International PAG : International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGII)

Sunday Afternoon, 14 January, 2007 3:35 pm to 5:45 pm

International Cotton Genome Initiative ICGI Workshop - Pacific Salon 3

Co-organizers:

John Yu, Texas A&M

(zyu@qutun.tamu.edu)

and

Brian Scheffler, University of Mississippi

(brians@olemiss.edu)

and

Richard Percy, USDA/ARS

(rpercy@uswcl.ars.ag.gov) e

Speakers:

3:35 PM
John Yu, USDA-ARS, Texas A&M University (zyu@qutun.tamu.edu)
""Introduction""

3:45 PM
Elizabeth Dennis, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, AUSTRALIA (Liz.Dennis@csiro.au)
""Expression Profiling Identifies Genes Expressed Early During Lint Fiber Initiation In Cotton""

4:05 PM
Jun Zhu, Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CHINA (jzhu@zju.edu.cn)
""Method Of Mapping QTL For Complex Traits And Its Applications In Plant Breeding""

4:25 PM
Tony Arioli, Bayer Bioscience NV, Gent, BELGIUM (tony.arioli@bayercropscience.com)
""Characterizing Genes For Fiber Improvement""

4:45 PM
Zhanyou Xu, USDA-ARS-SPARC, College Station, Texas, USA (xuzhanyou@tamu.edu)
""An Integrated BAC/BIBAC-Based Physical And Genetic Map Of The Cotton Genome""

5:05 PM
Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, Institute of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN (ibrokhim_a@yahoo.com)
""Genome-Wide Linkage Disequilibrium Revealed By Microsatellite Markers And Association Study Of Fiber Quality Traits In Cotton""

5:25 PM
Andrew Paterson and Jeffrey Chen, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA, and University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (paterson@uga.edu and zjchen@mail.utexas.edu)
"Update On Sequencing Of Gossypium raimondii and Status Of Cotton Genome Sequencing White Paper"

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