Date: Sunday, January 11, 2015
Time: 8:00 AM-12:40 PM
Room: Royal Palm Salon 1-2
Organizers:
Paul H. Moore
and
T. Erik Mirkov
8:30 AM
Diversity and Exome Variation in Saccharum Spp
Jianping Wang, Agronomy Department, University of Florida;
Jian Song, Agronomy Department, University of Florida;
Xiping Yang, Agronomy Department, University of Florida;
Spurthi N. Nayak, Agronomy Department, University of Florida;
James Todd, Sugarcane Field Station, USDA-ARS;
Hardev S. Sandhu, Everglade Research and Education Center;
Jack Comstock, Sugarcane Field Station, USDA-ARS
10:30 AM
Metabolic Engineering of Sugarcane for Production of Oil and Increased Biomass Yield
Je Hyeong Jung, University of Florida - IFAS;
Janice Zale, University of Florida - IFAS;
Jae Yoon Kim, University of Florida - IFAS;
Bhuvan Pathak, University of Florida - IFAS;
Aloisio Vilarinho, University of Florida - IFAS;
Aleel Grennan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Hui Liu, Brookhaven National Lab;
Ratna Karan, University of Florida - IFAS;
Baskaran Kannan, University of Florida - IFAS;
Xiaoguo Zhang, University of Florida - IFAS;
Xiuhua Chen, University of Florida - IFAS;
Jason Candreva, Brookhaven National Lab;
Rebecca A. Slattery, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Zhiyang Zhai, Brookhaven National Lab;
Stephen Long, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Don Ort, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Lab;
Fredy Altpeter, Agronomy Department, University of Florida
