Symposium

2008 PMBB Research Symposium Clocks and Development
Friday, April 11 through Saturday April 12, 2008 OSU - Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43210 REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The PMBB program would like to invite you to the 2008 Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology (PMBB) Symposium, to be held at the OSU Museum of Biological Diversity on the evening of Friday, April 11 and during the day Saturday, April 12. As in the past, there will be no registration charge and we will provide meals and refreshments until the conference ends at about 5 PM on Saturday. This year we have Dr. C. Robertson McClung from Dartmouth College to be our Keynote Speaker on Friday evening at 6 PM, with a seminar entitled “An evolving view of the plant circadian clock”. Rob has been working on the plant circadian clock for many years, starting off in Neurospora clocks during his post-doc. He is currently the president of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Sciences at Dartmouth. This will be followed by a reception at 7 PM. On Saturday, we will have a morning session of 30 minute presentations in the general area of plant clocks and development. This will be followed by student/postdoc short talks and poster presentations on any topic relative to plant molecular biology and biotechnology. We’d like to invite students and postdocs to participate in the program by submitting abstracts for short talks and/or posters. There will be prizes for the best short talks and posters. We hope that you all are able to attend as we feel that this Symposium will provide an excellent mechanism to interact with colleagues throughout the state and region. Please note the deadline for registering is March 20, 2008 and the deadline for abstract submittal is March 26, 2008. OSU AREA ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION
Schedule of Events
Friday, 11 April 2008
5:00pm	PMBB Symposium poster set up
6:00pm	Keynote Speaker, C. Robertson McClung, Dartmouth College: “An evolving view of the plant circadian clock”
7:00pm	Reception and buffet dinner
Saturday, 12 April 2008
7:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:30am	Welcome and announcements; Bob Tabita and Dave Somers
8:40am - 11:55am	Morning Symposium (25 min talks plus 10 min discussion)
8:40am	Dave Somers, Dept. of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology Center, OSU: “ Post-translational photomodulation of circadian amplitude."
9:15am	Iris Meier; Dept. of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology Center, OSU: “A role for the nuclear pore in plant development"
9:50am	Rebecca Lamb; Dept. of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, OSU: “Transcriptional regulation of flowering time and flower formation in Arabidopsis"
10:25am	Coffee Break
10:45am	Karen Hicks, Biology Department, Kenyon College: “Comparative analysis of photoperiodic regulation in land plants"
11:20am	Jim Metzger, Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science, OSU: “Phytochromes and photoperiodic timing mechanisms: an ecophysiological perspective”
11:55am	Posters, discussions, and boxed lunch at the Museum
2:00pm	Short talks selected from submitted abstracts (postdocs and students) 5 talks of 15 min each, including questions and discussion
3:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm	3 more short talks
4:45pm	Break; judging of talks and posters
5:00pm	Awards for best poster and poster talk Bob Tabita and Dave Somers

• 2006 Symposium Abstracts [pdf]

• 2002 Symposium Abstracts [pdf]

• 2000 Symposium Abstracts

• 1999 Symposium Abstracts

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