Hi.

I would be grateful for any information on whether the relatively new
GFPs, mKO2, mTFP1 and mWasabi work in Arabidopsis. Some of these are
expensive!

Best wishes,
Marcus.

Dr Marcus Heisler
Division of Biology 156-29
California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Blvd
Pasadena
California 91125 USA
Ph. 626 3956895

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to attend the Gordon Research Conference on
Plant Senescence that will be held at Mt Holyoke College, MA, USA, June
15-20, 2008.

The conference aims to discuss the most recent progress in various aspects
of plant senescence research, including as leaf senescence, fruit
ripening, flower senescence, programmed cell death, and HR. The
provisional conference program can be found at <
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=plantsen >
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=plantsen . Additional
speakers will be selected from posters.

We hope you will join us at what promises to be an excellent conference! If
interested in attending this conference, you may apply via the web site:
<http://www.grc.org/application.aspx?id=8696>http<http://www.grc.org/application.aspx?id=8696>://www.grc.org/application.aspx?id=8696

Best regards,

Susheng Gan and Helen Ougham
Co-chairs

Dear Colleagues,

Deadline of early registration and abstract submission of 5th
International Conference on Plant Metabolomics is extended until May 18th.

Registration is now open at the following site.
http://prime.psc.riken.jp/icpm2008/

Session Topics include:
Analytical technology
Bioinformatics and database
Integration of -omics & systems biology
Fundamental plant biology
Applied fields

Position Announcement:

Position: Post-doctoral research associate in rice biotechnology

Qualifications: Candidate should hold a Ph.D. in Plant Science, Botany,
Biology or a related discipline. Prior experience with tissue culture,
transformation and molecular biology is desired.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include development of regeneration
and transformation systems, genetic engineering of relevant genes, and
molecular characterization of transgenic lines. The successful candidate
must be able to independently design and conduct experiments, and
willing to work on other projects in the laboratory.

Salary: Commensurate with experience.

Application: Applicant should submit CV, statement of research interests
and the name and contact information of three references to:

The Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference will be held this year from
July 13-18, 2008. This conference has traditionally covered a range of
exciting topics and the 2008 conference will continue in that tradition.
There will be sessions on bioenergy, metabolism, new methods to study
genomes, proteomes and metabolomes, plant-microbe interactions, plant
hormones, and epigenetics. This conference is a great opportunity to become
familiar with the current state of the art in a broad range of disciplines
and to exchange ideas about what are the next major questions in plant
biology.

The program can be found at:
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008
<http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=plantmol>
&program=plantmol

Additional speakers in each session will be selected from submitted
abstracts. There will also be a poster session each day. Thus, everyone who
wants to present their science will have an opportunity to do so.

Dear Colleagues:

April 30, 2008 (this week) is the deadline for reduced rate registration to
the 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Hyatt Regency:
Montreal, Canada: July 23-27, 2008).

The current fee for students and postdocs of $450 USD and the 'regular' fee
of $575 USD will increase by $75-$100 on May 1.

Conference URL: http://www.plantconferences.org/Arabidopsis2008/

This is also the abstract submission deadline for ORAL consideration (for
Concurrent Sessions).

After April 30, all submissions will be for POSTERS only.

Housing Reservations are open. The McGill Residence is reserved for
graduate student and postdoc housing ($100 USD per night, single or double
occupancy including breakfast). The Hyatt Regency (conference site, $195
USD/night) is available to all attendees. Those making reservations at the
Hyatt by the deadline of June 18, 2008 will be entered into a drawing for a
complimentary room upgrade.

Workshop Proposals are due by May 19, 2008. 6 slots for community-proposed
and organized workshops are available. A brief application is required and
the conference committee will select up to 6 workshop proposals.

Dear Colleagues,

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this
first call for papers.

Regards,
Organizing Committee of APBC2009

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First Call for Papers - APBC2009

The Seventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2009)
Beijing, China, 13-16 January 2009
http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/apbc2009/
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The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) series, founded in 2003,
is an annual international forum for exploring research, development and
applications of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
The Seventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, APBC2009
will be held in Beijing, China, following the 2008 Olympic Games.

Dear all,

Anyone know if I could prepare DB3.1 competent cell by myself? Heat
shock or electroporation transformation? Anyone have a protocol to
transform with plasmid vector?
Are DB3.1 heat-shock competent?

How much plasmid vector and DB3.1 should i use?

Cheers,

Hongwei Hou

University of Toronto

*Molecular Dissection of LRR Receptor Function
*
A postdoctoral research position is available with Andrew Bent to
investigate the structure/function of leucine-rich repeat domains, with
particular but not exclusive emphasis on plant disease resistance
receptors such as FLS2. LRRs are common in R gene products, innate
immunity receptors, hormone receptors, proteins that control plant and
animal development, and many other proteins. We are investigating how
LRR domains work in terms of ligand specificity and signaling
activation, and are developing in vitro evolution methodologies to
generate new receptors with novel ligand specificity (new pathogen
recognition capability). Recent papers include Sun et al. (2006) Plant
Cell 18:764 and Dunning et al. (2007) Plant Cell 19:3297. See...

The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is a new multi-organizational
research center comprising world-class resources and expertise located
in one facility at Emeryville, California. The goal of JBEI is to use
rapidly advancing scientific techniques, such as systems and synthetic
biology, to accelerate development of the nation's biofuels industry.
JBEI is a U.S. Department of Energy funded Bioenergy Research Center,
managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Feedstocks Division (Plant Biology Section) at JBEI is looking for
suitable candidates to undertake research into plant cell wall
biosynthesis. Research projects include the isolating and analyzing
subcellular compartments and protein complexes in the biosynthesis of
plant cell walls; analyzing subcellular compartments using proteomic
techniques; profiling cell walls using combinations of microscopy and
available advanced imaging technologies; profiling mutants using
metabolomic, transcriptic and proteomic techniques.

For further information contact Joshua Heazlewood (JLHeazlewood@lbl.gov
lbl.gov>) or goto http://www.jbei.org/
<http://www.jbei.org>