Polyploidy

Date: Saturday, January 12, 2013
Time: 3:50 PM-6:00 PM
Room: Golden Ballroom
Organizers:
Jonathan F. Wendel and Malika Ainouche
3:50 PM
Polyploidy and Genome Size Evolution in Nicotiana
Simon Renny-Byfield, Iowa State University; Richard A Nichols, Queen Mary University of London; Ales Kovarik, Institute of Biophysics; Laura J Kelly, Queen Mary University of London; Mark W Chase, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Jiri Macas, Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology; Petr Novak, Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology; Marie-Angele Grandbastien, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; Christian Parisod, Evolutionary Botany; Andrew Leitch, Queen Mary University of London

4:10 PM
Identifying Homoeologues in Allopolyploid Species from NGS Data: Examples from Nicotiana and Glycine
Aureliano Bombarely Gomez, Plant Biology Department, Cornell University; Jeremy E. Coate, Plant Biology Department, Cornell University; Kieron D. Edwards, Advanced Technologies (Cambridge Ltd); Lukas Mueller, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Jeffrey J. Doyle, Plant Biology Department, Cornell University

4:30 PM
Unequal Accumulation of Nucleotide Diversity in the Two Co-Resident Genomes of Allopolyploid Cotton
Emmanuel Szadkowski, Iowa State University; Justin T. Page, Brigham Young University; Joshua A. Udall, Brigham Young University; Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Roche NimbleGen; Corrinne E. Grover, Iowa State University; Kara K. Grupp, Iowa State University; Armel Salmon, University of Rennes 1 - UMR CNRS 6553; Jonathan F. Wendel, Iowa State University

4:50 PM
Genome-Wide and Specific Effects of Cis and Trans Regulation on Phenotypic Diversity in Arabidopsis Allopolyploids and their Progenitors
Danny W-K Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University; Xiaoli Shi, University of Texas at Austin; Changqing Zhang, University of Texas at Austin; Z. Jeffrey Chen, The University of Texas at Austin

5:30 PM
Yeast Hybrids and Polyploids as Models in Evolutionary Studies
Avraham A. Levy, Weizmann Institute of Science; Sharon Reikhav, Weizmann Institute of Science (Presently at Evogene ltd); Rebecca Herbst, Weizmann Institute of Science; Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science

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