Announcing 5 New Community Symposia for ICAR 2021
NAASC is pleased to announce 5 new community-proposed mini-symposia for ICAR 2021-Virtual.
These new sessions join the existing 31 sessions to total 36 very topically diverse community mini-symposia. Full descriptions of the 36 sessions can be found here and briefly listed below. The 36 sessions are led by a diversity of community members.
- Circadian signatures of fitness. Chair: Xiaodong Xu. Henan University, China
- Implications of the non-coding genome on chromatin signaling during plant gene expression. Co-chairs: Soichi Inagaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Sebastian Marquardt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Cell polarity: driving morphological and functional complexity. Co-Chairs: Yan Gong, Stanford University, USA, and João Ramalho, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Nutrient signaling nexus in control of plant architecture. Co-Chairs; Franziska Fichtner and Milos Tanurdzic, The University of Queensland, Australia
- Advancing Quantitative Proteomics in Plant Science. R. Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta, Canada
Full List of Community Mini-symposia
Active Learning and CUREs in Undergraduate Plant Science Education. Brit Moss, Whitman College and Thelma Madzima, University of Washington- Bothell, USA
Advancing Quantitative Proteomics in Plant Science. R. Glen Uhrig, University of Alberta, Canada
Arabidopsis Informatics. Nicholas Provart, University of Toronto, Eva Huala and Tanya Berardini (TAIR)
Arabidopsis Transposable Element Biology. R. Keith Slotkin, Danforth Center, USA
Cell Polarity: Driving Morphological and Functional Complexity. Yan Gong, Stanford University, USA, and João Ramalho, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Circadian Signatures of Fitness. Xiaodong Xu, Henan University, China
Encoding Calcium Spikes, Waves, and Oscillations in Arabidopsis. Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley, USA
Exploring Brassicaceae Diversity. Kathleen Greenham, University of Minnesota and Patrick Edger, Michigan State University, USA
Exploring the Single-cell Landscape of Arabidopsis. Travis Lee and Joseph Swift of the Salk Institute; Rachel Shahan, Duke University; Josh Cuperus and Christine Queitsch of the University of Washington-Seattle, USA
Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis. Maheshi Dassanayake, Louisiana State University, USA and Simon Barak, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel
From Molecules to Organs: Quantitative Imaging in Plant Biology. Marisa Otegui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Daniel Kierzkowski, University of Montreal, Canada, and Charlotte Kirchhelle, University of Oxford, UK
Getting More Power From Your Flower: Multi-functional Flowers Improve Plant Fitness. Diarmuid O’Maoileidigh, University of Liverpool, UK
How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone and Drought? Maija Sierla, University of Helsinki, Finland and Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USA
Impact and Application of Basic Research to Sustainable Agriculture Improvement. Huachun Larue and Xiaoyu Liu, Bayer Crop Science, USA
Implications of the non-coding genome on chromatin signaling during plant gene expression. Soichi Inagaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Sebastian Marquardt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Leveraging Natural Variation to Understand Immune Functions. Adam Steinbrenner, University of Washington, USA
Metabolite-mediated Regulation of Plant Growth and Development. Hiroshi A. Maeda, UW-Madison; and Jazz Dickinson University of San Diego, USA
Molecules on the Move (MOM): Plant-microorganism Communication. Patricia Baldrich, Danforth Center and Ryan DelPercio, University of Missouri Columbia, USA
Nutrient Signaling Nexus in Control of Plant Architecture. Franziska Fichtner and Milos Tanurdzic, The University of Queensland, Australia
Plant Hormones. Anna Stepanova, North Carolina State University, USA
Plant Memory: Environmental Information Integration Within and Across Generations. Gabriela Auge, IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina
Quantitative Development in the Digital World. Margaret Frank, Cornell University and Sam Leiboff, UC Berkeley, USA
RNA Modifications-mechanism and Biology. Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA and Yiji Xia, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Running a Research Group in the Next Generation. Jacqueline Monaghan, Queen’s University and Heather McFarlane, University of Toronto, Canada
Sensing the Cell Wall: Mechanical Signals and Downstream Responses. Lauri Vaahtera, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway and Nora Gigli Bisceglia, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Social Media and Science Communication. Javier Brumos, North Carolina State University, USA and Eva Hellmann, Sainsbury at Cambridge University, UK
Stochasticity and Robustness in Plant Development. Adrienne Roeder and Batthula Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde, Cornell University, and Jennifer Lachowiec, Montana State University, USA; Arezki Boudaoud, ENS- Lyon, France; and James Locke, Cambridge, UK
Stress Granules in Plants as Novel Mechanism in Stress Signaling. Monika Chodasiewicz (Kosmacz), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Taking an Equity Lens: Empowering Women in Computational Biology. Aleksandra Beric, Danforth Center, and Sarah Turner-Hissong, Bayer, USA
The Arabidopsis Algorithm: Mathematical Modeling in Plant Biology. Kari Miller, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
The Cell Cycle in Plant Growth, Development and Stress Responses. John Larkin, Louisiana State University and Adrienne Roeder, Cornell University, USA
The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Plant Biology. Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution, USA, Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Translational Regulation of Gene Expression. Catharina Merchante, University of Málaga, Spain; Astrid Gadeyne, VIB-UGent, Belgium and Pamela A. Ribone, Sainsbury, University of Cambridge, UK
Using Evolutionary Novelty to Understand General Principles of Plant Biology. Daniel Kliebenstein, University of California, Davis, USA.
When Development Meets Stress- Integration of Plant Growth and Defense. Cris Argueso, Colorado State University, USA
Utilizing Arabidopsis in the Classroom: Empowering Students and Your Research Program. Siobhan Braybrook, UCLA and Liza Conrad, Eckerd College, USA
