International PAG Plant Cytogenetics Workshop

Plant Cytogenetics Workshop

Sunday Morning, 14 January 2007 --- 10:20 am - 12:30 pm

Plant Cytogentics Workshop - Pacific Salon 6 & 7

Organizers:

Hank Bass, Florida State University

(bass@bio.fsu.edu)

and

Wojtek Pawlowski, Cornell University

(wp45@cornell.edu)


Speakers:

1. 10:20 A.M.
F. Chris H. Franklin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (F.C.H.Franklin@bham.ac.uk)
"Coordination of recombination and synapsis in Arabidopsis meiosis"

2. 10:40 A.M.
Simon Griffiths, John Innes Centre, Colney, Norwich, UK (simon.griffiths@bbsrc.ac.uk)
"Ph1: It is not the Size, but the Coordination that Matters."

3. 11:00 A.M.
Fangpu Han, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri, USA (HanF@Missouri.edu)
"Centromere function and nondisjunction are independent components of the maize B chromosome accumulation mechanism."

4. 11:20 A.M.
Eric Lam, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Lam@aesop.rutgers.edu)
"Chromatin Charting in Arabidopsis thaliana: Tracking and Analyses of Heterochromatin Mediated Gene Silencing."

5. 11:40 P.M.
Michael Lindenbaum (or Steven Fabijanski), Agrisoma Biosciences Inc., Burnaby, B.C., Canada (mlindenbaum@agrisoma.com or sff@sympatico.ca)
"Plant Chromosome engineering: Development of the ACE System in plants"

6. 12:00 P.M.
Martin A. Lysak, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Repbulic (m.lysak@sci.muni.cz)
"Paleopolyploidy and karyotype evolution in crucifers (Brassicaceae)"

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