Friday May 4, 2012

Time

Activity

Location

11:30-1:00

Registration

WPI Campus Center, 2nd floor,
Odeum foyer

Poster set-up

Odeum

1:00 - 1:20

Welcome – Pamela Weathers and Luis Vidali
Dean Oates
Logistics – Pam Weathers

Odeum

1:20 - 2:10

Speaker 1 – Dr. Richard E. Edelmann
"New insights into phototropism from experiments in microgravity and fractional gravity on the International Space Station"
Dept. Botany, Miami Univ.
Oxford, OH

Odeum

2:10 - 3:00

Speaker 2– Dr. Patricia Leon
"How chloroplasts influence leaf development"
Dept. Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Odeum

3:00 –3:20

Break

3:20 –4:10

Speaker 3– Dr. Roger Hangarter
"Light regulation of actin-dependent chloroplast movements in leaf cells"
Dept. Biology, Indiana Univ.
Bloomington, IN

Odeum

4:15 –6:00

Poster session and reception

4:15 – 5:05 Odd number posters

5:05 – 6:00 Even number posters

6:00 –8:00

Dinner

7:45-9:00

NEASPB Officers meeting

Saturday May 5, 2012

7:30 – 8:30

Continental breakfast

Odeum

9:00 – 9:20

Ornithine: The forgotten molecule that regulates polyamine metabolism.
Lin Shao, Rajtilak Majumdar, Rakesh Minocha*, Subhash C. Minocha
Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
*USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 271 Mast Road, Durham, NH 03824,

Odeum

The presence of multiple introns is essential for ERECTA regulation in Arabidopsis.
Rucha Karve and Elena Shpak
Department of Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916.

The subcellular localization of palmitoyltransferases in Arabidopsis thaliana .
Jack Lepine and Estelle Hrabak
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824

COFFEE BREAK

Characterization and modeling of microtubule-dependent chloroplast motility in Physcomitrella patens.
Göker Arpag*, Kyle Lemoi*, Zhiyuan Shen**, Luis Vidali**, and Erkan Tüzel*
*Department of Physics and **Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609

Understanding the role of adenosine phospho-sulfate kinase 1 (APK1) in arsenic uptake and metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Sudesh Chhikara1, Staphenie Long2, Rakesh Minocha2, John Celenza3, and Om Parkash Dhankher1
1Dept. of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst MA; 2USDA Forest Service, NERS, Durham NH 03824; 3Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.

Identifying orthologous plant cyclic nucleotide gated channels.
Alice Zelman*, Adam Dawe**, Christoph Gehring***, and Gerald A. Berkowitz *
*Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA 06269   **Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia ***Division of Chemistry, Life Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

11:30 – 12:00

NEASPB Business meeting

Noon

Adjourn for 2012