International PAG - International Consortium for Sugarcane Biotechnology (ICSB) Workshop SugarCane
Workshop

Sunday, 11 January 2004 --- 8:20 am - 5:40 pm

International Consortium for Sugarcane Biotechnology (ICSB) Workshop - Royal Palm Salon 1 and 2

Organizer: Paul Moore, USDA/ARS

(pmoore@pbarc.ars.usda.gov)

8:20am
INTRODUCTION, Paul Moore

Speakers:

8:30am
Helaine Carrer
(hecarreer@carpa.ciagri.usp.br)
University of Sao Paulo
COMPLETE CHLOROPLAST DNA SEQUENCE OF SUGARCANE REVEALS SIMILARITY AND DIVERSITY AMONG SACCHARUM SPECIES, SORGHUM, MAIZE, RICE, AND WHEAT

9:00am
Andrew Paterson
(paterson@uga.edu)
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, U of Georgia
LINKING THE SUGARCANE GENOME TO A GENETICALLY-ANCHORED PHYSICAL MAP OF THE GRASSES

9:30am
Angelique D'Hont
(dhont@cirad.fr)
CIRAD
CONSTRUCTION OF A SUGARCANE BAC CONTIG COVERING THE TARGET RESISTANCE GENE BRU1 THROUGH EXPLOITATION OF SYNTENY WITH SORGHUM AND RICE

10:00am
COFFEE

10:30am
Glaucia M. Souza
(glmsouza@iq.usp.br)
University of Sao Paulo
THE SUCAST PROJECT - SUGARCANE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION ANALYZED

11:00am
Fabio Tebaldi Nogueira
(tbaldi@unicamp.br)
State University of Campinas
RNA EXPRESSION PROFILES OF SUGARCANE RESPONSE TO LOW TEMPERATURE

11:30am
Mona Damaj
(mdamaj@mail.bio.tamu.edu)
Texas A&M University
TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILING OF STEM-SPECIFIC DEFENSE-RELATED SUGARCANE GENES

12:00pm
Antonio Figueira
(figueira@cena.usp.br)
University of Sao Paulo
SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION (SAGE) APPLIED TO SUGARCANE (SACCHARUM SPP.) TRANSCRIPTION PROFILING

12:30pm
LUNCH

1:30pm
Robert Henry
(rhenry@scu.edu.au)
Southern Cross University
VALIDATING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM AS A NEW MARKER SYSTEM FOR SUGARCANE

2:00pm
Sarah Lingle
(slingle@srrc.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, SRRC
USE OF REAL-TIME PCR TO QUANTIFY EXPRESSION AND COPY NUMBER OF SUCROSE METABOLISM GENES IN POLPLOID SUGARCANE

2:30pm
John Veremis
(jveremis@srrc.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, SRRC
GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY IN THE PROMOTER REGION AND INTRONS OF SUCROSE SYNTHASE-2 IN THE GENUS SACCHARUM

3:00pm
Jack Comstock
(jcomstock@saa.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, SRRC
THE ASSOCIATION OF TWO MICROSATELLITE MARKERS WITH RESISTANCE TO SUGARCANE YELLOW LEAF VIRUS

3:30pm
COFFEE

4:00pm
Henrik Albert
(halbert@pbarc.ars.usda.gov)
USDA, ARS, PBARC
DOES SINGLE-COPY TRANSGENE INTRODUCTION REDUCE THE FREQUENCY OF PTGS IN SUGARCANE?

4:30pm
T. Erik Mirkov
(e-mirkov@tamu.edu)
Texas A&M University
A PUTATIVE RNA BINDING PROTEIN AND ITS INTERACTING 14-3-3 PROTEIN ARE REQUIRED FOR POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING IN A COMPLEX POLYPLOID

5:00pm
Stevens M. Brumbley
(SBrumbley@bses.org.au)
BSES Limited
DEVELOPMENT OF SUGARCANE AS A BIOFACTORY FOR BIOPOLYMERS

5:30pm
DISCUSSION

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