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
Keynote Session: Metabolic Engineering in Plants
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Opening Remarks
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:10 pm - 8:50 pm
"Understanding and Building Metabolism for Increased Photosynthetic Productivity"
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion: Engineering of Metabolites from Plants: Is This Best Done in Microbes or in Plants Themselves?
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Emerging Strategies for Engineering Biofuels
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Plant Cell Wall Engineering for Biofuel Crop Improvement"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Engineering Isoprenoid Metabolism for Biofuels"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Redesigning the Plant Cell Wall for Fuels, Chemicals and Materials"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm
"Increasing the Lipid Content in Vegetative Tissues via Iterative Combinatorial Metabolic Engineering"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm
"Versatile High Throughput In Planta Genetic Screening"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Engineering Improved Fiber
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Improving the Health Impact of Wheat Starch"
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
"Plant Metabolic Engineering for Renewable Materials and Chemicals"
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Improving Nicotiana benthamiana as a Bioproduction System for Proteins and Small Molecules"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Strategies and Technologies for Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Sustainable Production Platforms for Industrially Relevant Chemicals"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Engineering Cultures for Improved Paclitaxel Synthesis and Transport"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Exploring and Harnessing Alkaloid Biosynthesis in the Omics Era: From Opium Poppy to Indian Snakeroot and Beyond"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm
"Podophyllum hexandrum : An Endangered High-Altitude Plant of Immense Therapeutic Importance"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm
"Exploring the Metabolism of Terpenoids in Skullcaps"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Engineering Improved Feed
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Engineering Food and Feed Quality in Maize and Sorghum"
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
"Metabolic Engineering of Omega-3 Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Transgenic Camelina: From Iteration to Prediction"
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Towards Removal of Toxic Alkaloids from Lupin Grain via Transport Engineering"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Plant Metabolic Engineering of Fragrance
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Plant Fragrances: New Targets for Bioengineering"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Engineering Fragrances Through Modulating Terpene Metabolism"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Engineering Triterpenoid Saponin Metabolism"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm
"High Level In Vivo Biosynthesis and Isolation of Water-Soluble Cannabinoids in Plant Systems"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm
"Alpha-Farnesene Is Linked with Pathogenesis of Three Major Postharvest Pathogens in Ripe Apple Fruit"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Emerging Strategies for Production of Flavors
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Improving the Flavor of Crops"
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
"Improving the Appeal of Nutritious Food with Improved Flavor"
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Identification of the Biosynthetic Pathway for Bioactive Ingredients in Echinacea purpurea L. Moench"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
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
Biofortification and Nutritional Improvement of Food
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Application of Modern Biotechnology for Crop Improvement: Case Study from Banana"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life?"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Towards Zero Hunger: Biofortification as a Means to Alleviate Micronutrient Deficiencies"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm
"A Draft Genome of Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus ) Gives Insight into the Biosynthesis of β-L-ODAP and BAHD-Acyltransferase Evolution"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm
"Iron Biofortification of Bread Wheat Through Increased Metal Chelator Biosynthesis"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Future Technologies to Improve Design and Applications of Plant Metabolic Engineering Projects
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"The Power of Combining Metabolomics with Genomics for Plant Metabolic Engineering"
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
"Application of Gene Editing to Tailor Modifications"
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Introducing the C4 Metabolic Pathway into Rice"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure