The Gordon Research Seminar on Plant Cell Walls is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.
New technologies are providing additional perspectives of plant cell wall biology across a rapidly growing number of species, highlighting a myriad of architectures, compositions, and functions in both "conventional" and specialized cell walls. This meeting will focus on addressing the knowledge gaps and technical challenges raised by such diversity, as well as our need to understand the underlying processes for critical applications such as crop improvement and bioenergy resource development.
| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Plant cell wall research: the big picture |
| Discussion Leader: Seth De Bolt (University of Kentucky) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Ken Keegstra (Michigan State University)
"Biosynthesis of plant cell walls - Where have we been and where we are going?"
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Expanding our toolbox: emerging techniques for cell wall analysis |
| Discussion Leader: Debra Mohnen (CCRC, University of Georgia) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Alex Tsai (University of Toronto)
"Compositional Analysis and Imaging of Arabidopsis thaliana Mutants Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Valerie Cornuault (University of Leeds)
"Isolation of rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) oligosaccharides for monoclonal antibody production and antibody use as detection tools for novel chromatographic analyses of RG-I diversity"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Purbasha Sarkar (University of California, Berkeley)
"Electron tomography as a tool to study plant cell wall architecture at molecular resolution"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jonatan Fangel (University of Copenhagen)
"An integrated omics approach for investigating cell wall diversity and evolution"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | New insights into plant cell wall development |
| Discussion Leader: David Domozych (Skidmore College) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Yves Verhertbruggen (Joint Bioenergy Institute)
"Developmental occurrence of cell wall polysaccharides along Arabidopsis thaliana stem"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Bradley Dotson (University of California, Berkeley)
"A Trichome Glass House: Insights into Cell Wall Architecture and Biosynthesis through the Functional Definition of Tricome Birefringence1"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Berit Ebert (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
"Nucleotide sugar transporter as regulators of cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Yoichiro Watanabe (University of British Columbia)
"Loss of efficient post-Golgi trafficking in echidna mutants results in distinct mistargeting of cell wall polysaccharides and proteins"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Specialized cell walls: looking beyond cellulose |
| Discussion Leader: Seth De Bolt (University of Kentucky) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Rachel Mertz (Cornell University)
"The molecular genetic dissection of bundle sheath suberization in maize and Setaria viridis"
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| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Rebecca Smith (University of British Columbia)
"Good Neighbours: The Co-operative Model during Lignification"
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| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |