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

Plant Reproductive Genome Workshop

Sunday Afternoon, 13 January 2008 --- 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

Organizers: Jim Leebens-Mack,University of Georgia


(jleebensmack@plantbio.uga.edu)

Speakers:

1:15 pm Jim Leebens-Mack (jleebensmack@plantbio.uga.edu, University of Georgia)

Welcome and Introductions

1:20 pm Tetsuya Kurata (tekurata@nibb.ac.jp , National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

Gene expression and histone modifications during asexual reproduction from a leaf of the moss Physcomitrella patens

1:45 pm Mi-Jeong Yoo (yoom@ufl.edu, University of Florida)

Gene expression and floral development in the waterlily Nuphar advena

2:10 pm Mark Chapman (mchapman@plantbio.uga.edu, University of Georgia)

CYCLOIDEA gene family evolution in the Asteraceae

2:35 pm Richard Moore (moorerc@muohio.edu, Miami University, Ohio)

Emerging model systems in the evolution of plant sex chromosomes

3:00 pm Peggy Ozias-Akins (pozias@uga.edu, University of Georgia)

Structure of a chromosomal region transmitting apomixis and its evolutionary similarity with other non-recombining genomic regions

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