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Coming event: The 6th MU-GNU International Joint Symposium in Plant Biotechnology

The 6th MU-GNU International Joint Symposium in Plant Biotechnology

May 8-9, 2017

University of Missouri, Columbia

 

SPONSORED BY:

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

● The Interdisciplinary Plant Group

● College of Agriculture, Food, and National Resources at the University of Missouri

Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

● Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center

● Systems & Synthetic Agrobiotech Center, Next Generation Biogreen 21 Project of Rural Development Administration Korea

● Brain Korea 21 plus Program, Ministry of Education

● University for Creative Korea Program, Ministry of Education

 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

– Gary Stacey (Chair), Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, MU

– Trupti Joshi, Translational Bioinformatics, School of Medicine – Medical Research Office, MU

– Toni Kazic, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MU

– Sang S. Kim, Director, Asian Affairs Center, MU

– Abe Koo, Division of Biochemistry, MU

– David G. Mendoza-Cozatl, Division of Plant Sciences, MU

– Jinglu Tan, Department of Biological Engineering, MU

– Dong Xu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MU

 

SCHEDULE:

1st day (May 8, Monday)
08:30- 09:00: Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening Ceremony

Opening remark:

-Welcome remark: Marc Linit (Acting Dean, CAFNR, MU)

-Welcome remark: Mun Choi (UM President)

Session I Chair: Gary Stacey (Division of Plant Sciences, MU)
09:30- 10:00 Keun Woo Lee (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): Molecular Modeling Approaches for Understanding the Mechanism of Light Signal Transduction in Plant Phytochrome
10:00 – 10:30 Mannie Liscum, (Division of Biology, MU): Phototropism: Molecular cell biology from phototropin receptors to changes in gene expression
10:30 – 11:00 Woo Sik Chung (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): Cross-Talk of Salicylic Acid and Auxin Signaling via a MAP Kinase Cascade in Arabidopsis
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45 Joe Jez (Department of Biology, Washington Univ.): Molecular Controls in Plant Hormone Signaling
11:45 – 12:15 Lloyd Sumner, (Division of Biochemistry, MU): Integrated Metabolomics for Gene Discovery and Characterization of Plant Metabolic Pathways
12:20 – 13:50 Lunch
Session II Chair: Abe Koo (Division of Biochemistry, MU)
14:00 – 14:30 Jong Chan Hong (Division of Life Sciences, GNU): Role of a membrane anchored RING-H2 ubiquitin ligase ATL2 that positively regulates fungal defense response in chitin elicitor signaling in Arabidopsis
14:30 – 15:00 Jindong Liu, Monsanto: Phenotyping at multiple biological scales reveals complex interplay between traits and environment
15:00 – 15:30 Sang Yeol Lee (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): Structural switching of a nuclear-localized redox protein regulates plant jasmonate signaling
15:30 – 15:50 Group Photo & Coffee Break
16:00- 17:30 Poster session and reception

2nd day (May 9, Tuesday)

Session III Chair: Walter Gassmann (Division of Plant Sciences, MU)
9:00- 9:30 Jae Yean Kim (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): Molecular regulators playing in callose-dependent plasmodesmal gating
9:30- 10:00 Min Gab Kim (Dept. of Pharmacy, GNU): GI plays pivotal role in AvrRpt2-mediated RIN4 degradation and RPS2 signaling in Arabidopsis
10:00- 10:30 Pengyin Chen, (Division of Plant Sciences, MU): Breeding soybeans for high yield, disease resistance, stress tolerance and improved quality attributes for food and feed
10:30- 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45- 11:15 Ruthie Angelovici (Department of Biology, MU): Unraveling the Genetic basis of Seed Amino Acids Composition Using Network Guided GWAS
11:15- 11:45 Young Ryun Chung (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): Induction of systemic resistance against aphids by endophytic Bacillus oryzicola YC7010 via expression of PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT4 in Arabidopsis
11:45-12:15 Gary Stacey, (Division of Plant Sciences, MU): Role of plant purinergic signaling in the control of stomatal immunity
12:20- 14:00 Lunch
Session IV Chair: Toni Kazic (Department of Computer Science, MU)
14:00- 14:30 Elizabeth A. Kellogg, (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center): The spikelet pair and its role in diversification
14:30- 15:00 Chang-deok Han (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): Study on Molecular Mechanisms on Plant Architecture in Rice
15:00- 15:30 Deborah Finke, (Division of Plant Sciences, MU): Environmental effects on the susceptibility of plants to vector-borne pathogens
15:30- 15:45 Coffee Break
Session V Chair: David Mendoza-Cozatl (Division of Plant Science, MU)
15:45- 16:15 Kyun Oh Lee (Division of Applied Life Sciences, GNU): N-glycan containing a core α1,3-fucose residue is required for basipetal auxin transport in rice (Oryza sativa)
16:15- 16:45 Richard A. Ferrieri, (Missouri Research Reactor Center, MU): Integrated Whole-Plant Fluxomics Aided by Imaging Technologies
16:45- 17:15 Trupti Joshi (Director, Translational Genomics, MU): Informatics Approaches and Solutions for Precision Agriculture and Food Security
17:15 Meeting close and final remarks: G. Stacey, JC Hong

 

 

New article: Chitin receptor CERK1 links salt stress and chitin-triggered innate immunity in Arabidopsis

Chitin receptor CERK1 links salt stress and chitin-triggered innate immunity in Arabidopsis

Catherine Espinoza, Yan Liang, Gary Stacey

Summary

In nature, plants need to respond to multiple environmental stresses that require involvement and fine-tuning of different stress signaling pathways. Cross-tolerance in which plants pre-treated with chitin (a fungal microbe-associated molecular pattern) have improved salt tolerance was observed in Arabidopsis but is not well understood. Here, we show a unique link between chitin and salt signaling mediated by the chitin receptor CHITIN ELICITOR RECEPTOR KINASE 1 (CERK1). Transcriptome analysis revealed that salt stress-induced genes are highly correlated with chitin-induced genes, while this was not observed with other microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMP) or with other abiotic stresses. The cerk1 mutant was more susceptible to NaCl than wild type. cerk1 plants had an irregular increase of cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]cyt) after NaCl treatment. Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) and co-immuno precipitation experiments indicated that CERK1 physically interacts with ANNEXIN 1 (ANN1), which was reported to form a calcium-permeable channel that contributes to the NaCl-induced [Ca2+]cyt signal. In turn, ann1 mutants showed elevated chitin-induced rapid responses. In short, molecular components previously shown to function in chitin or salt signaling physically interact and intimately link the downstream responses to fungal attack and salt stress.

Link to the journal article