Brassicas

Organizers:
Ian Bancroft(John Innes Centre) and J. Chris Pires(University of Missouri)
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Time: 10:20 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Royal Palm Salon 1-2
10:20 AM
The Whole Genome Sequencing of Brassica oleracea and Evolutionary Analysis of Duplicated Genes in Brassiceae
Shengyi Liu, Oil Crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

10:40 AM
B. napus Genome Sequence
Boulos Chalhoub, URGV-INRA

11:20 AM
Comparative and Population Genomics in the Brassicaceae
Stephen I. Wright, University of Toronto; Adrian Platts, McGill University; Annabelle Haudry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Robert Williamson, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Khaled Hazzouri, University of Toronto; Emilio Vello, McGill University; Ewa Forczek, McGill University; Sier-Ching Chantha, McGill University; Simon Joly, University of Montreal; Daniel Koenig, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology; Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Duke University, Dept. of Biology; Rod A. Wing, University of Arizona; Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology; Karen Schumaker, University of Arizona; Chris Town, J. Craig Venter Institute; Xiaowu Wang, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers; M. Eric Schranz, University of Amsterdam; J. Chris Pires, University of Missouri; Richard Clark, University of Utah; Joshua Steffen, University of Utah; Chris Toomajian, Kansas State University; Simon Prochnik, DOE Joint Genome Institute; Jerry Jenkins, Hudson Alpha Institute of Biotechnology; Jeremy Schmutz, Hudson Alpha Institute of Biotechnology; Dan Rokhsar, DOE Joint Genome Institute; Eef Harmsen, McGill University; John Stinchcombe, University of Toronto; Paul Harrison, McGill University; Thomas Bureau, McGill University; Daniel Schoen, McGill University; Alan Moses, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University

11:40 AM
Uncovering the Ancestral Blocks Reveals the Hexaploid Genome of the Emerging Biofuel Crop, Camelina sativa
Isobel Parkin, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Ravinder Singh, SKUAST-Jammu; Erin Higgins, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Wayne E. Clarke, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Venkatesh Bollina, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

12:00 PM
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