May 26-31, 2015

The 2015 International Symposium on Plant Photobiology will be held at the University of Texas at Austin from Tuesday, May 26 to Sunday, May 31, 2015.

The conference will provide a platform for plant photobiologists to showcase their research progress, to exchange/debate on diverse ideas/hypotheses, and to share novel tools and techniques for the advancement of the field.

Preliminary program with confirmed speakers (red indicates already registered)

TUESDAY, May 26:

Arrival/Registration

WEDNESDAY, May 27:

SESSION 1:  Foundations of photobiology
Winslow Briggs (Keynote), Joanne Chory, Eberhard Schaefer, Elaine Tobin

SESSION 2 : Photoreceptor Diversity - Structure/Function I
Rick Vierstra (Keynote), Akira Nagatani, Ference Nagy, Robert Sharrock,
Beronda L. Montgomery

SESSION 3 : Photoreceptor Diversity - Structure/Function II
Clark Lagarias (Keynote), Kevin Gardner, Jon Hughes, John Christie, Matthew Hudson

SESSION 4 : Signal transduction I - UV-B light
Roman Ulm (Keynote), Gareth Jenkins, Xi Huang, Gary Gardner

THURSDAY, May 28:

SESSION 1 : Signal transduction IIA - red/far-red light
Peter Quail (Keynote), Enamul Huq, Andreas Hiltbrunner, Meng Chen  

SESSION 2 : Signal transduction IIB - red/far-red light
Ute Hoecker (Keynote), Giltsu Choi, Elena Monte, Min Ni, Cordelia Bolle

SESSION 3 : Signal transduction IIIA - blue light
Chentao Lin (Keynote), Margaret Ahmad, Brian Zoltowski, Sudip Chattopadhyay

SESSION 4 : Signal transduction IIIB - blue light
Emmanuel Liscum (Keynote), Masamitsu Wada, Ken-ichiro Shimazaki

FRIDAY, May 29
    
SESSION 1 : Signal integration I - Light/hormone interaction
Zhiyong Wang (Keynote), Edgar Spalding, Hongwei Guo, Michael Neff

SESSION 2 : Signal integration II - Ecological significance of photobiology
Christian Fankhauser (Keynote), Jorge Casal, Jaime Martinez, Ronald Pierik

SESSION 3: Signal integration III - Light and climate adaptation
Julin Maloof (Keynote), Carlos Ballare, Katayoon Dehesh, Stan Roux

SESSION 4 : Young Investigator Session
Four speakers to be selected from abstracts

SATURDAY, May 30

SESSION 1 : Signal integration IVA - circadian clock
Rob McClung (Keynote), David Somers, Eva Farre, Dimitri Nusinow
    
SESSION 2 : Signal integration IVB - circadian clock
Stacey Harmer (Keynote), Takato Imaizumi, Paul Devlin, Frank Harmon

SESSION 3 : Frontiers in photobiology I - Epigenetics/gene regulation
Xing Wang Deng (Keynote), Fredy Barneche, Jeff Chen, Rongchen Lin

SESSION 4: Frontiers in photobiology II - Systems/synthetic biology/ biotechnology
Karen Halliday (Keynote), Christian Fleck, Tom Brutnell, Pill-Soon Song

SUNDAY, May 31

Departure


Please email at (2015ispp@gmail.com) if you have any questions.


The ISPP 2015 is supported by:

Organizing Committee:

Chair: Enamul Huq (University of Texas at Austin)

Members: Peter H. Quail (UC Berkeley), J. Clark Lagarias (UC Davis), Richard D. Vierstra (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Z. Jeffrey Chen (University of Texas at Austin), Stanley Roux (University of Texas at Austin), Stacey Harmer (UC Davis), Julin Maloof (UC Davis), Emmanuel Liscum (University of Missouri), Thomas Brutnell (Danforth Center).