Program
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8:45am |
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8:55 am |
Steve Kay, Ph.D. |
“Joanne Chory – Innovating and Impacting the future of Plant Science”
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Light Signaling: Then and Now |
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9:10 am |
Jason Reed, Ph.D. |
“The long and short of hypocotyls” |
9:30 am |
Christian Fankhauser, Ph.D. |
“From PKS1 and HFR1 to the study of phototropism and shade-avoidance” |
9:50 am |
Eirini Kaiserli, Ph.D. |
“Light and flowering regulators convene in nuclear photobodies” |
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Ullas Pedmale, Ph.D. |
“The reds and the blues of the shade avoidance response” |
10:30 am Coffee Break |
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Auxin and the Shade Avoidance Response: Then and Now |
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10:50 am |
Meng Chen, Ph.D. |
“Signaling output mechanisms of plant phytochromes” |
11:10 am |
Yunde Zhao, Ph.D. |
“Regulation of auxin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis” |
11:30 am |
Jennifer Nemhauser, Ph.D. |
“Seven things I learned from Joanne” |
11:50 am |
Zuyu Zheng, Ph.D. |
“Auxin metabolic pathways modulate plant shade avoidance responses” |
12:10 pm Lunch – Foyer
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Brassinosteroids: The Chory Lab Cleans Up! |
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Jianming Li, Ph.D |
“Regulation of BIN2 activity by brassinosteroids” |
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Zhiyong Wang, Ph.D. |
“Brassinosteroid signaling and beyond” |
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Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Ph.D. |
“Understanding coherent growth: brassinosteroid activity gets context” |
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Xuelu Wang, Ph.D. |
“Brassinosteroids control plant architecture through cell cycle regulation in monocots” |
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Michael Hothorn, Ph.D. |
“Plant membrane signal transduction by LRR receptor kinases” |
From Retrograde Signaling to Chloroplast Quality Control |
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Åsa Strand, Ph.D. |
“Chloroplast development; a tale of two genomes” |
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Jesse Woodson, Ph.D. |
“Balancing energy production with stress: Chloroplasts as environmental sensors” |
3:30 pm Coffee Break |
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We Go Full Circle: Light Signaling Variation in the Natural World |
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3:50 pm |
Julin Maloof, Ph.D. |
“Exploring natural variation in tomato shade avoidance” |
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Justin Borevitz, Ph.D. |
“20 years of Arabidopsis natural variation Genomics2Phenomics2Climate” |
Closing Remarks |
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Detlef Weigel, Ph.D. |
“Looking Back and Looking Ahead |