Tuesday, 17 October 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Salon H (Doubletree Hotel at Reid Park)
Biochemical Pathways and Natural Products
Organizer:Vahe Bandarian
Presider:Vahe Bandarian
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMEvolution of Novel Enzymatic Function for New Biosynthetic Pathways
Vahe Bandarian, J. E. Spoonamore, A. L. Dahlgran, S. D. Morrison, J. Hernandez, J. S. Kim, N. E. Jacobsen
9:15 AMGenetics of radicicol biosynthesis in Chaetomium chiversii
Istvan Molnar, Leslie Gunatilaka
9:55 AMEffect of metal ions on polyketide biosynthesis in Paraphaeosphaeria quadriseptata
Priyani A. Paranagama, E. M. Kithsiri Wijeratne, A. A. Leslie Gunatilaka
10:15 AMBreak
10:40 AMBiosynthesis of curcuminoids and gingerols: Identification of curcuminoid synthase and hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA thioesterases
Maria del Carmen Ramirez-Ahumada, Barbara N. Timmermann, David R. Gang
11:20 AMMetabolic profiling of in vitro micropropagated and conventionally greenhouse grown ginger (Zingiber officinale Rrosc.)
Xiaoqiang Ma, David R. Gang
11:40 AMComparative genomics of transcriptional control of plant specialized metabolism
Eric McDowell, Jeremy Kapteyn, David R. Gang

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