SESSION 1: SUNDAY EVENING, July 14

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH

• Session Chair: Alan Bennett
• Arnold Greenberg - Apoptosis and the cell cycle
• Barbara Osborne - Evolutionarily conserved programs of cell death

SESSION II: MONDAY MORNING, July 15

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: PLANT PATHOGENESIS

• Session Chair: David Gilchrist
• David Gilchrist - The role of apoptosis in plant disease
• Michelle Heath - Apoptosis and the hypersensitive response
• Robert Dietrich - Genetic regulation of programmed cell death in Arabidopsis
• Eric Lam - Calcium-regulated endonucleases participate in hypersensitive response

SESSION III: MONDAY EVENING, July 15

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH: PLANT DEVELOPMENT

• Session chair: Randy Woodson
• Randy Woodson - Programmed cell death of floral organs
• Dan Gallie - Programmed cell death in maize endosperm
• Hiroo Fukuda - Xylogenesis: a model of programmed cell death
• Eric Beers - Protease expression in developing xylem

SESSION IV: TUESDAY MORNING, July 16

ENDOGENOUS REGULATION OF SENESCENCE

• Session chair: Larry Nooden
• Michael Reid - Regulation of ethylene-independent senescence
• Linda Hensel-Burke - Mutants in monocarpic senescence
• Sonia Philosoph-Hadas - Calcium-mediated signal transduction in leaf senescence
• Susheng Gan - Hormonal control of senescence in transgenic plants

SESSION V: TUESDAY EVENING, July 16

• Poster Session

SESSION VI: WEDNESDAY MORNING, July 17

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF SENESCENCE

• Session chair: Michael Reid
• Michael Reid
• Koh Iba - Regulation of chilling sensitivity by lipid desaturation
• Dean DellaPenna - Regulation of carotenogenesis - protection from oxidative stress

SESSION VII: WEDNESDAY EVENING, July 17

NUCLEIC ACID AND PROTEIN TURNOVER

• Session chair: Richard Vierstra
• Rick Vierstra - The ubiquitin system of protein turnover
• Richard Amasino - Senescence-regulated CIPB homologs targeted to the chloroplast
• Autar Mattoo - Ripening-regulated carboxypeptidases
• Amnon Lers - Senescence-regulated RNases

SESSION VIII: THURSDAY MORNING, July 18

MEMBRANE AND CELL WALL TURNOVER

• Session chair: John Thompson
• John Thompson - Membrane turnover and cellular aging
• Rick Bostock - Lipid turnover and cellular signaling of cell death
• Phillipe Matile - Chlorophyll catabolism in senescing leaves
• Pamela Dunsmuir - Suppression of endoglucanase expression in ripening fruit

SESSION IX: THURSDAY EVENING, July 18

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION REGULATING SENESCENCE

• Session chair: Tony Bleecker
• Tony Bleeker - Ethylene binding and perception by ETRI
• Harry Klee - Regulation of ethylene production and perception in tomato
• Jill Deikman - Ethylene-regulated gene expression