International PAG Plant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens Workshop

Saturday Afternoon, 13 January 2007 --- 1:15 pm - 3:25 pm

Plant Interactions with Pests and Pathogens Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: Christie Williams, USDA/ARS Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit at Purdue University

(cwilliams@purdue.edu)


Speakers:

1. 1:20
Roger Innes, Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, USA (rinnes@indiana.edu)
"A comparison of pathogen recognition mechanisms between soybean and arabidopsis"

2. 1:40
Subhashree Subramanyam, Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette IN, USA (shubha@purdue.edu)
"Molecular Characterization of a Set of Genes Regulated in Wheat During"

3. 2:00
Tim Devarenne, Texas A&M University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, (tpd8@tamu.edu)
"Control of plant cell death by the AGC kinase Adi3 and its association with pathogen-induced cell death"

4. 2:20
Vincent P. Klink, United States Department of Agriculture, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Beltsville, MD USA (heartwood27@hotmail.com)
"Expression analysis of the infection process of Glycine max (soybean) by the plant pathogen Heterodera glycines, (soybean cyst nematode) using microarrays and laser capture microdissection "

5. 2:40
Heidi Appel, Pennsylvania State University, Chemical Ecology Lab, University Park, PA, USA (hma2@psu.edu)
"Arabidopsis as Entomologist: Transcriptional and Biochemical Responses to Attack by Insects"

6. 3:00
Jin-Rong Xu, Purdue University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology West Lafayette, IN USA (jinrong@purdue.edu)
"Magnaporthe Grisea Infection Of Rice And Parallel Studies In Wheat Scab"


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