Botany 2009, Snowbird

The joint Annual Meeting of these leading scientific societies:
Mycological Society of America - American Bryological and Lichenological Society - American Fern Society -American Society of Plant Taxonomists - Botanical Society of America

This year’s meeting offers a variety of informative and fun activities in one of the most beautiful areas of the world. It offers cost-effective options for housing.

Some of the highlights include:

17 field trip options, before, during, and after the meeting, ranging from short morning wildflower forays to full-day trips, focusing on a variety of topics from flowering plants to ferns to lichens to ecology to fungi to paleobotany.

12 half-day symposia conveniently spaced over mornings and afternoons on Monday to Wednesday, discussing plants to fungi, form and function, evolutionary topics using DNA sequence data to genomic approaches, and ecological topics.

Workshops from Saturday-Monday (most on Sunday) ranging from data analysis of molecular and ecological data, to conservation issues, to herbarium techniques, to plant identification, to information on virtual libraries, to educational topics.

Hundreds of individual talks and posters on every topic you can imagine.

Society business meetings and banquets and social events allowing you to catch up on what’s going on in your group and allowing you to make new colleagues and friends.

Special talks such as this year’s plenary speaker, noted ethnobotanist Nancy Turner who will speak on “Bringing the Food Back Home: Plants, Algae, Lichens and Fungi in the Food Traditions of Indigenous Cascadia.”

MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES IN PLANT SCIENCE

MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES IN PLANT SCIENCE
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses Program
June 26 - July 16, 2009
Application Deadline: March 15, 2009

Instructors:
Thomas Brutnell, Boyce Thompson Institute
Elizabeth Toby Kellogg, University of Missouri
Vivian Irish, Yale University
Jennifer Normanly, University of Massachusetts

This course provides an intensive overview of topics in plant physiology, biochemistry and development, focusing on molecular genetic and analytical approaches to understanding plant biology. It emphasizes recent results from Arabidopsis, maize and a variety of other plants and provides an introduction to current methods used in plant molecular biology. It is designed for scientists with some experience in molecular techniques or in plant biology who wish to work with plants using the latest technologies in genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry. The course consists of a vigorous lecture series, a hands-on laboratory, and informal discussions. Discussions of important topics in plant research will be presented by the instructors and by invited speakers. These seminars will include plant morphology and anatomy; plant development (such as development of flowers, leaves, male and female gametophytes, and roots); perception of light and photomorphogenesis; cell wall biosynthesis, function and perception of hormones and application of research results to addressing current agronomic problems. Lectures describing bioinformatics tools available to the plant community, and the resources provided by plant genome projects are also included. Speakers will provide overviews of their fields, followed by in-depth discussions of their own work. The laboratory sessions will provide an introduction to important techniques currently used in plant research. These include studies of plant development, mutant analysis, histochemical staining, transient gene expression, gene silencing, applications of fluorescent protein fusions, protein interaction and detection, proteomics approaches, several different approaches for quantifying metabolites, transient transformation and techniques commonly used in genetic and physical mapping. The course also includes several short workshops on important themes in plant research.

2009 Tentative Schedule & Speakers

Lectures and Labs:
Introduction to Plant Structure (Ian Sussex, Yale University)
Introduction to Plant Structure (Ian Sussex & Nancy Kerk, Yale University)

Phylogenetics (Elizabeth "Toby" Kellogg, University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Sequence Analysis and Phylogeny Reconstruction (Toby Kellogg)

Reproductive Development (Vivian Irish, Yale University)
Visualizing Plant Gene Expression Lab (Vivian Irish)
Microscopy training

Shoot Meristem Development (Dave Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Fluorescence, Confocal and Scanning EM Imaging (Dave Jackson)

Secondary Metabolites: Glucosinolates (John Celenza, Boston University)
HPLC Analysis of Arabidopsis Mutants with Altered Indole Glucosinolate Profiles (John Celenza)

Plastids (Thomas Brutnell, Boyce Thompson Institute)
In-planta Transient Expression (Thomas Brutnell)

Quantitative Genetics (Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute)
Quantitative trait mapping using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system (Georg Jander)

Ethylene Receptors (Eric Schaller, Dartmouth College)
Examining Gene Expression using Protoplasts (Hyo-Jung Kim, Darmouth College)

Regulatory Networks (Erich Grotewold, Ohio State University)
ChiP and ChiP-chip Approaches to Establish Plant Regulatory Motifs (Kengo Morohashi, Ohio State Universityl)

Light Regulation (Julin Maloof, University of California, Davis)
Microarray data analysis (Julin Maloof)

Proteomics (Thomas Nuhse, University of Manchester)
Proteomics (Thomas Nuhse)

Metabolomics (Jennifer Normanly, University of Massachusetts)
Quantification if IAA by GC-MS (Jennifer Normanly)

Lectures:
Root development and physiology (Uta Paszkowski, University of Lausanne)
MicroRNA Regulation (Marja Timmermans, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Phyllotaxis (Cris Kuhlemeier, University of Bern)
Plant Pathogen Interactions (Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, Yale University)
Lipid Signaling (Xuemin "Sam" Wang, University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Circadian Rhythms (Stacey Harmer, University of California, Davis)
Strawberry Genomics (Kevin Folta, University of Florida)
Plant Cell Wall Proteomics (Jocelyn Rose, Cornell University)
Feedstock Development for Biofuels (John Vogel, Western Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS)

Workshops:
Workshop I: Double Mutants, Genetic Maps (Vivian Irish & Toby Kellogg)
Workshop II: Separation Methods (Jennifer Normanly)
Workshop III: DNA Sequencing Technologies (Tom Brutnell)
Workshop IV: iPlant (Stacey Harmer & Toby Kellogg)
Workshop V: Transient transformation and analysis using plant protoplasts (Hyo-Jung Kim)
Workshop VI: ChiP-chip data analysis (Kengo Morohashi)


This course is supported with funds provided by the National Science Foundation

Cost (including board and lodging): $4,120
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Xth International Congress of Mammalogy (IMC-10), Mendoza, Argentina

Dear colleagues,mammalogists, friends:

On behalf of the Organizing Committee it is a great pleasure to invite you attend the Xth International Congress of Mammalogy (IMC-10) to be held in Mendoza, Argentina,9-14 August, 2009.

The Congress is hosted by the Center for Science & Technology (CONICET), the Institute for Aridlands Research, the Biodiversity Research Group ((IADIZA, GiB), and the Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos (SAREM).

This is the first time that the International Congress of Mammalogy will take place in South America. It is our deep and sincere desire to bring together the broadest diversity of studies and investigators. professionals and students in the field of mammalian biology. We wish to provide a forum for an stimulating exchange of ideas and promotion of integrative and collaborative research among the members of our scientific community. Morever, the IMC-10 constitute an extraordinary opportunity to promote and consolidate the growing number of South American mammal societies.

In the name of the Organizing Committee we look forward to seeing you in August 2009, and wish all of you an enjoyable stay in Mendoza and other places you might visit in Argentina and neighbour countries!

Ricardo A. Ojeda
Chair IMC-10
Organizing Committee
meeting website: http://www.cricyt.edu.ar/imc10/index.html