| Thursday
(2006-06-29) |
| 9:00 AM |
Brent Mishler |
Welcome and Logistics |
| 09:20 AM |
Pierre-François
Perroud |
BRICK1/HSPC300
is required for cell elongation of protonema in Physcomitrella
patens |
| 09:40 AM |
Magdalena Bezanilla |
Understanding
the Role of Actin Dynamics in Protonemal Tip Growth Using
RNAi: An Update on Transient and Inducible RNAi |
| 10:00 AM |
Joseph Cho
|
Polar
tip growth of protonema and the potential role of vesicle-associated
membrane proteins in Physcomitrella |
| 10:20 AM |
BREAK |
|
| 10:40 AM |
Michael Axtell
|
High-throughput
sequencing of Physcomitrella patens small RNAs reveals many
moss microRNAs and a conserved trigger for siRNA biogenesis
|
| 11:00 AM |
Neil Ashton |
MADS
about moss. |
| 11:20 AM |
Yuji Hiwatashi
|
A
plant specific kinesin-like protein, AFL1, regulate microtubule
arrays of spindles and phragmoplasts |
| 11:40 AM |
Scott Schuette |
Spore
Development in Physcomitrella patens: A Microscopic Exposé
|
| 12:00 PM |
LUNCH |
|
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Poster session 1 |
Odd numbered
posters |
| 03:00 AM |
BREAK |
|
| 3:30 - 5:00 |
Poster session 2 |
Even numbered
posters |
| |
| Friday
(2006-06-30) |
| 9:00 AM |
Andrew Cuming |
An
AFLP-based Genetic Linkage map of Physcomitrella |
| 09:20 AM |
Avihai Danon
|
Rebox
Signaling: Take home messages from the cholorplast |
| 09:40 AM |
Jon Hughes |
What
do mosses tell us about how phytochrome works? |
| 10:00 AM |
Anja Martin
|
FtsZ
proteins in Physcomitrella: more than just chloroplast division
|
| 10:20 AM |
BREAK |
|
| 10:40 AM |
Nir Ohad
|
The
role of polycomb proteins in Physcomitrella gametophytic phase
transition |
| 11:00 AM |
Ralph Quatrano |
Characterization
and Functional Analysis of ABSCISIC ACID-INSENSITIVE3-like
Proteins from Physcomitrella patens |
| 11:20 AM |
Aldwin Anterola
|
Diterpenoid Metabolism
in Physcomitrella patens: Heterologous Expression and Functional
Characterization of Kaurene Synthase Genes |
| 11:40 AM |
Bernd Reiss |
The role of RAD51 in Physcomitrella
recombination and development |
| 12:00 PM |
LUNCH |
|
| 01:40 AM |
Karel Angelis |
The
capacity of the moss Physcomitrella patens to repair DNA damage.
|
| 02:00 AM |
Yoichi Sakata
|
ABA
is involved in the aluminium tolerance of Physcomitrella patens
|
| 02:20 AM |
Michael Lawton |
Regulation
of disease susceptibility in Physcomitrella |
| 02:40 AM |
BREAK |
|
| 03:00 AM |
Daisuke Takezawa |
Physcomitrella
patens mutant lines with reduced sensitivity to abscisic acid
are hypersensitive to freezing and osmotic stress. |
| 03:20 AM |
Younousse
Saidi |
The
use of the heat-inducible promoter to modulate gene expression
in P. patens |
| 03:40 AM |
Stefanie Tintelnot |
Abscisic
acid and the outer space of moss: Analysis of extracellular
proteins in Physcomitrella patens |
| 4:00 - 5:00 |
[all] |
Workshop/ Discussion(s)
[Functional Biology] |
| |
| Saturday
(2006-07-01) |
| Sat. 9:00 |
Stuart McDaniel |
Sex
specific evolutionary processes in Ceratodon purpureus inferred
from variation in the sex linked des6 gene family |
| 09:20 AM |
Brent Mishler |
Gene
trees and species trees: problems for comparative genomics
and classification |
| 09:40 AM |
Tomoaki Nishiyama |
Gene
phylogeny reconstruction based on whole genome shotgun sequence
data |
| 10:00 AM |
Sandy Floyd
|
Developmental
gene diversification in the moss clade |
| 10:20 AM |
Daniel Lang |
Phylogenetic
Analysis of Plant Transcription Factor Gene Families |
| 10:40 AM |
BREAK |
|
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
[all] |
Workshop/ Discussion(s) [Evolutionary Biology] |
| 12:00:00 PM |
LUNCH |
|
| 01:40:00 AM |
Andrew Wood |
Nature
and Distribution of Desiccation Tolerance in Bryophytes |
| 02:00:00 AM |
Abha Khandelwal |
Ancestral
role of Presenilin in plants: regulation of cytoskeleton/polarity
|
| 02:20:00 AM |
Stefan Rensing |
Molecular
evidence that Physcomitrella patens is a paleopolyploid |
| 02:40 PM |
Keiko Sakakibara |
Evolution
of cytokinin biosynthesis in land plants |
| 03:00 PM |
David Cove |
Insertion
versus replacement in gene targeting |
| 03:20 PM |
BREAK |
|
| 3:45 - 5:00 |
|
Business meeting (future Moss meetings, etc.)
- closing discussion session |
| |
| POSTERS |
| 1 |
Elizabeth Barker |
An
Examination of Leaf Development in Physcomitrella patens |
| 2 |
Kathryn Chervincky |
Calcium-dependent
protein kinases and related proteins in Physcomitrella patens
|
| 3 |
Magnus Eklund |
Functional
characterization of SHI genes in Physcomitrella patens |
| 4 |
Tomomichi Fujita |
Proteins
identified by the overexpression screening accumulate differentially
in two |
| 5 |
Mitsuru Hattori |
Targeted
gene disruption reveals the involvement of a plastid-localized
pentatricopeptide repeat protein in processing of plastid
pre-mRNA |
| 6 |
Quoc Truong Hoang |
Proteomics:
A tool to identify a novel protein from the moss Physcomitrella
patens |
| 7 |
Quoc Truong Hoang |
Characterization
of a novel cytolysin, physcomitrin, from the moss Physcomitrella
patens |
| 8 |
Kenji Komatsu |
Comparative
analysis of protein Phosphatase 2C involoved in negative regulation
of ABA signaling in Physcomitrella patens and Arabidopsis
thaliana |
| 9 |
Mikko Lehtonen |
Elicitor
responses inPhyscomitrella patens |
| 10 |
Eric Lyons |
New Methods of Genomic Visualization |
| 11 |
Assaf Mosquna |
The role of polycomb proteins in
Physcomitrella gametophytic phase transition |
| 12 |
Anders Nilsson |
Structure
and localization of hexokinases in the moss Physcomitrella
patens |
| 13 |
Laura Saavedra |
Isolation
and preliminary characterization of a phosphatidylinositol
phosphate kinase enzyme PpPIPK1 in the moss Physcomitrella
patens |
| 14 |
Hemalatha Saidasan |
Genetic
manipulation of cell death induced by mycotoxins in Physcomitrella |
| 15 |
Younousse Saidi |
Transgenic
Physcomitrella patens as biosensor of organic pollutants |
| 16 |
Gotelinde Seumel |
Verification
of a specific microRNA target site by allele replacement in
the moss Physcomitrella patens |
| 17 |
Lan-Xin Shi |
Investigation
of Hsp70 functions in Physcomitrella patens chloroplasts |
| 18 |
Manuela Sim-Sim |
Molecular
versus morphological evolution in the moss genus Echinodium
Jur. |
| 19 |
Yuki Yasumura |
Evolution
of DELLA proteins and their role in plant growth control |
| 20 |
Hua Zhang |
Cellulose
Biosynthesis in Physcomitrella patens |
| 21 |
Andreas Zimmer |
On
the road towards the annotated Physcomitrella patens genome |
| 22 |
Magdalena Bezanilla |
Myosin-VIII
Participates in Proper Branch Formation in Physcomitrella
patens |
