CSH Asia Symposium:Plant Cell and Developmental Biology

Plant Cell and Developmental Biology

 

Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center

June17-21, 2013

 

Organized by: Tetsuya Higashiyama, Nagoya University, Japan Bo Liu, University of California, Davis, USA Hong Ma, Fudan University/Pen State University, China/USA Zhenbiao Yang, University of California Riverside, USA

 

Keynote Speakers:
Jiayang Li, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, China
Natasha Raikhel, University of California, Riverside, USA
Understanding Endomembrane Trafficking via Chemical Genomics

 

Invited Speakers:
Frederic Berger, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
David Bouchez, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, FRANCE
The TTP complex and spatial control of cell division in Arabidopsis
Xiaoya Chen,Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, China
MicroRNAs Regulate Trichome Development in Arabidopsis thaliana 
Zhixiang Chen,Purdue University, USA
Selective autophagy in plant stress responses 
Juan Dong, Waksman Institute, USA
Molecular mechanisms for protein polarization during stomatal asymmetric division in Arabidopsis 
Pankaj Dhonukshe,VIB / Universiteit Gent, BELGIUM
Thomas Dresselhaus, University of Regensburg, GERMANY
Germ cells and fertilization mechanisms
Hiroo Fukuda, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Symmetry breaking directed by MIDD1-mediating mutual inhibition between microtubules and active Rhop 
Niko Geldner, University of Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
The endodermis - how it is built and what it is there for. 
Venugopala Gonehal, University of California, Riverside, USA
Dose, discrimination and transcriptional logic of stem cell dynamics
John Harada, University of California, Davis, USA
Dissection of Seed Development
Takashi Hashimoto, Nara Institute of Sceince and Technology, JAPAN
Stress-induced destabilization of cortical microtubules is mediated by tubulin kinase
Inhwan Hwang, Pohang University of Science & Technology, KOREA
Liwen Jiang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Plant Exocytosis 
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), AUSTRIA
AUXIN-DEPENDENT DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH CONTROL
Thomas Laux, University of Freiburg, GERMANY
Novel concepts in Arabidopsis shoot meristem stem cell maintenance 
Jianxiang Liu, Fudan University, China
From the endoplasmic reticulum to the nucleus: Intracellular signaling for cell survival or cell death in plant ER stress responses 
Li-Jia Qu, Peking University, China
Mengxiang Sun,Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Cell-to-cell communication between Arabidopsis female gametes in relation to their coordinate development 
Jen Sheen, MGH/Harvard Medical School, USA
Glucose–TOR signaling orchestrates transcriptome reprogramming and meristem activation 
Keiko Torii, University of Washington, USA
Tongda Xu, Temasek Lifescience Laboratory, Singapore
Auxin as a coordinator regulates cell division pattern during organogenesis

 

Major Topics:
1. Membrane, organelle remodeling, and cytoskeleton
2. Cell division cycle: meiosis and mitosis for plant growth regulation
3. The regulation of cell polarity in plants
4. Intracellular and intercellular signaling
5. Sexual plant reproduction: from gametogenesis to embryogenesis
6. Morphogenesis: from cells to tissues
7. Technologies for plant cell and developmental biology

 

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