2012 Agenda
Symposium on “Plant Biotechnology for Health and Sustainability”
Michigan State University
Molecular Plant Sciences Building, Room 1200
October 5-6, 2012
PROGRAM AGENDA
Friday Afternoon, October 5
12:50 Welcome – Dave DeWitt, Associate Dean, College of Natural Science
Session Chair – Christoph Benning
1:00 Toni Kutchan, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
A Transcriptomic/Metabolomic Approach to Biochemical Pathways
in Non-model Systems
1:40 Sarah O’Connor, John Innes Centre
Understanding and Engineering Alkaloid Biosynthesis
2: 20 Rob Last, Michigan State University
The Solanum Trichome Project: Metabolic Pathway Discovery and Fingerprints of Evolution
3:00 Break
Session Chair – Gregg Howe
3:30 Harry Klee, University of Florida
The Chemistry and Genetics of Tomato Flavor
4:10 Dean DellaPenna, Michigan State University
Integrating Genomics and Quantitative Genetics to Understand Vitamin Biosynthesis
and Accumulation in Plants
4:50 Toni Voelker, Calgene Campus, Monsanto
Re-design of Soybean Oil Composition through Genetic Engineering
5:30 Reception and Poster Presentations in MPS Atrium
Saturday Morning, October 6
Session Chair – Tim Whitehead
8:00 Breakfast, Molecular Plant Science Atrium
9:00 Joe Chappell, University of Kentucky
Elucidation of Novel Triterpene Pathways in Botryococcus
and Engineering Plants for High-value Oil Production
9:40 Christoph Benning, Michigan State University
Engineering of Microalgal Lipid Metabolism for Biofuels
Feedstocks
10:20 Break
10:50 Gregg Howe, Michigan State University
Metabolic Regulation in Plant Defense
11:30 Vince Martin, Concordia University of Montreal
Drugs from Bugs: Large Scale Sequencing of Plant Transcriptomes
and the Reconstitution of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways in Yeast
12:10 End of session