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David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University

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:

Speakers:

1. 8:00am
Boulos Chalhoub
(chalhoub@evry.inra.fr)
Unité Mixte de Recherche en Génomique Végétale (INRA-URGV), France
NEW COMPARATIVE GENOMIC-BASED METHODS FOR PHYSICAL MAPPING: FUNCTIONAL PHYSICAL MARKERS (PFM) FOR BAC-BASED HAPPY MAPPING AND CONTIGUING OF BAC CLONES IN Brassica napus

2. 8:20am
Jeong-Soon Kim
(jskim@neo.tamu.edu)
Texas A&M University
INTEGRATED MAPPING OF SORGHUM THROUGH CYTO-GENOMICS: CHROMOSOMES 2 AND 8

3. 8:40am
Robert R. Klein
(bob@sorggenome.tamu.edu)
USDA-ARS Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, USA
POSITIONAL CLONING OF THE SORGHUM FERTILITY RESTORATION GENE Rf1 UTILIZING LARGE INSERT DNA LIBRARIES AND ASSOCIATED GENOMICS TECHNOLOGY

4. 9:00am
John Yu
(zyu@qutun.tamu.edu)
USDA-ARS Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, USA
TOWARD AN INTEGRATED PHYSICAL AND GENETIC MAP OF THE CULTIVATED COTTON GENOME

5. 9:20am
B .P. Chowdhary
(bchowdhary@cvm.tamu.edu)
Texas A&M University, USA
DEVELOPING BAC CONTIGS OVER THE EUCHROMATIC REGION OF THE HORSE Y CHROMOSOME

6. 9:40am
Taco Jesse
(Taco.Jesse@keygene.com)
Keygene N.V., the Netherlands
KEYMAPs: A NOVEL AFLP BASED METHOD FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED GENETIC AND PHYSICAL MAPS

7.10:00am
Jan de Boer
(Jan.deBoer@wur.nl)
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
BAC POOL MAPPING: EFFICIENT INTEGRATION OF GENETIC AND PHYSICAL MAPS

8. 10:20am
Lothar Altschmied
(lothar@ipk-gatersleben.de)
Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany
RAPID ISOLATION OF PROMOTERS FROM THE BARLEY GENOME

10:40 am ADJOURN

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