Saturday, June 4,
2011
WORKSHOP FOR HIGH
SCHOOL AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATORS
Conveners: Margaret Young, Elizabeth City State University, and Ronald Blackmon, Elizabeth City State University
10:00 am – 3:30 pm Education Workshop Room
304
This workshop is geared towards high school and undergraduate
educators however, middle school teachers are welcome to attend. In
addition, graduate professionals, especially those interested in a career in
academia will be able to extract useful information from this workshop.
It is critical that the latest innovations and resources in science and in
vitro biology are available to educators. It is also important that
science professionals interact with and are able to translate complex
discoveries into simple key concepts. This workshop will introduce the
latest technologies that are available for in vitro plant and animal
science which will fit within the educational core curriculum. We intend
to have hands on science demonstrations as well as the availability of science
kits.
10:00 Welcome and Introductions (M.
Young and R. Blackmon)
10:30 Demonstration 1 (Plant Based)
11:15 Demonstration 2 (Animal Based)
12:00 Demonstration 3 (Plant Based)
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch Provided/Meet & Greet
1:30 Demonstration 4 (Animal Based)
2:15 Demonstration 5 (Plant Based)
3:00 Demonstration 6 (Animal Based)
3:30 Wrap up
WORKSHOP ON
ADVANCES IN COTTON BIOTECHNOLOGY
Convener: Sergei Krasnyanski, North Carolina State University
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Plant Symposium Off
Property at Cotton Inc.
For
advance ticket holders only
One of the most
important goals that all agriculture-related industries are constantly trying
to achieve is sustainability. Today the cotton industry is developing and
putting in use new technologies, methods and new applications for the cotton
plant to meet current needs for production and profit. Continued creation and
utilization of advanced knowledge in agricultural sciences and plant cell
molecular biology and biotechnology are imperative for further improvement of
the cotton plant and its productivity. Constant affords in genetic improvement
of cotton are targeting enhanced yield, improved fiber quality, resistance to
insects and diseases and increased tolerance of cotton to abiotic
stress. Some advances and limitations of such efforts will be covered in relevant
presentations followed by round table discussion. This event is an off-property
workshop and runs from 3:00 - 7:00 pm. There is no fee to attend this workshop;
however, attendance is limited and you must pre-register if you wish to attend
3:00 Buses leave Raleigh Convention
Center for Cotton Inc.
3:35 P-1 Cotton
Transformation in Plant Transformation Lab – Ambition or Reality
Sergei Krasnyanski, North
Carolina State University
4:00 P-2 Cotton
Transgenics Derived from Embryogenic
Cell Lines
Kent Chapman, University of North Texas
4:25 P-3 Genetic
Engineering of a Cotton Plant: Progress and the Remaining
Bottlenecks, a
Quarter of a Century Later
Keerti
S. Rathore, Texas
A&M University
4:50 P-4 Silencing
of the Pests
C. L. Niblett, Venganza
Inc.
5:15 P-5 Biotechnological
Strategies to Test Cotton Gene Function and Improve Fiber Quality
Candace H. Haigler, North Carolina
State University
5:45 Discussion
5:55 Dinner
6:40 Return
to Raleigh Convention Center
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 2011 IN
VITRO BIOLOGY MEETING Ballroom C
WELCOME
RECEPTION
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CITY OF OAKS SILENT AUCTION KICKOFF Ballroom C
Saturday, June 4
Even Poster Authors
will be present
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm