| August 17, 2010 Tuesday |
| 09:00-17:00 |
Registration |
Room 300, Main building |
| 19:00-21:15 |
Welcome Reception |
Hope hotel |
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| August 18, 2010 Wednesday |
| 08:40-09:00 |
Opening ceremony |
| 09:00-09:15 |
Introduction |
Xinguang Zhu |
| Session I Evolution of C4 |
| 09:15-09:45 |
Colin Osborne |
When and why did C4 photosynthesis evolve in the grasses? |
| 09:45-10:15 |
Pascal Christin |
Comparative evolutionary genetics of C4 photosynthesis |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Erica Edwards |
Environmental drivers of C4 evolution: are grasses and eudicots all that different? |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Break |
Group Photo |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Maurice Ku |
Flaveria, a genus containing closely related C3, C3-like intermediate, C3-C4 intermediate, C4-like and C4 species, for evolutional and mechanistic studies of C4 |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Elena Voznesenskaya |
Structural and biochemical relationships in plants with the C4 syndrome |
| 12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
Hope Hotel |
| Session II Comparative genomics |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Peter Westhoff |
Bundle-sheath specific gene expression in C4 species - the case of the photorespiratory genes |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Julian Hibberd |
1000 plants and Cleome |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Tim Nelson |
A cell-specific comparative systems approach to C4 photosynthesis and leaf development |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Break |
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| Session III Physiological perspective I |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Andreas Weber |
Next generation sequencing read analysis in the context of C4 photosynthesis |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Toyoshi Furomoto |
Identification of a plastid Na+ dependent pyruvate transport system in plants |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Klaas J. van WijK |
C4 leaf and chloroplast development and differentiation defined by microscopy and quantitative proteomics |
| 17:00-18:30 |
Poster session |
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| 20:00-21:00 |
Steve Long |
Novel approaches to exploiting C4 photosynthesis |
| August 19, 2010 Day 2 |
Thursday |
| Section IV Molecular evolution of C4 enzymes |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Martha Ludwig |
The Molecular Evolution of Carbonic Anhydrase in C4 Plants |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Udo Gowik |
Transcriptome analysis of C3, C3-C4 and C4 Flaveria species |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Jim Mattsson |
Controlled alteration of pattern and extent of veins in the monocot species Allium schoenoprasum by inhibition of polar auxin transport |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Veronica Maurino |
Malate decarboxylating enzymes in C3 and C4 species - recent advances and still open questions |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Chris Chastain |
Irradiance level and C4 PPDK & C4 PPDK regulatory protein transcript abundance in maize leaves |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
Hope Hotel |
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| Session V Physiological Perspectives II |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Susanna von Caemmerer |
Limitations to C4 photosynthesis |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Andrew Leakey |
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the future of C4 crops for food and fuel |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Oula Ghannoum |
Resource Use efficiency in C3, C3-C4 and C4 Panicum Grasses |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Break |
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| 15:15-15:45 |
Danny Tholen |
Designing C4 photosynthesis in a C3 mesophyll cell: biochemistry, diffusion and anatomy |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Asaph Cousins |
The CO2-Concentrating Mechanism in Single-Cell C4 Photosynthesis |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Rowan Sage |
Water use efficiency in C4 plants |
| 17:00-18:00 |
Poster session |
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| 20:00-21:00 |
Joe Berry |
The CO2 concentrating mechanism--the discovery of C4 |
| August 20, 2009 Day 3 Friday |
| Session VI: C4 Engineering |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Mitsue Miyao |
Physiological impacts of the C4-like pathway introduced into the mesophyll cell of rice leaves |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Paul Quick |
Overview of the C4 rice project |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Bob Furbank |
Engineering C4 wheat and other crops |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Xinguang Zhu |
Systems biology and design |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Christoph Peterhansel |
C4 epigenetics: What can we learn for the transfer of C4 features to rice? |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Tom Brutnell |
Brachypodium distachyon and Setaria viridis: model grasses for the construction and deconstruction of C4 photosynthesis |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
Hope Hotel |
| Afternoon section: C4 Engineering continued |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Richard Leegood |
Engineering C4 cycle metabolism into a C3 leaf: what do we need to change? |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Eric Murchie |
Screening rice mutant populations for traits useful to C4 engineering |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Peng Wang |
A Transcriptome Analysis of C4 Leaf Development in Maize |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Sarah Cosvhoff |
Engineering C4 Rice: Pathways and Prospects |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Break |
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| 15:30-15:50 |
Shan Lanlan |
TBD |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Kaisa Kajala |
Repeated use of cis-elements present in 5’ and 3’ untranslated regions of genes recruited into M specific function in the C4 pathway |
| 16:10-16:40 |
GengyunZhang |
Genomic Sequencing of Setaria Italica |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Gerry Edwards |
How to be C4: Different Means to an End |
| 18:30-20:30 |
Conference Dinner Chopsticks Fusion Sichuan Cuisine(箸香 徐汇店 ) |
