International PAG: Lower Plants Workshop

Saturday Afternoon, 12 January 2008 --- 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 pm
Brian Palenik, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA (bpalenik@ucsd.edu)
"Ostreococcus: a model phototroph for comparative genomics"

#2 4.00 pm
Sabeeha Merchant, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, USA (sabeeha@chem.ucla.edu)
"Chloroplast and ciliary function revealed through phylogenomic analysis."

#3 4.25 pm
Simon Prochnik, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA (prochnik@gmail.com)
"Comparative genomics of Volvox carteri and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: clues to the evolution of algal multicellularity."

#4 4.50 pm
Stefan Rensing, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiberg, Germany (stefan.rensing@biologie.uni-freiburg.de)
"The genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens reveals evolutionary insights into the conquest of land by plants."

#5 5.15 pm
Jill Harrison, Plant Sciences Department, University of Oxford, UK. (jill.harrison@plant-sciences.oxford.ac.uk)
"A developmental context for genomic studies in Selaginella."

#6 5.40 pm
Igor Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute (IVGrigoriev@lbl.gov)
"Annotation of Selaginella moelendorfii Genome"



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