Frontiers of Plant Cell Biology: Signals and Pathways, System-Based Approaches 22nd Symposium in Plant Biology (University of California-Riverside)

Conference · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2003

OSTI ID:820072

Minorsky, Peter V ^[1]

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1. Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside

The symposium ''Frontiers of Plant Cell Biology: Signals and Pathways, Systems-Based Approaches'' was held January 15-18, 2003 at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, California. The host organization for the symposium was the Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). The meeting, focusing on systems-based approaches to plant cell biology research, was the first of this kind in the field of plant biology. The speakers and nearly 100 posters placed emphasis on recent developments in plant cellular biology and molecular genetics, particularly those employing emerging genomic tools, thereby sharing the most current knowledge in the field and stimulating future advances. In attendance were many well-established scientists and young investigators who approach plant cell biology from different but complementary conceptual and technical perspectives. Indeed, many disciplines are converging in the field of cell biology, producing synergies that will enable plant scientists to determine the function of gene products in the context of living cells in whole organisms. New, cross-disciplinary collaborations, as well as the involvement of computer scientists and chemists in plant biology research, are likely additional outcomes of the symposium. The program included 39 invited session speakers and workshop/panel speakers. Sessions were convened on the following themes: Cell-Cell Communication; Protein Trafficking; Cell Surface, Extracellular Matrix and Cell Wall; Signal Transduction; Signal Transduction and Proteosome; and Systems-Based Approaches to Plant Cell Biology. Workshops on Chemical Genetics and Visual Microscopy were also presented. Abstracts from each of the speaker presentations, as well as the posters presented at the meeting were published in a program booklet given to the 239 faculty members, researchers, postdoctoral scientists and graduate students in attendance. The booklet thus serves as a reference for symposium attendees to locate additional information about a topic of their particular interest and to contact other investigators. In addition, an article reviewing the symposium by science writer Peter V. Minorsky appeared in the June 2003 issue of Plant Physiology, a special issue devoted to systems-based approaches in the study of the model plant Arabidopsis (article submitted as part of this Final Technical Report).

• Research Organization: University of California, Riverside (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-02ER15338
• OSTI ID: 820072
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER-15338
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
ARABIDOPSIS
BIOINFORMATICS
BIOLOGY
CALIFORNIA
CELL WALL
CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION
CHEMICAL GENETICS
COMPUTERS
CONFERENCE
FOCUSING
GENES
GENETICS
GENOMICS
MICROSCOPY
PHYSIOLOGY
PLANT CELL BIOLOGY
PLANT CELLS
PROTEASOME
PROTEIN TRAFFICKING
PROTEINS
PROTEOMICS.
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
SYMPOSIUM
SYSTEMS-BASED APPROACHES