Session 1 | Importance of temperature stress in plants |
Fedora Sutton, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, Discussion Leader
- Thomas D. Sharkey and Norio Murata
Opening Remarks
- James Zhang, Mendel Biotechnology, Hayward, California, USA
Making the connection between functional genomics and freezing tolerance in plants
Session 2. | Temperature Stress Effects on Photosynthesis |
Murray Badger, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Discussion Leader
- WW Adams, Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Seasonal adjustments in photosynthesis and energy dissipation in various overwintering species
- John Whitmarsh, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Freezing Canola: The Green Seed Problem
- Asa Strand, Salk Institute, San Diego California, USA
Manipulation of the pathway for sucrose synthesis results in altered cold tolerance
Per Gardeström, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Discussion Leader
- Toshihiko Hara, The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Chilling stress and flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes
- Erwin Beck, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Ecophysiology of plant responses to stressful temperatures
- Max Taub, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
Effects of CO2 on the high temperature tolerance of photosynthesis
Session 4. | Freezing/cryoprotectants |
Rick Amasino, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA Discussion Leader
- Tony Chen, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Enhancement of cold tolerance by engineered betaine biosynthesis in plants
- Michael Wisniewski, USDA-ARS, Kearneysville, West Virginia, USA
Watching ice formation
- Larry Gusta, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Engineering for low temperature tolerance in plants; canola , potatoes and flax
- Christina Walters, USDA-ARS-NPA National Seed Storage Labor, Fort
Collins, Colorado, USA
In Search of the Perfect Cryoprotectant
Session 5. | Papers from Early Career Scientists |
Kay Walker Simmons, Discussion Leader
- Fatma Kaplan, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Microarray analysis of gene expression during the induction of acquired thermotolerance of temperature extremes
- Damian Allen, USDA-ARS, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Where do all the electrons go after a chill? Estimating the size of the chloroplast Mehlerascorbate peroxidase flux
- Yuriko Osakabe, Biological Resources Division, JIRCAS, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Functional analysis of Arabidopsis response regulators, ATRR1/ARR4/IBC7 and ATRR3/ARR8 in transgenic plants
- Barbara Leyman, VIB-K University Leuven, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium
The trehalose synthase enzymes from Arabidopsis thaliana and Selaginella lepidophylla
- Alejandra Zúñiga, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Effect of cold and day length on sucrose phsophate synthase activity (SPS) and sugar accumulation in Deschampsia antarcica Desv
- Katherine Bruffell, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Study of the low temperature responsive gene, blt801 from barley
Session 6. | Membrane/protein interactions |
Denes Dudits, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Science, Discussion Leader
- Gerrit Beemster, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium
Temperature control of cell division
- Mary Peet, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Temperature and fruit set
- Raj Dhindsa, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Early events during temperature sensing by plant cells
- John Burke, USDA-ARS, Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Developmental, genetic, and mutational analysis of acquired thermotolerance.
Session 7 | Temperature and Timing |
Tim Close, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California, USA, Discussion Leader
- David Clayton,
Membrane interactions of synuclein, a brain protein organized around an 11-residue repeating motif
- Chaim Frenkel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Hydration state of biopolymers and chilling
- Bruno Maresca,
Membrane structure and gene expression
Session 8. | Temperature Signal Transduction |
Jian-Kang Zhu, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, USA, Discussion Leader
- Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Japan International Research Center (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Regulation of gene expression and signaling pathway under low temperature and dehydration
- Iwane Suzuki, National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji Okazaki, Japan
Regulation of gene expression at low temperature by histidine kinases
- Daniel Zarka, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Mechanisms of cold regulated gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Jeff Harper, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Making Signals with Calcium
Session 9. | Heat Shock Proteins |
Eliot Herman, USDA/ARS Climate Stress Laboratory, Beltsville Maryland, USA, Discussion Leader
- Susan Lindquist, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Hsp90 chaperone functions and the uncovering of hidden genetic diversity
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