The 6th Annual GARNet meeting
In association with the UK Brassica
and Cereal Communities
At the John
Innes Centre Norwich
5-6 September 2005
Monday 5th September
10:00
- 11:00 Arrivals
and Registration
Opening
11:00
- 11:10 Professor
Andrew Millar
Genomic Responses
11:10 - 11:50 Wayne Powell,
NIAB, Cambridge, UK
"New opportunities for crop science research in the 21st century"
11:50 - 12:30 Bob Pruitt, Purdue University,
USA
"Non-mendelian inheritance of DNA sequence information in Arabidopsis"
12:30
- 13:45 Lunch
Post-Genomic Technologies 1
13:45 - 14:15 Andrew
Bangham, UEA, UK
"A Grand Challenge to create a computable model of Arabidopsis by 2017"
14:15 - 14:45 Richard Baldock, MRC, Edinburgh,
UK
"The Edinburgh Mouse-Atlas Gene-Expression Database"
14:45 - 15:15 Philip Zimmermann, ETH, Zurich,
Switzerland
"Using Genevestigator for gene function discovery"
15:15
- 15:45 Tea
Post-Genomic Technologies 2
15:45 - 16:15 Sean May,
NASC, UK
16:15 - 16:45 Keith Lindsey, University of Durham,
UK
"Laser capture microdissection for high resolution transcriptional profiling"
16:45 - 17:00 Wilf Keller/Faouzi
Bekkaoui Saskatoon Canada
"Genomics of canola seed development and metabolism"
17:00
- 17:15 Raju Datla
Saskatoon Canada
"Functional genomics of Brassica embryo development"
17:15
- 19:00 Poster session
and Wine Reception
Workshop 1 Research Co-ordination
and Funding
18:00 - 18:20 Sophie Laurie BBSRC "ERA-PG
Update"
18:20 - 18:40 Mike Bevan JIC " Technology
Platform"
18:40 - 19:00 Andrew Millar Edinburgh "
Joint Research in Systems Biology"
Workshop 2 Tools and
Resources
18:00 - 18:20 NASC "Normalisation and Analysis
of Affymetrix Data"
18:20 - 18:40 Karl
Oparka Edinburgh University "BioReporters"
18:40
- 19:00 Operon Biotechnologies "New Platforms and Systems for
MicroArrays"
19:30
Dinner and Bar UEA
Tuesday 6th September John Innes
Centre
Response networks
09:00 - 09:40 Graham
King, Rothamsted Research, UK
"Joined-up" Genetic Improvement: Challenges and Opportunities
09:40 - 10:20 Ottoline Leyser, University of
York, UK
"Hormonal control of shoot branching"
10:20 - 10:40 Abstract
10:40
- 11:10 Morning
Coffee
Environment Interactions
11:10 - 11:50 Ferenc
Nagy, Szeged University, Hungary
"UVB sensing and signalling in Arabidopsis"
11:50 - 12:30 Nam-Hai Chua, Rockfeller University,
USA
"microRNAs and Protein Degradation in Plant Hormone Signalling"
12:30 - 12:50 Abstract
12:50 - 13:10 Abstract
13:10
- 14:30 Lunch
Matchmaking for Chromosomes and
RNA
14:30 - 15:10 David Baulcombe,
Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
"Small silencing RNAs in plants"
15:10 - 15:50 Graham Moore, John Innes Centre,
UK
"How to date the correct partner"
15:50 - 16:10 Abstract
16:10 - 16:30 Abstract
16:30
Afternoon Tea and Departures
16:30
- 18:00 ABC Open Forum Model to Crop Translation
