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PROGRAMME
*** Please note the full timetable with abstracts will be available online on the 28th November ***
Friday 5th December
4 – 6 pm
Registration
6 – 7 pm
Welcome Buffet
7:20 – 7:30 pm
Welcome address
7:30 – 8:30 pm
Hagan Bayley – Title: TBC
Saturday 6th December
9 am – 10:30 am
Session I – Ion and Water Channels
John Christie – ‘Photoregulation of auxin fluxes required for phototropism‘
Anna Moroni – ‘Engineering a synthetic light-gated potassium channel’
Daniel Tran – ‘Mechanosensitive MSL10 channels mediate oscillatory perception’
Matthew Gilliham – ‘GABA signalling in plants mediated by a unique family of anion channels’
Poster introductions: LeFoulon, Eisenach, Riedelsberger, Frachisse, Kjelbom, Abubakar
coffee/tea: 10:30 – 11am
11 – 12:30 pm
Session II – Pumps and Transporters
John Golbeck – ‘Extending the Reach of Photosynthesis: The Promise and Composition of Electrically-Conductive Bacterial Nanowires’
Alistair McCormick – ‘Localising microalgal carbon concentrating components in higher plant chloroplasts’
Carla Minguet – ‘Engineering a synthetic transport circuit for photosynthetic carbon capture’
Rita de Brito Francisco – ‘ABCC proteins in vacuolar transport of hormone conjugates’
Posters Introductions: Amtmann, Kuehn, Narvaez, Lindsay, Appelhagen, Singh, Koprovski, Talukdar, Theresia, Cuin, Chen
lunch: 1 – 2pm
2 – 3:15 pm
Session III – Techniques
Sean Colloms – ‘Site-specific recombination for gene assembly and Synthetic Biology’
Alex Costa – ‘In vivo analysis of Ca2+ dynamics in plant cells and organelles’
Leung Jeffrey – ‘Managing competing priorities between H2O and CO2’
Poster Introductions: Grefen, Pancardo, Madsen, Hartley, Lapeikaite, Krol
3:15 – 5pm: Poster Sessions, drinks & nibbles
5 – 6:15 pm
Session IV – Alan Walker
Dale Sanders – ‘Tribute to Biophysicist Alan Walker: a Biologist’s Perspective’
Mary Beilby – ‘Tribute to Biophysicist Alan Walker: a Physicist’s Perspective’
Gerhard Thiel – ‘An anharmonic oscillator controls Ca2+ release in Chara corallina’
Evening free
Sunday 7th December
9:15 – 10:30 am
Session V – Models and Systems
Mike Blatt – ‘From molecule to the field – a systems approach to stomatal dynamics’
Hugh Woolfenden – ‘Deconstructing stomata: An Engineering Approach’
Poster Introductions: Zhang, Larson, Patishtan, Kopischke, Karnik, Wang, Noordally, Ciesla, Dal Bosco, Papanatsiou, Vincent
Posters, coffee/tea: 10:30 – 11:30am
11 am – 12:30 pm
Session VI – Signals/networks
Andrew Millar – ‘TBA’
Agnieszka Ludwikow – ‘MAPKKK18 is regulated by ABI1 protein phosphatase 2C and the proteasome pathway’
Dirk Becker – ‘K+ channels as rate-limiting elements in jasmonate-triggered stomatal closure’
12:30 – 1pm
Anna Amtmann – Closing remarks
1 – 2pm
Lunch and close
LOGISTICS
PLANT TRANSPORT 2014
LOCATION
Plant Transport 2014 Bower Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
Taxi – Glasgow operates a TOA taxi service that is very dependable, day and night. Phone (0141) 429 7070. Taxi ranks are located at all major termini and at various locations around the city.
ACCOMMODATION
We recommend accommodation within 10-15 min walking distance at: