Conference-cpbr-2009 annual symposium; february 9, 2009
CPBR 2009 Annual
Symposium
February 9(4 p.m.) - 11 (to 4 p.m.), 2009
Location:
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz
Foundation Conference Center
Marvin Center of George Washington University
800 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
For
more information contact:
Ellen E. Post
Executive Assistant
The Consortium For Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc.
P.O. Box 20634
2009 Symposium Registration
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Symposium
- Feb. 9-11, 2009: (Provided:
breakfasts, lunches, coffee breaks & 2/9 & 2/10 p.m. receptions)
Through
1/9/09
After 1/10/09
Non-member
company....................................
$2000.......................... …$2250.... …… $
Member
company.............................................
$1500.............................. $1750............. $
Government..........................................................
$500................................ $600............. $
University**...........................................................
$200................................ $250............. $
**A PI who does not have
current CPBR funding and is presenting a preproposal
poster is eligible for travel assistance of up to $400. Reimbursement
forms will be available at the symposium. **
Opening
Reception – Monday, February 9, 5:15 p.m. I
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in DC.
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Cancellation Policy:
Cancellation notices must be made in writing via fax or email.
Cancellations received on or before Friday, January 23, 2009 are eligible for a
refund less a $75 administrative fee. No shows are responsible for the full
amount due. You may send a substitute in your place. Please fill
out a registration form for the substitute registrant and clearly indicate the
full name of the original registrant before Friday, January 23, 2009.
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Tentative
Schedule
CPBR
Symposium
February
9-11, 2009
The
Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Conference
Center
3rd
Floor of Marvin Center
800
21st Street, N.W. - Washington, DC 20052
Monday,
2/9
4:00
p.m.
Registration/poster setup
5:15
- 7:00 p.m. Reception and buffet - Grand Ballroom
7:00
- 7:45 p.m. Membership meeting - Amphitheater
Tuesday,
2/10
Symposium
7:30
a.m.
Registration - Grand Ballroom
8:00
a.m.
Symposium welcome – Amphitheater
8:30
a.m.
Breakfast buffet and first set of informal Industry Roundtable discussions -
Grand Ballroom
10:00 - 4:00
p.m. Preproposal Poster Session - Grand
Ballroom
10:00-11:20 a.m.
Funded Projects Scientific Reports – Amphitheater
10:05
Novel peptide antibiotics, Elliot Altman
10:30
Supercritical fluid extraction systems to obtain high value products from
thermally labile agricultural materials, Dimitris Argyropoulos
10:55 A metabolic engineering approach to improve
protein production, Mark
Eiteman
11:20 Transgenic plants for production and delivery of an oral
vaccine, Schuyler
Korban
11:45
a.m.
Lunch buffet begins - Grand Ballroom
12:15
p.m.
Dorin Schumacher: “The Congressional Reception”
12:20
p.m.
“Trees: Perspectives on genomics, biomass, and adaptation” - Ron Sederoff
1:00-4:00
p.m. Funded Projects Scientific
Reports – Amphitheater
1:00 Development of tightly regulated ecdysone
receptor-based gene switches for use
in agriculture, S. Reddi Palli
1:25 Engineered Plant Virus Proteins for Biotechnology,
Herman Scholthof
1:50 Field evaluation of activation tagged poplars, Steven
Strauss
2:15 Highly functional polyols for polyurethanes derived from vegetable oil, Galen
Suppes
2:40 Break
2:55 Flash-CarbonizationTM
Catalytic Afterburner Development, Michael Antal
3:20
Arabidopsis nonhost resistence
for creating novel soybean germplasms with
durable and broad-spectrum Phytophthora resistance, Madan Bhattacharyya
3:45 Plant resistance to insect pests mediated by a protease,
Bryony Bonning
4:10
p.m.
Closing remarks for the day
4:30
p.m.
Depart for Poster Session on Capitol Hill - buses will be available
5:30-7:30
p.m. Reception and Poster Session in
honor of Members of Congress and their staffs - Rayburn House Cafeteria
(Participants
are responsible for their own return transportation after reception.)
Wednesday,
2/11
8:00
a.m.
Breakfast Buffet - Grand Ballroom
8:30
-
3:00
Preproposal Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
9:00
– 12:15 Scientific
Presentations – Amphitheater
9:00 Down-regulating the DHS Gene and
Translation Initiation Factor 5A to Increase
Poplar Biomass, Zong-Ming Cheng
9:25 Modification of cereal grain texture,
plant fungal resistance, and starch
digestibility, Michael Giroux
9:50
Functional Roles of Selected Regulatory Genes in Wood Formation, Kwung-Hwan Han
10:15 Modulation of cellulose crystallinity
in Transgenic Trees, Chandrashekhar
Joshi
10:40 Break
10:55 Identifying the Health Promoting
Composition of Soy Seeds, Vera Lozovaya
11:20 Peanut Allergen Reduction, Peggy Ozias-Akins
11:45 Characterization of a Somatic Embryo Maturation
Stimulator Present in
Loblolly Pine, Gerald Pullman
12:45 p.m.
Lunch buffet - Grand Ballroom
Second set of informal Industry Roundtable Discussions - Grand Ballroom
2:00-3:40
p.m. Funded Projects Scientific
Reports – Amphitheater
2:00 Ear rot resistant mycotoxin-free
transgenic corn, Dilip Shah
2:25 Protein Engineering for Manipulation of Phenylpropanoid Metabolism, Chung-Jui
Tsai
2:50 Whole plant bioprocessing for ethanol production, Wilfred Vermerris
3:15 High Quality Protein Fibers from Wheat
Gluten for Industrial Applications, Yiqi
Yang
3:45
p.m.
Closing – Dorin Schumacher
4:00
p.m.
Poster breakdown