(The First Annoucement)
Organized by: Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Molecular Physiology, IB-CAS
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Secretariat: Division of Scientific Exchange and Training, IB-CAS
Date: July 4th-5th, 2008
Place: Multi-Function Hall , Second Floor of the Administration Building, IB-CAS
Main Topic:
How a single-celled zygote develop to a multi-celled individual with complicated structure and function is a critical process in plant biology. The scientific questions behind this process include how the organogenesis is regulated at cellular level, how organogenesis is initiated and maintained, how the tissue structure is built and precisely defined, how cell communicate with each other to coordinate those activities. The First Symposium on Signal Transduction During Plant Organogenesis will discuss these issues at molecular, cellular and biochemical levels, to provide a state-of-the-art overview and prospective on this subject. The speakers are among established experts in this exciting area.
The Symposium opens to the researchers, university students, graduate students in relative units of the country. The registration fee is 500 Yuan for normal participants, and 200 Yuan for students. The maximum number of participants is 200 (first come, first serve, by the date of registration fee received).
Organizing Committee
Chair: Zhihong Xu
Vice Chairs: kang Chong, Weicai Yang, Hongwei Xue
Secretary: Chunming Liu
Members: Yuxing Hu, Jingxin Lin, Shiping Tian, Shanjing Huang
Symposium Program
July 4, 2008
8:30 Opening Remarks
The past and present of plant signal transduction research in China
Prof. Zhihong Xu, President of Beijing University
8:45 – 11:45
Cellular Regulation of Plant Development
1)Organizing microtubule plus and minus ends during mitotic cell division in Arabidopsis
Prof. Bo Liu, University of California, USA
2)Control of plant cell growth and division by A-type cyclins
Prof. Ming Yang, Oklahoma State University, USA
3)Regulation of actin dynamics in plant.
Prof. Shanjing Huang, Institute of Botany, CAS
4)Visualization of vesicle and mitochondrial movements in living plant cells: tracks, velocity and trajectory.
Prof. Jingxin Lin, Institute of Botany, CAS
11:45-13:00, Box Lunch
13:00 – 16:30
Initiation of Organogenesis
1)Zygotic activation in higher plants
Prof. Chunming Liu, Institute of Botany, CAS
2)Somatic embryogenesis in Arabidopsis
Prof. Jianru Zuo, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
3)Epigenetic modifiers play critical roles in the maintenance of proper SAM activity
Prof. Wenhui Shen, Institute of Plant Biology, France
4)Initiation of female gametes
Prof. Weicai Yang, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
16:30 – 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 18:40
Defining the Organ Pattern
1)Stem cell formation and root patterning in plants
Prof. Jian Xu, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
2)Regulation of organ boundaries and plant architecture by brassinosteroids.
Prof. Zhiyong Wang, University of Standford, USA
3)The coordination of cell proliferation and growth in plant organ development
Prof. Yuxin Hu, Institute of Botany, CAS
July 5, 2008
8:30 – 11:30
1)Molecular regulation of plant architecture
Academician Jiayang Li, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
2)Transcription repression in floral and meristem development.
Prof. Chongchi Liu, University of Maryland, USA
3)Molecular regulation in anther development
Prof. Dabing Zhang, Shanghai Communication University
4)Regulation of miRNAs in shoot apical meristem
Prof. Hai Huang, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS
11:30-12:30, Box Lunch
12:30-18:00
Signal Transduction During Development
1)Auxin in rice leaf development
Prof. Hongwei Xue, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS
2)A novel GA inactivating pathway regulating plant organogenesis
Prof. Zuhua He, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS
3)Receptor-like protein kinases in mediating growth and cell-death control pathways
Prof. Jia Li, University of Oklahoma, USA
4)Molecular regulation of plant pigment biosynthesis
Prof. Li Li, University of Connell, USA
5)Regulation of BR signaling in rice development
Prof. Kang Chong, Institute of Botany, CAS
6)Regulating mechanism of exogenous oxalic acid on fruit ripening
Prof. Shiping Tian, Institute of Botany, CAS
Online registration through: http://peixun.ibcas.ac.cn/plantcell.asp
Please do net registration before April 30, 2008 and do payable of registration fee
Contact: Division of Scientific Exchange and Training, CDI-IB-CAS
No. 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
Tel: 0086-010-62836216
Fax: 0086-010-82598261
E-mail:fyf@ibcas.ac.cn
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Attention:
1. Please do registration on the Symposium net, it will be confirmed by paying registration fee. One should inform us before 15 days of the Symposium start, if one can not attend it after paying the registration fee, the cancellation charges will be 50% of the registration fee. Otherwise will be no refund.
2. The registration fee is 500 Yuan for normal participants, and 200 Yuan for students. The maximum number of participants is 200 (first come, first serve, by the date of registration fee received). We will send second announcement after the paying of your registration fee. One will not receive the second announcement can not attend the Symposium.
3. The payable of registration fee to the following address:
Account No: 0200004509088100989
Account Name: West Haidian District Subbranch, Beijing Branch
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Account Address: No 65, West Road, Beisihuan, Haidian District,
Beijing 100086, China
Unit Name: Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Unit Address: No. 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Haidian District, Beijing 100093, China
4. The deadline of the first announcement receipt will be April 30, 2008.