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Friday, September 7, 2018, Pfendler Hall Dean’s Auditorium

8:00 Coffee & other drinks

8:25 Clint Chapple | Welcome

SESSION 1 CELL BIOLOGY | Moderator: Sharon Kessler

8:30-9:10 Sebastian Bednarek, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Evolutionarily-Conserved and Plant-Specific Trafficking Machinery Required for Cytokinesis and Cell Expansion

9:10-9:40 Chunhua Zhang | Using Chemical Genetics to Understand Plant Exocytosis Regulation

9:40-10:00 Ying Li | The Histone Methyltransferase SDG8 Mediates Nitrate Signaling by Regulating H3K36 Methylation and RNA Processing

10:00-10:30 Break

SESSION 2 DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY | Moderator: Yun Zhou

10:30-11:10 Shuqun Zhang, University of Missouri | Pathogen-Induced Ethylene Biosynthesis: Regulation of ACC Synthases by the MPK3/MPK6 Cascade and Beyond

11:10-11:40 Gyeong Mee Yoon | The Role of Ethylene Biosynthesis in Phosphate-Deficiency Responses in Rice

11:40-12:00 Leonor Boavida | Tearing Down Barriers in Plant Fertilization: Regulation of Gamete Interactions by Tetraspanin Signaling Complexes

12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own (Purdue Union restaurants)

SESSION 3 ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | Moderator: John Couture

1:30-2:10 Lisa Ainsworth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Approaches for Phenotyping Ozone Stress: from Biochemistry to Leaf Reflectance

2:10-2:40 Scott McAdam | Hydraulics to Hormones: The Evolutionary History of Stomatal Responses to Changes in Leaf Water Status

2:40-3:00 Mina Rostamza | Evolutionary History and Trait Reconstruction of Root Foraging Plasticity in Response to Nutrient Patchiness

3:00 Clint Chapple | Closing remarks

Plant Science & All-College Networking Gathering at Marriott Hall takes place after the symposium. Graduate students and post docs will be presenting posters describing their work.

P U R D U E C O L L E G E O F A G R I C U L T U R E

2018 PLANT SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM