2019 Annual Meeting Midwestern Section American Society of Plant Biologists March 16 – 17, 2019 South Agricultural Sciences Building and Agricultural Sciences Building West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 1 Thanks to our Sponsors! United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture This conference is supported by the Agriculture and Food Initiative (AFRI) [award no. 2019-67014- 29243/project accession no. 1018778] from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 2 American Society of Plant Biologists Midwestern Section Section Officers 2018 – 2019 Chair Kathrin Schrick ([email protected]) Kansas State University Vice Chair Harkamal Walia ([email protected]) University of Nebraska-Lincoln Secretary-Treasurer Sen Subramanian ([email protected]) South Dakota State University Meeting Organizer Michael Gutensohn ([email protected]) West Virginia University Executive Com Rep Gustavo MacIntosh ([email protected]) Iowa State University Past Chair, ex officio David Rosenthal ([email protected]) Ohio University Publications Manager Jennifer Robison ([email protected] ) Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Short Program Friday, March 15 2:00 – 4:00 .................................. Guided Tour of the WVU Evansdale Greenhouse and the International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM) (Meet in Greenhouse Lobby) 2:00 – 4:00 ...................................Guided Tour of the WVU Arboretum (Meet at Coliseum Parking Lot) Saturday, March 16 7:00 – 8:00 .........................................................Registration/Check-in/Poster Set-up/Breakfast 8:00 – 8:15 ..................................................................................................Welcoming Remarks 8:15 – 8:45 ........................................................................... Featured Speaker Dr. Gregg Howe 8:45 – 10:15 .............................................................................................Oral Session I (T1-T6) 10:15 – 11:30 ............................................................. Poster Session I (Even #s)/Refreshments 11:30 – 1:00 ......................................................................................... Oral Session II (T7-T12) 1:00 – 2:30 ........................................................................................................................ Lunch 1:30 – 2:30 ...............................................................................................................Career Panel 2:30 – 3:00 ......................................................................... Featured Speaker Dr. Steve DiFazio 3:00 – 4:30 ........................................................................................ Oral Session III (T13-T18) 4:30 – 4:45 ............................................................................................................. Coffee Break 3 4:45 – 5:45 ................................................................... Keynote Speaker Dr. Elizabeth Haswell 5:45 – 7:15 .................................................................... Poster Session II (Odd #s) / Appetizers 7:30 – 10:00 ....................................................................................................... Banquet Dinner Sunday, March 17 7:00 – 8:00 .............................................................................. Registration/Check-in/Breakfast 8:00 – 9:30 ....................................................................................... Oral Session IV (T19-T24) 9:30 – 10:00 ............................................................... Morning Refreshments/ Remove Posters 10:00 – 10:30 ............................................................... Featured Speaker Dr. Jean-Michel Ané 10:30 – 12:00 .................................................................................... Oral Session V (T25-T30) 12:00 – 12:30 ....................................................... Business Meeting, Announcements, Awards Meeting Locations Registration ...............................................................................................South Ag Sciences Bldg All Presentations including Keynote Address ..............................James H. Arbuckle Lecture Hall Saturday Career Panel Discussion ......................................................................Lecture Hall G006 Poster Viewing ......................................................................................Agricultural Sciences Bldg Saturday and Sunday Breakfast ................................................................ South Ag Sciences Bldg Saturday Lunch...................................................................................... Agricultural Sciences Bldg Saturday Coffee Break ...............................................................................South Ag Sciences Bldg Saturday Dinner........................................................................................ Evansdale Crossing Bldg Vegetarian options will be available as part of all meals provided; however, preference will be given to individuals who requested vegetarian meals during meeting registration. Posters: Posters need to be mounted on poster boards between 7:00 am and 9:30 am on Saturday, March 16. Due to space limitations, poster dimensions should be NO larger than 36 in. (width) by 42 in. (height). Pins will be available on-site. Posters need to be removed from poster boards on Sunday, March 17, between 9:30 am and 1 pm. Items remaining on display after 1 pm on Sunday will be discarded. Photographing, videotaping, or recording of any kind is prohibited (including but not limited to camera phones and digital devices). Notice to Oral Presenters: The preferred format for presentations is PowerPoint. In order to expedite sessions and remain on schedule, we ask you, if possible, to email your presentations to Michael Gutensohn ([email protected]) by 5 pm on Thursday, March 15th. Alternatively, you may bring a copy of the presentation with you on a USB Flashdrive (labeled with your name) to present at the registration check-in desk. Please name your presentation file with your name, the date you are speaking and the presentation number as listed in the meeting program. For example: Barbara Smith March 16 Talk 10. This will assist us further in making sure your presentation is uploaded to the correct session on the lecture hall computer. We ask all oral presenters to arrive 10 minutes prior to the start of their session to ensure their presentations are loaded and ready. The presentation room will have a computer, projector, screen, remote control and laser pointer for your use. 4 2019 Annual MW ASPB Meeting, West Virginia University Friday, March 15 2:00 – 4:00 Guided Tour of the WVU Evansdale Greenhouse and the International Culture Collection of (Vesicular) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM)…………………………………………………………………Meet in the Greenhouse Lobby The tour will include a visit to the new 18,615 square-foot Evansdale Greenhouse built in 2012 (https://www.davis.wvu.edu/about-davis-college/centers-initiatives/wvu-evansdale-greenhouse). The 16 bay greenhouse is conveniently located next to the Agricultural Sciences Building. The tour will also include an introduction to the INVAM (https://invam.wvu.edu/), the world’s largest collection of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Parking will be available in lot 43 across from the main entrance to the greenhouse. 2:00 – 4:00 Guided Tour of the WVU Arboretum ……………………………..…...Meet at Coliseum Parking Lot The WVU Core Aboretum is a 91 acre tract of mesophytic hardwood forest located along the bluffs and bottomlands of the Monongahela River near the WVU campus (https://arboretum.wvu.edu/). The tour will cover a ~2 mile loop, involving some rough and possibly muddy terrain. Parking is available at the WVU Coliseum, and the tour will depart from the Arboretum parking lot at 2 pm. Directions are available here: https://arboretum.wvu.edu/#map 5 Schedule of Sessions and Speakers Saturday, March 16 7:00 – 8:00 Registration/Check-in/Poster Set-up/Continental Breakfast………………..South Ag Sci Bldg 8:00 – 8:15 Welcoming Remarks ……………………………..……......…..James H. Arbuckle Lecture Hall 8:15 – 8:45 Featured Speaker – Dr. Gregg Howe, Michigan State University Plant Immunity to Insect Herbivores: The Dilemma to Grow or Defend 8:45 – 10:15 Oral Session I…………………………………...Moderator – Dr. Zhihua Hua, Ohio University 8:45 T1. Studying the metabolic crosstalk in the plant terpenoid biosynthetic network Erin Hartzell, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University 9:00 T2. Acylglucose biosynthesis: Specialized metabolic diversity in wild tomato Daniel Lybrand, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University 9:15 T3. Transporting polyamines, amino acids and GABA from the chloroplast Menaka Ariyaratne, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University 9:30 T4. Application of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology to discover biological functions of plant cell wall proteins in Arabidopsis Yuan Zhang, Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University 9:45 T5. Developing a novel protein expression system: Expression of lignolytic enzymes from white-rot fungi in Physcomitrella patens Parul Singh, Dept. of Biology, University of Louisville 10:00 T6. The biological function of Rab-GTT in Physcomitrella patens Hyun Jin Jung, Dept. of Biology, University of Louisville 10:15 – 11:30 Poster Session I