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The following abstracts have been submitted and will be presented at the meeting on January 15, 2005. If you would like to submit an abstract, please use our submission form. The list of abstracts will continue to be updated until January 7, as submissions are received. Please note that some non-standard characters may not appear correctly in the abstracts when viewed on this site. However, the abstracts will be distributed in full on the day of the meeting.
A NON-HOMOLOGOUS END JOINING PATHWAY FOR T-DNA INTEGRATION IN PLANT
| Presenter: | Jianxiong Li |
| Authors: | Jianxiong Li, Manjusha Vaidya, Vitaly Citovsky and Tzvi Tzfira |
| Affiliations: | Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215 |
| Presenter: | Edward B. Tucker |
| Authors: | Edward B. Tucker, Michelle Lee, Shaan Alli, Vinoud Sookhdeo (1), Masamitsu Wada (2), Takato Imaizumi (3), Masahiro Kasahara (4), and Peter K. Hepler (5) |
| Affiliations: | (1) Natural Science Department, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA; (2) Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; (3) Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA; (4) Gene Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; (5) Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Presenter: | Hilary Callahan |
| Authors: | Hilary Callahan, Natalie Dhanoolal, Sarah Israel, Angelica Patterson |
| Affiliations: | Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College, Columbia University |
Genetic Characterization of Mutants of Brassica oleracea
| Presenter: | Ed Himelblau |
| Authors: | Ed Himelblau, Kelly Buono, Colleen Bizzell, Laurie Metzer, Robert Vogelzang, Thomas Osborn, Richard M. Amasino |
| Affiliations: | Southampton College, Long Island Universtiy, Southampton, NY 11968
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 |
HEN1 is a microRNA methyltransferase and methylates the 3í end of microRNAs in Arabidopsis
| Presenter: | Zhiyong Yang |
| Authors: | Zhiyong Yang, Junjie Li and Xuemei Chen |
| Affiliations: | Waksman Institute, Rutgers University |
IDENTIFICATION OF A TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR INVOLVED IN PLANT MORPHOGENESIS FROM ARABIDOPSIS
| Presenter: | A.Krichevsky |
| Authors: | Alexander Krichevsky, Helen Gutgarts, Guo-Wei Tian, T. Tzfira and Vitaly Citovsky. |
| Affiliations: | Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215 |
| Presenter: | Xue-Song Zhang |
| Authors: | Xue-Song Zhang and Hai-Ping Cheng |
| Affiliations: | Lehman College, CUNY |
MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS OF THE ARABIDOPSIS CLAVATA GENES
| Presenter: | Karin Isaacson |
| Authors: | Karin Isaacson, Dana Greenfield, Varuni Prabhakar, Jaime Wesker, Kristen Shepard |
| Affiliations: | Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College |
PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS : A MODEL FOR PLANT PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH AND DEFENSE RESPONSES
| Presenter: | Hemalatha Saidasan |
| Authors: | Hemalatha Saidasan1 and Michael A. Lawton1,2 |
| Affiliations: | 1Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment;
2Department of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520 |
Regulation of Carotenoid Accumulation by a Novel Gene Identified in Cauliflower
| Presenter: | Li Li |
| Authors: | Li Li |
| Affiliations: | Cornell University
US Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory |
Role of Arabidopsis DDB1 in Regulated Protein Degradation and Photomorphogenesis
| Presenter: | Elizabeth Strickland |
| Authors: | Elizabeth Strickland and Xing Wang Deng |
| Affiliations: | Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology |
STAY-GREEN Gene controlling Chlorophyll Degradation during Leaf Senescence
| Presenter: | Nam-Chon Paek |
| Authors: | Jae-Woong Yu, So-Yeon Park, Jinjie Li, Jong-Sung Park, Soo-Cheul Yoo, Hee-Jong Koh & Nam-Chon Paek |
| Affiliations: | Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea |
The green alga Dunaliella: How many species exist in this genus?
| Presenter: | Duc Tran |
| Authors: | Duc Tran, Donna Dei-Baning, Juergen E.W. Polle |
| Affiliations: | BROOKLYN COLLEGE of the CITY UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK, Department of Biology, 2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA |
THE ROLE OF BACTERIAL EXOR PROTEIN IN SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI-ALFALFA SYMBIOSIS
| Presenter: | Hai-Yang Lu |
| Authors: | Hai-Yang Lu and Hai-Ping Cheng |
| Affiliations: | Biology, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY10468 |
TRANSIENT CRE EXPRESSION FOR EXCISION OF PLASTID MARKER GENES
| Presenter: | Kerry A. Lutz |
| Authors: | Kerry A. Lutz, Massimo H. Bosacchi and Pal Maliga |
| Affiliations: | Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, 190 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, U.S.A. |
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