Tuesday, January 19, 1999

Chairman: Gary McCone, USDA/NAL

(gmccone@nalusda.gov)

8:30 am - 9:30 am Plenary Lecture

Margaret Mellon, Union of Concerned Scientists
(mmellon@ucsusa.org)
Biotechnology Is Moving Like A Steamroller...

9:30 am - 10:30 am - Coffee/Tea Break

10:30 am - Noon Session #2a - Plants

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Claire Williams, TAMU
(claire_williams@tamu.edu)
The Pecularities of the Pine Genome

11:15 am - Noon

Jo Messing, Rutgers
(messing@mbcl.rutgers.edu)
DNA Sequence Analysis of a Gene-Dense Region of Zea mays

10:30 am - Noon Session #2b - Animals
Chairman: Richard R. Frahm, USDA/CSREES

(rfrahm@reeusda.gov)

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Ulf Landgren, University of Uppsala
(ulfl@medgen.uu.se)
Padlock Probes Furnish New Tools for High-Capacity Genetic Analyses

11:15 am - Noon

Jack Dekkers, Iowa State
(jdekkers@iastate.edu)
Optimizing Strategies for Marker-Assisted Selection

Special Lecture

Chairman: Jerry Miksche

(jmiksche@shentel.net)

Noon - 12:30 pm

Senator Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (invited by ARS)
(kit_bond@bond.senate.gov)
Web site: www.senate.gov/~bond/
Title: TBA

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