Organizers & Topics

Meeting Organizers

In years when it is held in the United States, the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research is organized by the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC). This committee, which was formed in response to the need for North American representation to the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC), began its work in 1992 and was responsible for organizing the first Conference on Arabidopsis Research, in Ohio in 1993.
Since that time, the Conference has grown into an annual event held throughout the world. Last year’s meeting in Japan was attended by almost 1300 participants with more than 850 submitted abstracts.
NAASC members are elected by the North American Arabidopsis community for 4-year (4-conference) terms.

NAASC Conference Co-Chairs:
Mark Estelle, University of California, San Diego
Jane Glazebrook, University of Minnesota

NAASC Coordinator:
Joanna Friesner

NAASC Conference Organizing Committee Members:
Scott Poethig, University of Pennsylvania
George Haughn, University of British Columbia
Xinnian Dong, Duke University
Blake Meyers, University of Delaware
Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University
Wolf Frommer, Carnegie Institution for Science

Keynote Speakers

• Joanne Chory, Salk Institute, USA
• Sophien Kamoun, John Innes Centre, UK

Plenary Session Topics and Speakers

• Hormone Signaling: Ottoline Leyser; Joe Kieber, Ning Zheng
• Biotic Interactions/Biotic Stress: Paul Schulze-Lefert, Xin Li, Jeff Dangl
• Natural Variation/Quantitative genetics/Evolution: George Coupland, Cynthia Weinig, Johanna Schmitt
• Stem Cells: Ben Scheres, Elliot Meyerowitz, Sabrina Sabatini
• Epigenetics/Small RNAs: Xuemei Chen, Joe Ecker, Rebecca Mosher
  Sponsored by Genetics Society of America (GSA)
• Systems Biology: Rodrigo Gutierrez, Siobhan Brady, Fumiaki Katagiri

Concurrent Session Topics and Speakers

• Translational Plant Biology: Zach Lippman, Julia Bailey-Serres
  Sponsored by International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB)
  
• Abiotic Stress Responses: Kazuo Shinozaki, Julian Schroeder
  Sponsored by Agrisera
• Cell Biology: Federica Brandizzi, Roger Hangarter
  Sponsored by Journal of Cell Science
• Biochemistry/Metabolism: Mary Lou Guerinot, Yan Lu
• Computational Biology: Veronica Grieneisen, Przemek Prusinkiewicz
• Cell Walls and the Cuticle: Ljerka Kunst, Herman Hofte
• New Technologies: Simon Chan, Steve Briggs
  Sponsored by Plant Methods
• Development I: Organ and Cellular Polarity: Jennifer Fletcher, Niko Geldner
• Development II: Cell Specification: Dolf Weijers, Dominique Bergmann
  Sponsored by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
• Light/Circadian Regulation: Stacey Harmer, Jose Pruneda-Paz

Lodging Deadline: Monday, May 23, 2011
Final Payment Deadline: Monday, May 23, 2011
Extended Oral submission deadline: April, 13, 2011
Poster abstract submission deadline: May 9, 2011

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