2019 International Plant Biology Workshop at UCSD
Plant Synthetic Biology and Genome engineering
Monday November 4, TATA Hall, Fred Kavli Auditorium
Conveners: Profs. Yunde Zhao and Maarten Chrispeels
8:15-8:45 Small Breakfast for the late risers. Greet your friends.
8:55-9:00 Welcome by Mark Estelle
9:00 9:30 Patrick Shih, University of California Davis
Dissecting and reconstructing plant metabolism with synthetic biology.
9:35-10:05 Harry Klee, Univ. of Florida
Consumer assisted selection: the biochemical genetics of tomato flavor improvement.
10:10-10:40 Sanweng Huang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
The Upotato Plan: a synthetic biology approach for breeding the most important tuber crop.
10:40-11:15 Break
11:20-11:50 Jing-Ke Weng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discovery and engineering of peptide natural products in plants
11:55-12:25 Natalia Dudareva, Purdue University
Metabolic engineering of plant volatiles
12:30-1:45 Lunch on the terrace (weather permitting)
1:45-2:15 Joe Noel, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Mechanistic and structural basis for plant metabolic evolution
2:20-2:50 Yanran Li, University of California, Riverside
Yeast as a promising tool in the elucidation of plant natural product chemistry
2:55: 3:20 Tea and cookies
3:25-3:55 Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington
Decoding and Recoding Plant Signaling
4:00-4:30 Yunde Zhao, University of California
Efficient Gene Targeting by Homologous Recombination