28th Annual Crown Gall Conference at Arizona State University

 

The organizers of the 28th Crown Gall Conference are grateful for the continued financial support provided by Monsanto Company.  We also thank The Biodesign Institute and Arizona State University for their help in organizing and presenting the conference.

A copy of this agenda is available for download in PDF format

 

Friday, Dec 14, 2007

 

7:00-11:00 pm         Informal reception - Rúla Búla Irish Pub, Mill Avenue, Tempe

 

 

 

Saturday Dec 15, 2007

 

7:30-8:30 am         REGISTRATION – CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

8:30 – 8:40 am       Welcome and Introductory Remarks - Steve Slater

 

Cell Surface/Attachment

(abstracts start on page 7)

 

8:40–9:00 am         Elise R. Morton, Peter M. Merritt, Michael E. Hibbing, Thomas Danhorn, Cherie Blair and Clay Fuqua

 

Polar surface attachment and biofilm formation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires contact-dependent extrusion of a unipolar polysaccharide analogous to the Caulobacter holdfast

 

9:00–9:20 am         Lois Banta, David Rogawski, Ian Buchanan, Jason Fan, Gape Machao, Shengchang Su, Stephen Farrand, Amelia Tomlinson, Clay Fuqua, Yuan Ze-Chun, Jen Strater, Brad Goodner, and Gene Nester

 

Lon Protease and a Type VI Secretion System Regulate Surface Attachment in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

 

9:20–9:40 am         Amelia D. Tomlinson, David Rogawski, Lois M. Banta and Clay Fuqua

 

                           The ExoR protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a novel global regulator that controls diverse functions influencing motility, exopolysaccharide synthesis and biofilm formation 

 

Plant Responses to Agrobacterium Infection-Session I 

(abstracts start on page 10)

 

9:40–10:00 am      T. J. Burr, L. Cursino-Parent, D. Zheng, G. Hao and S. Sule

 

Regulation of Agrobacterium vitis induced plant responses and swarming motility

 

10:00–10:20 am      Marina Efetova, Rainer Hedrich, Rosalia Deeken 

 

                           Response of Plants to Infection and Transformation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens

 

10:20–10:40 am     Ze-Chun Yuan, Denis Faure, and Eugene W. Nester 

 

Salicylic acid, g-amino butyric acid, and indoleacetic acid influence Agrobacterium tumefaciens through independent but overlapping signaling processes 

 

10:40–11:00 am       BREAK/REFRESHMENTS

 

 

Plant Responses to Agrobacterium Infection-Session II

(abstracts start on page 12)

 

11:00–11:20 am       Nagesh Sardesai, Huabang Chen, Joerg Spantzel, and Stanton B. Gelvin

 

                           Characterization of Arabidopsis mutants that are hyper-susceptible to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (hat mutants)

 

11:20–11:40 am       Nagesh Sardesai, Veena, Clay Fuqua, and Stanton B. Gelvin

 

                           Agrobacterium attachment to Arabidopsis roots induces the systemic expression of a defense-response gene, PAL1 

 

11:40–12:00 am       Ajith Anand and Kirankumar S. Mysore

 

                           The SCF (SKP1/CUL/F-BOX) ubiquitin ligase complex plays an important role in T-DNA transfer and integration

 

12:00-1:30 pm        LUNCH on your own (suggestions will be provided)

 

Chromosome Biology and T-DNA Integration

(abstracts start on page 14)

 

1:30-1:50 pm          Gabriela N.Tenea, Joerg Spantzel, Lan-Ying Lee, Susan Jonhson, Yanmin Zhou, Heiko Oltmanns and Stanton B. Gelvin

 

Over-expression of Arabidopsis chromatin genes results in increased transformation efficiency and/or transgene expression

 

1:50-2:10 pm          Beno”t Lacroix, and Vitaly Citovsky

 

In vitro interactions between plant nucleosomes and VIP1 or reconstituted T-complex

 

2:10-2:30 pm         Zarir Vaghchhipawala and Kirankumar S. Mysore 

 

Identification and Characterization of Repair Components Involved in Agrobacterium-mediated Plant Transformation

 

2:30-2:50 pm         Mery Dafny-Yelin, Raz Dafny, Lorenzo Prieto, Avner Levy and Tzvi Tzfira

 

Blocking T-strand conversion to double-stranded intermediates by expression of single-stranded DNA binding proteins 

 

2:50-3:10 pm         BREAK/REFRESHMENTS

 

Agrobacterium Technologies

(abstracts start on page 17)

 

3:10-3:30 pm         Stephen K. Farrand, R. Martin Roop, II, and Sharik R. Khan

 

A New Broad Host Range Vector for Very Tightly Controlled Expression of Cloned Genes in the Alpha Proteobacteria Including Agrobacterium and Brucella. 

 

3:30-3:50 pm         Stanton B. Gelvin, Zhuzhu Zhang, and Lan-Ying Lee

 

Peptide aptamers for defining protein function 

 

3:50-4:10 pm         Jeanine Louwerse, Miranda van Lier, Dirk van der Steen, Clementine de Vlaam, Paul Hooykaas and Annette Vergunst

 

Stable Recombinase Mediated Cassette Exchange in Arabidopsis

 

4:10-4:30 pm       Amanda S. Freed and Tzvi Tzfira

 

T-DNA trapping by genome-wide double-strand DNA breaks. 

 

4:30-5:00 pm       Sylvestre Marillonnet

 

Design of an industrial Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain for use with magnifection

 

5:00-6:00             BREAK

 

5:45-6:00 pm         Hang Posters

 

6:00-7:00 pm         Poster Session

Snacks, and Open Bar (Wine/Beer 6:00-9:30).  (available all evening) Biodesign Institute Atrium A

   

7:00-8:00 pm         DINNER BUFFET

Southwestern Cuisine, Biodesign Institute Atrium A

 

8:00-9:00 pm         Keynote Address  

David Fischhoff, Vice President, Technology Strategy and Development, Monsanto Company

̉The State of Agricultural Biotechnology in 2007:  Technical, Commercial, and Public Perception.Ó

 

 

Sunday Dec 16, 2007

 

7:30-8:30 am         CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

Virulence and Secretion Systems

(abstracts start on page 20)

 

8:30-8:50 am           Hung-Yi Wu, Pei-Che Chung, Hsiao-Wei Shih, Sy-Ray Wen, and Erh-Min Lai 

 

Secretome analysis uncovers an Hcp-family protein secreted via a type VI secretion system in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

 

8:50-9:10 am            Yasunori Machida, Shinji Terakura, Yoshihisa Ueno, Chiyoko Machida

 

The Agrobacterium 6b protein has histone-chaperone-like activity

 

9:10-9:30 am         Yun-Long Tsai, Ming-Hsuan Wang, and Erh-Min Lai 

 

A small heat-shock protein HspL is induced by virB and involved in tumorigenesis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens 

 

9:30-9:50 am         Larry D. Hodges, Lan-Ying Lee, Stanton B. Gelvin, and Walt Ream

 

Agrobacterium rhizogenes GALLS gene encodes two secreted proteins required for gene transfer to plants

 

9:50-10:10 am        BREAK/ REFRESHMENTS

 

 

Agrobacterium Genomics

(abstracts start on page 23)

 

10:10-10:30 am       Brad Goodner & the Agrobacterium Genome Consortium

 

Using Bioinformatics to Reconstruct the Origin of Multichromosome Bacterial Genomes

 

10:30-10:50 am     Barry Goldman & the Agrobacterium Genome Consortium

 

The evolutionary relationships of the repABC genes from three sequenced Agrobacterium species are incongruous with their cognate plasmids and with each other   

 

10:50-11:10 am       Steve Slater, Katherine Houmiel, Erika Frederick & the Agrobacterium Genome Consortium

   

Genome sequencing of Agrobacterium biovars: the genome of Agrobacterium rhizogenes A4

 

11:10-11:30 am        Closing Remarks – Steve Slater

Ceremonial Passing of the Gall

 

 

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