Day 1

October 26, 2002

Time

Schedule

11:00 - 1:00

Arrival and lunch

1:00 - 1:15

Welcome & Introduction -- Bob Goldberg/ John Harada

1:15 - 3:15

GOLDBERG LAB

Bob Goldberg -  Major Questions in Embryo Development 

Anhthu Bui/Brandon Le -   The Giant Bean as a Genomics Engine - Five Years Later

Anhthu Bui/Tomokazu Kawashima - Hunting For Regulators of Suspensor Specific Gene Transciription

Anhthu Bui/Mike Ferry/Jinsun Choi/Aycha Erbilgin - Knocking Out Giant Bean Orthologs in Arabidopsis

Brandon Le/Anhthu Bui -  Using RNA Microarrays to Identify Seed Regulatory Networks

3:15 - 3:30

Discussion

3:30 - 3:45

Break

3:45 - 5:30  

HARADA LAB

Soonmin Park - Introdution to Lecomics

Hye-seung Lee - Molecular Dissection of LEC1 Function in Embryogenesis 

Raymond Kwong - Taming LEC1

Sandra Stone - Investigating the Link Between LEC2 and Embryo Development

Masaki-Ohto - Control of Seed Size by AP2

5:30 - 5:45

Discussion

5:45 - 7:00

Check-In Palm Court Hotel and Free Time

7:00 - 10:00

Reception and Halloween Dinner @ Silo Pub

Day 2

October 27, 2002

Time

Schedule

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00

DREWS LAB

Gary Drews et al. -  Genetic Analysis of Female Gametophyte Development

10:00 - 10:15

Discussion

10:15 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 12:30

FISCHER LAB

Yeonhee Choi/Mary Gehring - DEMETER, a DNA Glycosylase, is Required for Endosperm Gene Imprinting and Seed Viability

Wenyan Xiao -  How to Rescue a dme Mutant Seed:Analysis of dme Suppressor Mutations and Genes

Mary Gehring - Restoring Balance: Male Suppressors of medea

Tzung-Fu Hsieh - Understanding Polycomb Gene Function

Bob Franks - Control of Arabidopsis Gynoecium Development

12:30 - 12:45

Discussion

12:45 - 2:00

Lunch

2:00 - 3:00

CERES

Diane Jofuku/Jack Okamuro - Seed Science in the Corporate World

3:00 - 3:15

Discussion

3:15 - 3:30

Summary and Departure