Abstracts Submitted for the Chlamydomonas Meeting 2008

 

 

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2008 abstracts

Abstracts in alphabetical order, by presenter

Some new abstracts were added on April 17 (Prochnik, Reifschneider, Richter, Seibert and Tokutsu) and some others have been removed because their authors will not be attending the meeting. It may take a few days for the new ones to show up in the index.

 
TOR signaling, phosphoinositols and carbon source utilization in cell growth
Garrett H. Anderson
 
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria as revealed by proteomics
Ariane Atteia
 
The expression of thiamine biosynthesis genes in wild type and pyr1 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Zetty Norhana Balia Yusof
 
Early gene duplication within Chloroplastida and its correspondence with relocation of starch metabolism to chloroplasts
S. G. Ball
 
sRNA-directed heterochromatin formation in Chlamydomonas
Andrew Bassett
 
Biochemical analysis of the carotenoid pattern in zygospores of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Matthias Bauch
 
Involvement of heme and Mg-tetrapyrroles in retrograde signaling by the chloroplast
Christoph F. Beck
 
Interaction analysis of the Chlamydomonas intraflagellar transport protein, IFT81
Ewelina Betleja
 
Overexpression of WEE1 kinase promotes resistance to DNA damage in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Kateřina Bišová
 
Acclimation to low CO2 concentrations in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A sub-organellar phosphoproteomic survey of the potential transduction pathways
Amaya Blanco-Rivero
 
Characterization of Fmg-1B, the major Chlamydomonas flagellar membrane glycoprotein
Robert A. Bloodgood
 
Generation of Chlamydomonas strains that efficiently express transgenes
Ralph Bock
 
Metabolomic analysis of sulfur deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Christian Bölling
 
Insight into the arginine biosynthetic pathway in Chlamydomonas by metabolite profiling
Christian Bölling
 
Origin and continuity of the centrosome
Michel Bornens
 
A dominant nuclear mutation in Chlamydomonas identifies a factor controlling chloroplast mRNA stability by acting on the coding region of the petA transcript
A. Boulouis
 
Identification and localization of novel basal body proteins
Kerstin Brachhold
 
Ferritin is required for rapid remodeling of the photosynthetic apparatus and minimizes photo-oxidative stress in response to iron-availability in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Andreas Busch
 
Mitochondrial respiratory-chain deficiencies lead to a severe growth delay of state-transition-deficient mutants
P. Cardol
 
Multiple chloroplast signals are involved in nuclear gene expression
Mauro Ceol
 
Small RNA-guided gene silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas
H. Cerutti
 
Genetic control of light-independent chlorophyll biosynthesis in C. reinhardtii
Elena Chekunova
 
Screening of Chlamydomonas mutants affected in starch breakdown and H2 production
Vincent Chochois and Laure Constans
 
Regulation of cytochrome f expression
Yves Choquet
 
Chlamydomonas as a model system for understanding evolutionary responses of marine phytoplankton to global change
Sinéad Collins
 
Study of the catalytic properties of different β-carotene oxygenases (bkt) for their expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Inmaculada Couso
 
Starch and glycogen phosphorylases play opposite functions in reserve polysaccharide metabolisms
D. Dauvillée
 
Preliminary characterization of the Chlamydomonas thylakoid-associated kinase Stl1
Christian Delessert
 
A novel c-type cytochrome maturation system is required for oxygenic photosynthesis
Catherine de Vitry
 
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a useful model system for the study of target of rapamycin (TOR) signalling in photosynthetic eukaryotes
Sandra Diaz-Troya
 
New aspects of the interplay of proton, electron and metabolite supply for photosynthetic H2 production in C. reinhardtii
A. Doebbe
 
Biogenesis and assembly of the chloroplast ATP synthase of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: study of mutants with new phenotypes
Dominique Drapier
 
Anaerobic adaptation in a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant lacking hydrogenase activity
Alexandra Dubini
 
Regulation and function of photo-oxidative stress induced crGPX5/GPXH in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Rik I.L. Eggen
 
IFT raft size scales inversely with flagellar length
Benjamin D. Engel
 
Chemotaxis to ammonium and ammonium transport in Chlamydomonas
E.V. Ermilova
 
Nitrate assimilation in Chlamydomonas as a model system to other organisms
Emilio Fernández
 
Metal-regulated gene expression waves in Chlamydomonas
Paola Ferrante and Claudia Catalanotti
 
The Volvox carteri mating locus
Patrick Ferris
 
Expression of foreign proteins in chloroplasts: a novel approach using D1-protein fusions
Dirk Fischer
 
Cloning gamete fusion genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Charlene L. Forest
 
Changes in chloroplast physiology and whole cell protein profiles of Chlamydomonas mutants under high light and oxidative stress
Britta Förster
 
The systems biology of Chlamydomonas phototaxis as determined by electric current and ciliary beating
Kenneth W. Foster
 
Automated tracing of the axes of beating Chlamydomonas cilia
Kenneth W. Foster
 
Importance of the alternative pathway of respiration for avoidance of ROS production and for optimisation of photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas
Fabrice Franck
 
Genes associated with the induction of the carbon-concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Functional roles of CCM1 and LCIB in photosynthetic acclimation to CO2-limiting stress
Hideya Fukuzawa
 
Dissection of cyclic nucleotide signaling pathways in flagellar axonemes of Chlamydomonas
Anne Gaillard
 
The Chlamydomonas NRT2 genes and the complexity of the nitrate/nitrite transport control in a single cell
Aurora Galván
 
Towards an action spectrum for photoentrainment of the Chlamydomonas circadian clock
Christa Gaskill
 
Towards unravelling the chloroplast spliceosome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Stephanie Glanz
 
Algal hydrogen photoproduction: properties and applications
Maria Ghirardi
 
Homeoproteins, sex, and the algal/land-plant divergence
Ursula Goodenough
 
Toward a genomic analysis of the mating type locus of Gonium pectorale (Volvocales, Chlorophyta)
Takashi Hamaji
 
Characterization of the key enzymes involved in hydrogen production in green algae
Thomas Happe
 
Expression analysis of the regA group VARL genes: implications for VARL function in cellular differentiation
Alexandra Harryman
 
Channelrhodopsin-1 initiates phototaxis and photophobic responses in Chlamydomonas by immediate light-induced depolarization
Peter Hegemann
 
The requirement of the METE isoform of methionine synthase for vitamin B12 independence in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
K.E. Helliwell
 
Chlamydomonas – a survivalist under anaerobic conditions
A. Hemschemeier
 
Consequences and repair of double-strand breaks in CpDNA
David Herrin
 
Estimation of divergence times in the volvocine algae
Matthew D. Herron
 
Mechanism for establishing the 9-fold symmetry of the centriole structure - A role of the cartwheel
Masafumi Hirono
 
Towards experimental verification of protein coding transcripts and comprehensive metabolic network modeling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Erik F.Y. Hom
 
Ycf12 is a new reaction center component in Chlamydomonas photosystem II
Natsuko Inoue-Kashino
 
Intraflagellar transport (IFT) components IFT139A and IFT144A function in the same pathway to regulate retrograde movement and stability of IFT particles
Carlo Iomini
 
Structural analysis of dynein arms from Chlamydomonas flagella revealed by electron cryo-tomography
Takashi Ishikawa
 
The novel anaerobically induced ferredoxin of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jessica Jacobs
 
Techniques to study input and output pathways of the circadian clock in Chlamydomonas
Sigrid Jacobshagen
 
Omics in algae: transcriptomics and metabolomics of the cadmium exposed green freshwater alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
A. Jamers
 
A novel nucleus-encoded, chloroplastic NAD(P)H dehydrogenase is involved in non-photochemical plastoquinone reduction and in the control of state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Frédéric Jans
 
Chloroplast Fe(III) chelate reductase activity is essential for seedling viability under iron limiting conditions
Jeeyon Jeong
 
Complementation to identify novel nuclear genes implicated in photosynthesis
Xenie Johnson
 
Ezy2, a "destroyer" candidate for chloroplast DNA uniparental inheritance in Chlamydomonas
Sunjoo Joo
 
Putative β-1-2-arabinosyltransferases in Chlamydomonas
Philipp Kaiser
 
Mutants that lack PACRG, a highly conserved axonemal protein, produce flagella defective in intra-doublet structures
Ritsu Kamiya
 
Outer arm dynein regulation through a motor-light chain-tubulin ternary complex
Stephen M. King
 
Knockout of Pi transporter gene and arsenate uptake in Chlamydomonas
Isao Kobayashi
 
Analysis of the eyespot phosphoproteome from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
G. Kreimer
 
The cytosolic translation repressor NAB1 as a control switch for light-harvesting
Olaf Kruse
 
Construction and characterization of a full-length cDNA library in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Takeaki Kubo
 
A novel pathway of cytochrome c biogenesis is involved in the assembly of the cytochrome b6f complex in Arabidopsis chloroplasts
Richard Kuras
 
The ultrastructure of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant strain lacking phytoene synthase resembles that of a colorless alga
Sydney Kustu
 
Protein interactions among eyespot proteins
Mary Rose Lamb
 
Insights into light-dependent hydrogen production and fermentation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by analyses of gene regulation
Camilla Lambertz
 
Investigating the function of the atypical F1F0-ATP synthase subunit ASA7
Marie Lapaille
 
Chlamydomonas Resource Center
Matt Laudon
 
A novel cDNA expression vector based on the Chlamydomonas FLA14s gene
Karl Lechtreck
 
Novel approaches for generating and manipulating diploids of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jae-Hyeok Lee
 
Comparative analysis of transcription factor profile among green genomes
Jae-Hyeok Lee
 
Identification of candidate chimeric hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein (HRGP) encoding genes in cell-wall less prasinophytes, Ostreococcus and Micromonas, using bioinformatics
Jae-Hyeok Lee
 
Rapidly-evolving low-complexity regions (LCRs) in a subset of sex-related genes
Jae-Hyeok Lee
 
Redox regulation by glutathionylation and glutaredoxins in Chlamydomonas
Stéphane D. Lemaire
 
Characterization of the chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 involved in state transitions
Sylvain Lemeille
 
Attempts to knock down the expression of key carotenogenic enzymes
R. León
 
Genetic studies of light-regulated translation of psbA mRNA
E. Levin
 
Novel cell size checkpoint regulators in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Yubing Li
 
Massive accumulation of ketocarotenoids in zygospores of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Martin Lohr
 
Chlamyrhodopsin 5 and 6 - enzymatically active rhodopsins
Meike Luck
 
Architectural analysis of intraflagellar transport complex B
Ben Lucker
 
The regulation of zinc homeostasis
Davin Malasarn
 
A genetic suppressor approach of the c-type cytochrome maturation system involved in the assembly of the cytochrome b6f complex in Chlamydomonas
Alizée Malnoë
 
Selection of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants with reduced antenna size for improved growth in photobioreactors
Manuela Mantelli
 
Steady-state levels of imported tRNAs in Chlamydomonas mitchondria are correlated with both cytosolic and mitochondrial codon usages
Laurence Marechal-Drouard
 
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitoproteome adaptation in response to the absence of the energy-dissipating alternative oxidase
Gregory Mathy
 
Systematic identification of circadian clock components in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Takuya Matsuo
 
Subunit 4 of cytochrome c oxidase is required for expression of coxI in Chlamydomonas
Chloe McCann
 
Mutants defective in the methylation of Mg-protoporphyrin IX reveal interaction of Mg-protoporphyrin IX monomethyl transferase with GUN4
Linda Meinecke
 
Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life
Richard E. Michod
 
A new laboratory photobioreactor for measurements of hydrogen evolution by Chlamydomonas at atmospheric pressure
Emmanuel Mignolet
 
Characterization of Volvox carteri DP1, a conserved cell cycle transcription factor that interacts with the asymmetric division protein GlsA
Stephen M. Miller
 
Molecular remodeling of Photosystem II during state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jun Minagawa
 
Analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants affected in the state transition process
Stéphane Miras
 
Biochemical characterization of a plastidic chaperonin as a putative organellar splicing factor of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Arti Mishra
 
Mutations defining the pathway of outer row dynein assembly
David R. Mitchell
 
Cytoskeletal asymmetry influences eyespot localization in Chlamydomonas
Telsa M. Mittelmeier
 
Developing artificial microRNA as a highly-specific, high throughput silencing system in Chlamydomonas
Attila Molnar
 
Vitamin B1 metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is regulated by a riboswitch mediated feedback loop
Michael Moulin
 
Acquiring anti oxidative activity sensitizes phytoplankton cells to oxidative stress and programmed cell death
Omer Murik
 
Engineering light energy capture – Approaches to reduce the LHC antenna size in C. reinhardtii
J.H. Mussgnug
 
Channelrhodopsins from C. reinhardtii: Characterization and applications
G. Nagel
 
Characterization of the mechanosensitive channel MSC1 and MSC3 in Chlamydomonas
Yoshitaka Nakayama
 
Chlamydomonas as a model-system for programmed cell death research
Aurora M. Nedelcu
 
Improved hydrogen production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
David Nelson
 
Regulatory complexes for postrancriptional steps of chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas
Jörg Nickelsen
 
Structural insights into a Ycf4-containing protein complex involved in Chlamydomonas Photosystem I assembly
Jon Nield
 
InvE, a MAP kinase, regulates cell elongation required for morphogenesis in Volvox embryos
Ichiro Nishii
 
Volvox InvD is a novel protein essential for cell shape change during inversion
Ichiro Nishii
 
invD and invE genes control the change in cell shape that is required for inversion of Volvox embryos
Ichiro Nishii
 
Repression of translation caused by antisense transcripts in chloroplasts
Yoshiki Nishimura
 
Function of VIPP1 (vesicle-inducing protein in plastids) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
André Nordhues
 
A new monoecious species of "true" Volvox with "almost male" colonies
Hisayoshi Nozaki
 
Functional characterization of stress-induced light-harvesting proteins in C. reinhardtii
E. Ostendorf
 
Quantitative estimation of LHCI subunits in the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Shin-ichiro Ozawa
 
Chlamydomonas phosphorylates the depolymerizing kinesin MCAK during flagellar detachment and transports it into flagella during flagellar shortening
Junmin Pan
 
Flagellar targeting of a 70kD protein during fertilization in Chlamydomonas
Junmin Pan
 
Characterization of a homologue of microtubule depolymerizer during flagellar disassembly in Chlamydomonas
Junmin Pan
 
Microtubule plus end-tracking proteins (TIPs) in cilia and flagella
Lotte Pedersen
 
A type II NAD(P)H dehydrogenase in Chlamydomonas chloroplasts
Gilles Peltier
 
Analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants altered in hydrogen metabolism
Gabriele Philipps
 
The uni2 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii provides insights into the pathway of axonemal assembly
Brian Piasecki
 
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Mary Porter
 
Comparative genomics of Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: clues to the evolution of algal multicellularity
Simon Prochnik
 
A complex system of small RNAs in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Yijun Qi
 
Conditional vitamin-mediated repression of chloroplast gene expression in C. reinhardtii
Silvia Ramundo
 
P700 is not the primary electron donor in Photosystem I: a new model of charge separation
Kevin Redding
 
Degradation of Photosystem I: role of a DegP homolog and a multi-protein complex
Kiera Reifschneider
 
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: a promising system to reconstruct human pathogenic mutations in mitochondrial complex I genes
Claire Remacle
 
ARG9 encodes the chloroplast localized acetylornithine aminotransferase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Claire Remacle
 
Analysis of the cpSRP of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Christina Richter
 
Screening of photosynthesis/respiration ratio Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants for sustained hydrogen production
Thilo Rühle
 
Helical rearrangement of the axonemal components in Chlamydomonas flagella coupled with Ca2+ concentrations revealed by X-ray fiber diffractions
Hitoshi Sakakibara
 
Study of the mitochondrial tRNA import channel in Chlamydomonas: role of the VDAC proteins
Thalia Salinas
 
Viagra on Chlamydomonas mating
Jureepan Saranak
 
cAMP regulation of phototaxis in Chlamydomonas
Jureepan Saranak
 
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Mesorhizobium loti as a model system for a novel symbiosis
Severin Sasso
 
Investigations on regulation of photosynthesis and photoprotection in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with special regard to systems biology
Stephanie Schlede, Saskia Rheinhardt, and Heiko Lokstein
 
Characterisation of Chlamydomonas VIPP2
Stefan Schmollinger
 
Assistance for a chaperone: Chlamydomonas HEP2 activates plastidic HSP70B for cochaperone binding
Michael Schroda
 
Dissection of the heat stress response in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Miriam Schulz-Raffelt
 
Posttrancriptional control of psbD gene expression in Chlamydomonas
Christian Schwarz
 
Photo-oxidative stress and chloroplast DNA mutation
Barbara B. Sears
 
Flexibility of algal anaerobic metabolism: relevance to hydrogen production
Michael Seibert
 
Temperature integration of the circadian RNA-binding protein CHLAMY1
Stefanie B. Seitz
 
The characterization of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants with the role in DNA-damage dependent cell-cycle regulation
Andrea Sevcovicova
 
A codon-optimized luciferase from Gaussia princeps facilitates the in vivo monitoring of gene expression in the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Ning Shao
 
Assaying the redox state of Stt7 protein kinase
Alexey Shapiguzov
 
Epigenetic mechanisms of transcriptional gene silencing in Chlamydomonas elucidated through genetic and functional genomics approaches
Scott Shaver
 
DNA damage accumulation in zygospores of the facultatively sexual green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Deborah E. Shelton
 
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: a new model for lipid storage studies
Magali Siaut
 
β-Tocopherol is better than α -tocopherol at protecting Chlamydomonas reinhardtii from photo-oxidative stress
Anchalee Sirikhachornkit
 
Toward zinc finger nucleases-mediated gene targeting in Chlamydomonas
Irina Sizova
 
Competition for space on the cytoplasm membrane in a multi-stress environment?
Elly Spijkerman
 
Functional explorations of chloroplast poly(A) polymerase and polynucleotide phosphorylase
David B. Stern
 
Evidence for a role of heat shock factors in HSP70A promoter mediated activation of transgene expression
Daniela Strenkert
 
Regulation of hydrogenase gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Xiaoqing Sun
 
Determination of antenna size of PSI-LHCI supercomplex associating CP26, CP29 and Lhcbm5 from Chlamydomonas cells locked in State 2
Hiroko Takahashi
 
Dynamics of Photosystem I structure and function
Yuichiro Takahashi
 
Identification of target genes regulated by the Length Regulatory Complex in Chlamydomonas
Lai-Wa Tam
 
Comparative proteomics to investigate protein expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in response to anaerobic growth conditions
Mia Terashima
 
State transitions are prevented by suppression of minor LHCII CP29 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
R. Tokutsu
 
Chlorophyll fluorescence based screening of Chlamydomonas mutants affected in redox homeostasis and hydrogen production
Dimitri Tolleter
 
Idaten, a novel active Volvox transposable element, is a useful tool for gene tagging
Noriko Ueki
 
InvB, a nucleotide sugar transporter-deficient mutant in Volvox shows abnormal morphogenesis
Noriko Ueki
 
A screen for targets of the RB tumor suppressor pathway in Chlamydomonas
James G. Umen
 
The role of conserved cysteine residues in Fe/S cluster binding to the CIA-protein Nar1
Eugen Urzica
 
Comparison and estimation of MAP kinase functions in algae and higher plants
Shoji Usami
 
Strategies to investigate the cartwheel proteome: unravelling the nine-fold symmetry of the centriole
Nelli Vardanyan
 
Dissecting protein N-glycosylation pathways in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Novel decorations in a green background
Arsenio Villarejo
 
Timing of cell division in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as affected by temperature
Milada Vítová
 
Hydroxyproline-O-glycosylation in the Volvocales
Sabine Waffenschmidt
 
Inducible expression of a recalcitrant protein, DILP, in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with the Nac2 inducible chloroplast gene expression system
Richard Wagner
 
A phosphoproteome analysis of the flagella from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Volker Wagner
 
Structural and biochemical properties of the outer-dynein-arm docking complex (ODA-DC) studied using recombinant proteins
Ken-ichi Wakabayshi
 
Essential role of γ-secretase during fertilization in the unicellular green alga
Qian Wang
 
IFT particles and a cilium-generated signaling in Chlamydomonas
Qian Wang
 
The dynamics of Ca2+ signalling in Chlamydomonas - rapid elevations in cytosolic Ca2+ underlie flagellar excision
Glen L. Wheeler
 
Characterization of the chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 involved in state transitions
Adrian Willig
 
A PsbP-like protein (PsbP2) is required for the photosynthetic growth of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Ken Wilson
 
Towards Chlamydomonas nuclear proteomics: Optimizing the isolation of nuclei
F.V. Winck
 
Defining I1-dynein interactions - IC97 interacts with both regulatory and structural components of I1 and the axoneme
Maureen Wirschell
 
Chlamydomonas as a model for hydrocephalus
George B. Witman
 
Identificaiton of three minor inner-arm dynein heavy chains in Chlamydomonas flagella
Toshiki Yagi
 
Heterochromatinization of inverted repeat transgene and candidate genes related to its transcriptional repression
Tomohito Yamasaki
 
Regulation of 9+2 flagellar beating
Pinfen Yang
 
Flagellar mutants reveal the role of LC8 for the assembly of molecular complexes
Pinfen Yang
 
PPR2 encodes a calcium channel gene responsible for photophobic response
Kenjiro Yoshimura
 
An endogenous oscillator is not involved in the timing of cell division in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Vilém Zachleder
 
Expression of vitamin B12 enzymes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtiichloroplast
Zarina Zainuddin
 
RNA granules transiently receive chloroplast mRNAs from polysomes during stress
William Zerges
 
Deletion of the Chlamydomonas nuclear gene phot1 by site directed gene targeting
Boris Zorin