Sunday Evening (January 26)
LOW TEMPERATURE INDUCED METABOLIC RESPONSES
- Chair: Tom Sharkey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Neil Baker, Essex University, Colchester - "Induction of Alternative Photosynthetic Electron Sinks by Low Temperature in Chilling Sensitive C4 Plants."
- Beverley Green, University of British Colurnbia, Vancouver - "Interaction of Cold and Desiccation on Degradation of Chlorophyll and Chlorophyll-Proteins."
Monday Morning (January 27)
THE NEXT 50 YEARS - THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH?
- Chair: Maarten Chrispeels, University of California, San Diego
- Gary Gardner, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C. - "Globa1 Food Production: Trends and Challenges for the New Century "
- Dennis Keeney, Iowa State University, Ames - "Agricultural Systems and Sustainability "
- Peter Day, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - "Plant Biotechnology and Research Priorities "
Monday Evening
POSSIBLE MECHANISTIC LINKS BETWEEN TEMPERATURE AND DROUGHT STRESS RESPONSES
- Chair: Michael Thomashow, Michigan State University, East Lansing
- Marc Knight, University of Oxford, Oxford U.K - "Role of Calcium in Signal Transduction of Environmenta1 Cues: Low Temperature and Drought."
- Alejandra A. Covarrubias, Instituto de Biotechnologia / UNAM, Morelos, Mexico - "A Novel LEA Protein that Protects Yeast against Several Stresses"
- Kazuo Shinozaki, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Ibaraki, Japan - "Function and Expression of Genes Induced by Both Drought and Low Temperature."
Tuesday Morning (January 28)
TEMPERATURE SENSING AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS
- Chair: Fritz Schöffl, University of Tübingen, Tübingen
- Joel Kreps, Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Institute, La Jolla - "Responses of Circadian-Clock Regulated, RNA-Binding Protein Genes to Low Temperature."
- Mary Walker-Simmons, USDA/ARS, Washington State University, Pullman - "Temperature Responsive Protein Kinases"
- Norio Murata, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki - "Genetic Analysis and Molecular Cloning of the Temperature Signal-Transducing Components."
- Zhanguo Xin, Washington State University, Pullman - "Constitutively Freezing Tolerant Mutants in Arabidopsis."
Tuesday Evening
ROLE OF MEMBRANES IN TEMPERATURE STRESS TOLERANCE
- Chair: Peter Steponkus, Cornell University, Ithaca
- Monica Hughes, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne - "Low Temperature Induction of Phospholipid Transfer Proteins."
- Peter Quinn, King's College, London - "Unsaturated Membrane Lipids and the Structural Organization of Chloroplast Photosynthetic Membranes"
- Toshio Sakamoto, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park - "Low Temperature Adaptation and Nitrogen Limitation in Cyanobacteria."
Wednesday Morning (January 29)
MOLECULAR BASIS FOR VERNALIZATION
- Chair: Jan Zeevaart, Michigan State University, East Lansing
- Yaron Levy, John Innes Center, Norwich - "Mutational Analysis of the Integration of Vernalization"
- Elizabeth Dennis, CSIRO, Canberra - "Out in the Cold: The Role of DNA Methylation in Vernalization."
- James Metzger, Ohio State University, Columbus - "Molecular Control Points in Vernalization - A Mutational Approach."
- Anne Johnson-Flanagan, University of Alberta, Edmonton - "Vernalization and Freezing Tolerance in Brassica."
Wednesday Evening
EARTH WARMING AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
- Chair: Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois, Urbana
- Rebecca Shaw, University of California, Berkeley - "Altered Heat Input and the Function of an Alpine Ecosystem."
- Walter Oechel, San Diego State University, San Diego - "Arctic Ecosystems and Climate Forcing."
- Michael Goulden, Harvard University, Cambridge - "Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at the Ecosystem Level: The Influence of Temperature"
Thursday Morning (January 30)
TEMPERATE STRESS AMELIORATION PROTEINS.
- Chair: Charles Guy, University of Florida, Gainesville
- Marilyn Griffith, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. - "Similarities in Antifreeze and Pathogenesis-related Proteins in Winter Rye."
- Priti Krishna, University of Western Ontario, London - "HSP90: Over- and Under-expression and Thermotolerance."
- Ann Callahan, USDA/ARS, Kearneysville - "Relationship Among Low Molecular Weight Heat-shock Proteins, Dehydrin-like Proteins, Fruit Ripening and Stress Tolerance in Peach Trees."
- Nora Plesofsky-Vig, University of Minnesota, St. Paul - "Role of Hsp30 in Thermotolerance of Neurospora"
Thursday Evening
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE POSTER SESSIONS
- Kevin M. Oxborough - "Imaging of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence at the Cellular Level within Higher Plants Subjected to Low Temperature and other Forms of Stress"
- B.-H. Lee - "Cloning and Characterization of cDNAs Encoding Chloroplast Localized Small Heat-shock Proteins of Tobacco"
- Leon A. Bravo - "An 80 KDa Dehydrin-like Protein in Barley under Cold Acclimation"
- Joanna Werner-Fraczek - "Physiochemical Characterization of Dehydrins"
- Eric J. Stockinger - "Arabidopsis thaliana CBF1 Encodes an AP2 Domain Protein that Binds to a Cis-acting Element, The C-repeat/DRE and Activates Transcription in Yeast"
- Sharlene Weatherwax - "The Interaction of Light and Abscisic Acid in the Regulation of Plant Gene Expression"
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