International PAG Comparative Genomics Workshop

Sunday Morning, 11 January 2009 --- 8:00 am - 10:10 am

Comparative Genomics Workshop - Pacific Salon 3

Organizers: Yong Q. Gu, USDA-ARS, Albany, CA

(ygu@pw.usda.gov)

and Ramesh Kantety, Alabama A&M University

(ramesh.kantety@aamu.edu)

Speakers:

8:00 AM
Xiying Wang, University of Georgia (wangxy@uga.edu)
"A Plant Genome Duplication Database (PGDD) for Plant Comparative Genomics"

8:20 AM
Christian Tobias, USDA-ARS, Genomics and Gene Discovery Research Unit (Christian.Tobias@ars.usda.gov)
"500,000 Switchgrass EST and their Alignment with the Sorghum Genome"

8:40 AM
Katrien Devos, University of Geogia (kdevos@UGA.EDU)
"Comparative Analysis Between Ae. tauschii, B. distachyon, Rice, and Sorghum Indicate That Grass Genomes Have Varying Levels Of Stability"

9:00 AM
Ray Ming, University of Illinois (rming@life.uiuc.edu)
"The Draft Genome of the Transgenic Papaya"

9:20 AM
Rod Wing, University of Arizona (rwing@ag.arizona.edu)
"The Oryza Map Alignment Project: Genome in Flux"

9:40 AM
William Belknap, USDA-ARS, Crop Improvement Research Unit (William.Belknap@ars.usda.gov)
"Large Regions of Synteny between the Dicot and Monocot Genomes"

9:55 AM
Ramesh Buyyarapu, Alabama A&M University (ramesh.buyyarapu@aamu.edu)
"BAC-Pool 454-Sequencing: A Rapid and Efficient Approach to Sequence Complex Tetraploid Cotton Genomes"

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