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Workshop 2: Circadian Clocks in Plants and Fungi

Schedule
Monday, October 25
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-9:30am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:30-10:30am Jay Dunlap - Genetic and Molecular Dissection of the Neurospora Circadian Oscillatory System: Genetics, Proteomics, and Epigenetics
10:45-11:30am Woody Hastings - Circadian Control at the Post-Transcriptional Level: the Gonyaulax story
11:45-12:15pm Break
12:15-1:00pm Daniel Forger - Design Principles of Circadian Clocks
1:15-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-2:45pm Treenut Saithong - Multi-loop Structure in Plant Circadian Clock
3:00-3:30pm Discussion: How to optimise this week's interactions between wet and dry
3:30-5:30pm Reception and poster session:
Posters:
Daniel SC Damineli - When zeitgebers compete, we win! Unraveling the structure of two-oscillator systems using conflicting environmental cues
5:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, October 26
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-10:00am Deborah Bell-Pedersen - How Fungi Keep Time: Circadian Oscillators And Rhythmic Outputs
10:15-11:00am David Somers - Post-translational processes in the control of the Arabidopsis circadian clock
11:15-11:45am Break
11:45-12:30pm
12:45-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-2:45pm Michael Brunner - Photo-Adaptation and Light Entrainment in Neurospora: VIVID Memories of Days Gone By
3:00-3:45pm Chris Hong - Mathematical modeling of cell cycle and circadian rhythms as a coupled oscillator
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:00pm Working discussion: What's the role of multiple feedback loops and how do they regulate circadian behaviour? What drives complexity?
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, October 27
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-10:00am Jennifer Loros - Temperature and the Neurospora Clock
10:15-11:00am Peter Gould - Network changes in response to temperature driving a ROBuST circadian clock
11:15-11:45am Break
11:45-12:30pm Peter Ruoff - Homeostatic and Oscillatory Mechanisms in Plant and Fungal Nitrate Assimilation
12:45-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-2:45pm David Rand - Can mathematical analysis help uncover the design principles behind circadian rhythms?
3:00-3:45pm Stuart Brody - Amplitude/Temperature-Compensation: Data and Models
3:45-4:15pm Break
4:15-5:00pm Working discussion: How do circadian clocks keep a near constant period despite a widely changing environmental conditions?
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, October 28
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-10:00am Tanya Leise - Wavelet Analysis of Circadian Oscillations
10:15-11:00am Didier Gonze - Modeling the mammalian circadian clock: from single cells to cell populations
11:15-11:45am Break
11:45-12:30pm Gisele Oda - Understanding Conflicting Zeitgeber Experiments
12:45-2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-2:45pm David Lubensky - Molecular synchronization oscillators in vitro and in vivo: The example of the Kai system
3:00-3:45pm Siren Veflingstad - Global control of rhythmic gene expression by the transcription factor LHY
3:45-4:15pm Break
4:15-5:00pm Kwangwon Lee - Characterizing a phase QTL gene in linkage group 6 of Neurospora crassa
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, October 29
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-10:00am Eva Farre - PRRs directly regulate the expression of output genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
10:15-11:00am Yi Liu - Post-translational and Post-transcriptional control of the Neurospora circadian clock
11:15-11:30am Break
11:30-12:15am Qiong Yang: Circadian gating of cell divisions revealed in single cyanobacterial cells
12:30pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)