| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 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 | Metabolic Engineering in Aid of Human Health and Nutrition |
| Discussion Leader: Ruthie Angelovici (Michigan State University) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Katharina Bulling (John Innes Centre, UK)
"50 shades of purple: Engineering tomatoes enriched with pelargonidins, cyanidins and delphinidins" |
| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Andrew Klein (Stanford University, USA)
"Discovery of Antibiotic Biosynthesis Pathways in Dietary Plants" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Computational Approaches/System Biology in Plant Metabolism |
| Discussion Leader: Jing-Ke Weng (The Salk Institute for Biology, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Keynote: Richard A. Dixon (University of North Texas, USA)
"Lessons learned in 35 years of plant metabolic engineering" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Amy Marshall-Colon (New York University, USA)
"TARGET: A Rapid System for Genome-Wide Identification of Transcription Factor Targets" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Kenneth Ellens (University of Florida)
"Glutamine transaminase and omega-amidase can act in tandem to close the methionine salvage cycle in bacteria and plants"
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| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Jiun Yen (Virginia Tech)
"Systems metabolic engineering of Arabidopsis for increased cellulose production" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Metabolism, Pathways and Fluxes |
| Discussion Leader: Payam Mehrshahi (Michigan State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Kai Xun Chan (Australian National University, Australia)
"Regulation of secondary sulfur assimilation during drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Scott Farrow (University of Calgary, Canada)
"Dioxygenases catalyze the O-demethylation and O,O-demethylenation of protopine and protoberberine benzylisoquinoline alkaloids" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Yihui Fang (Virginia Tech, USA)
"Metabolic and Transcriptional Reprogramming in Developing Soybean (Glycine max) Embryos" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Antje Feller (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy)
"Identification and characterization of early pathway genes of ellagitannin biosynthesis in strawberry (Fragaria vesca) and raspberry (Rubus idaeus)" |
| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Jakub Rajniak (Stanford University, USA)
"Transcriptomics- and metabolomics-driven discovery of a novel indolic secondary metabolite pathway in Arabidopsis" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Heejin Yoo (Purdue University, USA)
"Evidence of microbial pathway contribute to plant phenylalanine biosynthesis" |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 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 | Metabolomics and Quantitative Genomics |
| Discussion Leader: Kenneth Ellens (University of Florida) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Albert Batushansky (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
"Regulation of amino acids metabolism in tomato seeds: a network-based approach" |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge (Michigan State University, USA)
"Identification of a negative regulator of carotenoid accumulation in Arabidopsis seeds by GWAS and QTL"
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| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Sibongile Mafu (Iowa State University)
"Evolutionary context dependent plasticity of ent-kaurene oxidases" |
| 2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
