◆◇學術研討會◇◆

  Symposium on Plant Sciences for the 21st Century

   時　　間：八十九年十一月九日（星期四）至十日（星期五）
   地　　點：本院學術活動中心二樓會議室
  主辦單位：本院植物研究所

    Nov. 9, 2000 (Thursday)
    08:00-09:00  Registration
    09:00-09:30  Opening Ceremony

    Section 1: General Session

    09:50-10:40  Dr. Shauna Somerville (Carnegie Institute of
                 Washington, Stanford, USA)
                 Plant EST Microarrays (tentative)
    10:40-11:30  Dr. Tasuo Sugiyama (Nagoya University, Japan)
                 His-to-Asp phosphorelay implicated as an inorganic
                 nitrogen signaling mediated by cytokinin in plants
    11:30-12:30  Poster Presentation (I)

    Section 2: Plant Senescence and Postharvest Biotechnology

    13:30-14:15  Dr. Shang-Fa Yang (University of California,
                 Davis & Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica)
                 Biochemical studies on 1-minocyclopropanecarboxylate
                 (ACC) oxidase: retrospect and recent progress
    14:15-15:00  Dr. John Thompson  (University of Waterloo, Canada)
                 Antisense mutation of genes controlling membrane
                 integrity delays senescence
    15:20-17:30  Poster Presentation (II)

    Nov. 10, 2000 (Friday)

    Section 3: Plant Genome and Functional Genomics

    09:00-09:50  Dr. Motoyuki Ashikari (Nagoya University, Japan)
                 Rice genomics application for plant molecular biology
    09:50-10:40  Dr. Xiaoying Lin (Celera Genomics, Maryland, USA)
                 Finding from the sequence of Arabidopsis genome
    11:00-12:30  Poster Presentation (III)

    Section 4.: Mechanism of Plant Pathogenesis

    13:30-14:20  Dr. Gregory B. Martin (Boyce Thompson Institute,
                 Cornell University, USA)
                 Pseudomonas resistance in tomato mediated by the Pto kinase
    14:20-15:10  Dr. Dennis Gonsalves (Cornell University, USA)
                 Exploiting the practical application of pathogen-derived
                 resistance requires a consideration of the important
                 factors that affect post-transcriptional gene silencing
    15:30-16:30  General Discussion and Award Ceremony