International PAG: Lower Plants Workshop

Saturday Afternoon, 13 January 2007 --- 3:35 pm - 5:45 pm

Lower Plants Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: David Cove, Washington University/St. Louis

(cove@biology.wustl.edu)

Speakers

1. 3:35
Stefan A. Rensing, University of Freiburg (stefan.rensing@biologie.uni-freiburg.de)
"What does a moss genome tell us about land plant evolution?"

2. 4:00
Jody Banks, NSF/Purdue University (banksj@purdue.edu)
"The Selaginella Whole Genome Sequence Project"

3. 4:20
Mitsuyasu Hasebe, National Institute for Basic Biology (mhasebe@nibb.ac.jp)
"Genome-wide Comparison of Developmental Genes in Land Plants"

4. 4:40
Michael J. Prigge, Indiana University (mprigge@indiana.edu)
"Evolution of the Auxin-Signaling Pathway"

5. 5:00
Jing-Ke Weng, Purdue University (wengj@purdue.edu)
"The lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii: an emerging plant model for studying comparative genomics and the evolution of phenylpropanoid metabolism"

6. 5:20
Eric D. Brenner, NY Botanical Garden and New York University (eb50@nyu.edu)
"Genomic Approaches to Study the Evolution of Seeds"


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