PLANT GENOMES & BIOTECHNOLOGY:
FROM GENES TO NETWORKS
November 30 - December 3, 2011
Abstract Deadline: September 9, 2011

Organizers:
Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College
Todd Mockler, Oregon State University
Detlef Weigel, MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany

We are pleased to announce the eighth Cold Spring Harbor winter conference this year which will begin on Wednesday evening, November 30, 2011 and end at noon on Saturday, December 3. The aims of this meeting are to review progress in genomics-enabled analyses of the major plant groups and their enemies under the motto "Plant Genomics:What's Next?", with topics ranging from evolutionary studies, new approaches to plant breeding including phenomics and genetical genomics, to next-generation cell biology. The conference will feature a mix of invited speakers drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. 

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.

Topics Include:
Phenomics
Next-generation Evolutionary Biology
Next-generation Plant Breeding
New Plant Genomes and Models
Omics Integration
Next-generation Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Next-generation Cell Biology

Keynote Speakers 
Ian Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Biology, Germany
Ottoline Leyser, York University, UK

Invited Speakers
Kenneth Birnbaum, New York University
Ulla Bonas, University of Halle, Germany
Siobhan Brady, University of California, Davis
Edward Buckler, USDA-ARS, Cornell University
David Caldwell, Monsanto
Simon Chan, University of California, Davis
Bin Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Saskia Hogenhout, The John Innes Centre, UK
Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Lab, UK
Joost Keurentjes, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Ute Kraemer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Blake Meyers. University of Delaware
Todd Michaels, Monsanto
Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington
Magnus Nordborg, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria
Anne Pringle, Harvard University
Bob Schmitz, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Ulrich Schurr, Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany
Ken Shirasu, RIKEN, Japan
Neelima Sinha, University of California, Davis
Glaucia Souza, BIOEN, Brazil
Cristobal Uauy, John Innes Centre, UK
John Vogel , USDA
Alexandra Worden, University of California, Santa Cruz

NEW! Free pre-meeting workshop on iPlant tools and services. On November 30th, there will be a free pre-meeting workshop introducing several technologies developed by the iPlant Collaborative. Click here for more details.

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 at the end of November.

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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 4 weeks prior to the meeting.