Thanks for your help to pass along the word on a new Gordon
Conference on "Plant Metabolic Engineering" (July 10-15 in New
Hampshire, USA). To promote ample discussions among scientists, there
is a limit on the number of conferees. Therefore, application to
attend the conference should be made early by going online at
www.grc.org
~~~~~NEW!!!! Gordon Research Conference on PLANT METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Conference agenda: http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2005/plant.htm
July 10-15, 2005 Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire
Chair: Elli Wurtzel, CUNY/Vice Chair: Erich Grotewold, Ohio State University
Overview: The post-genomic era presents new opportunities for
manipulating plant chemistry for improvement of plant traits such as
disease and stress resistance and nutritional qualities. This
conference will provide a setting for developing multidisciplinary
collaborations needed to unravel the dynamic complexity of plant
metabolic networks and advance basic and applied research in plant
metabolic engineering. The conference will integrate recent advances
in genomics, with metabolite and gene expression analyses. Research
discussions will explore how biosynthetic pathways interact with
regard to substrate competition and channeling, plasticity of
biosynthetic enzymes, and investigate the localization, structure,
and assembly of biosynthetic metabolons in native and nonnative
environments. The meeting will develop new perspectives for plant
transgenic research with regard to how transgene expression may
influence cellular metabolism. Incorporation of spectroscopic
approaches for metabolic profiling and flux analysis combined with
mathematical modeling will contribute to the development of rational
metabolic engineering strategies and lead to the development of new
tools to assess temporal and subcellular changes in metabolite pools.
The conference will also highlight new technologies for pathway
engineering, including use of heterologous systems, directed enzyme
evolution, engineering of transcription factors and application of
molecular/genetic techniques for controlling biosynthetic pathways.
Thanks!
Elli
Eleanore Wurtzel, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, CUNY PhD subprogram in Plant Sciences
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Lehman College, The City University of New York
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, New York 10468 USA
Tel:718-960-8643; Fax: 718-960-7348;
etwlc at cunyvm.cuny.edu; wurtzel at lehman.cuny.eduhttp://a32.lehman.cuny.edu
