2162
Grass Genome Initiative (IGGI)

Comparative analysis of the structure, function and evolution of the genomes of grasses and their close relatives
Date: Monday, January 13, 2014
Time: 12:50 PM-3:00 PM
Room: Sunrise - Meeting House
Organizers:
Katrien M. Devos and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
12:50 PM
W412
Genomic Redundancy in Young Polyploids: Does It Play an Important Role in Adaptation?
Eduard Akhunov, Kansas State University; Sunish Sehgal, Kansas State University; Katherine Jordan, Kansas State University; Alina Akhunova, Integrated Genomics Facility; Yanni Lun, Kansas State University; Hanquan Liang, Integrative Genomics Facility, Kansas State University; Bikram S. Gill, Kansas State University; Schichen Wang, Kansas State University

1:15 PM
W413
Ways to Unlock Barley´s Secondary Gene Pool for Breeding By Next-Generation-Sequencing
Neele Wendler, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK); Nils Stein, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK); Martin Mascher, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK); Uwe Scholz, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK); Axel Himmelbach, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK); Brigitte Ruge-Wehling, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI); Christiane Noeh, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)

1:40 PM
W414
Genetic Diversity and Genome Wide Association Analysis of Major Characters of Foxtail Millet, an Emerging Model for the Panicoideae Grasses and C4 Photosynthesis
Xianmin Diao, Institute of Crop Sciences, CAAS

2:05 PM
W415
TBD4
R Kelly Dawe, University of Georgia

2:30 PM
W416
Comparative Genomics of Cellulase Gene Families in the Grasses
Geoff Fincher, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus

2:55 PM
W417
TBD6
C. Robin Buell, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University; Joseph Evans, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University; Jeongwoon Kim, Michigan State Unviersity; Brieanne Vaillancourt, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University; Emily Crisovan, Department of Plant Biology and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University; Todd Richmond, Nimblegen; Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Roche NimbleGen; Kevin L. Childs, Michigan State University; Shawn Kaeppler, Department of Agronomy and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Michael Casler, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center

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