Citrus Genomics Workshop to be held at PAG 2010 (01/09/10)

Saturday Afternoon, 9 January 2010 --- 1:30 pm - 3:40 pm

National Citrus Genomic Workshop - Royal Palm Salon 5 & 6

Organizer: Marcos Machado, Centro de Citricultura - marcos@centrodecitricultura.br

Speakers:

1:30 pm
Manuel Talon, IVIA, Spain (talon_man@gva.es)
"Genomics and post-genomics approaches for the identification of salt tolerance and chloride homeostatic mechanisms in citrus. "

1:50 pm
Qiang Xu , National Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China (xuqiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn)
"Transcriptome, proteome, and miRNAome studies in a sweet orange red-flesh mutant."

2:10 pm
Tokurou Shimizu, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan. (tshimizu@affrc.go.jp)
"Omics study toward the understanding of parthenocarpy on citrus. "

2:30 pm
Mariangela Cristofani-Yaly, Centro de Citricultura Sylvio Moreira, IAC, Brazil. (mariangela@centrodecitricultura.br)
"Analysis and validation of microarray gene expression data for Phytophthora gummosis resistance in Poncirus trifoliata, Sunki mandarin and their hybrids."

2:50
Abhaya M. Dandekar, University of California, Davis (amdandekar@ucdavis.edu)
"Transcriptome profiling of host responses to Huanglongbing in mature citrus fruits."

3:10
Main Dorrie, Dept of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University (dorrie@wsu.edu)
"The Citrus Genome Database: An integrated platform for citrus genomics, genetics and breeding research."