Keystone Symposia Conference | Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance Mechanisms, Water and Global Agriculture

Meeting Program

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Monday, January 17
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Shavano Peak Foyer
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Shavano Peak Foyer
7:30 - 8:30 PM	Keynote Address Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Rob Horsch, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA Major Challenges in Agricultural Development
Tuesday, January 18
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Crestone
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Plant Adaption and Stress Response Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Dorothea Bartels, University of Bonn, Germany Desiccation Tolerance Mechanisms in Resurrection Plants
	Koh Iba, Kyushu University, Japan CO2 Regulation of Transpiration
	Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside, USA Genetic Control of Flooding Tolerance
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Shavano Peak Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Crestone
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Crestone
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Salinity Stress and Salt Tolerance Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Tomoaki Horie, Shinshu University, Japan Salinity Resistance Mediated by HKT Sodium Transporters
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Jiang-Kang Zhu, University of California, Riverside, USA SOS Pathway and Salt Tolerance
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Crestone
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Crestone
Wednesday, January 19
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Crestone
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Global Food Security - Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Third World Agriculture Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Gebisa Ejeta†, Purdue University, USA Talk Title to be Determined
	Deborah P. Delmer, National Science Foundation, USA Translating New Discoveries into Real-World Applications to Benefit Agriculture in the Developing World
	Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA The Impact of Water Scarcity on Third-World Agriculture
	Marianne Bänziger†, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zimbabwe Stress Tolerance and the Third World
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Shavano Peak Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Crestone
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Crestone
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Abiotic Stress Response Pathways and Signal Transduction Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Julian I. Schroeder, University of California, San Diego, USA Guard Cell Signal Transduction: CO2 and Drought Signal Transduction
	Philip N. Benfey, Duke University, USA Regulatory and Physical Network Responses to Stress
	Jörg Kudla, Universität Münster, Germany A Ca2+ Signaling Network Functioning in Abiotic Stress Responses
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Crestone
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Crestone
Thursday, January 20
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Crestone
8:00 - 11:00 AM	New Approaches to Engineering Yield Under Stress Conditions Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Edward S. Buckler†, Cornell University, USA Maize Genetics and Stress Tolerance
	Edwardo Blumwald, University of California, Davis, USA Drought Tolerance via Cytokinin Signaling
	Jean Marcel Ribaut, International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding for Maize Drought Tolerance
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Shavano Peak Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Crestone
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Crestone
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Crop Improvement: Translational Research Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Jacqueline E. Heard, Monsanto Company, USA Engineering Drought Tolerance in Corn
	Michael Metzlaff, Bayer BioScience N.V., Belgium Engineering of Crop Plants toward Stress Tolerance Improvement
	Lizhong Xiong, Huazhong Agricultural University, China Integration of Genetic and Genomic Approaches for Drought Resistance Improvement in Rice
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Crestone
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Crestone
Friday, January 21
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Crestone
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Drought and Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Sarah M. Assmann, Pennsylvania State University, USA Networks of ABA Signaling
	Elizabeth Getzoff, The Scripps Research Institute, USA Structural Mechanism for Abscisic Acid Signaling by ABA Hormone Receptor Proteins
	Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, USA PYR/PYL Abscisic Acid Hormone Receptors
	Erwin Grill, Technical University Munich, Germany Dehydration and Abscisic Acid-Induced Stress Responses
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Shavano Peak Foyer
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Shavano Peak Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Heat and Abiotic Stress Networks Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/17/2010	Shavano/Red Cloud
	Elizabeth Vierling, University of Arizona, USA Genetic Dissection of Thermotolerance
	Michael E. Salvucci, USDA-ARS, Western Cotton Research Laboratory, USA Heat Tolerance and Photosynthesis
	Kazuo Shinozaki, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan Transcriptional Networks and Abiotic Stress Resistance
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Crestone
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Crestone
Saturday, January 22
	Departure
*=Session Chair †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

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Plant abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity and heat together with the growing world population and per capita food consumption threaten stable global food availability. Fresh water is becoming a scarce and threatened resource for human health and nutrition, according to United Nations and World Bank reports. In arid regions, > 80 or >90 % of fresh water is used for food production for human nutrition. Furthermore, increasing salinity stress is reducing agricultural production and available crop land. Climate change and the continuing atmospheric CO2 rise will have increasingly profound effects on agriculture, abiotic stress and plant growth in arid regions. Recent research is uncovering a combination of key genes, quantitative trait loci and molecular networks that mediate plant responses to drought, salinity, heat and other abiotic stresses. Furthermore, field research and practices are being developed to cope with the predicted devastating effects of climate change on African agriculture. This conference aims to bring experts in global agriculture close together with researchers making new advances in understanding abiotic stress response mechanisms and networks in plants and will include investigation of major obstacles that will need to be overcome at several relevant levels to address this global challenge.

Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance Mechanisms, Water and Global Agriculture (A7)