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Symposium 2014
Arkansas P3 Symposium
Welcome Letter
Dear Colleagues:
Arkansas Center for Plant Powered Production (P3) would like to welcome you to its Seventh
(wow, hard to believe) Annual P3 Research Symposium. It is great to bring the group back to the
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and Petit Jean Mountain. This is a spectacular venue for great science and for sharing new techniques and discoveries, finding collaborators, and interfacing with
creative colleagues. Our group is pushing 120 participants that range from first-time summer
interns to established (even famous) scientists and everything in between. For the first time, the
P3 students have selected and are hosting an invited speaker, Dr. Wayne Curtis from Pennsylvania
State University. We have some great talks planned. We will learn about our new EPSCoR Track II
Project, led by two P3 faculty. And we have scheduled two evenings for our poster session -- always
our best opportunity to talk science and network.
I would like to especially thank members of our P3Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), Drs. Brenda Winkel (Virginia Tech), John Howard (Applied Biotech Institute in California), Mike Tumbleson
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and David Gang (Washington State University) for their
participation and tremendous support of P3. Everyone needs to give Lacy Nelson (UAF) a great big
shout out. Lacy has done an exceptional job of coordinating this conference and really came to
P3s rescue to make it happen. Lacy and I also want to thank Shea Harris, Shelbi Raysor and Molly
Alexander for helping to prepare everything for the symposium and keep things running smoothly. I would also like to recognize the incredible contributions of Emily Devereux, P3s wonderful
program coordinator for the last six years. We are very proud that Emily, as of July 1, is Arkansas
State Universitys new Associate Director of Research Development and Research Administration
Liaison! Hopefully all of you will have the chance to introduce yourself to Molly Alexander who has
just started as P3s new program manager.
So, with that said, I thank you all for coming and wish you a wonderfully productive and enjoyable
meeting. Please enjoy the stimulating science, the great food and comradery, and the breathtaking
views of Petit Jean Mountain and its surrounding nature.
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2:00p
2:30p
(3:00-3:30 Break)
Session I (Metabolomics)
Moderators: Carole Cramer and Steve Grace (Show Barn Hall)
3:30p
Session keynote
David Gang, Washington State University (P3 TAC), Application of omics
tools to investigate regulation of plant metabolism
4:00p
Session Talks
Fabricio Medina-Bolivar (ASU), Unraveling the biosynthesis of prenylated
stilbenoids in peanut
4:40p
4:20p
5:30p
Dinner (Conference Dining) Management Team and TAC to have dinner in the
conference room
7:00p - 8:00p Poster Session I (Governors Room)
8:50a
Session Talks
Elizabeth Hood (ASU), Biomass processing enzymes and potential co-products
Kala Rajan (UA), A step towards understanding the inhibitory effect of rice straw
hydrolyzates on commercial cellulases
9:10a
Angele Djioleu (UA), Extraction of natural products prior to saccharification could
prove beneficial for a biochemical refinery platform
(9:30-9:45 Break)
Session III (Phenomics) (Rock Theater)
Moderators: Argelia Lorence and Fiona Goggin
9:45a
10:35a
10:15a
Session Talks
Susan Lever (University of Missouri) (video lecture) -Radiochemistry capacity at MU
in support of the EPSCoR Track 2 award
10:55a
David Braun (University of Missouri) (video lecture) - Radiochemical imaging
approaches to study phloem transport in maize
1:05p
Session Talks
Karl Walker (UAPB), Protein side-chain prediction with dynamic dependence
1:45p
2:05p
3:05p
Recreation
1:25p
Xueyan Wang (UA), Global gene expression during incompatible andcompatible
host-pathogen interactions
6:00p
7:00p
Concurrent Sessions
10:00a
Keynote Speaker
Monday, July 28
The primary focus of her research group over the past 20 years
has been to understand the physical organization of metabolic
pathways in the complex and crowded environment of the
cell, with a focus on flavonoid metabolism in Arabidopsis. The
Winkel group is currently collaborating with the laboratories
of Rich Helm at Virginia Tech and of Gloria Muday and Jacque
Fetrow at Wake Forest on an NSF Arabidopsis 2010 project.
This effort involves generating transcriptome, proteome, and
metabolome data for Arabidopsis roots that are then used
to develop mathematical framework models of the auxin
and ethylene response. Dr. Winkel also has a long-standing
collaboration with Karen Brewers laboratory in the Department
of Chemistry to develop new multimetallic anti-cancer agents,
the results of which were recognized with a Popular Mechanics
Breakthrough Award in 2010. All of these projects have been
supported primarily by the National Science Foundation.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Winkel has been heavily involved
in training students, with 47 undergraduates, 21 graduate
students, and 10 postdoctoral fellows having worked in her
group. She was the founding director of the Molecular Plant
Sciences graduate program at Virginia Tech and co-PI on
an IGERT graduate program entitled, Exploring Interfaces
in Graduate Education and Research, aimed at promoting
interdisciplinary research across engineering and the sciences.
Keynote Speaker
Monday, July 28
Keynote Speaker
Monday, July 28
His research often focuses on the intersection between basic plant biology and
its application to agriculture, human health, and bioenergy, leading to several
major research areas in his lab. The first area involves the identification of
the means by which medicinal compounds are produced in plants and other
organisms and how these processes could be utilized to produce specialty
chemicals either in crop-based or fermentation based systems. The second
involves efforts to understand how metabolism is regulated, leading to
partitioning of energy and carbon to different biosynthetic pathways in plants,
with potential applications related to production of specialty fuel additives or
development of new plant and algal strains for bioenergy production. The third involves
understanding how invasive plant species are able to out-compete other organisms,
with applications related to control of major weedy species around the world.
Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, July 29
Dr. Tumbleson has coauthored more than 250 refereed journal papers and
600 scientific abstracts and presentations. He organized and chaired the
Swine in Biomedical Research international conference held in 1985 and
was the editor and compiler of a three volume treatise on Swine in Biomedical
Research. He organized and cochaired an International Symposium on
Advances in Swine in Biomedical Research held in 1995 and was coeditor
of a two volume treatise on Advances in Swine in Biomedical Research.
In 1992, 1994 and 1996, he chaired the poster sessions at the National
Corn Growers Corn Utilization Conferences IV, V and VI at St. Louis,
MO. For the 1998, 2000 and 2002 Corn Utilization and Technology
Conferences, cosponsored by CRA and NCGA, he cochaired the
meetings and coedited the proceedings. For the 2004 and 2006
Corn Utilization and Technology Conferences, he chaired the poster
session and edited the proceedings. He chaired the session on Niche
Products at the Animal Coproducts 94 conference at Kansas City, MO.
For the 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013
International Starch Technology Conferences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and
VIII, he cochaired the meetings and coedited the proceedings. For the
2010 Conversion Technologies for Biofuels Symposium, he coedited
the proceedings. In 2010, he cochaired the Near Term Opportunities
for Biorefineries Symposium. For the 2012 Science and Engineering
for a Biobased Industry Symposium, he coedited the proceedings.