Dear Colleagues:
This is a reminder that registration for the 6th Annual Symposium in
Plant Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst:
ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS: THE GENETIC BASIS OF PLANT ADAPTATION
is open until Friday, October 4, 2008. This is a FREE event, but
registration is required.
The symposium will occur on Saturday, October 18, 2008, 9 am to 6 pm.
The annual UMass PB symposium is an initiative of the Plant Biology
Graduate Program designed to highlight an exciting area of plant
biology each year. We strongly encourage interested postdocs,
graduate students, and undergraduates to attend and present posters
on any topic of
their research in plant biology.
Online registration is available through the symposium webpage:
http://www.bio.umass.edu/plantbio/symposium08.html
We hope you can join us for the great talks and fall foliage!
Best Regards,
Ana Caicedo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lynn Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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2008 PB SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS:
EDWARD BUCKLER
USDA-ARS Research Geneticist and
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Cornell University
"Complex Trait Genetics in Diverse Maize"
SCOTT HODGES
Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Speciation and adaptation in Aquilegia: from field to genomic studies."
THOMAS MITCHELL-OLDS
Department of Biology,
Duke University
"Nucleotide polymorphisms and their ecological consequences in natural
plant populations"
ROBERT THORNBURG
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Molecules of nectar: The food of the gods and the pilfering pollinators"
CYNTHIA WEINIG
Department of Botany & Program in Ecology
University of Wyoming
"Quantitative variation in circadian rhythms and plant adaptation to
heterogeneous environments"
STEPHEN WRIGHT
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Toronto
"Population genomics of plant adaptation in Arabidopsis and Capsella"
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Lynn Adler
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences &
Graduate Program in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
209E Fernald Hall
270 Stockbridge Rd.
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
ph: 413-545-1060
fax: 413-545-2115
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.people.umass.edu/lsadler
