Non-Seed Plants

Organizers:
Stefan Rensing(University of Freiburg) and Daniel Lang(University of Freiburg Plant Biotechnology )
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2012
Time: 3:50 PM-6:00 PM
Room: Sunrise
Moderator:
Stefan Rensing
3:50 PM
The Case for the Charales
Mary A. Bisson, University at Buffalo

4:10 PM
Closterium and Chara Genome and Transcriptome Analyses
Jun Abe, Japan Women's University; Hidetoshi Sakayama, Kobe University; Yutaka Suzuki, University of Tokyo; Atsushi Toyoda, National Institute of Genetics; Yuki Tsuchikane, Japan Women's University; Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Japan Women's University; Tomoaki Nishiyama, Kanazawa University

4:30 PM
The Beginnings of Bryophyte Comparative Genomics: The Transcriptome of Ceratodon purpureus
Stuart McDaniel, University of Florida; Kelly S. Jones, Department of Biology; Stefan Rensing, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg; Aikaterini Symeonidi, Faculty of Biology; David J. Cove, Washington University in St. Louis; Pierre-François Perroud, Washington University in St. Louis; Ralph S. Quatrano, Washington University in St. Louis

4:50 PM
An Improved Reference Genome for Physcomitrella
Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA ; Jerry Jenkins, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA ; Wellington Muchero, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA; Jane Grimwood, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA ; Daniel Lang, Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Andreas Zimmer, Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Andrew Cuming, University of Leeds, Centre for Plant Sciences, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 9JT, UK; Stuart McDaniel, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; Tomoaki Nishiyama, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-0934, Japan; Ralf Reski, Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Dan Rokhsar, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA ; Gerald Tuskan, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA; Stefan Rensing, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Hauptstr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

5:10 PM
Annotating Gene Expression in Physcomitrella patens using the Plant Ontology: Facilitating Cross-Taxa Comparisons
Laurel Cooper, Oregon State University; Ramona Walls, New York Botanical Garden; Justin L. Elser, Oregon State University; Justin Preece, Oregon State University; Barry Smith, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo; Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Stefan Rensing, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg; Manuel Hiss, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg; Péter Szövényi, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Daniel Lang, University of Freiburg Plant Biotechnology ; Marie A. Gandolfo, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University; Dennis Wm. Stevenson, New York Botanical Garden; Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University

5:30 PM
Stable transformation, a strategic tool for fern functional genomics
Muthukumar Balasubramaniam, University of Tennessee; Blake L. Joyce, University of Tennessee; C. Neal Stewart Jr., University of Tennessee; Mark Elless, Edenspace Systems Corporation

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