| Sunday |
| 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Emerging Paradigms in Understanding Lipid
Metabolism and Function |
| This session explores different model systems to address emerging
paradigms. |
| Discussion Leader: Xuemin (Sam) Wang (University of Missouri, St. Louis / Danforth Plant Science, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Opening Remarks |
| 7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Christoph Benning (Michigan State University, USA)
"Maximizing Photosynthetic CO2 Conversion into Triacylglycerols in Microalgae" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Donald Jump (Oregon State University, USA)
"Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Fatty Liver Disease" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Jianbing Yan (National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China)
"Genome-Wide Association of Traits for Maize Oil Improvement" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Monday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bioenergy and Industrial Lipids |
| This session focuses
on engineering approaches, including field trials and modifications to lipids
to alter oil content. |
| Discussion Leader: Jitao Zou (National Research Council Canada, Canada) |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:05 am - 9:30 am | John Shanklin (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"Soluble and Membrane Desaturases: Same Quaternary Structure, Different Consequences" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:05 am | Timothy Durrett (Kansas State University, USA)
"Using a Novel Acetyltransferase to Alter the Structure of Seed Storage Lipids" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Katrin Philippar (LMU Munich, Germany)
"FAX1, a Novel Membrane
Protein Mediating Plastid Fatty Acid Export" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | John Dyer (USDA-ARS / US Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, USA)
"Biogenesis and Engineering of Lipid Droplets in Plant Leaves" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Sten Stymne (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
"Four Decades of Seed Oil Biochemistry and Yet More to Discover: Novel Enzyme Reactions Involved in Phosphatidylcholine Editing" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Thomas Vanhercke (CSIRO, Australia)
"Maximizing TAG Accumulation in Plant Leaves by Combinatorial Metabolic Engineering" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Perspectives and Vision for the Future of Plant
Lipid Research |
| We honor the
accomplishments of Prof. Ernst Heinz, a pioneer in plant lipids, by having
Prof. Heinz provide perspectives and vision for the future. This session will
focus on the future, with talks on new research directions and/or from early career scientists. All talks are chosen from
submitted abstracts. |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Dormann (University of Bonn, Germany) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:35 pm - 7:45 pm | Ernst Heinz (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"50 Years of Galactolipid Research and Where It Takes Us" |
| 7:45 pm - 8:05 pm | Susana Rivas (LIPM, France)
"Transcriptional Control of VCLFA Production for the Regulation of Defence and Developmental Processes in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Emmanuelle Bayer (French National Research Center (CNRS), France)
"Linking Plasmodesmata Membrane Lipid Composition and Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in Plants" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Changcheng Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"The Arabidopsis Trigalactosyldiacylglycerol 5 Interacts with TGD1, TGD2 and TGD4 to Mediate Lipid Transfer from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Plastid" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Anna Hurlock (Michigan State University, USA)
"Lipid Trafficking from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Chloroplast: Determining the Transported Lipid Species" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Nicolas Cecchini (The University of Chicago, USA)
"Arabidopsis AZI1-Family of Lipid Transfer Proteins Mediate Priming-Signal(s) Mobilization for Systemic Defense Programs" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Suzanne Rose (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
"Hybrid Ergosterol Biosynthetic Pathway Designed by Chlorella sorokiniana" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Tuesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Lipids in Development |
| Novel lipid-derived
signaling molecules, lipid integrators of large-scale regulatory events, lipid
transport and impact on development. |
| Discussion Leader: Yuki Nakamura (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:05 am - 9:30 am | John Browse (Washington State University, USA)
"Life and Death of Jasmonate Hormone" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:05 am | Abraham Koo (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
"Wound Adaptation: Role of Jasmonate in Plant Growth and Metabolism" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:05 am | Mee Len Chye (University of Hong Kong, China)
"Characterization of an Arabidopsis ACBP Expressed in the Phloem" |
| 11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am | Susanne Hoffmann-Benning (Michigan State University, USA)
"Lipids in the Phloem" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:05 pm | Tegan Haslam (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Long-Chain Fatty Acid Precursors of Cuticular Waxes" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Marna Yandeau-Nelson (Iowa State University, USA)
"Maize Silks as a Model System for Dissecting the Genetic Network for Plant Cuticular Lipids" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Membrane Lipids |
| This session focuses
on two critical membrane signaling lipids, brassinosteroids and sphingolipids. |
| Discussion Leader: Marina Gavilanes-Ruiz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Michael Hothorn (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Molecular Mechanism for Steroid Hormone Sensing by a Membrane-Localized Receptor Kinase Complex" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:25 pm | Hao Peng (Washington State University, USA)
"Brassinosteroid Inactivation and Its Role in Plant Signaling and Development" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 8:55 pm | Edgar Cahoon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
"Piecing Together the Sphingolipid Biosynthetic Regulatory Network" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Ivo Feussner (Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany)
"Programmed Cell Death in Arabidopsis thaliana Sphingolipid Mutants" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Wednesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Lipid Mediators and Signaling |
| This session will focus on phosphoinositides
and related signaling molecules, that play important roles in many different
processes. |
| Discussion Leader: Erik Nielsen (University of Michigan, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:05 am - 9:35 am | Tamas Balla (National Institutes of Health, USA)
"Phosphoinositide Messengers in Cellular Signaling and Trafficking" |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:10 am | Ingo Heilmann (Universitat Halle, Germany)
"PtdIns(4,5)P2, Trafficking and the Plant Cell Wall" |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Mareike Heilmann (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
"Evidence for Nuclear Roles of Phosphoinositide-Modifying Enzymes in Plants" |
| 10:30 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
| 10:35 am - 11:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am | Imara Perera (North Carolina State University, USA)
"Diphosphoinositol Phosphates: Novel Regulatory and Signaling Molecules in Plants" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 12:05 pm | Teun Munnik (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Polyphosphoinositide Signaling in Plant Stress and Development" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Martin Potocky (Institute of Experimental Botany, ASCR, Czech Republic)
"Multifaceted Role of Phosphatidic Acid in Plant Polar Growth" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Lipids and Stress |
| Different types of lipid signaling molecules
regulate stress responses. This session explores the roles of novel lipid-derived
signaling molecules and phosphatidic acid. |
| Discussion Leader: Ana Laxalt (Universidad Nacional de Mar Del Plata, Argentina) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Christa Testerink (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Novel Functions for the Phospholipid PA: Shaping Root Development in Response to Stress" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:25 pm | Xuemin (Sam) Wang (University of Missouri, St. Louis / Danforth Plant Science, USA)
"Phosphatidic Acid in Integrating Stress and Metabolic Regulation" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Jyoti Shah (University of North Texas, USA)
"Lipid Signaling in Plant Response to Biotic Stress" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Katayoon Dehesh (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Deciphering the Retrograde-Dependent Stress Responsive Network" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Thursday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Developments in Lipidomics Technology and
Pathway Modeling |
| This
session focuses on technologies critical to plant lipid scientists including
lipid profiling, imaging, and computational tools. |
| Discussion Leader: Yonghua Li-Beisson (CEA Cadarache, France) |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:05 am - 9:30 am | Ruth Welti (Kansas State University, USA)
"Using Lipidomics to Probe Lipid Metabolism" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:05 am | Basil Nikolau (Iowa State University, USA)
"Determining the Spatial Distribution of Lipids by Mass Spectrometric Imaging" |
| 10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Danny Alexander (Metabolon, Inc., USA)
"Understanding the Global Metabolic Context of Lipid-Associated Biological Effects" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Jorg Schwender (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
"Quantitative Analysis of Metabolism Unlocks Control of Central Carbon Metabolism in Oil Synthesis" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Doug Allen (USDA-ARS / Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
"Applications of Isotopic Labeling and Metabolic Flux Analysis to Assess Plant Metabolism" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Xin Guan (Iowa State University, USA)
"Deciphering
the Role of Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthase (mtFAS) System" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nutritional Lipids
and Nutraceuticals |
| This second
engineering session brings the meeting full circle, connecting topics from
Session 1 to current efforts in engineering lipid content. |
| Discussion Leader: John Harwood (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:35 pm - 7:55 pm | Johnathan Napier (Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom)
"Metabolic Engineering of Omega-3 Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Camelina sativa" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Anthony Kinney (Dupont Pioneer, USA)
"Manipulation of Metabolism in Soybean Seeds to Increase Oil Content" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Peter Eastmond (Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom)
"Playing with the Stereoisomeric Structure of Fats" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Jonathan Markham (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
"Engineering Plant Sphingolipid Metabolism for Improved Cold-Tolerance Characteristics" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Patrick Horn (Michigan State University, USA)
"The Co-Evolution of Many Lipid Genes has Enabled Physaria fendleri to Accumulate High Levels of Hydroxy Fatty Acids" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Friday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
