Broad Category	Subcategories	Specific Topics	Participants
Structure and Replication of Nuclear	Chromatin Structure	histones	Laurie Mets
and Organellar Genome	DNA Replication	chromatin remodelling	Laurie Mets
	DNA repair	HMGs	Laurie Mets
		centromere/telomere proteins	Laurie Mets
		DNA polymerases	Jim Umen
		gyrases	Carolyn Napoli/Karla Dingman
		topoisomerases	Carolyn Napoli/Karla Dingman
		DNAses	Carolyn Napoli/Karla Dingman
		ligases	Carolyn Napoli/Karla Dingman
RNA metabolism	Transcription.	Transcription factors	Saul Purton, Heriberto Cerutti/Chung Soon Im
		RNA polymerase	Heriberto Cerutti
	RNA processing for both	snRNAs	David Stern/Sara Zimmer
	nuclear and organellar	RNA binding proteins	David Stern/Sara Zimmer
	RNA.	TPR proteins	David Stern/Sara Zimmer
		RNA helicases	Heriberto Cerutti
		RNAses	Heriberto Cerutti
		PolyA addition	Heriberto Cerutti
		RNA processing (nuclear and chloro) - splicing	David Stern/Sara Zimmer
		Silencing	Heriberto Cerutti
Protein synthesis and folding	Translation	tRNA	Saul Purton
		AA tRNA synthase	Chuck Hauser
		rDNA	Chuck Hauser
		ribosomal proteins	Chuck Hauser
		initiation and elongation factors	David Stern
	Protein degradation	N terminal processing factors	Michael Hippler
		proteasome	Oliver Vallon
		proteases	Olivier Vallon
		Ubiquitin system/Sumolation	Michael Hippler
	Protein conformation	PDI/PPI (protein configuration)	Sabeeha Merchant
		chaperones/Hsps	Olivier Vallon
	Protein modification	glycosylation	Michael Hippler
		Methylation/acylation/ADP-ribosylation	Michael Hippler
Carbon Metabolism	Photosynthesis/Electron Transport	Lhc polypeptides	Arthur Grossman/Michael Hippler
		electron carriers/cytochromes (chloro, cyto and mito)	Richard Kuras
		ATP synthase	Richard Kuras
		photosystems	Kris Niyogi
		envelope associated proteins (nutrient ion transporters)	Saul Purton
	Carbon Metabolism	CCM	Don Weeks
		photorespiration	Rachel Dent
		chlororespiration	Richard Kuras
		reductive pentose phosphate pathway	Rachel Dent
		oxidative pentose phosphate pathway	Marty Spalding
		glycolysis	Marty Spalding
		TCA cycle	Marty Spalding
		starch biosynthesis	Arthur Grossman
		biosynthesis and conversion of sugars; galactose	Marty Spalding
		mannose, sucrose fructose,
	Lipid Metabolism	acyl-carrier proteins	Wayne Reikof/Robert Halgren
		desaturases	Wayne Reikof/Robert Halgren
		synthesis phosphatidyl intermediates	Bill Inwood
		phospholipases	Bill Inwood
	Vitamin Biosynthesis and Degradation		Kris Niyogi
	Quinones		Martin Lohr
	Carotenoid		Martin Lohr
	Tocopherols		Kris Niyogi
	Chlorophyll and Heme		Chung Soon Im
	Nucleotide Biosynthesis		Jeff Mosely
	Amino Acid Biosynthesis and Degradation		Jeff Shrager
	Polyamine Biosynthesis		Wayne Reikof/Robert Halgren
Mineral Nutrition	Metals/Micronutrients	Fe, Cu, Mn, Cd, Al etc.	Sabeeha Merchant
		metal ion transport	Sabeeha Merchant
	Macronutrients	nitrogen metabolism	Olivier Vallon
		transport of nitrogen compounds	Nakako Shibagaki/Arthur Grossman
		phosphorus metabolism	Jeff Moseley/Arthur Grossman/Chiung Wen Chang
		phosphate transport	Grossman/Chiung Wen Chang
		sulfur metabolism	Steve Pollock/Nik Pootakham
		sulfate transport	Steve Pollock/Nik Pootakham
Cellular Components	Cell wall polypeptides		Arthur Grossman
	Flagella and Cytoskeleton	flagella polypeptides	George Witman/Nate Agrin
		intraflagellar transport	Greg Pazour
		cytoskeletal proteins	Susan Dutcher
		basal body and Centriol proteins	Susan Dutcher
		spindal apparatus	Susan Dutcher
	Nuclear proteins	nuclear pore components	Greg Pazour
		lamins	Greg Pazour
	Intracellular traffiking and	ER, Golgi, Vacuolar proteins	Tony Sanderfoot
	membrane fusion	small G proteins (Rabs, RHO, Ran)	Pete Lefevre/Nedra Wilson
		SNARES and related proteins	Tony Sanderfoot
		cell adhesion and fusion proteins	Pete Lefevre/Nedra Wilson
		clathrin	Tony Sanderfoot
		motor proteins	Don Weeks
		phosphoinositide mediated targetting	Wayne Reikof/Robert Halgren
		vacuolar targetting	Tony Sanderfoot
	Organellar targetting	chloroplast - TOC, TIC, Sec, TAT, SRP	Arthur Grossman
		mitochondrion	Sabeeha Merchant
	Full annotation of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes		Saul Purton/David Stern
Homeostasis/Stress Responses	Antioxident proteins (SOD, catalase,		Heidi Ledford
		glutathione peroxidase/S-transferase
		cytochrome P450
	Signal transduction proteins/systems	G proteins	Chung Soon Im
		cyclins	Jim Umen
		protein kinases	Dion Durnford
		protein phosphatases	Dion Durnford
		calmodulin and calcium binding proteins	Chung Soon Im
		photoreceptors	Chung Soon Im
		MAP kinases and MAP kinase kinases	Pete Lefebvre
		myb proteins	Jeffrey Moseley
		zinc finger proteins	Jeffrey Moseley
		PAS domain proteins	Chung Soon Im
		cyclic nucleotide synthesis	Bill Inwood
Cell Cycle Proteins	Cell Cycle Proteins	ECM proteins, checkpoint control etc	Jim Umen
	Transporters; anion, cation, metabolite	Those not covered in other categories (including nitrogen transport)	Nakako Shibagaki/Arthur Grossman
	Secondary metabolism		Lets see what we get - Jeff Shrager
Transposons/Microsatellites
Integration of information		Comparisons with animal models	JGI
		Comparisons with Arabidopsis	JGI
		Comparisons with cyanobacteria	JGI - Arthur Grossman/Devaki Bhaya
		Comparison of the photosynthetic apparatus
		Comparison of the cytoskeletal/flagellar apparatus
		Training intron-exon prediction programs and update gene models
		Analysis of upstream gene regions and potential binding sites	Jeff Shrager, Arthur Grossman, Chung Soon Im, Jeff Mosley, Chuck Hauser.
		Analysis of potential transit sequences	Olivier Vallon and Chuck Hauser