Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference

WORKSHOPS

Abiotic Stress

• W1 MOLECULAR, GENETIC, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANT ALUMINUM TOLERANCE MECHANISMS
  
• W2 GENETIC MAPPING OF ALUMINUM TOLERANCE GENES IN TRITICEAE
  
• W3 GENETIC STUDIES OF ROOT TRAITS AND ABIOTIC STRESS IN BARLEY
  
• W4 FIELD EVALUATION OF MAIZE BDLs AND DERIVED HYBRIDS DIFFERING FOR A QTL WHICH AFFECTS LEAF ABA CONCENTRATION
  
• W5 QTLs FOR ROOT MORPHOLOGY IN RICE
  
• W6 LINKING PROTEOMIC AND GENOMIC ANALYSES OF ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSES IN RICE AND OTHER CEREALS
  
• W7 TRANSCRIPT PROFILING OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS RESPONSES THROUGH EXPRESSION CATEGORIES AND MICROARRAYS
  
• W8 ACTIVATION OF A PLANT DEFENSE NETWORK IN RESPONSE TO H2O2 EXAMINED WITH ARABIDOPSIS CHROMOSOME 2 MICROARRAYS
  

Apomixis

• W9 THE GENETICS OF AUTONOMOUS APOMIXIS IN DANDELIONS
  
• W10 EXPLORING TWO-LOCUS CONTROL OF APOMIXIS IN ERIGERON (ASTERACEAE); GENETIC MAPS AND EXPERIMENTAL CROSSES.
  
• W11 CLONAL LONGEVITY, GENE FLOW AND CONVERGENT ANEUPLOIDY: KEYS TO SUCCESS IN THE APOMICTIC ARABIS HOLBOELLII COMPLEX.
  
• W12 MARKER ANALYSIS OF APOMIXIS IN CITRUS
  
• W13 THE APOMICTIC REPRODUCTION IN PASPALUM SIMPLEX IS CONTROLLED BY A COMPLEX LOCUS THAT SHOWS SUPPRESSION OF RECOMBINATION AND SYNTENY WITH A PORTION OF RICE CHROMOSOME 12
  
• W14 ARCHITECTURE OF THE APOMIXIS LOCUS IN PENNISETUM/CENCHRUS
  

Aquaculture

• W15 ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION IN HYBRID PACIFIC OYSTERS BY MASSIVELY PARALLEL SIGNATURE SEQUENCING
  
• W16 DEVELOPMENT OF A GENETIC LINKAGE MAP, USING MICROSATELLITE MARKERS IN THE PACIFIC OYSTER
  
• W17 SEARCHING FOR GENES INVOLVED IN HOST DEFENSE AGAINST PERKINSUS MARINUS AND HAPLOSPORIDIUM NELSONI INFECTIONS IN THE EASTERN AND PACIFIC OYSTERS
  
• W18 MICROSATELLITE MARKERS FOR THE EASTERN OYSTER CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA: LINKAGE MAPPING AND GENETIC MONITORING OF RESTORATION PROJECTS
  
• W19 ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN MICROSATELLITES AND REPETITIVE ELEMENTS IN BIVALVE GENOMES
  
• W20 TBA - Thorgaard
  
• W21 COMPARATIVE MAPPING OF QTL IN SALMONID FISHES
  
• W22 PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COOL AND COLD WATER AQUACULTURE
  
• W23 OVER 10000 EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS FROM Fenneropenaeus chinesis
  
• W24 EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENE EXPRESSION OF IMMUNE RELATED GENES OF KURUMA SHRIMP, PENAEUS JAPONICUS
  
• W25 GENE EXPRESSION OF IMMUNE AND BIODEFENSE RELATED GENES OF JAPANESE FLOUNDER, PARALICHTHYS OLIVACEUS
  
• W26 Alcivar-Warren
  
• W27 A FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS APPROACH TO ANTIVIRAL IMMUNITY IN MARINE SHRIMP
  
• W28 Kocher
  
• W29 DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-THROUGHPUT SYSTEM FOR FINGERPRINTING BAC LIBRARIES OF TILAPIA
  
• W30 ENCYCLOPEDIA cDNA LIBRARIES OF CHANNEL CATFISH AND SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF GENES, GENE EXPRESSION, AND MARKERS
  
• W31 MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR A CHANNEL CATFISH APPLIED BREEDING PROGRAM
  
• W32 STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION OF THE IGH LOCUS OF THE CHANNEL CATFISH, ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS.
  
• W33 IDENTIFICATION OF DNA POLYMORPHIC MARKERS ASSOCIATED TO MUSCLE COLORATION IN COHO SALMON (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
  
• W34 TOWARD THE POSITIONAL CLONING OF THE DOMINANT ALBINO GENE OF RAINBOW TROUT
  
• W35 MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF THE MYOSTATIN GENE IN CHANNEL CATFISH (ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS)
  

Arabidopsis

• W36 NATURAL VARIATION OF LIGHT RESPONSES AND FLOWERING IN ARABIDOPSIS
  
• W37 NATURALLY-OCCURING VARIATION FOR FREEZING TOLERANCE IN ARABIDOPSIS
  
• W38 NATURAL VARIATION AS A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF GLUCOSINOLATES IN CONTROLLING RESISTANCE TO INSECT HERBIVORY
  
• W39 METABOLOMIC ANALYSIS OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA CROSSES
  
• W40 A FAST NEUTRON DELETION MUTAGENESIS-BASED REVERSE GENETICS SYSTEM FOR PLANTS
  

Barley

• W41 BARLEY MUTANTS: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
  
• W42 IS BBR GOING GAGA?
  
• W43 FORWARD AND REVERSE GENETICS FOR DISSECTING BARLEY POWDERY MILDEW RESISTANCE
  
• W44 TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS AS TOOLS FOR GENOMICS IN BARLEY
  
• W45 BARLEY STRIPE MOSAIC VIRUS VECTORS FOR FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS IN MONOCOT PLANTS
  
• W46 A PHYSICAL / CHEMICAL MUTATION GRID FOR BARLEY FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS.
  
• W47 COMPUTER GRAPHICAL MODELLING OF BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE L.) MORPHOLOGY AND GENETICS: SIMULATION OF MENDELIAN AND QUANTITATIVE INHERITANCE
  

Bioinformatics/Computers

• W48 SEQUENCE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MONOCOTS-DICOTS AND PLANTS-ANIMALS, OR HOW TO MAKE LIFE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOUR FRIENDLY BIOINFORMATICISTS
  
• W49 SPRIG: SPECIALISED PLANT RESOURCES FOR INFORMATICS AND GENOMICS
  
• W50 DATA MINING AND ITS APPLICATION TO GERMPLASM ANALYSIS
  
• W51 CROSS REFERENCING EUKARYOTIC GENOMES: TIGR ORTHOLOGOUS GENE ALIGNMENT (TOGA)
  
• W52 ISYS: THE EMPLOYMENT OF LOOSE COUPLING TO ACHIEVE ROBUST INTEGRATION ACROSS BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AREAS
  
• W53 MAPPING OF LEGUME NODULINS ON THE ARABIDOPSIS GENOME. NODPROTS: AN INTERACTIVE DATABASE
  

Brassicas

• W54 THE UK BRASSICA GENOME PROJECT
  
• W55 MAPPING AND MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION IN BRASSICA OILSEED CROPS IN CHINA
  
• W56 TBA - Friedt
  
• W57 TBA - Sharpe
  
• W58 OVERVIEW AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE GENOPLANTE RAPESEED PROGRAMME
  
• W59 OILSEED RAPE GENOME ORGANIZATION: DEVELOPMENT OF COMPARATIVE GENOMIC APPROACHES FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PHYSICAL AND GENETIC MAPPING OF 10 000 GENES
  

Cattle/Sheep

• W60 TOWARDS A FIRST GENERATION PHYSICAL MAP OF THE BOVINE GENOME
  
• W61 BEYOND MYOSTATIN; THE SEARCH FOR INTERACTING ALLELES
  
• W62 EFFECTS OF A BOVINE LEPTIN MISSENSE MUTATION ON ANIMAL PERFORMANCE.
  
• W63 THE PrP GENE AND SCRAPIE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN SHEEP
  
• W64 INTEGRATION AND USE OF GENE ONTOLOGY TERMS IN AN ANIMAL LIVESTOCK GENOMICS DATABASE
  

Comparative Genomics

• W65 COMPASS II : A WEB BASED RESOURCE FOR PREDICTION OF GENE MAP LOCATION BASED ON PARALLEL CATTLE-HUMAN RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING
  
• W66 THE TIGR GENE INDICES: LINKING ESTS, GENES, AND GENOMES
  
• W67 COMPUTATIONAL COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF EU- and PROKARYOTES
  
• W68 COMPARATIVE GENOMICS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CULTIVATED TEF
  
• W69 FREQUENT GENIC REARRANGEMENTS IN TWO REGIONS OF GRASS GENOMES IDENTIFIED BY COMPARATIVE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
  
• W70 DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATION OF TOMATO MICROARRAYS FOR THE SOLANACEAE
  

Compositae

• W71 TRANSGRESSIVE SEGREGATION, ADAPTATION, AND SPECIATION
  
• W72 OVERVIEW OF THE COMPOSITAE GENOMICS PROJECT
  
• W73 MAXIMIZING GENE DISCOVERY IN LETTUCE AND SUNFLOWER
  
• W74 TBA - Knapp
  
• W75 SNP DISCOVERY, DIVERSITY, AND GENOTYPING IN SUNFLOWER.
  
• W76 CANDIDATE GENE APPROACHES TO AGRICULTURALLY IMPORTANT TRAITS IN LETTUCE
  
• W77 NEW RESULTS ON REPRODUCTION IN SUNFLOWER AND MAPPING OF THE RESTORER GENE RF1
  

Controlled Vocabulary/Ontology

• W78 ON THE REPRESENTATION OF GENE FUNCTION & PROCESS IN GENOME DATABASES: THE GENE ONTOLOGY CONSORTIUM (GO).
  
• W79 THE PLANT ONTOLOGY CONSORTIUM (POC) AND PLANT ONTOLOGIES - SILK PURSE FROM A MAIZE EAR
  
• W80 Gramene: EFFORTS ON DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF CONTROLLED VOCABULARY
  
• W81 THE USE OF THE GENE ONTOLOGY AND OTHER CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES IN THE MOUSE GENOME INFORMATICS DATABASES
  
• W82 ONTOLOGY CONSTRUCTION BY THE MICROARRAY GENE EXPRESSION DATABASE (MGED) GROUP
  
• W83 DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED CONTROLLED VOCABULARY FOR THE CORNELL GENOMICS INITIATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY
  
• W84 SPECIALISED PLANT RESOURCES FOR INFORMATICS AND GENOMICS (SPRIG)
  
• W85 THE MOBY PROJECT
  

Cotton

• W86 RECENT INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF THE COTTON GENUS
  
• W87 A HIGH-DENSITY GENETIC LINKAGE MAP OF TETRAPLOID COTTON GENOME
  
• W88 GENETIC STABILITY OF A MAJOR QTL FOR FIBER STRENGTH AND ITS MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION IN UPLAND COTTON
  
• W89 CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION LINES AND THEIR USE IN COTTON IMPROVEMENT
  
• W90 UPDATE OF THE COTTONDB
  
• W91 TBA - Burr
  

Databases, Gene Systematics, and Nomenclature

• W92 THE STATUS OF PROTEOME ANALYSIS RESOURCES AT THE EBI
  
• W93 CONSTRUCTION AND ANNOTATION OF ARABIDOPSIS GENE FAMILIES AT TIGR
  
• W94 TBA - Dicks
  
• W95 MaizeDB: A FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS PERSPECTIVE
  
• W96 USING DBEST TO STUDY DUPLICATION AND DIVERGENCE IN THE SOYBEAN TRANSCRIPTOME
  

Edible Legumes

• W97 GENETIC REGULATION OF PISUM SATIVUM ARCHITECTURE
  
• W98 RESISTANCE GENE ANALOG (RGA) MAPPING AND EXPRESSION PROFILING IN CHICKPEA
  
• W99 COMPARATIVE GENETICS OF PEA (Pisum sativum)
  
• W100 TOWARD A COMPARATIVE LEGUME MAP USING PCR BASED CROSS-GENOME MARKERS
  
• W101 GENETIC CHANGES DURING THE DOMESTICATION OF PEA
  
• W102 PROGRESS IN IDENTIFYING QTLS FOR RESISTANCE TO APHANOMYCES ROOT ROT IN PEA
  
• W103 QTLS FOR WINTERHARDINESS IN LENTIL (LENS CULINARIS L.)
  

Equine

• W104 GENETIC ANALYSIS OF A SKIN DISEASE IN THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE
  
• W105 GENE EXPRESSION IN SHEEP SKIN.
  

Forage & Turfgrass

• W106 GENETIC MANIPULATION OF BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES IN FORAGE GRASSES AND LEGUMES
  
• W107 MOLECULAR DISSECTION OF PROANTHOCYANIDIN BIOSYNTHESIS IN LOTUS CORNICULATUS
  
• W108 QUEST FOR APOMIXIS GENES IN GRASSES
  
• W109 ISOLATION OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED CDNAS FROM APOMICTIC OVARIES IN GUINEAGRASS BY MICROARRAY
  
• W110 XENO-GENOMICS: GENE DISCOVERY IN NATIVE AND EXOTIC GRASSES AND LEGUMES WITH ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE
  
• W111 GENETIC MANIPULATION OF ALFALFA AND MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA FOR ORGANIC ACID SYNTHESIS AND METAL TOLERANCE
  
• W112 EST DISCOVERY AND MICROARRAY-BASED GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING IN PERENNIAL RYEGRASS (LOLIUM PERENNE) AND NEOTYPHODIUM ENDOPHYTES
  
• W113 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
  

Forest Tree Genome Mapping

• W114 MICROARRAY ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING TARGET GENES INVOLVED IN WOOD FORMATION
  
• W115 ALLELIC DIFFERENCES IN GENE EXPRESSION AND CANDIDATE GENE DISCOVERY IN PINUS RADIATA
  
• W116 SEARCHING FOR GENES UNDERLYING QUANTITATIVE VARIATION IN CONIFER WOOD PROPERTIES: CANDIDATE GENES, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS, AND AN ASSOCIATION STUDY IN LOBLOLLY PINE (Pinus taeda)
  
• W117 GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF JUVENILE WOOD DENSITY IN PINUS RADIATA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN OF LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM STUDIES
  
• W118 FUNCTIONAL MAPPING OF QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  
• W119 EST MARKERS AND COMPARATIVE MAPPING
  
• W120 GENOMIC ORGANISATION OF MOLECULAR DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN CLOSELY RELATED WHITE OAK SPECIES (Q. PETRAEA MAYTT (LIEBL.) AND Q. ROBUR L.)
  
• W121 COMPARATIVE GENETIC MAPPING BETWEEN QUERCUS ROBUR L. AND CASTANEA SATIVA MILL.
  
• W122 THE FLORAL GENOME PROJECT: A NEW NSF PLANT GENOME PROJECT TO UNCOVER THE GENETIC BASIS OF THE ORIGIN AND DIVERSIFICATION OF FLOWER ARCHITECTURE
  
• W123 A CONCEPT FOR DETECTING TIGHTLY LINKED MARKERS IN OPEN POLLINATED TREE PROGENIES OF FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR
  
• W124 A GENOMIC APPROACH TO WOOD FORMATION IN LOBLOLLY PINE
  
• W125 TEN YEARS OF MOLECULAR GENETICS IN MARITIME PINE
  
• W126 ALLELE DISCOVERY FOR GENES CONTROLLING ECONOMIC TRAITS IN LOBLOLLY PINE
  
• W127 THE SWEDISH POPULUS EST PROJECT
  
• W128 SEQUENCING THE POPULUS GENOME: APPLICATIONS TO THE ENERGY-RELATED MISSIONS OF DOE
  

Fruit/Nut Tree

• W129 FOUR YEARS OF THE EUROPEAN D.A.R.E. PROJECT : NUMEROUS RESULTS ON APPLE SCAB AND POWDERY MILDEW RESISTANCE GENE MAPPING.
  
• W130 MOLECULAR MARKERS AND CANDIDATE RESISTANCE GENES: A GENETIC STUDY OF TOLERANCE TO RING NEMATODE IN PEACH
  
• W131 TBA - Adam-Blondon
  
• W132 CHLOROPLAST AND MICROSATELLITE DNA ANALYSIS IN THE CHERRIES (PRUNUS AVIUM L.)
  
• W133 CBF1 ORTHOLOGS IN THE ROSACEAE: STYLAR EXPRESSION, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVING FLORAL FREEZING TOLERANCE
  
• W134 MICROSATELLITE MARKERS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LINKAGE MAP IN SWEET CHERRY (Prunus avium L.) AND MAP COMPARISON BETWEEN SWEET CHERRY AND OTHER PRUNUS SPECIES.
  
• W135 BULKED SEGREGANT ANALYSIS AND CONSTUCTION OF A LINKAGE MAP IN APRICOT (PRUNUS ARMENIACA L.) CROSSES SEGREGATING FOR RESISTANCE TO PLUM POX VIRUS
  
• W136 RFLP MARKERS FOR THE 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE GENES AND ETHYLENE PRODUCTION DURING FRUIT RIPENING IN JAPANESE PEAR
  
• W137 FOUR RECEPTOR-LIKE GENE HOMOLOGUES CLUSTERED WITHIN THE VF LOCUS FOR RESISTANCE TO APPLE SCAB
  
• W138 GRAPEVINE GENOMICS ACCESS
  
• W139 IMPROVED GENETIC RESOURCES EXPLOITATION BY COMBINING GENOME MAPPING AND DOMESTICATION PROCESSES KNOWLEDGE IN COCOA
  
• W140 MAPPING OF QTLS RELATED TO FRUIT CHARACTERISTICS IN CITRUS
  
• W141 INHERITANCE OF SF-RNASE GENE IN JAPANESE APRICOT (PRUNUS MUME) AND ITS RELATION TO SELF-COMPATIBILITY
  
• W142 SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF A 282-KB REGION SOURROUNDING THE CITRUS TRISTEZA VIRUS RESISTANCE GENE (Ctv) LOCUS IN PONCIRUS TRIFOLIATA
  
• W143 GENETIC DIVERSITY IN PINEAPPLE ASSESSED BY AFLP MARKERS
  
• W144 DEVELOPMENT AND MAPPING OF SSR MARKERS IN PEACH AND PEAR
  

Functional Genomics

• W145 TBA - Tabata
  
• W146 DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL MAPS INTEGRATED WITH GENETIC MARKERS AND EST: PRELUDE TO GENOME SEQUENCING AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
  
• W147 TBA - Stellato
  
• W148 TRANSCRIPTOME AND PROTEOME ANALYSIS OF ORGAN DIFFERENTIATION
  
• W149 COMPREHENSIVE METABOLIC PROFILING - CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS IN BIOEQUIVALENCE AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH
  
• W150 PLANT DEVELOPMENTAL GENE DISCOVERY BY POSITIONAL CLONING AND INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS
  
• W151 cDNA MICROARRAY ANALYSIS OF SOYBEAN: MONITORING EXPRESSION PROFILES OF 4,100 GENES
  

ICSB - Sugarcane

• W152 ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR MARKER TECHNIQUES FOR USE IN SUGARCANE
  
• W153 MICROSATELLITE FINGERPRINTS OF LOUISIANA SUGARCANE VARIETIES AND BREEDING LINES
  
• W154 DETECTION OF SNP FROM EST DATA IN SUGARCANE
  
• W155 CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF A SUCROSE TRANSPORTER GENE IN SUGARCANE
  
• W156 FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS IN SUGARCANE: MACRO- AND MICROARRAY ANALYSES TO DETERMINE THE TISSUE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF CANDIDATE GENES
  
• W157 EXPLOITATION OF SORGHUM MOLECULAR RESOURCES FOR MAP-BASED CLONING OF A MAJOR RUST RESISTANCE GENE IN SUGARCANE.
  
• W158 MONOCOT HOST PROTEINS THAT INTERACT WITH A VIRAL SUPPRESSOR OF RNA SILENCING
  
• W159 RECOMBINANT PROTEIN PRODUCTION IN SUGARCANE IN HAWAII
  

IGGI

• W160 MECHANISMS AND RATES OF LOCAL GENOME REARRANGEMENT IN FLOWERING PLANTS AS ASSESSED BY COMPARATIVE DNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
  
• W161 TBA - Kantety
  
• W162 TBA - Wise
  
• W163 TBA - Devos
  

International Lolium Genome Project

• W164 GENETIC MAP CONSTRUCTION FOR LEYMUS WILDRYES
  
• W165 CONSTRUCTION OF A FESTUCA PRATENSIS BAC LIBRARY FOR MAP BASED CLONING IN FESTULOLIUM INTROGRESSION LINES
  
• W166 QTL ANALYSIS OF WINTER HARDINESS IN PERENNIAL RYEGRASS
  
• W167 COMPARATIVE MAPPING OF QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI CONTROLLING FROST AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE
  
• W168 SPECIES MARKER SEGREGATION IN A WIDE CROSS LOLIUM MAPPING POPULATION
  
• W169 MOLECULAR MARKER-BASED TRAIT DISSECTION IN PERENNIAL RYEGRASS
  

International Grape Genome Project

• W170 SETTING GENOMICS TOOLS SUSTAINING M.A.S. IN GRAPEVINE (Vitis vinifera L.)
  
• W171 A BAC LIBRARY FOR GRAPE AND STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE GRAPE GENOME
  
• W172 FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS OF THE GRAPE-XYLELLA INTERACTION: TOWARDS THE IDENTIFICATION OF HOST RESISTANCE DETERMINANTS
  
• W173 GRAPEVINE FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
  
• W174 TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF BERRY QUALITY AND POWDERY MILDEW RESISTANCE IN GRAPEVINE: GENETIC DETERMINISM AND PATHWAYS
  

ITMI

• W175 EXAMINATION OF BIODIVERSITY IN BARLEY
  
• W176 EARLY MEIOTIC GENES AND THE PH2 REGION OF WHEAT
  
• W177 DNA MARKER APPLICATIONS IN MONSANTO WHEAT BREEDING PROGRAMMES
  
• W178 INVESTIGATION OF THE MOLECULAR GENETICS OF PRE HARVEST SPROUTING IN WHEAT
  
• W179 CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN HEXAPLOID WHEAT.
  
• W180 SEQUENCE INFORMATION INDEPENDENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR GENOMICS
  
• W181 INITIAL RESULTS AND POTENTIAL IMPACT OF THE UK'S PUBLIC WHEAT TRANSCRIPTOME PROJECT
  

Large-Insert DNA Libraries and Their Applications

• W182 GENOME-WIDE ORGANIZATION AND EVOLUTION OF DISEASE RESISTANCE GENE FAMILIES IN PLANT GENOMES
  
• W183 A MAIZE PHYSICAL MAP INCLUDING 15000 STSs: TOWARDS A HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED GENE MAP FOR POSITIONAL CLONING
  
• W184 cDNA SELECTION TECHNOLOGY FOR MAPPING GENES ON THE SORGHUM BICOLOR GENETIC AND PHYSICAL MAP
  
• W185 TBA - McPherson
  
• W186 DEVELOPMENT AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF A B. OLERACEA PHYSICAL MAP, ANCHORED TO THE ARABIDOPSIS GENOME
  
• W187 TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED CYTO-GENOMICS SYSTEM FOR SORGHUM BICOLOR AND RELATED TAXA
  

Legumes

• W188 SNP DETECTION AND MAPPING IN SOYBEAN AND RELATED GLYCINE SPECIES
  
• W189 PROGRESS AND POTENTIAL FOR IMPROVING MICRONUTRIENT CONTENT IN COMMON BEANS
  
• W190 STATUS OF GENOMICS IN PEANUT
  
• W191 ANALYSIS OF TISSUE GLOBAL GENE EXPRESSION DIVERSTIY OF SOYBEAN USING SAGE
  
• W192 FUNCTIONAL GENOME ANALYSIS OF PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS OF MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA
  
• W193 TBA - Vallejos
  
• W194 GENE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS IN SOYBEAN BY MICROARRAY
  

Maize

• W195 AN INTERGRATED MAP FOR MAIZE
  
• W196 HIGH-THROUGHPUT DISCOVERY AND DETECTION OF SNPS IN MAIZE
  
• W197 COMPARATIVE GENE ISLAND SEQUENCING OF SORGHUM AND MAIZE BACs
  
• W198 ASSOCIATION TESTS OF MAIZE FLOWERING TIME
  
• W199 TBA - Messing
  

Microbe Genome Awardee 2000

• W200 TBA - Maloy
  
• W201 TBA - Highlander
  
• W202 TBA - Kapur
  
• W203 TBA - Dean
  
• W204 PHYTOPHTHORA GENES EXPRESSED DURING INFECTION AND PROPAGATION
  
• W205 TBA - Morrison
  

Microbe Genome Awardee 2001

• W206 TBA - Brayton
  
• W207 TBA - DasSarma
  
• W208 TBA - Morrison
  
• W209 TBA - Farma
  
• W210 TBA - Inzana
  
• W211 COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCING OF CLAVIBACTER MICHIGANENSIS SUBSP. SEPEDONICUS
  
• W212 TBA - Karam
  
• W213 TBA - Loper
  
• W214 TBA - Moran
  
• W215 TBA - Dean
  
• W216 TBA - Perna
  
• W217 TBA - Schmidt
  
• W218 TBA - Sogin
  
• W219 TBA - Songer
  
• W220 TBA - Webb
  
• W221 TBA - Young
  

Molecular Markers for Plant Breeders

• W222 TBA - Tanksley
  
• W223 MOLECULAR DISSECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF YIELD, QUALITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE OF SHANYOU 63, AN ELITE RICE HYBRID
  
• W224 TBA - Johnson
  
• W225 MARKER-AIDED SELECTION OF QTLS FOR DROUGHT TOLERANCE IN RICE
  
• W226 MARKER ASSISTED SELECTION STRATEGIES TO ACCUMULATE DESIRABLE QTLS IN PEARL MILLET
  
• W227 QTL BY ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN RICE: SIGNIFICANCE AND CAUSES
  

Nutraceuticals

• W228 TECHNICAL, REGULATORY, & COMMERCIALIZATION CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUTRICEUTICALS
  

Organellar Genetics

• W229 EPIGENETIC PHENOMENA IN THE PROGRAMMING OF PLANT MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME DYNAMICS IN ARABIDOPSIS
  
• W230 MAIZE MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMICS
  
• W231 CUCUMBER: A MODEL ANGIOSPERM FOR MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSFORMATION?
  
• W232 GENETICS OF MITOCHONDRIAL-NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS IN ARABIDOPSIS
  
• W233 FISH AND CHIPS: GENOMIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING CHLOROPLAST GENE REGULATION
  
• W234 PROTEOMICS OF CHLOROPLASTS FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
  

Ornamentals

• W235 TBA - Zamir
  
• W236 FLORAL SCENT - FROM COMPOUNDS TO GENES
  
• W237 FLORAL FLAVONOID GENES IN ORCHIDS
  
• W238 GENETIC AND MOLECULAR ANALYSES OF GENE FOR GENE INTERACTIONS IN ROSE PATHOSYSTEMS
  

Plant Alien Introgression

• W239 ALIEN INTROGRESSION IN WHEAT BY GAMETOCIDAL GENES
  
• W240 TBA - Zamir
  
• W241 INTROGRESSION MAPPING IN THE GRASSES LOLIUM PERENNE AND FESTUCA PRATENSIS
  
• W242 CAN RETROVIRUSES OR OTHER RETROELEMENTS SERVE AS AGENTS OF HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER IN PLANTS?
  
• W243 NATURAL GENE INTROGRESSION BETWEEN PLANT SPECIES: BENEFICIAL OR DETRIMENTAL?
  

Plant Cytogenetics

• W244 MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF A GAMETOCIDAL GENE IN WHEAT
  
• W245 THE EFFECT OF THE Ph1 GENE ON CHROMOSOME BEHAVIOUR AT EARLY MEIOTIC STAGES IN WHEAT
  
• W246 CHROMOSOME ORGANIZATION IN INTERPHASE NUCLEI OF ARABIDOPSIS CHROMATIN MUTANTS
  
• W247 LOSS OF TYPICAL TELOMERE REPEAT SEQUENCES FROM A MAJOR RADIATION OF MONOCOTS
  
• W248 MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CENTROMERES OF WHEAT-BARLEY ROBERTSONIAN TRANSLOCATION CHROMOSOMES
  
• W249 FIBER-FISH: APPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS IN FINE PHYSICAL MAPPING OF PLANT GENOMES
  

Plant Interaction with Pests and Pathogens

• W250 GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES IN DIFFERENT AVR/R INTERACTIONS IN ARABIDOPSIS:DATA EVALUATION APPROACHES FOR AFFYMETRIX GENECHIP EXPERIMENTS
  
• W251 SIGNALING PATHWAYS ACTIVATED BY INSECTS:LESSONS LEARNED FROM PHLOEM-FEEDING WHITEFLIES
  
• W252 MOLECULAR GENETIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WHEAT AND FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUIM
  
• W253 PLANT DEFENSE RESPONSES TO PHLOEM-FEEDING INSECTS
  
• W254 USING FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS TO DISSECT NONHOST RESISTANCE TO PHYTOPHTHORA
  
• W255 TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES TRIGGERED BY THREE DIFFERENT LOCAL RESISTANCE PATHWAYS IN ARABIDOPSIS
  

Plant Transformation

• W256 PLANT GENES INVOLVED IN AGROBACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION--CAN THEY BE USED TO IMPROVE TRANSFORMATION?
  
• W257 AGROBACTERIUM -MEDIATED STABLE TRANSFORMATION OF MAIZE HI II EMBRYOS USING A STANDARD BINARY VECTOR SYSTEM1
  
• W258 IMPROVEMENTS IN SOYBEAN TRANSFORMATION USING THE COTYLEDONARY-NODE METHOD
  
• W259 TBA - Voinnet
  
• W260 USING MARS TO REDUCE GENE SILENCING
  
• W261 PLASTID TRANSFORMATION IN HIGHER PLANTS: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL
  

Plant Transgene Genetics

• W262 A NEW FRONTIER: PLANT TRANSGENE GENETICS
  
• W263 VIRAL SUPPRESSION OF POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING: MECHANISMS AND APPLICATIONS
  
• W264 TBA - Kinney
  
• W265 TBA - Lemaux
  
• W266 TRANSGENE LOCUS STRUCTURE IN PLANTS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED USING MICROPROJECTILE BOMBARDMENT
  
• W267 FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF TWO MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION (MAR) ELEMENTS IN TRANSGENIC MAIZE
  

Polyploidy

• W268 WHY BECOME A POLYPLOID?
  
• W269 ALLOPOLYPLOIDIZATION - AN INDUCER OF RAPID GENOME EVOLUTION IN WHEAT
  
• W270 GENOME SPECIFIC AND NONSPECIFIC GENE SILENCING IN HEXAPLOID WHEAT
  
• W271 RECENT ALLOPOLYPLOIDY IN TRAGOPOGON (ASTERACEAE): GENOMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL COMPARISONS
  
• W272 STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR LINKAGE MAPPING IN POLYPLOIDS
  
• W273 GENOME MAPPING AND QTL ANALYSIS IN OCTOPLOID STRAWBERRY (FRAGARIA X ANANASSA)
  

Poultry

• W274 POULTRY WORKSHOP: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF POULTRY (NC-168 REGIONAL RESEARCH MEETING)
  
• W275 PROGRESS IN MAPPING, MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF GENES AND SEQUENCES IN POULTRY
  
• W276 DEVELOP, COMPARE, AND INTEGRATE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES WITH CLASSICAL QUANTITATIVE GENETICS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ECONOMIC TRAITS IN POULTRY
  
• W277 DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GENETIC VARIATION IN POULTRY BY GENE TRANSFER AND CHROMOSOME ALTERATION
  
• W278 POULTRY WORKSHOP: PROGRESS IN DESCRIPTIVE AND COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF POULTRY RELATED TO NRSP-8 OBJECTIVES
  
• W279 A WHOLE GENOME RADIATION HYBRID PANEL IN CHICKEN
  

Rice

• W325 TBA - Sasaki
  
• W280 THE CCW RICE GENOME SEQUENCING CONSORTIUM: SEQUENCING THE SHORT ARMS OF CHROMOSOMES 3 AND 10
  
• W281 SEQENCING OF CHROMOSOME 4 OF THE RICE ORYZA
  
• W282 RICE GENOME SEQUENCING AND ANNOTATION AT TIGR
  
• W283 A DRAFT SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY OF THE RICE GENOME (ORYZA SATIVA L. SSP. INDICA)
  
• W284 TBA - Xue
  
• W285 TBA - Wang
  
• W286 ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RICE GREEN REVOLUTION GENE, sd1 (semi-dwarf 1)
  

Solanaceae

• W287 THE POTATO GENOME PROJECT
  
• W288 TBA - Tanksley
  
• W289 GERMPLASM DIVERSITY, DISEASE RESISTANCE AND QUALITY TRAIT ANALYSIS OF CAPSICUM SPECIES USING MOLECULAR TOOLS.
  
• W290 SOLANACEAE GENOME NETWORK: A DATABASE AND TOOLSET FOR COMPARATIVE PLANT GENOMICS
  
• W291 THE R1 GENE FOR POTATO RESISTANCE TO LATE BLIGHT (PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS) BELONGS TO THE LEUCINE ZIPPER/NBS/LRR CLASS OF PLANT RESISTANCE GENES
  
• W292 ISOLATION OF A FUNCTIONAL Pto HOMOLOG FROM PEPPER: IN VITRO AND IN VIVO STUDY
  

Statistical Methods

• W293 MULTIPLE TESTING: AN ORDERED APPROACH
  
• W294 OPTIMIZING SELECTION FOR CANDIDATE GENES IN PROGRAMS INCORPORATING PEDIGREE INFORMATION (BLUP)
  
• W295 BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI WITH EPISTATIC EFFECTAS FOR COMPLEX TRAITS
  
• W296 QTL ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM SELECTION RESPONSE
  
• W297 LINE-ORIGIN PROBABILITIES AND HAPLOTYPIC FREQUENCIES AS A PART OF QTL DETECTION IN OUTBRED PEDIGREES
  
• W298 TBA - Zhang
  

Sugar Beet

• W299 CONSTRUCTION OF A BAC LIBRARY OF SUGAR BEET (BETA VULGARIS) AND CLONING OF THE BOLTING GENE B
  
• W300 PCR-BASED CLONING OF NEMATODE RESISTANCE GENE HOMOLOGS FROM SUGAR BEET (Beta vulgaris)
  
• W301 MOLECULAR GENETIC TAGGING OF DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES IN SUGARBEET
  
• W302 GENETIC ANALYSES OF AHPHANOMYCES RESISTANCE IN SUGAR BEET
  
• W303 ADVANCED-BACKCROSS CERCOSPORA RESISTANCE QTL MAPPING IN SUGAR BEET : VISION AND FIRST EXPERIENCE
  
• W304 THE CHARACTERISATION AND ANNOTATION OF TRANSCRIBED SEQUENCES (sputniks) FROM THE SUGARBEET GENOME
  
• W305 THE STRUCTURAL COMPOSITION OF THE CENTROMERE OF A BETA MINICHROMOSOME
  
• W306 SUGAR BEET MICROSATELLITES
  

Swine

• W307 INTEGRATION OF GENETIC AND RADIATION HYBRID MAPS OF THE PIG : THE SECOND GENERATION IMpRH MAPS.
  
• W308 TBA - Beattie
  
• W309 DISCOVERY OF NEW GENETIC MARKERS AFFECTING MEAT QUALITY IN PIGS
  
• W310 MAPPING AND USE OF QTL FOR MARKER-ASSISTED IMPROVEMENT OF MEAT QUALITY IN PIGS
  

Transcriptional Profiling

• W311 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR MICROARRAY STUDIES
  
• W312 RICE FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS VIA CDNA MICROARRAY: EXPRESSION PROFILES OF STRESS-RESPONSIBLE GENES AND RICE FULL-LENGTH CDNA CLONES FOR GLOBAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
  
• W313 TBA - Matthews
  
• W314 ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA WHOLE GENOME MICROARRAYS FOR TRANSCRIPTION PROFILING
  
• W315 FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS -TECHNOLOGY: OVERVIEW AND RECENT RESULTS
  

VENDOR PRESENTATIONS

EPICENTRE

• W316 ON-DEMAND INDUCTION OF BAC CLONES TO HIGH COPY NUMBER FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING AND FINGERPRINTING
  

KeyGene NV, AFLP Applications

• W317 Carte Blanche: SOFTWARE FOR HIGH-DENSITY LINKAGE MAPPING
  
• W318 cDNA-AFLP TRANSCRIPT PROFILING ON MALE MEIOSIS IN PETUNIA HYBRIDA
  
• W319 HIGHLY AUTOMATED AFLP AND SNP DETECTION
  
• W320 HANDS-ON-EXPERIENCE AFLP-Quantar(Pro) SOFTWARE
  

LICOR - Automated Genetic Analysis

• W321 METHODS FOR PHYSICAL MAP CONSTRUCTION IN COMPLEX GENOMES: USING AFLP TECHNOLOGY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE LI-COR ODYSSEY SYSTEM TO MERGE DNA CONTIGS
  
• W322 IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES BETWEEN WILD-TYPE AND MUTANT STRAINS OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII USING CDNA-AFLP
  
• W323 RAPID AND TARGETED MUTAGENESIS OF ANY SPECIES BY A REVERSE GENETIC, NON-TRANSGENIC MEANS: TILLING
  

Qiagen - Novel tools to accelerate genotyping and gene expression analysis

• W324 RAPID PURIFICATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS FROM PLANT AND ANIMAL TISSUES STREAMLINES MOLECULAR ANALYSIS