Progress 09/01/04 to 08/31/05
Outputs
The grant was written to support a symposium entitled "Drying Without Dying: The Comparative Mechanisms and Constraints of Desiccation Tolerance in Plants, Microbes and Animals" that took place at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in San Diego from January 4th-8th 2005. The organizer was Peter Alpert along with co-organizers Mel Oliver, James Clegg, and Brent Mishler. The $4000 budget was used to offset the travel costs of the symposium speakers, both domestic and international. The speakers at the two day symposium were; Mel Oliver, USDA-ARS Lubbock TX, Peter Alpert, University of Massachusetts, James Clegg, University of California Davis, Brent Mishler, University of California Berkeley, Alan Tunnacliffe, University of Cambridge, Dorothea Bartels, Bonn University, Jill Farrant, University of Cape Town, Takashi Okuda, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences Tokyo, John Crowe, University of California Davis, Ilse Kranner,
Millenium Seed Bank at Kew Gardens London, Amy Treonis, Colorado State University, K. Jonsson, Lund University, Malcolm Potts, Virginia Tech, Folkert Hoekstra, Waningen University, and Christine Walters USAD-ARS, Colorado Springs. The symposium was well attended and the intended interaction between the research groups represented by the speakers and within the audience was greater than anticipated. A strong foundation was laid for future meetings and one that will enable the field to benefit from the lessons learned from diverse desiccation tolerant systems (microbes-plants-animals).
Impacts
The major impact of bring such a diverse group of scientists together that share a common interest will not be measurable for some time. The integrated look at desiccation tolerance in all living systems can only benefit the field enormously. The more practical outcome is that the European researchers that spoke at the meeting have put in a grant proposal to fund a Workshop on desiccation tolerance in Europe for 2006. Our symposium has energized the field in a positive and exciting way. All speakers at the symposium have submitted manuscripts that will be published in an October edition of the Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Publications
- Peter Alpert. The limits and frontiers of desiccation-tolerant life Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Dorothea Bartels. Desiccation tolerance studied in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- James S. Clegg. Desiccation tolerance in encysted embryos of the animal extremophile, Artemia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- John H. Crowe, Lois M. Crowe, Willem F. Wolkers, Ann E. Oliver, Xiaocui Ma, Joong-Hyuck Auh, Minke Tang, Naomi J. Walker, Sheri A. Templeton, Jeffrey Norris, and Fern Tablin. Stabilization of dry mammalian cells: lessons from nature. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Nicola Illing, Katherine Denby, Helen Collett, Arthur Shen, and Jill M. Farrant. The signature of seeds in resurrection plants: a molecular and physiological comparison of desiccation tolerance in seeds and vegetative tissues. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Folkert A. Hoekstra. Differential longevities in desiccated anhydrobiotic plant systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- K. Ingemar Jonsson. The evolution of life histories in anhydrobiotic animals: a first approach Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Ilse Kranner and Simona Birtic. A modulating role for antioxidants in desiccation tolerance. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Takahiro Kikawada, Noboru Minakawa, Masahiko Watanabe, and Takashi Okuda. Factors inducing successful anhydrobiosis in the African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki: significance of the larval tube. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Melvin J. Oliver, Jeff Velten, and Brent D. Mishler. Desiccation tolerance in bryophytes: a reflection of the primitive strategy for plant survival in dehydrating habitats. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Malcolm Potts, Stephen M. Slaughter, Frank-U. Huneke, James F. Garst, and Richard F. Helm. Desiccation tolerance of prokaryotes: application of principles to human cells. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Claudia Ricci and Manuela Caprioli. Anhydrobiosis in Bdelloid species, populations and individuals. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press) Amy M. Treonis and Diana H. Wall. Soil nematodes and desiccation survival in the extreme arid environment of the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
- Kshamata Goyal, Laura J. Walton, John A. Browne, Ann M. Burnell, and Alan Tunnacliffe. Molecular anhydrobiology: identifying molecules implicated in invertebrate anhydrobiosis. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2005 (in Press)
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