at NSF | |||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Meeting with NSF program officer, Dr. Michael Mishkind
Social in Zoom chatroom Lunch |
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| 12:30 – 1:30 | Poster Session
(Session Chairs: Juan Dong and Steve Mount) |
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| 1:30 – 2:45 | Session II: Plant Genomics and Evolution
(Session Chair: Vijay Tiwari) |
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| 1:30-1:55 | Fay-Wei Li | Boyce Thompson Institute | |
| Expanding the genomic and genetic toolkits for hornwort research | |||
| 1:55-2:20 | Emily Bruns | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Disease transmission, age-structure and resistance evolution in wild carnations | |||
| 2:20-2:45 | Hong Ma | Pennsylvania State University | |
| Phylotranscriptomics of angiosperm families and implications for gene duplication on evolution of fruit type and other adaptive traits | |||
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break (15 min) | ||
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Career Development (Session Chair Nick Ruppel) | ||
| Discussion Panel I: What is it Like to Teach in Colleges of Varying Research Intensity?
Panelists: |
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| Samantha Elliot | St. Mary’s College of Maryland | ||
| COVID-19 as a paradigm shift in undergraduate education | |||
| Joanna Werner-Fraczek | Morena Valley College | ||
| Edgar Moctezuma | University of Maryland, College Park | ||
| 4:00-5:00 | Online social: Gentle Yoga with Elaine MacDougall
Social in Zoom chatroom |
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| Day Two | Friday, May 28, 2021 | ||
| 9:00-10:20 | Session III: Plant Biotic Interaction
(Session Chair: Shunyuan Xiao) |
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| 9:00-9:25 | Jean Greenberg | The University of Chicago | |
| Epidermal chloroplasts, ALD1 and immunity | |||
| 9:25-9:50 | Mark Zander | Rutgers University | |
| Master Transcription Factors at Work. New Insights into MYCs and PIFs | |||
| 9:50-10:00 | Ying Wu | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Understanding mechanisms of nonhost resistance through a genetically tailored Arabidopsis-Powdery mildew pathosystem | |||
| 10:00-10:10 | Jessica Allison | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | |
| Circadian Regulation of the GRP7 Gene by the Master Clock Regulator CCA1 is Important for Plant Innate Immunity | |||
| 10:10-10:20 | Taylor Schulden | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Fine-Mapping Wheat Leaf Rust (Puccinia recondita f. sp. tritici) and Stripe Rust (Puccinia striiformis) Resistance Genes Lr57 and Yr40 | |||
| 10:20-10:30 | Break (10 min) | ||
| 10:30-11:50 | Session IV: Genome Editing and Biotechnology
(Session Chair: Nidhi Rawat) |
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| 10:30-10:55 | Bastiaan Bargmann | Virginia Tech | |
| Protoplast Regeneration and Its Use in New Plant Breeding Technologies | |||
| 10:55-11:20 | Tong Zhu | Syngenta | |
| Genome editing from laboratory to field: challenges and opportunities | |||
| 11:20-11:30 | Gen Li | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Highly efficient C-to-T and A-to-G base editing in a Populus hybrid | |||
| 11:30-11:40 | Xing Wei | Virginia Tech | |
| Exploring the scikit-learn machine-learning library for hyperspectral band selection to detect stem rot of peanut | |||
| 11:40-11:50 | Adam Schoen | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Identification of a Tiller Inhibition Gene (tin3) in Hexaploid Bread Wheat Using Diploid Wheat Species as a Model for Gene Discovery
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| 11:50 – 12:30 | Social in Zoom chatroom
Lunch |
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| 12:30 – 1:30 | Career Development Career Development (Session Chair: Yiping Qi)
Discussion panel II: Career in Biotech Industry – Perspectives from Experts of Biotech Companies Panelists: Tong Zhu (Syngenta) Aaron Hummel (Pairwise) Mike Nuccio (Inari Agriculture) |
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| 1:30 – 2:20 | Keynote Address II (Session Chair: Angus Murphy) | ||
| Yiping Qi | University of Maryland, College Park | ||
| Development of CRISPR tools for multiplexed and large-scale plant genome engineering | |||
| 2:20-2:30 | Awards, Acknowledgements, and Closing | ||