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*8:45am* *Welcome* Chair: Joe Ecker, Ph.D., The Salk Institute, HHMI *Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.* President, The Salk Institute
*8:55 am*	Steve Kay, Ph.D. President, Scripps Research Institute	“Joanne Chory – Innovating and Impacting the future of Plant Science”
*Light Signaling: Then and Now* Chair: Michael Neff, Ph.D., Washington State University
9:10 am	Jason Reed, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“The long and short of hypocotyls”
9:30 am	Christian Fankhauser, Ph.D. Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne	“From PKS1 and HFR1 to the study of phototropism and shade-avoidance”
9:50 am	Eirini Kaiserli, Ph.D. University of Glasgow	“Light and flowering regulators convene in nuclear photobodies”
10:10 am	Ullas Pedmale, Ph.D. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	“The reds and the blues of the shade avoidance response”
*10:30 am Coffee Break*
*Auxin and the Shade Avoidance Response: Then and Now* Chair: Ben Cole, Ph.D., Joint Genome Institute, San Francisco
10:50 am	Meng Chen, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside	“Signaling output mechanisms of plant phytochromes”
11:10 am	Yunde Zhao, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego	“Regulation of auxin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis”
11:30 am	Jennifer Nemhauser, Ph.D. University of Washington	“Seven things I learned from Joanne”
11:50 am	Zuyu Zheng, Ph.D. The Salk Institute	“Auxin metabolic pathways modulate plant shade avoidance responses”
*12:10 pm Lunch – Foyer*
*Brassinosteroids: The Chory Lab Cleans Up!* Chairs: Ana Caño-Delgado, Ph.D., Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona Yanhai Yin, Ph.D., Iowa State University
1:10 pm	Jianming Li, Ph.D UM-Peking University Joint Institute, University of Michigan	“Regulation of BIN2 activity by brassinosteroids”
1:30 pm	Zhiyong Wang, Ph.D. Carnegie Institute for Science, Stanford University	“Brassinosteroid signaling and beyond”
1:50pm	Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Ph.D. Israel Institute of Technology	“Understanding coherent growth: brassinosteroid activity gets context”
2:10 pm	Xuelu Wang, Ph.D. Huazhong Agricultural University	“Brassinosteroids control plant architecture through cell cycle regulation in monocots”
2:30 pm	Michael Hothorn, Ph.D. University of Geneva, Switzerland	“Plant membrane signal transduction by LRR receptor kinases”
*From Retrograde Signaling to Chloroplast Quality Control* Chair: Hsou-min Li, Ph.D., Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2:50 pm	Åsa Strand, Ph.D. Umeå University, Sweden	“Chloroplast development; a tale of two genomes”
3:10 pm	Jesse Woodson, Ph.D. The Salk Institute	“Balancing energy production with stress: Chloroplasts as environmental sensors”
*3:30 pm Coffee Break*
*We Go Full Circle: Light Signaling Variation in the Natural World* Chair: Olivier Loudet, Ph.D., IJPB, France
3:50 pm	Julin Maloof, Ph.D. University of California, Davis	“Exploring natural variation in tomato shade avoidance”
4:10 pm	Justin Borevitz, Ph.D. Center for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Australian National University	“20 years of Arabidopsis natural variation Genomics2Phenomics2Climate”
*Closing Remarks* Chair: Todd Mockler, Ph.D., Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
4:30pm	Detlef Weigel, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology	“Looking Back and Looking Ahead

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