The conference will be held during June 8-10, 2008. The conference topics are: (1) biosynthesis of terpenoids; (2) biosynthesis of alkaloids; (3) biosynthesis of flavonoids; (4) biosynthesis of cell walls; (5) other natural products; (6) metabolic network; (7) metabolic engineering; (8) secondary metabolite application. The conference program includes oral and poster presentations. In addition to invited presentations, the conference will have symposia of oral presentations selected from abstract submission. Young researchers (postdoctoral scientists and graduate students), who are selected for oral presentation by the scientific advisory board, will be exempted from registration fee. The full program details will be available online by March 1.

Schedule

June 8, 2008 (Sunday)
09:00 - 22:00	Registration
18:00 - 20:00	Opening Ceremony	SITE: 一楼百花园中餐厅
20:00 - 22:00	Poster Preparation	SITE: 二楼紫云厅外
June 9, 2008 (Monday)		SITE: Ziyun Hall (二楼紫云厅)
08:45 - 10:00	Session 1: The Second Golden Age for Secondary Metabolism	Chair Person: Sheng Luan
08:45 - 09:10	Translational Genomics on a Global Scale: Working at the Plant-Human Interface	Dean DellaPenna Michigan State University, USA
09:10 - 09:35	Gossypol: Biosynthesis and Plant-Insect Interactions	Xiaoya Chen Shanghai Intstitutes of Biological Sciences, CAS, China
09:35 - 10:00	The use of regulatory genes in metabolic engineering to produce 'healthy foods'	Cathie R. Martin John Innes Centre, UK
10:00 - 10:30	Picture taking & Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:10	Session 2: Metabolomics	Chair Person: Xiaoya Chen
10:30 - 10:55	Metabolomics-a tool in diagnostics pathway detection and systems biology	Lothar Willmitzer Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, German
10:55 - 11:20	Integration of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics for Phytochemical Genomics in Arabidopsis and Non-model Plants	Kazuki Saito Chiba University, Japan
11:20 - 11:45	Integration of genome-scale proteome and gene expression information to explore metabolic pathway regulation	Gruissem Wilhelm ETH, Switzerland
11:45 - 12:10	Purification and Proteomic Analysis of Plant Trans-Golgi Network (TGN)	Liwen Jiang The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch	SITE: Western Restaurant (一楼西餐厅)
13:30 - 15:10	Session 3: Chemical Genomics and Alkaloids	Chair Person: Liwen Jiang
13:30 - 13:55	Plant endomembrane system and chemical genomics	Natasha Raikhel University of California, Riverside, USA
13:55 - 14:20	Novel Approaches for Inhibitor Screening and Target Identification using Arabidopsis Full-Length cDNA Overexpression (FOX) Lines	Yuji Kamiya RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan
14:20 - 14:45	Molecular biology and genetics of nicotine biosynthesis and transport	Takashi Hashimoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
14:45 - 15:10	Studies on the regulation of fatty acid metabolism in B. bapus seeds	Hongwei Xue Shanghai Intstitutes of Biological Sciences, CAS, China
15:10 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:35	Session 4: Natural Products and Technology	Chair Person: Hongwei Xue
15:30 - 15:55	Study of Secondary Metabolites from Medicinal Plants in Yunnan	Xiaojiang Hao Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, China
15:55 - 16:20	Strategies in the search for new bioactive plant secondary metabolites	Kurt Hostettmann University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
16:20 - 16:45	Plant secondary metabolites: from metabolic networks to volatile emission	Natalia Dudareva Purdue University, USA
16:45 - 17:10	Structure-activity relationships in the bioactivities of gallic acid metabolites and their interactions with bioplymers	Huiru Tang Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS, China
17:10 - 17:35	Navigating a Path from Metabolomics Methods to Biology	William Wikoff Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry, USA
18:00 - 20:00	Conference Dinner	SITE: 吉鑫宴舞
20:00 - 22:00	Posters Open	SITE: 二楼紫云厅外
June 10, 2008 (Tuesday)		SITE: Ziyun Hall (二楼紫云厅)
08:30 - 10:10	Session 5: Extracellular Matrix	Chair Person: Laigeng Li
08:30 - 08:55	SCA (lily Stigma/style Cysteine-rich Adhesin) and a SCA-like LTP in Arabidopsis function in plant reproduction	Betty Lord University of California, Riverside, USA
08:55 - 09:20	The Subunit Composition of Hinokiresinol Synthase Controls Both Geometric and Enantiomeric Selectivities in Hinokiresinol Formation	Toshiaki Umezawa Kyoto University, Japan
09:20 - 09:45	Genome-wide characterization of phenylpropanoid biosynthetic enzymes	Changjun Liu Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
09:45 - 10:10	Lignification and Lignin Structure in the Cell Wall and Biofuels:New Strategies for Old Problems	Norman Lewis Washington State University, USA
10:10 - 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 - 12:20	Session 6: Metabolic Engineering	Chair Person: Changjun Liu
10:40 - 11:05	Metabolic engineering of glucosinolates	Barbara Ann Halker University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11:05 - 11:30	Engineering and metabolic regulation of vitamin C biosynthesis in plants	Kexuan Tang Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
11:30 - 11:55	Genetic modifications of Nicotiana attenuata reveal functions of plant secondary metabolites in resistance to herbivory	Jianqiang Wu Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
11:55 - 12:20	Comparative genomics of secretory trichomes – biofactories for production of plant secondary metabolites	Guodong Wang Noble Foundation, USA
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch	SITE: Western Restaurant
13:30 - 15:10	Session 7: Flavanoids and Applications	Chair Person: Shan Lu
13:30 - 13:55	Molecular control of carotenoid and anthocyanin accumulation	Li Li Cornell University, USA
13:55 - 14:20	Epigenetic regulation of the carotenoid isomerase	Barry Pogson Australian National University, Australia
14:20 - 14:45	Do endophytes regulate phytochemical biosynthesis?	Renxiang Tan Nanjing University, China
14:45 - 15:10	Multiple ecological roles of linalool synthase revealed using transgenic plants	Maarten Jongsma Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands
15:10 - 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 - 17:20	Session 8: Terpenes and Vitamins	Chair Person: Kexuan Tang
15:40 - 16:05	Vitamin biofortification in China: Current and Future	Chunyi Zhang Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, China
16:05 - 16:30	Folate fortification of rice by metabolic engineering	Dominique van der Straeten Ghent University, Belgium
16:30 - 16:55	Divergent evolution of triterpenoid biosynthetic pathways in monocots	Xiaoquan Qi Beijing Institute of Botany, China
16:55 - 17:20	Platforms for Biosynthesis of Aroma-Chemical in Plants	Dongfang Chen Firmenich, Switherland
18:00 - 20:00	Dinner and Farewell Party	SITE: Western Restaurant