International PAG Large Insert DNA Libraries Workshop

Sunday Morning, 12 January 2003 --- 9:00 am - 11:45 am

Large Insert DNA Libraries and Their Applications Workshop - Town and Country Room

Organizers:

Hongbin Zhang,Texas A&M University

(hbz7049@tamu.edu)

and

David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University

(monosom@tamu.edu)

Genomics has ushered forth a new era in biological research. "Changes that will have effects comparable to those of the Industrial Revolution and the Computer-based Revolution are now beginning. The next great era, a genomics revolution, is in an early phase" (Science Vol. 279, 27 March 1998, p2019). A significant feature of those advances continues to be large-insert libraries.

In this workshop, we shall strive [1] to share technologies and knowledge on large-insert DNA library development; [2] to highlight research projects involving library applications, and [3] to discuss topics in genomics research that seem highly relevant to future applications.

Large-insert DNA libraries (e.g., BACs, PACs and PBCs) are both a resource and tools for genomics research. The ease with which large-insert libraries are organized, analyzed, and interfaced with linkage maps, functional genomic resources and chromatin contributes to their impact on genomics research of plants and animals as well as microbes. Advances and ideas in the Workshop will involve structural genomics, but the impact of large-insert libraries is far more extensive, and extends to functional and evolutionary genomics, bio-informatics and many other fields. To facilitate the exchanges of ideas and techniques in the area, we divide the Workshop into two sections:

I. Invited Presentations

Jerry Dodgson, Michigan State University

(dodgson@msu.edu)

Integration of the Chicken Genetic Map with BAC Contig-based Physical Maps

Using Overgo Hybridization

Iain Donnison, Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research

(iain.donnison@bbsrc.ac.uk)

Development of Festuca Pratensis and Lolium Perenne BAC Libraries for

Map-based Cloning in Festuca-Lolium Hybrids

John Z. Yu, USDA/ARS

(zyu@qutun.tamu.edu)

Integrative Physical and Genetic Mapping of the Cotton Genome (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

Michael R. Thon, North Carolina State University

(mrthon@unity.ncsu.edu)

Application of an Integrated Physical and Genetic Map of Magnaporthe grisea

for Chromosome Sequencing and Analysis of Repetitive DNA Content

Boulos Chalhoub, 1Unité de Recherches en Génomique Végétale (URGV-INRA)

(chalhoub@evry.inra.fr)

New Approaches for Genome Characterization: Genomic and

Chromosome-specific BAC Libraries from Hexaploid Wheat

Dilara Begum, EPICENTRE Technologies, USA

(dilara.begum@epicentre.com)

and
Pietro Piffanelli, CIRAD

(piffanelli@cirad.fr)

A New BAC Vector Containing an Inducible High-copy Origin of Replication

Jeff Bennetzen, Purdue University

(maize@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu)

Technologies For Gene-Enriched Full Genome Sequencing In Higher Plants II. Open Forum

Zhanyou Xu, Texas A&M University

(zhanyouxu@tamu.edu)

Whole-genome Physical Mapping with BACs: Fingerprinting Methods, Source

Clone Genome Coverage, and Map Contig Accuracy and Size

Taco Jesse, Keygene N.V.

(taco.jesse@keygene.com)

An Efficient Method for the Construction of Integrated Genetic and Physical Maps:

AFLP Fingerprinting of High Quality BAC Libraries and BAC Pools on the

Megabace 1000 Capillary Sequencer

Chengcang Wu, Texas A&M University

(c-wu@neo.tamu.edu)

A Genome-wide, BAC/BIBAC-based Physical Map of the Soybean Genome

UNRESERVED SLOTS: At the Workshop, the nonreserved slots will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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