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PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
| Friday, Mar 22nd | ||
| Room | ||
| 3:00 – 7:00 pm | Meeting Registration | Atrium |
| 4:00 – 8:00 pm | Poster Setup | Atrium |
| 5:15 – 5:30 pm | Welcome Session – Opening Remarks
Chair: Colleen Doherty Vice-Chair: Aaron Rashotte Sea Lab representative: TBD ASPB Ambassadors |
Main |
| 5:30 – 6:20 pm | General Session 1 – Moderator: Aaron Rashotte | Main |
| 5:30 – 5:55 pm | “Selective Breeding and Domestication of Lemnaceae For Use in Sustainable Agriculture”, Ryan Sartor, NC State University | |
| 5:55 – 6:25 pm | “Growing beyond Earth: Telomere tales of Arabidopsis thaliana in lunar regolith simulant and on the International Space Station” Borja Barbero, Texas A&M University | |
| 6:30 – 7:20 pm | Kriton Hatzios invited speaker: Katayoon Dehesh, UC Riverside “Decoding Cellular Aging: Insights from Golgi Apparatus Dynamics” | Main |
| 7:30 – 9:00 pm | Opening Night Mixer and Networking Event | Atrium |
| Saturday, March 23rd | ||
| 7:30 – 8:45 am | Breakfast | Café |
| 7:30 – 9:00 am | Registration & Poster setup | Atrium |
| 8:45 – 9:00 am | Welcome | Main |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | General Session 2 – Moderator: Colleen Doherty | Main |
| 9:00-9:25 am | “Precision genome engineering with the mPing transposable element” Nathan Hancock, University of South Carolina Aiken | |
| 9:25-9:50 am | “A cation/H+ antiporter enhances stomatal conductance and carbon assimilation in water-deficit plants” Amith Devrieddy, Oak Ridge National Lab | |
| 9:50-10:15 am | “The Arabidopsis telomerase RNP: echoes of mammalian and ciliate enzyme complexes”, Saundarya Mishra, Texas A&M University | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break (coffee and tea) | Atrium |
| 10:30 – 12:00 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1A & 1B | Main & Classroom |
| 10:30 – 12:00 pm | Concurrent Session 1A – Moderator: Ryan Sartor | Main |
| 10:30-10:45 | “Advancing Soybean Seed Protein: Insights from QQS Gene Exploration” Ethan Brister, Mississippi State University | |
| 10:45-11:00 | “Development of Duckweed Synthetic Seed (SynSeed) for Efficient Germplasm Conservation” Doni Devi Thingujam, University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| 11:00-11:15 | ‘Single nucleus multiomics reveals the drought-driven gene regulatory atlas in Arabidopsis” Jinbao Liu, University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| 11:15-11:30 | “Taxonomically Restricted QQS Associated 1 (TRQA1): A Regulator of Plant Metabolism Controlling Protein and Starch Content“ Rezwan Tanvir, Mississippi State University | |
| 11:30-11:45 | “Cis-Zeatin delays leaf senescence in Solanum lycopersicum under salt stress as shown by physiological and transcriptomic analysis” Malsha Thennakoon, Auburn University | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 pm | Concurrent Session 1B – Moderator: Amanda Storm | Classroom |
| 10:30-10:45 | “Chemical insights into the Chlamydomonas quorum sensing signal molecule” Kirstin Cutshaw, Florida Institute of Technology | |
| 10:45-11:00 | “Dual Phase molecular regulation of leaf senescence by cytokinin isoforms” Omar Hasannin, Auburn University | |
| 11:00-11:15 | “The role of SnRK1 in Development and Stress Response: omics analysis of the rice snrk1 mutants” Maria Clara Faria Chaves, University of Arkansas | |
| 11:15-11:30 | “Galactolipids Regulate Systemic Immunity In Plants”
Tatsushi Kurokawa, University of Kentucky |
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| 11:30-11:45 | “A Reverse Genetics Approach to Identifying JAGN1 function in Arabidopsis thaliana” Regina Bedgood, University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| 11:45-12:00 | “Salt-Stress Accelerated Leaf Senescence is Delayed by N-conjugated trans-Zeatin type Cytokinin forms in Arabidopsis thaliana” Risheek Khanna, Auburn University | |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | Café |
| 1:00 – 2:00 pm | Undergraduate Poster Session | Atrium |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm | Graduate, Faculty, and Professional Poster Session | Atrium |
| 2:30 – 3:45 pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2A & 2B | Main & Classroom |
| Concurrent Session 2A – Moderator: Rafael Loureiro | Main | |
| 2:30-2:45 pm | “Sulfur Mutant Profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana on interaction with Pseudomonas syringae” Binoop Mohan, University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| 2:45-3:00 pm | “Effects of Simulated Microgravity On Plant Growth Promoting Efficiency of ISS Bacterial Isolates“ David Handy, Florida Institute of Technology | |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | “Investigating the effects of diffusible signals from plant growth-promoting bacterium, Azospirillum brasilense, on rice at developmental and molecular levels.” Samuel Hoggard, University of Central Arkansas | |
| 3:15-3:30 pm | “Investigating the concentrations and role of Chlamydomonas-derived riboflavin and its degradation products“ Ryan Quick, Florida Institute of Technology | |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | “12-oxophytodienoic Acid: A Mobile Signal of Induced Systemic Resistance” Simrandeep Kaur, Auburn University | |
| Concurrent Session 2B – Moderator: Nathan Hancock | Classroom | |
| 2:30-2:45 | “Conversion of Martian Regolith Simulants to Soil via the Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis” Hayley Ernest, Florida Institute of Technology | |
| 2:45-3:00 | “Rhizobial evasion of terminal differentiation: Temporal/spatial dynamics of Sinorhizobium meliloti reproductive population growth in alfalfa nodules and implications for cheating by poor N2 fixers” Katherine Bilodeay, Florida State University | |
| 3:00-3:15 | “Dissecting the functions of Salmonella enterica effectors in plant infection“ Jill Presel, University of Southern Alabama | |
| 3:15-3:30 | “Evaluating the Use of Aquatic Plants in Martian Agriculture“ Sergio Solano, Florida Institute of Technology | |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | “Analysis of Systemic Acquired Resistance by Monitoring Redox-Mediated Transcriptional Dynamics in Arabidopsis“ Rezwana Rahman, Mississippi State University | |
| 3:45 – 4:15 pm | Coffee Break | |
| 4:15 – 5:15 pm | Kriton Hatzios invited speaker: Jose Dinneny, Stanford University “Diversity and adversity: exploring the mechanistic basis for variation in stress tolerance across the Brassicaceae” | Main |
| 5:15 – 6:15 pm | General Session 3 – Moderator: Mustafa Morsy | Main |
| 5:15-5:45 pm | “Elimination of Pungency in Allotetraploid Brassica juncea Through Gene Editing of the Multicopy Myrosinase Gene Family”, Loren Rivera Vega, Pairwise, Durham NC | |
| 5:45 – 6:15 pm | “Evaluating the Impact of Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants on Plant Imbibition and Germination: Insights for Off-World Agriculture” Rafael Loureiro, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem NC | |
| 6:30 – 8:00 pm | Banquet and Awards Presentations – Henry Daniell Award | TBA |
| Sunday, March 24th | ||
| 7:30 – 9:00 am | Breakfast and Poster Take-down | Café & Atrium |
| 9:00 – 9:15 am | Morning remarks | Main |
| 9:15 – 10:05 am | General session 4 – Moderator: Borja Barbero | |
| 9:15 – 9:40 am | “Plant-based Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Secondary Waste Sources” Colleen Doherty, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. | Main |
| 9:40 – 10:05 am | Investigating Thiamine Metabolite Damage and Repair: Role of the TenA Domain in Arabidopsis TH2 Protein, Ghulam Hasnain, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA. | Main |
| 10:05 – 10:30 am | Break (coffee and tea) | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Kriton Hatzios invited speaker: Gloria Muday, Wake Forest University, “Flavonol antioxidants control the accumulation of reactive oxygen species to protect plants from environmental stress and to modulate development.” | |
| 11:30– 12:00 pm | General Meeting & Concluding Remarks | |