International PAG - Transgene Genetics Workshop

Monday Afternoon, 15 January 2007 --- 12:50 pm - 3:00 pm

Plant Transgene Genetics Workshop

- Pacific Salon 1

Organizers: Gan-Yuan Zhong, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc

(gan-yuan.zhong@pioneer.com)

and

Shou-Wei Ding, UC - Riverside

(shou-wei.ding@ucr.edu)

Speakers:

1. 1:00pm
Jian-Kang Zhu, University of California, Riverside (jian-Kang.zhu@ucr.edu)
"Role of DNA demethylation in preventing transcriptional gene silencing"

2. 2:00pm
Patrick Schweizer, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany (schweiz@ipk-gatersleben.de)
"A high-throughput, automated phenomics screen in barley reveals genes required for durable disease resistance"

3. 2:20pm
Bhaskar Pudota, University of Wisconsin-Madison (pudota1@wisc.edu)
"Cloning and functional characterization of a broad-spectrum late blight resistance gene in potato"

4. 2:40pm
Tadeusz Wroblewski, University of California, Davis (wroblewski@ucdavis.edu)
"Novel technology to generate ihpRNA constructs for high-throughput RNAi "

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