International PAG Comparative Genomics of Plant Reproduction Workshop

Sunday Afternoon, 14 January 2006 --- 1:40 pm - 6:20 pm
(Workshop is in 2 parts -- 1:40 > pm - 3:50 and 4:10 pm - 6:20 pm)

Comparative Genomics of Plant Reproduction Workshop - Golden West Room

Co-organizers: Jim Leebens-Mack, Penn State

(jhl10@email.psu.edu)

and

Hong Ma, Penn State

(hmx16@psu.edu)

Speakers:

1:40 pm
Jim Leebens-Mack
Introductions

1. 1:45 pm
Christian Jung
(c.jung@plantbreeding.uni-kiel.de)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Genetic And Physical Maps Around The Sex Gene M Of Asparagus.

2. 2:05 pm
Ray R. Ming
(rming@life.uiuc.edu)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Evolution of the sex chromosome in Papaya

3. 2:30 pm
Hong Ma
(hxm16@psu.edu)
The Pennsylvania State University
The Control Of Anther Development And Meiosis In Arabidopsis

4. 2:50 pm
Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar
(savithramma.dinesh-kumar@yale.edu )
Yale
Applications And Advantages Of Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) For Gene Function Studies In Plants

5. 3:10 pm
David Oppenheimer
(doppen@botany.ufl.edu)
University of Florida
Identifying uncharacterized transcription factors through comparative genomics

6. 3:30 pm
Cynthia Weinig
(cweinig@tc.umn.edu)
University of Minnesota
Genetic and environmental effects on quantitative variation in floral organ size

3:50 pm - 4:10 pm - Break

7. 4:10 pm
Maren Hintz
(m.hintz@uni-jena.de)
Friedrich-Schiller-University - Jena
Trends in floral homeotic protein evolution

8. 4:35 pm
Tom Gerats
(tom.gerats)
Radboud University - Nijmegen
Understanding the ancient B in the classical ABC: a functional analysis of PhTM6 in Petunia hybrida.

9. 4:50 pm
Scott Hodges
(hodges@lifesci.ucsb.edu)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Genome-scale analyses of floral evolution in Aquilegia

10. 5:10 pm
Esteban Bortiri
(ebortiri@berkeley.edu)
USDA Plant Gene Expression Center
The Ramosa2 Lob Gene Regulates Axillary Branch Determinacy in Maize

11. 5:30 pm
Laura Zahn
(lmz2@psu.edu)
The Pennsylvania State University
Phylogeny And Expression In Reproductive Genes Among The Angiosperms

12. 5:50 pm
Eric Brenner
(ebrenner@nybg.org)
New York Botanical Garden
Genomics Of Seed Evolution


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