International PAG - Plant Reproductive Genomics and the Floral Genome Project Workshop

Plant Reproductive Genome 
Workshop

Sunday Afternoon, 14 January 2007 --- 1:15 pm - 3:25 pm

Plant Reproductive Genomics Workshop - Golden West Room

Information about the Floral Genome Project can be found at: http://www.floralgenome.org/fgp/index.html

Organizer: Jim Leebens-Mack, University of Georgia

(jleebensmack@plantbio.uga.edu)

Speakers:

1) 1:20
Tom Gerats , Radboud University Nijmegen (T.Gerats@science.ru.nl)
"Petunia BLIND encodes a miRNA, that indirectly controls C-gene expression"

2) 1:40
Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside (xuemei.chen@ucr.edu)
"Functions of miR172 in floral patterning in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana"

3) 2:00
Manojit Basu, University of Nottingham (stxmmb@nottingham.ac.uk)
"An Investigation into the role of plant hormones in regulating abscission using targeted manipulation approach"

4) 2:20
Frank Wellmer, Trinity College Dublin (wellmerf@tcd.ie)
"Whole-genome analysis of gene expression during early Arabidopsis flower development"

5) 2:40
Andre Chanderbali, University of Florida (achander@botany.ufl.edu)
"Microarray expression profiling of Persea americana (Avocado) flowers: in search of organ-specific regulatory networks"

6) 3:00
Jim Leebens-Mack, University of Georgia (jleebensmack@plantbio.uga.edu)
"Amplification of repeat elements associated with the origin of dioecy in Asparagus"


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