Download Centre for Plant Sciences Postdoc Symposium Thursday 10th

Centre for Plant Sciences
Postdoc Symposium
Thursday 10th January 2008
09.00am – 14.00pm
Astbury, Level 11
09.00-09.30
New insights into the regulation of stamen and carpel development
Barry Causier
09.30-10.00
Cell wall microstructure and cell-cell adhesion in the tomato fruit
pericarp
José Ordaz-Ortiz
10.00-10.30
Heat stress enhances the release of polyadenylated transcripts from
plant mitochondria.
Alessio Adamo
10.30-11.00
Targeting of the prevacuolar syntaxin SYP21 depends on its
unstructured N-terminal domain.
Ombretta Foresti
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-12.00
Protein Import into Plant Peroxisomes
Kate Johnson
12.00-12.30
Molecular and chemical approaches to elucidate peroxisome
biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
Laura-Anne Brown
12.30-13.00
Development of pathogen resistant East African Highland banana – a
case study of biotechnology capacity building in Uganda
Catherine Lilley
13.00-13.30
RNAi and qPCR analysis on pharyngeal gland genes of soybean
cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines
Manjula Bakhetia
13.30-14.00
Peroxisomes: small organelles with a big impact on plant physiology
and development.
Alison Baker