Symposium of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, 16 December 2005
Auditorium Maximum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich – Switzerland
| 08.45 – 08.50 | Opening by Beat Keller, University of Zurich |
| 08.50 – 10.20 |
Plant Genome Evolution I (Chair: Alex Widmer, ETH Zurich) Simon Hiscock, Plant Pathology and Molecular Genetics University of Bristol, UK Changes to Genome and Transcriptome during Hybrid Speciation in Senecio Michael Purugganan, Plant Evolutionary Genetics, North Caroline State University , USA The Evolutionary Genomics of Rice Keith Adams, Centre for Plant Research, University Blvd, Vancouver, Canada Evolution of Duplicate Gene Expression in Polyploids |
| 10.20 – 11.00 | Coffee and Poster Session |
| 11.00 – 12.30 |
Plant Genome Evolution II (Chair: Beat Keller, University of Zurich) Yves van der Peer, Department of Plant Systems Biology Ghent University, Belgium Modeling Gene and Genome Duplications in Angiosperms Thomas Wicker, Plant Science Center, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Mechanisms of Genome Evolution Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany Genomic Variation and Incipient Specation in "Arabidopsis thaliana" |
| 12.30 – 14.30 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 14.30 – 16.00 |
Genome Regulation (Chair: Wilhelm Gruissem, ETH Zurich) Michael Sussman, University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, Madison, USA New Technologies for Profiling the Transcriptome, Proteome and Metabolome of Arabidopsis Ortrun Mittelsten-Scheid, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria Polyploidy: More or Less? Ueli Grossniklaus, Plant Science Center, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Development and Evolution |
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Poster Awards and Concluding remarks by Wilhelm Gruissem, ETH Zurich |
| 16.15 – 17.00 | Apéro and Poster Session |
