The  Plant  Genome  Research  Program  presents  

The 13th Annual Student Symposium

Wednesday August 6, 2014 Boyce Thompson Institute

Auditorium 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Poster Session 12:30 - 2:30 pm First Floor Lobby: Cairo Archer (Jander) high school Understanding the roles of the benzoxazinoid genes Bx10a, Bx10b, and Bx10c in maize-aphid resistance Rachel Blakely (Fei) Identification of copy number variations (CNVs) in wild and Eurasian cucumber populations John Debbie (Martin) high school Variation in the FLS3 gene Benjamin Eisenhut (Stern) high school Forward and reverse genetics for determining the genes involved in Rubisco assembly in Setaria vidiris and Arabidopsis thaliana Elise Reynolds (Jander) high school Natural variability in jasmonic acid signaling among maize parental NAM lines John Schafer (Stern) high school Finding genes involved with biogenesis of Rubisco through the process of forward genetics in Setaria viridis and reverse genetics in Arabidopsis thaliana Nathan Wojtyna (Stern) Insertion of the Botryococcene genes into the nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Second Floor Mezzanine: Syed Ather (Fei) RNA-Seq analysis to identify lncRNAs and cis-natural antisense transcript (cis-NAT) involved in tomato ripening Javon Mullings (Mueller) Multi gene analysis tool for virus induced gene silencing Shannon Murphy (Fleming/ Educational Outreach) Growing fuel to expand STEM education Meeta Shrivasatva (Popescu) high school Targeting the role of kinases in tomato PAMP-triggered immunity Angela Zhang (Mueller) Transcriptome characterization and evolution in cultivated and wild tomato species Becky Hang Zhong (Van Eck) Comparison of effectiveness in gene silencing of phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene through RNAi and CRISPR techniques

Student Presentations  Session 1

9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:10 am Carin Ragland (Harrison) Identifying AM symbiosis genes in Medicago truncatula through reverse genetics

9:25 am Imani Bunn (Doyle) Characterizing the diversity of NFR5 in Glycine subgenus Glycine

9:40 am Jonnathan Gonzalez (Jander) Potato overcompensation growth response to Guatemalan tuber moth infection

9:55 am Felix Fernandez Penny (Jander) Transient expression in Milkweed

10:10 am Katerina Lay (Kochian) The role of aquaporins in the aluminum tolerance of Oryza sativa

10:25 am Nathan Madonich (Kochian) Developing a protocol to screen Bangladeshi rice accessions for salinity tolerance

Session 2 10:45 am Elise Viox (Martin) Characterization of the flagellin-

derived MAMP flgII-28 and its perception in various cultivars of tomato

11:00 am Danielle Garceau (VanWijk) Analysis of Arabidopsis triple mutant of plastoglobule-localized ABC1 Kinases 1/3/6

11:15 am William Ricci (Popescu) Investigating the role of salicylic acid-binding proteins in photo-oxidative stress

11:30 am Kevin Coe (Giovannoni) Investigating FBOX protein interactions with ethylene receptors via targeted yeast two hybrid assays

11:45 am Jonathan Peralta (Giovannoni) More than meets the eye: Identifying unique carotenoid QTLs in S. habrochaites tomato introgression lines

Session 3

2:00 pm Jade Dyson (Hanson) The effect of novel proteins on RNA editing

2:15 pm Gabrielle Whitney (Pawlowski) The role of meiosis-specific long intergenic non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

2:30 pm Amy Bump (Richards) Phenotypic and genetic instability of a gene duplication in Arabidopsis thaliana

2:45 pm Anna Marks (Roeder) Transcription Factor ATML1 is needed for giant cell patterning on the Arabidopsis sepal

3:15 pm Jacob Robertson (Rose) Evaluating Arabidopsis thaliana roots as a model system to study catecholamine action in plants

Welcome and Session 1: 9:00 – 10:25 am

Break: 10:25 – 10:45 am

Session 2: 10:45 – 12:00 pm

Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 pm Atrium

Poster Session 12:30 – 2:30 pm

Session 3: 2:00 – 3:15 pm

Reception: 3:15 pm

Awards: 3:30 pm

Symposium Schedule of Events

Talk Judges Poster Judges Natalie Henkhaus Shawn Kenaley

Penelope Lindsay Suzy Strickler

Vered Tzin

Kevin Hines Georg Jander Paven Kumar Mischa Olsen Alexa Schmitz

This year’s symposium was made possible by the generous support of Greg Galvin. Special thanks to the NSF’s Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), Carolyn

Sampson, and the Ithaca Garden Club for supporting undergraduate and high school internships at BTI, Cornell, and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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