Interdepartmental Plant Biology Major

IPBM Faculty/Student Fall Retreat
09:00 - 14:00 Saturday September 22nd, 2007 Story County Conservation Center McFarland Park 56461 180th Street map Ames, IA 50010

Program
09:00 - 09:10	*Coffee and social*
09:10 - 09:20	Kan Wang (IPBM Chair)	Welcome, introducing new students, faculty, and announcements
09:20 - 09:40	Shui-zheng Fei (Hort)	Cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in pernnial ryegrass
09:40 - 10:00	Diane Bassham (GDCB)	Autophagy during plant development and stress responses
10:00 - 10:20	Jonathan Wendel (EEOB)	Genes, jeans and genomes: polyploidy and cotton evolutio2
10:20 - 10:50	Break
10:50 - 11:10	Rob Wallace (EEOB)	Molecular Systematics and its contributions to understanding phylogeny in the Cactus Family
11:10 - 11:30	Yanhai Yin (GDCB)	Plant Steroid Hormone Regulated Gene Expression
11:30 - 11:50	Gwyn Beattie (Pl Path)	Localized changes in water potential as one component of Arabidopsis thaliana defense against bacterial pathogens
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch and social
13:00 - 14:00	Poster session
14:00	Poster awards

Student Poster Presentation
Presenter (Department, Major Prof)	Title
Antony Chettoor (GDCB, Becraft Lab)	The COP9 signalsome is involved in ACR4 receptor turnover
Yi Jia (IPBM, Schnable Lab)	Genetic control of the transcription of Natural Antisense Transcripts (NATs) in maize
Jackson Moeller (Plant Path, Whitham Lab)	Comparative functional analysis of basal defense genes in monocot and dicot pathosystems
Lorena Moeller (Agronomy, Wang Lab)	Studying translocation of recombinant proteins in plants: A bacterial antigen (LT-B) as a model system
Shayani Pieris (GDCB, Spalding Lab)	Effect of maize SBE I on the alpha-polyglucan produced in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803

Student Profile