Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Plastid Genomes and Cell Biology
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
"Stromule-Guided Chloroplast Movement"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
"Chloroplast DNA Degradation and Phosphate Reservoir"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm
"A Systems Biology Approach to the Chlamydomonas Cell Cycle"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
"Sequence-Specificity of Plastid Chromatin Structure"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Technical Advances in Chloroplast Biotechnology
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Transformation of Arabidopsis Chloroplast Genomes"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Removing the Barriers to Genetic Engineering of Chloroplasts"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Transport of Nucleus-Encoded RNAs into Chloroplasts"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Using Patterns of Sequence Conservation to Annotate Plastid Genomes and Identify Regulatory Cis-Elements"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Designer PPR Proteins for the Manipulation and Analysis of Chloroplast Gene Expression"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Trials of Targeted Gene Disruption of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes by MitoTALEN"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
RNA Metabolism in Plastids
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
"Mechanism and Application of Plastid-Mediated RNA Interference"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 8:05 pm
"C to U RNA Editing in the Model Moss Physcomitrella patens : Towards a Universal System"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
"The Composition of RNAse-Sensitive Maize Active RNA Editing Complexes"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm
"GUN1 Links Retrograde Signaling to Chloroplast RNA Editing"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
"Solving the Riddle of the Evolution of Shine-Dalgarno-Based Translation in Chloroplasts"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Fine-Tuning Post-Transcriptional Regulation
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Gene-Specific Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Chloroplast Gene Expression by mTERF Proteins in Arabidopsis "
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Dissecting the Role of Distance and RNA Structure for the Ability of PPR Protein-Binding Sites to Activate Translation In Vivo "
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"On the Mechanism of Light-Induced psbA Translation"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Chloroplast Translational Regulation During Cold Acclimation"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Protein Import into Chloroplasts and Its Regulation by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Trapping of Chloroplast CLP Substrates in Arabidopsis "
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Recombinant Protein Expression
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Use of Breeding, Mutagenesis and High Throughput Screening for Enhanced Recombinant Protein Production in Algae"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Production of Veterinary Vaccines in Tobacco Chloroplasts"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Production of Potent Small Polypeptide Microbicides in Transplastomic Plants"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Clinical Advances of Biopharmaceuticals Expressed in Plant Chloroplasts"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Engineering Photosynthesis
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Enhancing Photosynthesis by Super-Transforming the Tobacco Genomes"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Speeding the Activation of Rubisco in Shade-to-Sun Transitions to Increase Crop Yields"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Engineering C4 Photosynthesis: The Genetics of C4 Versus C3 Leaf Anatomy"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Improving Photosynthesis by Altering Photoprotection"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"Exploiting Natural Variation in Cotton Rubisco to Allow Plants to Cope with Climate Change"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Characterization of Tobacco Rubisco Expressed in E. coli "
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Putting Plant RuBisCO Together in E. coli "
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Engineering Plastids in Algae
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Complex Spatiotemporal Organization of Thylakoid Membrane Biogenesis in Differentiating vs Growing Chloroplasts in Chlamydomonas "
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Elucidating the Structure and Function of the Algal Pyrenoid"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Dissecting the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Underlying the Microalgal Rubisco Supercharger"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Engineering Algae for High Lipid Production for Biofuels"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Novel Plants Through Synthetic Design
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Synthetic Biology with Marchantia as a Model System"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Designing, Building and Testing a Synthetic Chloroplast Genome"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Metabolic Response to Synthetic Alternative Photorespiration"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Towards Engineering Microcompartments into Crop Plants"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Building Carboxysomes in the C3 Chloroplast as Part of an Engineered CO2 Concentrating Mechanism"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
"Reprogramming Plastid Identity"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
"Engineered RNA-Binding Proteins for Gene Regulation in Non-Green Plastids"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Synthetic Biology in Chloroplast Metabolism
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"The Realm of Plastid N-Terminal Protein Modifications and the Unexpected Complexity of the Modifiers"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"CURT1A: A Versatile, Self-Assembling Membrane Scaffold for Plastid Pathway Engineering"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Synthetic Biology in the Algal Chloroplast"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Synthetic Genetic Circuits to Regulate Transgene Expression in Chloroplasts"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure