QMB Plants

28-29 August, Rydges Hotel Queenstown

The Plant Satellite meeting this year is going to focus on Plant Stress Responses.

Invited Speakers

Saskia Hogenhout: Phytoplasma enhances insect vector reproduction by directly manipulating plant development and defense hormone biosynthesis.
Simon Gilroy: Abiotic stress and development: links through Ca2+ and ROS-dependent signalling cassettes.
Peter Waterhouse: Roles of double-strand RNA binding motif (drb) proteins in microRNA regulation and viral infection.
Sophien Kamoun: Functional and evolutionary dynamics of Phytophthora effectors.
Jan Marc: Phospholipase-cytoskeleton interactions in environmental stress signalling networks.
Barry Pogson: A New Chloroplast - Nuclear Signalling Pathway Functions in High Light and Drought Responses in Arabidopsis.
Karam Singh: Plant resistance to sap-sucking insect pests and soil borne fungal pathogens

Organisers

Robin MacDiarmid (Plant & Food Research)
Robin is a senior scientist at Plant & Food Research where she leads the Virus and Like Organisms team. She is interested the processes by which plant viruses modify plant metabolism, how plant defences respond to virus infection, and how the infecting virus counter-attacks those defences.
Robin undertook her PhD with the University of Auckland to develop plants that were resistant to Tamarillo mosaic virus infection, then undertook two postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Robin returned to New Zealand and to Plant & Food Research in 2001.

Marion Wood (Plant & Food Research)
Marion’s primary research focus is deciphering the molecular aspects of plant dormancy in the perennial species kiwifruit, with a particular interest in the potential role of Reactive Oxygen Species as a signalling mechanism for dormancy release.
Marion obtained her PhD in Nottingham University in 1997, where she successfully isolated several nuclease proteins associated with senescence and potentially apoptotic cell death. Marion then moved to New Zealand to join Genesis Research and Development Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, as a research scientist before moving to Plant & Food Research in 2004.

Bruce Veit (AgResearch)
Bruce is a senior scientist at AgResearch, where he leads a small team focused on molecular mechanisms that regulate plant growth. Particular interests include how conserved eukaryotic pathways, which regulate cellular growth, are coupled to plant specific programmes for multicellular development.
Bruce’s research programme builds on a background in molecular genetics from University of Washington, and plant molecular biology postdoctoral experience from the University of California. Bruce moved to join AgResearch in New Zealand in 2001.

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