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Hongbin Zhang,Texas A&M University

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Boulos Chalhoub, Unité de Recherche en Génomique végétale (URGV), France

Genomics has ushered forth a new era in biological research. "Changes that will have effects comparable to those of the Industrial Revolution and the Computer-based Revolution are now beginning. The next great era, a genomics revolution, is in an early phase" (Science Vol. 279, 27 March 1998, p2019). A significant feature of those advances continues to be large-insert libraries.

In this workshop, we shall strive [1] to share technologies and knowledge on large-insert DNA library development; [2] to highlight research projects involving library applications, and [3] to discuss topics in genomics research that seem highly relevant to future applications.

Large-insert DNA libraries (e.g., BACs, PACs and PBCs) are both a resource and tools for genomics research. The ease with which large-insert libraries are organized, analyzed, and interfaced with linkage maps, functional genomic resources and chromatin contributes to their impact on genomics research of plants and animals as well as microbes. Advances and ideas in the Workshop will involve structural genomics, but the impact of large-insert libraries is far more extensive, and extends to functional and evolutionary genomics, bio-informatics and many other fields. To facilitate the exchanges of ideas and techniques in the area, we divide the Workshop into two sections:

Speakers:

8:05 am
David A. Lightfoot, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA (ga4082@siu.edu)
"Using a Minimum Tile Path for Gene Function Discovery by Plant Transformations Encompassing the Entire Soybean Genome"

8:25 am
Tianzhen Zhang, Nanjing Agricultural University, China (cotton@njau.edu.cn)
"Structure and Size Variations between 12A and 12D Homoeologous Chromosomes in Allotetraploid Cotton"

8:45 am
Filippo Geuna, Università di Milano, Italy (filippo.geuna@unimi.it)
"Preliminary Characterization of a Random Shear BAC Library for Apricot Genome Analysis"

9:05 am
Helge Zieler, Synthetic Genomics Inc., USA (hzieler@syntheticgenomics.com)
"Whole-genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Oil Palm and Jatropha Genomes"

9:25 am
Kulvinder S. Gill, Washington State University, USA (ksgill@wsu.edu)
"Functional Characterization of a Meiotic Gene Complex on Wheat Chromosome 5B"

9:45 am
Hélène Bergès , INRA/CNRGV, France (hberges@toulouse.inra.fr)
"Strategies for Improving Genomic Region Isolation Using BAC Libraries"

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