February 9th and 10th, 2010
How Do Plants Sense and Capture Minerals?
DAY 1
9:00-9:40 Daniel
Schachtman Monsanto Company, St Louis
The big picture: Sensing and Capturing Nutrients is
Critical for Crop Productivity daniel.p.schachtman@monsanto.com
Nitrogen Nutrition
9:45 – 10:00 Nigel Crawford
UCSD
Nitrogen sensing and signaling
10:00 - 10:30 Yi-Fang Tsai
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Transceptors: Sensing and transport are independent
functions of the same protein yftsay@gate.sinica.edu.tw.
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Gabriel Krouk
New York University
A systems approach to dissecting nitrogen nutrition gk40@nyu.edu
11:30 – 12:00 Bertrand Hirel INRA Versailles Breeding maize for higher Nitrogen Use Efficiency. Hirel@versailles.inra.fr
12:00 – 12:20 Dale Loussaert,
Pioneer Hi-Bred
Improving nitrogen use efficiency of maize
Phosphate Nutrition
1:10 – 1:40 Luis Herrera Estrella Cinvestav, Irapuato, Mexico
Phosphate availability and phosphate sensing in problem
soils
lherrera@ira.cinvestav.mx
1:45 – 2:15 Maria Harrison
Cornell University
Phosphate transporters in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
mjh78@cornell.edu
2:20 – 2:50 Steffen Abel
UC Davis
Phosphate sensing
sabel@ucdavis.edu
Potassium and Sodium Uptake and Salinity Stress
3:15- 3:35 Julian Schroeder
UCSD
The Potassium Nutrition Sodium Toxicity Conundrum
3:40 – 4:05 Sheng Luan
UC Berkeley
Potassium Channel Regulation by a Calcium Signaling
Network.
sluan@nature.berkeley.edu
4:10 - 4:35 Diego Sanchez
UCSD
HKT-mediated cation transport and salt tolerance mechanisms
in plants
DHSanchez@ucsd.edu
4:40 – 5:20 Rana Munns Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra Breeding salt tolerant wheat. rana.munns@csiro.au
DAY 2
Minerals in Challenging Soil Environments
9:00 – 9:40 Ross Welch
ARS-USDA Ithaca, NY Correcting micronutrient deficiencies
in the human diet through plant breeding
rmw1@cornell.edu
9:45 – 10:15 Mary Lou Guerinot
Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College
Iron and trace metal homeostasis guerinot@dartmouth.edu
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Junpei Takano,
University of Hokkaido
Boron transporters and remediation of boron deficiency
and toxicity jtakano@abs.agr.hokudai.ac.jp
11:15 – 11:45 Leon Kochian
USDA and Cornell University
Overcoming Aluminum toxicity
Lvk1@cornell.edu
11:45 – 12:15 Frans Maathuis
Biology,
University of York
Arsenite transport and sensitivity
fjm3@york.ac.uk