Programme for the Second Plant Genome Size Discussion Meeting
Sponsored by Annals of Botany
11 - 12 September 2003
Back to Kew's Plant Genome Size Meeting
Wednesday 10 September 2003
| 12.00 - 8.00 | Registration at Help Desk in the Jodrell Laboratory |
Thursday 11 September 2003
| 8.30 | Registration | |
| 9.00 | Introduction and Welcome | MD Bennett |
| 9.15 | Review: C-ing the true value of DNA amounts in the genomic age | MD Bennett |
| 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 |
| 10.40 | Coffee | |
| 11.10 | A mutational equilibrium model of genome size evolution | D Petrov |
| 11.50 | Evolutionary forces favouring genome miniaturisation and expansion | T Cavalier-Smith |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| Mechanisms of genome size change | Chair: J Dolezel | |
| 1.30 | Mechanisms and rates of genome expansion and contraction in flowering plants | J Bennetzen |
| 2.15 | Genome size, structure and evolution | P Heslop-Harrison |
| 2.50 | Specific sequences involved in genome size evolution in flax | C Cullis |
| 3.25 | QTLs for DNA content and their phenotypic impacts in Silene latifolia | T Meagher |
| 4.00 | Tea | |
| 4.30 | Poster session | |
| 6.30-8.30 | Reception in the Princess of Wales Conservatory |
Friday 12 September
| 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 |
| 9.30 | Plant DNA flow cytometry - 20 years after | J Dolezel |
| 10.00 | Artefactual intraspecific variation and its possible origins | M Noirot |
| 10.30 | When does intraspecific variation become taxonomically significant? | B Murray |
| 11.00 | Coffee | |
| Evolution of genome size | Chair: J Price | |
| 11.30 | Nuclear genome sizes in multicellular, eukaryotic green, red and brown algae: variation and trends | D Kapraun |
| 12.00 | Evolution of genome size across land plants | I Leitch |
| 12.30 | Genome evolution in the genus Sorghum | J Price |
| 1.00 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 | Evolution of genome size in the Brassicaceae | S Johnston |
| 2.30 | Changes in genome size in Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae): the ups and downs | M Chase |
| Technical talk | Chair: B Murray | |
| 2.45 | 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 |
| Consequences of genome size variation | Chair: B Murray | |
| 3.15 | Plants in changing environments: does genome size matter? | B Vilhar |
| 3.45 | Tea | |
| 4.15 | C-values and ecology | C Knight |
| 4.45 | Effect of genome size on AFLPs and the future of genome size research at RBG Kew | M Fay |
| 5.15 | Conclusion | |
| 7.00 | Dinner at Wine and Mousaka |
