2019 Plant Molecular Biology Retreat
The PMB Retreat is a weekend-long event held at the beginning of each academic year. The program is designed to highlight the research activities of new consortium members - academic and corporate scientists - and to introduce these members to North Carolina's community of plant molecular biologists. The program includes research lectures given by consortium members, a keynote address by an internationally renowned scientist, and informal "chalk talks" presented by faculty, postdoctoral research associates, graduate students and corporate scientists.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside
Capstone Speaker: Dr. Dale Karlson, Pairwise
Agenda
A detailed schedule of events can be found at the top of the page.
Registration
Attendees must register through the registration link and are responsible for booking their own hotel rooms.
More Information
**Chalk Talk and Invited Speaker Titles & Abstracts must be submitted via email to Hannah_Cole@ncbiotech.org no later than 3:00 pm on Friday, August 16, 2019.**
Retreat Program
33rd Annual Plant Molecular Biology Retreat: Schedule of Events
Friday, September 13, 2019
6:45 p.m. Registration Opens
7–10 p.m. Welcome Reception and Chalk Talks
Cash bar opens at 7 p.m.; Heavy hors d’oeuvres at 7:45 p.m.
7–8:30 p.m. Chalk Talk Session 1
•• Oliver Baars •• Joanna Polko
•• Francesca Caselli •• Jason Reed
•• Laine Hill •• Annakatrin Rose
•• Prateek Jain •• Stephen Snipes
•• Juliette Jordan •• Joseph Tolsma
•• Kayla Kinsey •• Aniko Verbrugge
•• Imani Madison •• Victoria Yell
•• Desmond Moore
8:30–10 p.m. Chalk Talk Session 2
•• Michael Barnhart •• Punita Nagpal
•• Jigar Desai •• Tomas Pierce
•• Emanuela Franchini •• Anthony Postiglione
•• Ashley Jeckel •• Eric Rogers
•• Kanjana Laosuntisuk •• Rui Shi
•• Althea Loucanides •• Paul Ulanch
•• Bridey Maxwell •• Lieceng Zhu
Saturday, September 14, 2019
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Resort
Morning Session
8:30 a.m. Retreat Welcome and Announcements
8:40–9:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker
Hailing Jin (University of California, Riverside)
Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
9:45–10:30 a.m. Speaker Session 1
Asia Polko, Session Chair
9:45 a.m. Shailesh Karre (NCSU)
GRMZM2G145104, a RING E3 domain containing ubiquitin ligase partially suppresses Rp1D21 induced cell death in maize
10 a.m. Lisa Van Der Broeck (NCSU)
GRF-INTERACTING FACTOR 1 signaling coordinates CEI divisions in the Arabidopsis root stem cell niche
10:15 a.m. Sean James (UNC)
Determining the role and regulatory control of POLTERGEIST and POLTERGEIST-LIKE1 in plant stem cells
10:30–11 a.m. Coffee Break
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Speaker Session 2
Andy Snipes, Session Chair
11 a.m. Kwame Acheampong (UNC)
Interplay between cytokinin signaling and autophagy in regulating plant development
11:15 a.m. Pathy Fernandez-Moreno (NCSU)
THE HORMOMETER: a synthetic biology toolbox to study hormone interactions in plants
11:30 a.m. Tessa Moyer (UNC)
PepSAVI-MS reveals proline-rich antimicrobial peptide in Amaranthus tricolor
11:45 a.m. Jiarui Li (Innatrix)
Directed evolution: create high affinity protein ligands for controlling plant pathogens and pests
12:00 p.m. Amala John (UNC)
The Role of CLV2/CRN in floral primordium development in Arabidopsis
12:15–6 p.m Lunch to Go / Free Time
Evening Session
6–7:15 p.m. Dinner
7:15–8:45 p.m. Speaker Session 3
Anthony Postiglione, Session Chair
7:15 p.m. George Greene (Duke)
mRNA cis features modulate translation during plant immunity
7:30 p.m. Joelle Muhlemann (Wake Forest)
Flavonols take the heat out of heat stress to protect pollen from elevated ROS
7:50 p.m. Ruben Rellan (NCSU)
The role of phospholipids in maize highland adaptation
8:10 p.m. Liz Cooper (UNC – Charlotte)
Structural genomic variation and the evolution of sugar accumulation in sweet sorghum
8:30 p.m. Nathan Wilson (NCSU)
Establishing a synthetic CO2 fixation cycle in planta
8:45 p.m. Adjourn for the day / Free evening time
Sunday, September 15, 2019
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast at the Holiday Inn Resort
Morning Session
8:30–10:20 a.m. Speaker Session 4
Lisa Van Den Broeck, Session Chair
8:30 a.m. Yanshan Ji (Syngenta)
Rare allele detection by next-generation sequencing in large scale modern agriculture
8:45 a.m. Edith Pierre-Jerome (Duke)
A synthetic approach to parse gene regulatory logic in plant development
9:00 a.m. Jonathan Vogel (BASF)
From traits to targets: Building tools to identify gene editing candidates in crops
9:15 a.m. Wusheng Liu (NCSU)
Functional genomics for crop trait improvement
9:35 a.m. Tim Kelliher (Syngenta)
HI-Edit: Disrupting crop breeding via simultaneous haploid induction and genome editing
9:50–10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Reminder: Hotel check-out time is 11:00 a.m.
10:30–11:35 a.m. Speaker Session 5
Josefina Fernandez, Session Chair
10:30 a.m. Ashley Crook (UNC)
A receptor-ligand signaling pathway promotes formative cell divisions in Arabidopsis root meristems
10:45 a.m. Guy Wachsman (Duke)
Cell wall remodeling and vesicle trafficking control the root clock in Arabidopsis
11:00 a.m. Colin Murphree (NCSU)
Manipulating maize gene expression with a foxtail mosaic virus (FoMV) CRISPR system
11:15 a.m.–12:05 p.m. Capstone Speaker
Dale Karlson, Pairwise
12:05 p.m. Adjourn / Retreat Ends
For questions or more information, contact:
Hannah Cole
Program Manager, Science and Technology Development
Science and Technology Development
919-549-8840
| hannah_cole@ncbiotech.org
Holiday Inn Resort
1706 N Lumina Ave
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480
Reservation Information:
Retreat Room Rates: $189 Ocean View/ $169 Standard + tax per night
Call (877) 330-5050 to reserve your room
**Retreat rate will be available until August 14, 2019 (or until all available rooms are sold out)**