GARNet 2007
John Innes Centre Norwich
10-11 September 2007
Monday 10th September
10:00
- 11:00 Arrivals
and Registration
Opening
11:00
- 11:05 Professor
Jonathan Jones
Integrative Biology
11:05 - 11:45 Jan Traas, ENS, Lyon, France
"The virtual flower: artefact or reality"
11:45 - 12:15 Malcolm Bennett, University of Nottingham, UK
"Towards a virtual root"
12:15 - 12:45 Pierre Hilson, VIB- University of Gent, Belgium
"Probing the complexity of plant growth"
12:45 - 13:00 James Brown, University of Cambridge, UK
“Education Driving Research - iGEM: The International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition”
13:00
- 14:00 Lunch
Plant - Microbe Interactions
14:00 - 14:40 Ralph Panstruga, Max Planck, Koeln, Germany
"Durable broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance in crops and cereals: What can we learn from Arabidopsis?"
14:40 - 15:10
Murray Grant, University of Exeter, UK
"Plant hormones as global mediators of disease and defence"
15:10 - 15:40 Jim Beynon, WHRI, UK
“Genomic approaches using pathogen effectors to probe plant-microbe interactions”
15:40 - 16:00 Poster Abstract
16:00
- 16:30 Tea
Funding Workshop
16:45 –17:05 Sophie Laurie (BBSRC)
"International funding opportunities in plant genomics; beyond ERA-PG"
17:05– 17:25 Colin Miles (BBSRC)
"
Systems and Synthetic Biology"
17:25 – 17:45 Rob Edwards - Bioscience for Business (DTI-KTN)
''From Arabidopsis to industrial application'
Tools and Resources Workshop
16:30– 16:45 Neil Graham (NASC)
"Genespring Workgroup"
16:45– 17:00 Janet Higgins (JIC)
“Arabidopsis Computational Biology Infrastructure- Solutions for Plant Biology”
17:00– 17:15 Heike Kofler (Operon)
“New platforms and systems for DNA microarrays”
17:15– 17:30 Stratagene- Andrew Livingston
"Global analysis of heavy metal detoxification in plants using PathwayArchitect"
17:30– 17:45 Mann Shoffner - Beckmann
”Chloropure: A Novel High Throughput Method for Genomic DNA Extraction from Plant Tissue “
Tools and Resources - Hands On Tutorials
17:15 – 17:45 Stuart Moodie (Edinburgh) - Pathway Editor
ChIP on Chip Workshop
16:45 –17:00 Chris Town TIGR - Chip-Chip studies in Arabidopsis
17:00–17:15 Roche/NimbleGen - Chip-Chip Services for Arabidopsis
17:15 –17:30 Agilent - Microarrays arrays for Chip-Chip studies in Arabidopsis
17:30–17:45 JGL - Affymetrix Tiling Arrays for Chip-Chip studies in Arabidopsis
18:00
- 19:00 Poster session
and Wine Reception
19:30 Dinner
Tuesday 11th September
Stress networks
09:00 - 09:40 Jeff Ellis, CSIRO, Australia
"Model systems, non-host systems and food-providing systems for studying rust diseases of cereals"
09:40 - 10:10 Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
"Interplay between plant signalling molecules and plant defence"
10:10 - 10:40 Jane Parker, Max Planck, Koeln, Germany
“Spatial aspects of cellular defence against pathogens”
10:40 - 11:00 Michael Roberts, Lancaster University , UK .
"Early responses to wounding in Arabidopsis leaves: integrating gene expression, physiology and environmental interactions."
11:00
- 11:30 Morning
Coffee
Biomass Biology
11:30 - 12:10 Simon Turner, University of Manchester, UK
" Regulation of Arabidopsis secondary cell wall composition"
12:10 - 12:40 Mike Bevan, John Innes Centre, UK
“Developing Brachypodium distachyon as a new model for temperate grass and bioenergy research”
12:40 - 13:00 Kerrie Farrar, IGER , UK
"Manipulation of Miscanthus Plant Architecture for Increased Biomass: Application of Information from Models to Crops."
13:00
- 14:00 Lunch
Bioinformatics
14:00 - 14:30 Rodrigo Gutierrez, P. Universidad Católica de Chile
“VirtualPlant: A software platform to support Systems Biology research in the post-genomic era”
14:30 - 15:00 Iain Manfield University of Leeds , UK
"Learning Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis"
15:00 - 15:30 Chris Town, TIGR, USA
"Investigating Arabidopsis genes of unknown function by experimental and bioinformatic approaches"
15:30 - 16:00 Ewan Birney – EBI, Cambridge, UK
"Lessons learnt from the human genome: Ensembl, ENCODE, and genomes at EBI."
16:00
Afternoon Tea and Departures
