Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop

5/17/2006 ­ 5/21/2006

Provisional schedule

 

Wednesday 5/17

 

Arrival

PM

6:00-9:00 - Registration

7:00-7:05 - Welcome: Miguel A. Nevárez, Past President University of Texas PanAmerican

7:05-8:00 - Keynote address:             Pumping Ions: From Yeast to Human

Rajini Rao - Johns Hopkins University

8:00-10:00 - Opening reception (wine, cheese, bread)

 

 

Thursday 5/18

Open breakfast 7:00- 8:15

 

Session 1 Membranes and Pollen Function

Chair: Heven Sze

Talk 1 8:30-9:10         Genetic Insights into Signaling Pathways Regulating Pollen Tube

Growth

Sabine Frietsch - University of Nevada Reno

Talk 2 9:10-9:50         Ion dynamics during oscillating growth of Lilium longiflorum

pollen tubes

Mark Messerli - Biology Dept, Purdue University

Talk 3 9:50-10:05       A Golgi-localized Ca2+/Mn2+ pump supports root and pollen tube

growth

Xiyan Li - Biology Dept, University of Maryland

Talk 4 10:05-10:20     Oscillatory increases in alkalinity anticipate growth and may

regulate actin dynamics in pollen tubes of lily

Alenka Lovy-Wheeler - Biology Dept, University of Massachusetts

 

Coffee

 

Session 2 Membranes and Metabolic Fluxes

Chair: Mechthild Tegeder

Talk 5 10:45-11:25     Role of nucleotide sugar transporters in the endoplasmic reticulum

and the Golgi apparatus

Ariel Orellana - University of Andres Bello

Talk 6 11:25-12:05     Functional analysis of proton coupled sucrose transporters in plants

Alicia Sivitz - University of Minnesota

Talk 7  12:05-12:20     The role of transport proteins in uptake of amino acids from the

rhizophere

Mechthild Tegeder - Biology Dept, Washington State University

Talk 8 12:20-12:35     Identification and preliminary characterization of plastid envelope

transport proteins

Andrea Braeutigam     Department of Plant Biology, Michigan

State University

 

Lunch  en masse 12:45-1:30

 

Session 3  Membrane Lipids and Lipid Signaling

Chair: Wendy Boss

Talk 9  2:00-2:40        A molecular approach to alter the flux through the

phosphoinositide pathway

Imara Perera - Dept. of Botany, North Carolina State University

Talk 10 2:40-3:20       Characterization of serine palmitoyltransferase in Arabidopsis and

the essential roles sphingolipid play in plant growth and

development.

Chuck Dietrich - Danforth Center, Dept of Biology

Talk 11 3:20-3:35       Functional characterization of the putative PC-PLC gene family in

Arabidopsis

Carlotta  Peters - University of Missouri, St. Louis

Talk 12 3:35-3:50       N-Acetylethanolamine metabolism influences growth and stress

responses in plants

Aruna Kilaru - North Texas State, Biology Dept

 

Tea

 

Session 4   Metal Transport

Chair: Mary Lou Guerinot

Talk 13 4:10-4:50       ATCCC1, an Arabidopsis vacuolar iron transporter, controls the

localization of iron in the developing seed and iron homeostasis in

plant

Sun A. Kim - Dartmouth College, Biology Dept.

Talk 14 4:50-5:30       Mutations in Arabidopsis yellow stripe-like1 (YSL1) and yellow

stripe-like 3 (YSL3) reveal their roles in metal ion homeostasis and

loading of metal ions in seeds

Elsbeth Walker - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Biology

Dept.

Talk 15 5:30-5:45       Role of TGMTP1 in zinc hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi

geosingense

Jeff Gustin - Purdue University

Talk 16 5:45-6:00       Copper delivery for photosynthesis in Arabidopsis chloroplasts

Marinus Pilon - Colorado State University, Biology Dept.

 

Dinner on your own

Poster session I 8:00 -10:00 (cash bar)

 

Friday 5/19

Open breakfast 7:00- 8:15

 

 

Session 5  8:30-10:20 Nutrient Deficiencies

Chair: Roberto Gaxiola

Talk 17 8:30-9:10       Characterization of the general response of Arabidopsis thaliana to

phosphate starvation and the effects on cell membrane composition

Alfredo Cruz Ramírez - CIEA

Talk 18 9:10-9:50       The type I H+-PPase AVP1 functions at the crossroads between

low PI sensing, enhanced auxin sensitivity and root architecture

plasticity

Haibeng Yang - University of Connecticut, Dept. of Plant Science

Talk 19 9:50-10:05     Phosphate starvation response and sugar siganaling in Arabidopsis

A.S. Karthikeyan - Purdue University

Talk 20 10:05-10:20   Regulatory cytoplasmic metal binding domains in plant Zn

transporting ATPases

Elif Eren - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dept of Chemistry and

Biochemistry

 

Coffee

 

Session 6  Membranes and Environmental Stresses I

Chair: Kendal Hirschi

Talk 21 10:45-11:25   ABA and CO2 signal transduction network in guard cells, Ca2+

sensors and insights into new signaling network mechanisms

Yingzhen Yang - UCSD, Biology Dept.

Talk 22 11:25-12:05   ROS-mediated ABA signalling in guard cells: a role for MAP

kinase cascades

Daeshik Cho - University of Maryland

Talk 23 12:05-12:20   Aluminum inhibits phosphatidic acid formation by the

phospholipase C pathway

Teresa Hernandez - C.I.C.Y Merida, Mexico

Talk 24 12:20-12:35   Characterization of CAX9 from Arabidopsis, a homolog of

mammalian K+ dependant Na+/Ca2+ (NCKX) antiporters

Ning Hui Cheng -Baylor College of Medicine

 

Lunch  en masse 12:45-1:30

 

Lunch Discussion: Collaborative Research at Undergraduate and Minority Serving Institutions

Chair: Mike Persans

Remarks from Wendy Lawrence-Fowler        Vice President for Research, University of

Texas Pan American  

                        Parag Chitnis                           National Science Foundation

 

 

Session 7  Membranes and Environmental Stresses II

Chair: Omar Pantoja

Talk 25 2:00-2:40       Ca2+ regulation of transmembrane proton fluxes and ROS

production ­ a common mechanism in tip growth and

mechanosensing?

Gabriele Monshausen - Penn State

Talk 26 2:40-3:20       HMT-1-dependent heavy metal detoxification: from fungi and

nematodes to plants

Olena K. Vatamaniuk - Cornell University

Talk 27 3:20-3:35       Mesembryanthemum crystallinum PIPS and TIPS: location and

expression under salt and osmotic stress

Rosario Vera-Estrella - IBT-UNAM

Talk 28 3:35-3:50       Do plant immunophilins act as chaperones toward environmental stress?

Burkhard Schulz         Purdue University     

Coffee

Session 8       Plasma Membrane Signal Transduction and Growth

Chair: Karen Schumaker

Talk 29 4:10-4:50       Interactions of PGP- and PIN-based auxin transport mechanisms

Josh Blakeslee             Purdue University

Talk 30 4:50-5:15       High-Affinity Auxin Transport by the AUX1 Influx Carrier Protein

Dan Schachtman - Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Talk 31 5:15-5:40       Towards a realistic model of auxin fluxes in the plant root

Eric Kramer - Simons Rock College

Talk 32 5:40-6:05       A transport model of phyllotaxis

Richard Smith - Center for Algorithmic Botany, University of

Calgary

 

Conference Dinner

 

 

Saturday 5/20

Open breakfast 7:00- 8:15

 

Session 9  Membranes and Extraorganismal Signaling

Chair: Carroll Vance

Talk 33 8:30-9:10       Functional genomics of membrane transport in legume nodules

Michael Udvardi         Max Planck Golm

Talk 34 9:10-9:50       Studies of a transmembrane LRR-RLK receptor involved in the

nodulation process in Phaseolus vulgaris.

David Jauregui Zuńiga - IBT UNAM

Talk 35 9:50-10:15     Functional analysis of a MATE gene in cluster roots of white lupin

Claudia Uhde-Stone    Cal State East Bay, Biology Dept.

Talk 36 10:15-10:30   Sphingolipids as modulators of membrane architecture and

function

Marina Gavilanes Ruiz - UNAM

 

Coffee

 

Session 10  Membranes and Trafficking

Chair: Sebastian Bednarek

Talk 37 10:45-11:15   The Qc-SNARE SYP71 is involved in polarized secretion in

mature root cells and in cell plate formation in dividing cells

Tony Sanderfoot - University of Minnesota, Dept. of Plant Biology

Talk 38 11:15-11:50   Multivesicular prevacuolar compartments in the endocytic and

secretory pathways of Arabidopsis embryo cells

Marisa Otegui             - University of Wisconsin Madison

Talk 39 11:50-12:25   Peroxisome biogenesis and the hijacking of peroxisomes by

tobamoviruses

Robert Mullen - University of Guelph

Talk 40 12:25-12:40   Targeting membrane proteins that control AUXIN transport and

root development in Arabidopsis.

Gloria Muday ­ Wake Forest

 

Lunch  en masse 12:45-1:30

 

Workshop 1 1:40-3:40 Membranomics

Chair: David Salt

Talk WS1 1:40-2:15    Evolutionary genomics of plastid envelope membrane transport

Andreas Weber - Dept. of Plant Biology, Michigan State

University

Talk WS2 2:15-2:50    Understanding membrane trafficking in plant cells through

proteomics and chemical genomics

Clay J. Carter - Biology Dept., University of Minnesota, Duluth

Talk WS3 2:50-3:20    DNA microarray-based mapping, a novel, rapid technique for gene

identification: An ionomics case study

Ivan Baxter - Purdue.University

Talk WS4 3:20-3:40    The Purdue Ionomics Information Management System (PIIMS)

David Salt - Purdue University

 

Tea

 

Workshop session 2  Membrane Protein Analysis and Visualization

Chair: Simon Gilroy

Talk WS5 4:00-4:40    Jeff Harper      Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

University of Nevada Reno

Talk WS6 4:40-5:20    The Visible Plant Cell: Biosensors and Bioreporters: In vivo

physiological imaging using fluorescent indicator proteins

Wolf Frommer Carnegie Institution/Dept. Plant Sciences,

Stanford University

Talk WS7 5:20-6:00    Imaging the cytoskeleton in plant cells

Elison Blancaflor         Plant Biology Noble Foundation

Talk WS8 6:00-6:20    From cells to tissues, technology for studying membrane transport

physiology in plant systems

Marshall Porterfield    Purdue University

 

Closing remarks