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calcium in Arabidopsis

conceptual models for the circadian regulation

calmodulin (CaM) in tobacco cotyledon cells

calcium pathways in tobacco

calcium concentrations in treated protoplasts

 

 

 

 

  

Abstract submission deadline - 28 September 2007

Posters will be limited to 30 and so will be subject to a selection procedure based on submitted abstracts. Please send your abstracts according to the guidelines below by 28th September 2007. You will receive an email by 12th October 2007 informing you whether or not your abstract has been accepted and whether it has been accepted as a poster or an oral presentation.

Poster abstracts will be published in the symposium program and will be made available on the symposium website.

Grants

Grant submission deadline - 27 July 2007

We have a number of travel grants available for students and early-stage career scientists (researchers in their first post-doctoral position) wishing to attend. Each grant will consist of a free registration plus a contribution towards travel expenses (Participants from the UK £50; Europe £100; rest of the world £300 UK Sterling). If you wish to apply for a grant please accompany your poster abstract submission with a brief (no more than 200 word) statement indicating your position (graduate student/postdoc), reasons for wishing to attend and a supporting statement from a scientist who has agreed to act as a referee for your application, usually your group leader (please include their contact details). Decisions will be notified by the 10 August 2007.

Abstract guidelines

Format

  • Abstracts should be no more than 200 words and should fill a space no larger than half an A4 page
  • Single spacing, Arial font, 10 point
  • First line: title in bold lower case
  • Second line: the author(s)' name(s) in upper case. Underline the name of the author presenting the work
  • Third line: full address of the institution(s) where the work was carried out, in italic lower case
  • Leave a single line space after the address
  • Main text: provide concise details of the background and objective(s) of the investigation, methods used, results and conclusions
Example abstract:

The origin of Helianthus deserticola: survival and selection in a desert habitat
GROSS, BRIANA L., KANE, NOLAN C., LEXER, CHRISTIAN & RIESEBERG, LOREN H.
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall 142, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

The diploid hybrid species Helianthus deserticola inhabits an extreme environment relative to its parental species H. annuus and H. petiolaris. Adaptation to the arid desert floor may have occurred via the acquisition of novel phenotypes resulting from transgressive segregation in early hybrids. We have explored this possibility through a field experiment designed to test the direction and intensity of phenotypic selection, using crosses between the parental species as proxies for the ancestral genotype of the ancient hybrid species. Helianthus deserticola, H. annuus, H. petiolaris, and early-generation hybrids between H. annuus and H. petiolaris were all grown in native H. deserticola habitat, and a selection analysis revealed that several traits were subject to strong selective pressures. Several of the traits under selection were also extreme or transgressive in H. deserticola, and the range of variation present in BC2 hybrids suggests that many aspects of the H. deserticola phenotype are easily recreated. Thus, transgressive segregation may have contributed to the adaptation of H. deserticola to the desert habitat.

 

Submission

  • Abstracts should be formatted as .DOC or .RTF documents and emailed as an attachment to Helen Pinfield-Wells (newphytsymp@lancaster.ac.uk). In the subject header of the email write 18th NPS Abstract – followed by the name of the author presenting the work (e.g. 18th NPS Abstract – H Slater).
  • Receipt of abstracts will be notified by email.
  • Decision on abstract will be sent by email by the 12th October 2007 informing you whether or not your abstract has been accepted and whether it has been accepted as a poster or an oral presentation.

 
Poster guidelines

Posters should be no larger than A0 size, portrait (118 cm high x 84 cm wide)

 
 

Symposium logo Calcium signalling by Sam Day. Transgenic Arabidopsis plant being chilled, the pseudocolour represents luminesence from the jellyfish protein aequorin when it reacts with calcium, courtesy of Marc Knight. Alternative conceptual models for the circadian regulation of physiology in the extensor (a) and flexor cells (b–e) of the pulvini of legumes from Webb, 2003. Localization of calmodulin (CaM) in tobacco cotyledon cells from Snedden and Fromm, 2001. Ca2+ fluxes and Ca2+-dependent events in cryptogein-treated tobacco cells from Lecourieux et al., 2006. Abscisic acid (ABA)- and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced changes in the cytosolic calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in the protoplasts of mesophyll cells from Hu et al., 2007.