PLANT GENOMES
March 15 - 18, 2007
Abstract Deadline: January 5, 2007

Organizers:
Steve Briggs, University of California, San Diego
Gloria Coruzzi, New York University
Michael Snyder, Yale University

past program

We are pleased to announce the sixth Cold Spring Harbor winter conference this year focused on Plant Genomes, which will begin on Thursday evening, March 15, 2007 and end at noon on Sunday, March 18. We are looking forward to a broad-based meeting, and abstracts are welcomed on all scientific topics related to advances in our understanding of plant genome structure and function. The aims of this meeting are to review progress in genome analysis of the major plant groups and to determine the similarities and differences in genome structure, composition and function of the major groups of experimental and crop plants.

The format of the meeting will include six oral sessions and one poster session. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited.

Keynote Speakers 
David Baulcombe, John Innes Centre, UK
Joanne Chory, The Salk Institute
John Yates III, The Scripps Research Institute

Topics & Discussion Leaders/Speakers
• Networks I
Joanne Chory, The Salk Institute

• Networks II
Jeffrey Dangl, University of North Carolina

• Comparative Genomics
Kelly Frazer, Scripps Genomic Medicine

• Proteomics & Metabolomics
TBA

• Translational Genomics
Jan Leach, Colorado State University

• New Technologies
Kenneth Birnbaum, New York University

• Workshop: Resources
Joseph Ecker, The Salk Institute
Michael Snyder, Yale University

Invited Speakers:
Philip Benfey, Duke University
Xing-Wang Deng, Yale University
Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, Yale University
Mark Gerstein, Yale University
Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College
Timothy Hughes, University of Toronto
David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Stuart Kim, Stanford University Medical Center
Richard Michelmore, University of California, Davis
Michael Purugganan, New York University
Detlef Weigel, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
Lothar Wilmitzer, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

Abstracts should contain new and unpublished material. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. Please bring this notice to the attention of any of your colleagues who may be interested.

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in March.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 3 weeks prior to the meeting.