International PAG Polyploidy Workshop

Saturday Afternoon, 10 January 2009 --- 1:30 am - 3:40 pm

Polyploidy Workshop - Golden West Room

Co-organizers:

J. Chris Pires, University of Missouri (piresjc@missouri.edu)

and


Doug Soltis, University of Florida

(dsoltis@botany.ufl.edu)


Speakers:

1:15
Victor Albert, University at Buffalo (vaalbert@buffalo.edu)
"Reconstructing Ancestral Angiosperm Genomes: Structural Conservation, Rearrangement Rates, And Neighborhood Selection Effects"

1:35
Haibao Tang , University of Georgia (tanghaibao@gmail.com )
"Unraveling Ancient Hexaploidy Through Multiply-Aligned Angiosperm Gene Maps"

1:55
Eric Lyons, University of California Berkeley (elyons@nature.berkeley.edu)
"Dissecting The Hexaploidy That Predates The Rosids"

2:15
Mike Barker, University of British Columbia (msbarker@indiana.edu)
"Paleopolyploidy and the evolution of green plants"

2:35
Lex Flagel , Iowa State University (flagel@iastate.edu)
"Evolution of homoeolog expression in allotetraploid cotton"

2:55
Upendra Devisetty, University of Nottingham (stxukd@nottingham.ac.uk)
"Characterization and functional analysis of meiotic recombination gene homoelogues in polyploidy wheat (Triticum aestivum)"

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