| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Lipids and Plant Defense Responses |
| Discussion Leader: Kimberly Cotton (Washington State University, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:20 pm | Susana Rivas (Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA, France)
"Transcriptional Control of VLCFA Production During the Regulation of Defense Responses
in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Lipid Metabolism |
| Discussion Leader: Alexis Campbell (Iowa State University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Emilie Rennie (Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA)
"Identification of Glycosyltransferases Involved in Synthesizing Glycosyl Inositol Phosphorylceramides" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Matthew Salie (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
"A Novel Protein Family Directly Interacts with Heteromeric Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Adarsh Jose (Iowa State University, USA)
"Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Reveals Shared Precursors in the Biosynthesis of Hydrocarbons in Photosynthetic Green Algae and Plants" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Andrew Schneider (Virginia Tech, PPWS, USA)
"Comparative Fluxomics and Metabolomics in Developing Arabidopsis thaliana Embryos" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Lipid Signaling, Stress Responses, and Development |
| Discussion Leader: Mareike Heilmann (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Allison Barbaglia (Michigan State University, USA)
"Lipid-Binding Proteins in Phloem-Mediated Long-Distance Signaling" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Armando Bravo (Boyce-Thompson Institute, USA)
"The Importance of Fatty-Acids in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: Identification of a Set of Lipid Enzymes Dedicated to Symbiosis" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Coline Mei (INSAVALOR, France)
"Interplay Between Cell Division and TAG Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Gaye MacDonald (Dalhousie University, Canada)
"Lipid and Fatty Acid Changes Linked to Needle Abcission in Post-Harvest Balsam Fir" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Communicating Good Science |
| Discussion Leader: Patrick Horn (Michigan State University, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Getting Published: Communicating Good Science" |
|
- Ingo Heilmann (Universitat Halle, Germany)
- Pamela Hines (Science/AAAS, USA)
- Ruth Welti (Kansas State University, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
