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

Rice Functional and Comparative Genomics Workshop - Royal Palm Salon 3 & 4

Organizers:

Takuji Sasaki, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
     (tsasaki@nias.affrc.go.jp)

Qifa Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
     (qifazh@mail.hzau.edu.cn)

Rod Wing, University of Arizona, USA
     (rwing@Ag.arizona.edu)

Speakers:

1. 10:30
Jian Feng Ma, Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Japan (maj@rib.okayama-u.ac.jp)
"Silicon Transporter Genes in Rice"

2. 10:50
Takashi Matsumoto, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan (mat@nias.affrc.go.jp)
"Looking Into Diversity - Establlishing the Basis for Sequencing Wild Rice Rice Species"

3. 11:10
Olivier Panaud, Laboratoire Genome et Developpement des Plantes, Universite de Perpignan, France (panaud@univ-perp.fr)
"Rice LTR-retrotransposons: Impact on Genome Structure and Evolution"

4. 11:30
David Galbraith, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, USA (galbraith@arizona.edu)
"Microarray-Based Genotyping in Large Populations"

5. 11:50
Joachim Messing, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, USA (messing@waksman.rutgers.edu)
"Evolution Of Grasses By Comparative Genomics"

6. 12.10
Shuichi Fukuoka, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan (fukusan@affrc.go.jp)
"Molecular Cloning of A QTL, pi21, Controlling Field Resistance to Blast in Rice"

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