Dear colleagues:
Join us for the Third Annual Symposium in Plant Biology, University of
Massachusetts Amherst :
CHEMICAL PLANTS: MANIPULATING PLANT METABOLISM TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Saturday, Oct 15, 2005. 9:00am to 6 pm at UMass Amherst.
- talks in Eng Lab II Auditorium, Room 119
- posters, lunch and reception at the Lincoln Campus Center
The event is free but registration is requested by September 30th. We
encourage you to present your current research at the poster sessions.
Register by going to:
http://www.bio.umass.edu/plantbio/symposium05.html
Speakers (alpha order):
DEAN DELLAPENNA, Michigan State University
"Vitamin E Synthesis in Photosynthetic Organisms or Is it possible to do
well and good in your research at the same time?"
HARRY KLEE, University of Florida
"Molecular approaches to understanding complex traits: tomato flavor and
nutritional quality"
SUSAN ROBERTS, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Targeted Metabolic Engineering for Enhancement of Paclitaxel Accumulation
in Plant Cell Culture"
DAVID SALT, Purdue University
"Genetic Manipulation of Selenium Speciation in Plants"
YAIR SHACHAR-HILL, Michigan State University
"Mapping fluxes through plant metabolic networks"
BRENDA WINKEL, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
"How do they do that? Evidence for assembly of flavonoid enzyme complexes
at the endoplasmic reticulum AND in the nucleus."
For further info, check the UMass Amherst PB website at
http://www.bio.umass.edu/plantbio
or email the symposium organizers: Elsbeth Walker (ewalker at bio.umass.edu),
Jennifer Normanly (normanly at biochem.umass.edu), Susan Roberts
(sroberts at ecs.umass.edu)
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Susan Capistran
Program Manager
Plant Biology Graduate Program
Rm. 217 Morrill Science Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
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capistran at bio.umass.eduhttp://www.bio.umass.edu/plantbio
phone (413) 577-3217
fax (413) 545-3243
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