Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
How Do Plant Genes and Traits Evolve?
Discussion Leader: Philippa Borrill (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Camilla Ferrari (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany)
"This Is the Rhythm of the Night (and Day)"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Karolina Heyduk (University of Georgia, USA)
"Variation in Photosynthetic Pathway in the C3-CAM Hybrid Yucca gloriosa "
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Developmental Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Kevin Potter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Jazmin Abraham (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
"Protein-Protein Interaction Profiles of MADS-Box Dimer Evolutionary Variants"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Dorota Kawa (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Cell Type Specific mRNA Profiles of Tomato Roots Grown in Control and Field Conditions"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Jered Wendte (University of Georgia, USA)
"The Initiation of Gene Body DNA Methylation by CHROMOMETHYLASE3"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Clay Wright (University of Washington, USA)
"Signals and Noise: Probing Evolvability of Plant Form and Function with Synthetic Biology and Natural Variation"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Responding to and Coping with Stress
Discussion Leader: Lina Castano-Duque (Duke University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Simon Alamos (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Illuminating the Transcriptional Dynamics of Plant Stress Responses Through Novel Live Cell Imaging Tools"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Pingtao Ding (The Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom)
"How a Plant Switch ON Its Immunity?"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Donald Gillis (University of Georgia, USA)
"A Novel Approach to Track Multiple Type III Effectors"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Anna Schulten (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
"Interactions Between Copper Homeostasis and the Metabolic Regulation of Plant Development"
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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Transitions
Discussion Leaders: Matthew Brooks (New York University, USA) and Amanda Schrager Lavelle (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Robert Schmitz (University of Georgia, USA)
"Academic Transitions: Switching Gears from Graduate to Postdoctoral to Independent Investigator Research"
1:50 pm - 1:55 pm
Discussion
1:55 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Transitions
Susan Bush (Trinity College, USA)
Tyler Ford (Addgene Inc, USA)
Cyrus Martin (Current Biology, USA)
Robert Schmitz (University of Georgia, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
