International PAG IGGI Workshop

Monday - Late Afternoon, 12 January 2009 --- 12:50 pm - 3:00 pm

International Grass Genome Initiative (IGGI) Workshop - Golden Room

Organizers:

Jeff Bennetzen, University of Georgia

(maize@uga.edu)

and

Katrien Devos, University of Georgia

(kdevos@uga.edu)

Speakers:

1.00 - 1.20 pm
Emanuele De Paoli , University of Delaware, Newark (depaoli@dbi.udel.edu)
"A Comparative Sequencing Approach for the Analysis of Small RNAs in Grasses"

1.20 - 1.40 pm
Song Ge, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (gesong@ibcas.ac.cn)
"Rice and its Relatives: a Model System for Genomics and Biological Studies"

1.40 - 2.00 pm
Malay Saha , The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (mcsaha@noble.org)
"Molecular Marker Development and Genetic Linkage Mapping for Trait Analysis in Switchgrass"

2.00 - 2.20 pm
Angelique DHONT, CIRAD, Montpellier (dhont@cirad.fr)
"Insights into the Genome of Musa (Banana), a Giant Herb Bearing Fleshy Fruits"

2.20 - 2.40 pm
Shavannor Smith, University of Georgia, Athens (shavs@uga.edu)
"Haplotype Analysis and Linkage Disequilibrium at Five Loci in Eragrostis tef"

2.40 - 3.00 pm
Ramakrishna Wusirika , Michigan Tech University, Houghton (wusirika@mtu.edu)
"Conservation and Expression Patterns of Divergent and Convergent Gene Pairs and Bidirectional Promoters in Plant Genomes"

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