PROGRAM OF EVENTS

9:15 AM Registration & Poster Set-up

Register at the Waksman Institute
Set-up posters in Room 1001
Coffee and refreshments in Room 1001

10:00 AM Session I - Waksman Auditorium

Welcome

Arvind K. Bharti
Waksman Institute, Rutgers University
High resolution physical mapping of the maize genome and sequencing a part thereof

Jinsheng Lai
Waksman Institute, Rutgers University
Extensive shuffling of gene order in genomes of grass family

Yuling Jiao
Yale University
Transcription analysis of rice chromosome 4 using a genomic fragment-based tiling microarray

Amitabh Mohanty
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Characterization of the Arabidopsis proteome by fluorescent protein tagging

Amy Litt
Yale University
Duplication and diversification in the APETALA1/FRUITFULL floral homeotic gene lineage: implications for the evolution of floral development

A brief meeting of all the Principal Investigators will take place after Session I, just before lunch.

11:30 AM Lunch & Poster Session I - Room 1001

1:15 AM Session II - Waksman Auditorium

Vikas Agrawal
University of Delaware
Systems biology approaches to understanding the Arabidopsis hypersensitive response

Mike Li
Rutgers University
Differential gene expression in a disease resistant colonial x creeping bentgrass hybrid relative to its creeping parent

Tessa M. Burch-Smith
Yale University
The requirement for the molecular chaperone Hsp90 in N-mediated resistance to TMV

Rajendra Marathe
Yale University
Plant P58IPK is a suppressor of RNA silencing

Angela G. Peragine
University of Pennsylvania
A role for post-transcriptional gene silencing in vegetative phase change

2:45 PM Coffee Break & Poster Session II - Room 1001

3:30 PM Session III - Waksman Auditorium

Wolfgang Lukowitz
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
A GATA-factor is mediating axis formation in the early Arabidopsis embryo

Alice J. Paquette
New York University
GA influences the timing of the termination of the root apical meristem and changes in ground-tissue cytoarchitecture

Fang Qi
Queens College, The City University of New York
lid2, a phytochrome signal transduction pathway mutant

Francine M. Carland
Yale University
CVP2-mediated IP₃ signal transduction is essential for closed venation patterns of Arabidopsis foliar organs

Michelle T. Juarez
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Adaxial/abaxial specification of the maize leaf

5:00 PM Concluding Remarks & Announcements

Posters must be removed by 5:30 P.M.