| Tuesday, September 11, 2007: 10:00 AM-5:30 PM | |||
| 109 (Lubbock Memorial Civic Center) | |||
| ICGI Symposia | |||
| Organizer: | Dr. John Z. Yu | ||
| 10:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks | ||
| 10:05 AM | The International Cotton Genome Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges Dr. John Z. Yu | ||
| 10:30 AM | Gossypium Germplasm Resources for Cotton Improvement Dr. Richard Percy | ||
| 10:55 AM | International Genetic, Cytogenetic and Germplasm Resources for Cotton Genomics and Genetic Improvement Dr. David M. Stelly, Dr. Jean-Marc Lacape, Dr. Dominique E.G.A. Dessauw, Dr. Russell Kohel, Dr. Guy Mergeai, Dr. Marina Sanamyan, Dr. Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov, Dr. Tianzhen Zhang, Dr. Kunbo Wang, Dr. Baoliang Zhou, Dr. Sukumar Saha, Dr. James Frelichowski | ||
| 11:20 AM | Problems and Prospects of the Commercial Aspects of Cotton Biotechnology in India Mr. Charudatta Mayee | ||
| 11:45 AM | (Re)-conciliation of genetics and genomics approaches for cotton fiber quality improvement Dr. Jean-Marc Lacape, Dr. John Jacobs, Dr. Danny Llewellyn, Dr. Yves Al-Ghazi, Dr. Elizabeth S. Dennis, Dr. Toni Arioli, Mr. Ruud Derycker, Ms. Nelly Forestier-Chiron, Dr. Marc Giband, Ms. Janine Jean, Dr. Christopher Viot, Dr. Michel Claverie | ||
| 12:10 PM | Lessons Learned and Challenges ahead of the Cotton Genome Mapping Dr. Mauricio Ulloa, Dr. Sukumar Saha, Dr. John Z. Yu | ||
| 12:35 PM | Break | ||
| 1:35 PM | Functional Genomic Analysis of Early Events in Cotton Fiber Development Dr. Z. Jeffrey Chen, Ms. Jenny Lee, Dr. Andrew Woodward, Dr. Zhiguo Han, Ms. Misook Ha, Ms. Erika Lackey | ||
| 2:00 PM | New controls of cotton fiber development and quality illuminated through integration of genomic, cell biological, and biochemical analyses Dr. Bir Singh, Mr. Utku Avci, Dr. Mark J. Grimson, Ms. Sarah E. Eichler Inwood, Dr. Jeff Landgraf, Dr. Debra Mohnen, Ms. Iben Sørensen, Dr. Curt Wilkerson, Dr. William G. T. Willats, Dr. Candace H. Haigler | ||
| 2:25 PM | Actin-Related Gene Family Identifiction from Extra-Long Staple Egyptian Cotton Variety Giza 88 Dr. Osama A. Momtaz, Mr. Ahmed El-Fatih A. El-doliefy, Dr. Ahmed Bahieldin | ||
| 2:50 PM | Transcriptome profiling identifies genes preferentially expressed during cotton fiber initiation period Ms. Wen-Qian Mei, Dr. Yong-Hui Shi, Dr. Yuxian Zhu | ||
| 3:15 PM | The impact of novel sequencing technologies on molecular plant breeding Dr. Curt L. Brubaker, Dr. Stephan Brunner, Dr. John Jacobs | ||
| 3:40 PM | Progress and perspectives of a Cotton Microsatellite Database as a comprehensive public marker depository in Gossypium Dr. Anna Blenda, Dr. Margaret Staton, Dr. Don Jones, Dr. Roy Cantrell, Dr. Doreen Main | ||
| 4:05 PM | Cotton Molecular Breeding in CCRI Dr. Shuxun Yu | ||
| Sponsor: | Genomics and Biotechnology | ||
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