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Thursday 11th September 2003
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8.30 |
Registration |
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9.00 |
Introduction and Welcome |
MD Bennett
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9.15 |
Review: C-ing the true value of DNA amounts in the genomic age |
MD Bennett
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Evolutionary forces driving changes
in genome size |
Chair:
J Bennetzen |
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10.00 |
The nature
of the evolutionary forces driving genome size |
TR Gregory
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10.40 |
Coffee |
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11.10 |
A mutational
equilibrium model of genome size evolution |
D Petrov
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11.50 |
Evolutionary
forces favouring genome miniaturisation and expansion |
T Cavalier-Smith
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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Mechanisms of genome size change |
Chair: J Dolezel |
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1.30 |
Mechanisms
and rates of genome expansion and contraction in flowering plants |
J Bennetzen
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2.15 |
Genome
size, structure and evolution |
P Heslop-Harrison
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2.50 |
Specific
sequences involved in genome size evolution in flax |
C Cullis
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3.25 |
QTLs for DNA content and their phenotypic impacts in Silene latifolia
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T Meagher |
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4.00 |
Tea |
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4.30 |
Poster session
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6.30-8.30 |
Reception in
the Princess of Wales Conservatory |
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Friday 12th September |
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Variation and the origin of species - Real and artifact |
Chair: MD Bennett |
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9.00 |
Infraspecific variation in genome size in angiosperms - identifying its existence
(best practice and intraspecific variation) |
J Greilhuber
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9.30 |
Plant
DNA flow cytometry - 20 years after |
J Dolezel
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10.00 |
Artefactual intraspecific variation and its possible
origins |
M Noirot
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10.30 |
When does intraspecific
variation become taxonomically significant? |
B Murray |
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11.00 |
Coffee |
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Evolution of genome size |
Chair:
J Price |
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11.30 |
Nuclear
genome sizes in multicellular, eukaryotic
green, red and brown algae: variation and trends |
D Kapraun
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12.00 |
Evolution
of genome size across land plants |
I Leitch |
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12.30 |
Genome
evolution in the genus Sorghum |
J Price |
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1.00 |
Lunch |
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2.00 |
Evolution
of genome size in the Brassicaceae |
S Johnston
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2.30 |
Changes
in genome size in Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae):
the ups and downs |
M Chase |
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Technical
talk |
Chair:
B
Murray |
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NdYAG solid state laser in flow cytometry -
A novel light source for the improved analysis of ploidy
and genome size in plants stained with the DNA-intercalating fluorochrome propidium iodide |
M
Steinberg |
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Consequences
of genome size variation |
Chair:
B
Murray |
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3.15 |
Plants in changing
environments: does genome size matter? |
B Vilhar
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3.45 |
Tea |
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4.15 |
C-values and
ecology |
C Knight |
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4.45 |
Effect of genome
size on AFLPs and the future of genome size research at RBG Kew |
M Fay |
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5.15 |
Conclusion
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7.00 |
Dinner at Wine
and Mousaka |
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