Transposable Element

Organizers:
Jianxin Ma(Purdue University) and Olivier Panaud(University of Perpignan)
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM-3:40 PM
Room: Golden Ballroom
1:30 PM
The Insertion of a Novel Retrotransposon in the Promoter of a Vernalization Gene Resulted in Early Flowering in Tetraploid Wheat
Chenggen Chu, Heartland Plant Innovations, Inc.; Chor-Tee Tan, Oklahoma State University; Guotai Yu, North Dakota State University; Shaobin Zhong, Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University; Steven S. Xu, USDA-ARS; Liuling Yan, Oklahoma State University

1:50 PM
Characterization of the Entire Ac/Ds Transposon Family in the Maize Genome
Chunguang Du, Montclair State University; Andrew Hoffman, Montclair State University; Jason Caronna, Montclair State University; Limei He, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University; Hugo Dooner, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University

2:10 PM
Identification of a Functional Transposon Insertion in the Maize Domestication Gene tb1
Anthony J. Studer, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Qiong Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, University of California; John Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:30 PM
Transposon activation in Arabidopsis allopolyploids is mediated by RNA interference
Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Milos Tanurdzic, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Paul Auer, Purdue University; Patrick Finigan, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Evan Ernst, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Brian P. Dilkes, Purdue University; Luca Comai, UC Davis; Blake C. Meyers, University Delaware; Matt Vaughn, Texas Advances Computing Ctr, University of Texas; Rebecca Doerge, Purdue University

2:50 PM
Identification, Polymorphism and Evolutionary Analysis of Transposable Elements in Two Brassica Diploid Species and Their Tetraploid Genome
Meixia Zhao, Purdue University; Shengyi Liu, Oil Crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Jianxin Ma, Purdue University

3:10 PM
Unraveling the Life Dynamics of Sirevirus LTR Retrotransposons: Major Players in the Organization and Evolution of the Maize and Other Angiosperm Genomes
Alexandros Bousios, Bioinformatics Analysis Team, Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas; Evangelia Minga, Bioinformatics Analysis Team, Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas; Nikos Darzentas, Bioinformatics Analysis Team, Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

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