UK Plant Genome Sequencing Workshop
17th February - Rothamsted Research Main Conference Centre Yates Suite

    Programme

  • 10:30-11:00 Registration

  • 11:00- 11:05 Welcome

  • 11:05 - 11:35 Jane Rodgers (Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich)
    Genome resources for plant science

  • 11:35 - 12:05 Neil Hall (University of Liverpool)

  • 12:05 - 12:20 Guy Barker (WHRI)
    Genome Analysis Outside Genome Sequencing Centres

  • 12:20 - 12:35 Anthony Hall (University of Liverpool)
    Can you identify a single point mutation by whole genome sequencing?

  • 12:35 - 12:50 Keith Edwards (University of Bristol)
    Mining the allohexaploid wheat genome for useful sequence polymorphisms

  • 12:50 - 1:30 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 13:45 Gerard Bishop (Imperial College London)
    Current progress and strategies in sequencing the tomato genome

  • 13:45 - 14:00 Glenn Bryan (SCRI)
    Strategies for Potato Genome Sequencing

  • 14:00 - 14:15 Graham King (RRes)
    Brassica sequencing: a process of disambiguation

  • 14:15 - 14:25 Andrew Cuming (University of Leeds)
    Physcomitrella patens: a reference genome for comparative genomics.

  • 14:25 - 15:50 Open discussions

  • 15:50 - 16:00 Workshop Wrap up and Close